Katharine is currently a non-executive director at the Authors’ Licensing and Collecting Society, with a particular focus on the audio-visual sector. Katharine also sits on the People and Renumeration Committe.
Since 2018 Katharine has also served as a committee member on the Crown Prosecution Service’s External Consultative Group on Hate Crime (ECG), giving advice on how hate crimes should be dealt with in the criminal justice system, as well as challenging poor practices on a highly confidential basis. She was an advisory board member for the consulting company, Fideres LLP, which exposes and pursues corporate wrong-doing until 2022.
She has served as a director of the Society of Authors, sitting on its management committee from 2018-2021. She sat on the finance sub-committee, the membership sub-committee and its editorial advisory board. This follows successful committee experience in a number of advisory roles, including serving as an expert advisor to the EHRC from 2010-2011 on its report and manifesto on disability hate crime, Hidden In Plain Sight (2011). She then advised the Association of Chief Police Officers and the National Policing Improvement Agency on their response to the EHRC’s report. She then joined the National Police Chiefs Council’s Deaf and Disability Forum in 2016.
Her experience so far, both as a board member and as an editor, has given her a solid understanding of financial oversight, risk management, membership, ESG, equality and diversity and stakeholder engagement. At the moment Katharine is learning on the job with ALCS, as the uses of artificial intelligence changes and disrupts creative sectors.
Katharine was also hugely proud to have co-created and managed an active network challenging disability hate crime.
Stephen Brookes, Anne Novis and Katharine co-founded the Disability Hate Crime Network on Facebook well over a decade ago (with Robin van de Hende forming an original email list in 2007, particularly around supporting people with learning difficulties). When Robin moved posts, Stephen helmed a lot of the work pulling the network onto Facebook around a year later, and the team was proud to be given a hate crime award from the charity, Radar, in 2010. The network is nothing without its members – and in December 2020 Katharine decided to step back from 13 years of serving as a co-ordinator.
Katharine has completed governance, chair, diversity and inclusion and information and security and risk management training.
Katharine Quarmby 