I trained in cultural leadership with the Management Centre; Hubert Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs, Minnesota; National School of Government, and Roffey Park Institute. 

 

Since 2010 I’ve worked as an independent arts and heritage consultant with clients including arts organisations, museums, campaign groups, the National Trust and local councils. 

 

I have extensive experience as a trustee/chair of cultural organisations including Artswork, ArtSway, Arts Research Ltd  and SPUD. I was chair of Nuffield Theatre Southampton (2005-11); Creative Partnerships, Southampton, Portsmouth, Hampshire & IoW, (2004-2011), Culture Southampton (2011-14), and interim chair of Making Space (2014-15). I also chaired the heritage learning panel of the New Theatre Royal, Portsmouth.

 

 

Until recently I was a trustee of Winchester Poetry Festival which I co-founded in 2013. I currently sit on the National Lottery Heritage Fund area committee for England: London & South and chair the strategic advisory board of South West Museum Development. I'm a trustee of Common Ground, champions of local distinctiveness. and chair of the shadow board for ArtfulScribe literature development agency. 

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I'm a widely published poet, author of three volumes of poetry: Desire Lines (Arrowhead 2010); The Sisyphus Dog (Worple 2014), and The Blue Tree (Indigo Dreams 2019). www.stephenboycepoetry.com

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Since 2014 I've lived in the Blackmore Vale in North Dorset.