Laura Searson
Laura Searson (née. Jones) is the Cultural Heritage Preservation Lead at the Victoria and Albert Museum. Laura’s role blends the responsibilities of coordinating Crisis Management across all V&A sites and running the museum’s Culture in Crisis Programme – an international project bringing together those with an interest in protecting cultural heritage. Alongside curating an active public programme for Culture in Crisis (including international conferences, lectures, podcast series’ and webinars), she is also responsible to forming new partnerships and international network development. Since 2019, Laura has also played an active role in running the Culture in Crisis Portal (www.cultureincrisis.org), a database of over 1000 heritage preservation projects linking together funders, practitioners and researchers around the world.