Jocelyn has instigated Arts and Society, an offshoot of the programme she developed at the Royal Society of Arts (RSA) entitled Arts and Society. She is an Associate partner with the RSA. This is a programme designed to develop new ways of understanding the value of the arts in addressing urgent social issues and strengthening the networks of those exploring this, at a local, national and international level. Projects focus upon action research and experimentation through creative practice, brokering new ways of working in the public arena inspired by arts projects that engage with a social agenda.

Together with a small team at the RSA, Jocelyn is about to commence working with Wiltshire Council on a three year programme that explores effective mechanisms for devolving local government and how citizens can shape what this looks like. Creative practice and the arts will play a central role in how this will work.

Recent programmes consist of Arts and Social Change within the Citizen Power programme in Peterborough and Creative Intersections as part of the Creative Futures programme at Kings College London.

Jocelyn has been an actor in the U.K. and Canada for over 25 years and this practice has fundamentally shaped her approach to collaboration and informed an artist based approach to strategic work in a more civic sphere. Her body of work ranged from theatre work with the Royal Shakespeare Company to international film, radio and television. She helped to develop a national initiative in creative learning in Canada running long-term programmes with rural and urban schools and communities before returning to the UK in 2004 and becoming the Director of Creative Partnerships London North. She developed a joint MA programme with Christchurch Canterbury University for practitioners within schools, local authorities and arts organisations and com