After four engaging and enjoyable years, Harriet has completed her term as External Examiner on the excellent Certificate of Higher Education in  History of Art and Postgraduate Certificate in the History of Art and Architecture courses at Birkbeck College, London where she worked alongside course director Dr Charlotte Ashby and Head of History of Art department, Professor Leslie Topp.

After a single year, she has also decided to step down as External Examiner on the BA (Hons) Graphic Communication at University of Reading in order to focus on her AHRC-funded research project.

In September 2019, Harriet chaired a session related to her research – on the theme of ‘Exhibitions and Persuasion’ – at the Design History Society‘s 2019 conference on the theme of ‘The Cost of Design‘. Held at University of Northumbria and co-convened by Dr Elizabeth Kramer and Dr Janine Barker, the conference explored the complexities of the historic and contemporary relationship between design and economy.

The panel included three papers: ‘Reorienting Identities at the Imperial Fairground: British Malaya and North Borneo’, by Dr Jesse O’Neill, Lecturer, Glasgow School of Art; ‘Design’s diplomatic turn: Contemporary design festivals as a tool of and for soft power’ by Enya Moore, Doctoral Candidate, University of Technology Sydney and ‘Regulating Movement: The ICOM Customs Label for Circulating Exhibitions’ by Nushelle de Silva, Doctoral Candidate, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.