Heather Roberts

Heather’s role includes the management of the College’s fascinating and beautiful collections as well as the management, delivery and development of its services.

She is the project designer and manager of various heritage initiatives and is the administrator for the Connecting Manchester’s Music Archives network, a collaboration between RNCM, the Hallé, the Henry Watson Music Library and Manchester Digital Music Archive.

She represents the RNCM Museum on the Hidden Network of Manchester’s small independent museums, and is consulting archivist for our friends at the Leeds Conservatoire. 

She is a member of the Research and Knowledge Exchange Committee and the RNCM Archive and Museum Management Committee. She has previously been a member of the RNCM Research Ethics Committee and played a supporting supervisory role for PhD candidates alongside the Archives Accessibility Working Group.

Her professional interests include knitting together the large disparate narratives of Manchester’s music heritage, presenting fascinating features of the archive and museum collections to the public, continuing to accession material into the collections to best represent the RNCM’s heritage and legacy, and working with departments to hone the heritage services for best practice use.

Outside of the college, she is Archivist for the Hallé Concerts Society, and a freelance heritage consultant for organisations that could use an extra pair of hands or strategic development of their archive services.