↘ About the Expert Network
Our role is to ensure the UK’s experts in culture, education, science, and communication and information are helping to shape and advance the UK’s position at UNESCO and are also fully benefitting from its programmes, values and ideals. We achieve this through our community of UK-based experts
↘ About the Accredited Experts
The UK National Commission for UNESCO’s accredited experts is closely affiliated with the Commission. This means that they must either be confirmed by HM Government, sit on a UNESCO Board/Committee, hold a UNESCO Chair or be a professional/volunteer with a key stakeholder designation that has UNESCO status.
With such specific expertise, accredited experts might be called upon to co-author policy advice for HM Government, represent the UK on a global platform and/or provide their time to review prize applications pro bono.
The process to become an Accredited Expert is separate from that of joining our UNESCO UK Community on LinkedIn.
↘ About the UNESCO UK Community
UNESCO UK Community members contribute to policy and accreditation work on a more informal basis through the LinkedIn group.
These experts may not have an official policy role with UNESCO or HMG, however, they still contribute to the work of the National Commission via their specialisms, which must be related to our mandate.
We will advertise opportunities to the UNESCO UK Community in order to find expertise related to the current needs of the organisation. Although not exhaustive, this is likely be to find reviewers, policy experts, or groups that can contribute to content on the UKNC website on a pro-bono basis.
Members of the community group are kept abreast of key information/news on UNESCO, as well as sector opportunities, materials created by existing experts and relevant events/activities. Applications to join the group, post and share ideas are monitored by the UKNC for UNESCO via LinkedIn.
Please note that, whilst Accredited Experts are invited to join the UNESCO UK Community (LinkedIn Group), membership of Community does not automatically correlate to becoming an Accredited Expert.
↘ About the Accredited Experts
Our role is to ensure the UK’s experts in culture, education, science, and communication and information are helping to shape and advance the UK’s position at UNESCO and are also fully benefitting from its programmes, values and ideals. We achieve this through our community of UK-based experts
↘ Meet the Accredited Experts
What do our experts do?
The UNESCO UK Expert Network provides policy advice and expertise on UNESCO related topics, reviews prizes and more, publish content and represent the UK across the globe.
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↘ Policy Advisors
We work with experts to provide independent policy advice to the UK and devolved governments on UNESCO related issues. Check out our Policy Briefs here.
↘ Reviewers
Our experts help to advise and assist individuals/institutions – in both the UK and its’ Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies – on accessing UNESCO accreditation and prizes.
↘ Content Creators
Together, we raise the profile of the UK’s 150+ UNESCO designations and projects, working with experts to disseminate information on UNESCO’s news, international days, activities and programmes in the UK across Twitter, LinkedIn and our website. Visit the home page now to find out more.
↘ Representation
Tasked to strengthen the ties between the UK’s educational, academic, scientific, cultural, creative and artistic communities, and UNESCO’s global programmes and policies, our experts are ambassadors as well as contributors.
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The UKNC and the Expert Network
We work with leading UK experts across UNESCO’s principal themes: culture, education, science and communication and information.
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Our role is to ensure the UK’s experts in culture, education, science, and communication and information are helping to shape and advance the UK’s position at UNESCO and are also fully benefitting from its programmes, values and ideals. We achieve this through our community of UK-based experts
↘ Proud to represent you
Here at the UK National Commission for UNESCO, we champion inclusivity and flexibility. We are an independent not-for-profit organisation, supported by grant funding from the UK government.
↘ About the UKNC’s role
We work with leading UK experts across UNESCO’s principal themes: culture, education, science and communication and information. Specialists may be called upon to advise on a number of projects within the UK National Commission’s remit. We work especially closely with Accredited Experts and our UNESCO UK Community on LinkedIn. Members are experienced as researchers, practitioners, policy-innovators and/or community leaders.
We value the contributions of all those who have experience in our broad mandate of education, science, culture and communication and information in a recognised UK local/international body, charity or NGO.
We pride ourselves on our efforts to ensure that our experts reflect the world that we live in as they often represent the UK and advocate its priorities at international UNESCO meetings. It is imperative that we draw on the UK’s diverse range of expertise, as we help shape UNESCO’s global policies and programmes whilst exchanging expertise with its 195 Member States.
Accredited Expert status is a role with greater responsibility and automatically correlates to UNESCO UK Community-member status, whereas membership of the UNESCO UK Community does not automatically correlate to accreditation.