James Curwen is UKERC’s Engagement and Events Manager. He joined UKERC in August 2023 after almost four years at UCL’s Institute of Ophthalmology, where he was senior communications officer for the NIHR Moorfields Biomedical Research Centre.
James has worked across communications, engagement and administration for organisations including the Science Museum, the British Museum and the National Trust. Before transferring to Imperial College London, he worked at UCL from 2017 to 2025, both at the Bartlett Faculty and and Faculty of Brain Sciences, including a period at the UCL Energy Institute (2018-19). He has also been an English language teacher at the University of Montpellier, and is an alumnus of Edinburgh University, where he studied history of art and architecture.