Adele Patrick has been developing innovative cultural projects rooted in equalities and in academic research and community learning and teaching for over 30 years. Adele co-founded Glasgow Women’s Library (GWL) in 1991 and is currently a Co-Director. She has had a key leadership role in GWL which has grown from a grassroots project led by volunteers into a Recognised Collection of National Significance, and an influential, change making organisation in the Museums, Library and wider cultural sectors. Trained as a designer at Glasgow School of Art (where she subsequently taught Gender, Art and Culture) Adele has been involved as a curator, programmer, co-producer and in strategic aspects of GWL and in independent work as a facilitator, writer, coach, consultant and trainer on equalities, feminism and culture.  

Following a Clore Leadership Fellowship in 2018/2019 and subsequent Post Fellowship support from AHRC, Fulbright and Royal Society of Edinburgh her research has focussed on approaches to feminist leadership and governance in the cultural realm.  

Photo: Adele Patrick at Glasgow Women’s Library by Elspeth Mitchell.