Jack Butterworth
- Role
- Researcher
Head of Research, Grants and Academic Engagement
About
As Head of Research, Grants and Academic Engagement at The National Archives, Jack is responsible for our research strategy, our fundraising, our funding programmes for archives across the UK, and our relationships with the wider academic and philanthropic sectors.
Research activity
Jack arrived at The National Archives from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), where he worked as the coordinator of the UK ME/CFS Biobank, as project manager of several large clinical studies in the UK and sub-Saharan Africa, and latterly as Department Manager of LSHTM’s Department of Global Health and Development.
He joined The National Archives in 2021 as its first Head of Grants and Funding, before taking up his current role in October 2023.
He is interested in how research works: in the financial, institutional, legal and cultural contexts that surround it, in research in non-higher education contexts, in equitable international collaboration, and since joining The National Archives, in the scientific and commercial potential of cultural heritage data at scale.
Jack led our bid for funding to digitise the National Farm Survey (Lund Trust, £2.13m) and is project lead of Archives Revealed (Wolfson Foundation, Pilgrim Trust and National Lottery Heritage Fund, £5.6m). He is also a co-investigator on our PASSAGE (Lloyd’s Register Foundation, £1m) and Spaces, Places and Belonging projects (AHRC, £1m).
Jack's MA is in Music, and he still has a keen interest in the history of sacred music, as well as being Director of Music of a church in southeast London.