Shem Morgan

Running of a fast pace members style studio with up to 200 individual members and a further 250 students using the space weekly. Managing a team of up to 10 technicians to ensure smooth running of all operations within the studio.

• Members management with scheduling monthly payments and invoices, as well as suspensions and termination requests.
• Onboarding new staff and overseeing comprehensive training as well as creating training documents and manuals.
• Developing new systems and improving on existing ones for studio workability and overall operations of a busy ceramics space.
• Kiln maintenance and programming.
• Glaze development and testing.
• Alternative firing consultation and training including Gas firing, Raku, wood firing, Barrel firing and Soda firing.

As senior technician in one of the largest and busiest studios in London I often worked across several sites to help maintain efficiency within studio processes. As well as scheduling staff, managing sick leave and cover, as well as ordering materials and stock.

• Led training sessions for new hires increasing team competence level.
• communicating incident reports and networking with the established customer base for better transparency.
• Implemented innovative solutions for boosting operational efficiency.
• Improved system efficiency by performing regular equipment maintenance.
• Team lead and so keeping up morale with organizing staff events and offering extra support or training to those that need it.

As a ceramics teacher and consultant, a lot of workshops and classes involve organizing details ahead of time to up to 100 participants, teaching physical craft skills that I have honed over the past 6 years. explaining in detail the various details that go into ceramics as a craft. As an independent researcher i have also given talks and lectures on various topics such as alternative firing techniques and historic craft and material processing. a lot of this position relays on a wealth of knowledge accumulated over time along side good people management skills and organizing events.

some notable freelance work includes

• Developing and running an extensive 3 year long project in collaboration with Friends of Highgate Roman Kilns, Firing London's Imagination, Lottery Heritage Fund and City of London Corporation to deliver a serious of workshops, tours and events around historic craft, Roman history roman kiln building and firing etc.
• Guest speaker at the Oxford Classics department for their Practical Archaeology event in September 2025
• guest speaker at LAMAS during their annual conference on Highgate in March 2026