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EdwardsNat Edwards
Museums & Heritage Consultant
National Trust for Scotland
Nat is the Chief Executive of the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds. As a museum curator and community activist, Nat has worked in museums, galleries and archives for 30 years – developing exhibitions, education and community-based projects as well as major capital projects. Nat is a Fellow of the RSA and a member of the Society of Authors and is the author of ‘Caledonia’s Last Stand: In Search of the Lost Scots of Darien’ trying to find something to smile about in the history of Scotland’s disastrous Darien Scheme.
PEOPLE
DEBATING MATTERS HISTORY
Regional Final: Scotland & Northern Ireland 2016/17
DEBATE: Water scarcity
Regional Final: Scotland & Northern Ireland 2016/17
DEBATE: Social egg freezing
Qualifying Round: Scotland West 2016/17
DEBATE: Historical monuments
Qualifying Round: Scotland West 2016/17
DEBATE: Artificial Intelligence
Regional Final: Scotland & Northern Ireland 2015/16
DEBATE: Genome Editing
Regional Final: Scotland & Northern Ireland 2015/16
DEBATE: Gentrification
Regional Final: Scotland & Northern Ireland 2015/16
DEBATE: Gender Quotas
Regional Final: Scotland & Northern Ireland 2013/14
DEBATE: Ageing
Regional Final: Scotland & Northern Ireland 2013/14
DEBATE: Smacking
Qualifying Round: Fife & Stirling 2013/14
DEBATE: Sex Selection
Qualifying Round: Fife & Stirling 2013/14
DEBATE: Social media
Regional Final: Scotland & Northern Ireland 2012/13
DEBATE: European Union
Regional Final: Scotland & Northern Ireland 2012/13
DEBATE: Neuroscience and the law
Qualifying Round: Edinburgh 2008/09
DEBATE: No Platform
UPCOMING EVENTS
Thursday 27 June:
Oxfordshire Championship at Oxford Union, in partnership with Magdalen College School and Oxford Festival of Arts
Friday 5 July:
North East Championship at Durham Sixth Form Centre
CHAMPIONSHIP ARCHIVE
Find a list of all our previous championship events here.
SUPPORT DEBATING MATTERS
Bernie Whelan, our DM coordinator, is raising money for Debating Matters.
To stage one of our Championships for six to 12 teams costs £6,000. Find out more on Bernie’s
Wonderful fundraising page.
