Team

Dr Olivia Joseph
Co-Founder | Co-Curator
Equitable Research Design & Evaluation

Olivia Joseph is an equity-focused and care-centred researcher and facilitator passionate about making healthcare fairer and safer for those who have been historically and currently marginalised. She champions staff safety, workforce wellbeing, and inclusive work practices to improve the quality and safety of patient care.

With a PhD examining how organisational factors shape racially minoritised staff experiences of workplace incivility in NHS maternity services, Olivia brings a sharp equity lens to understanding and addressing harm in healthcare.

Drawing on over eight years as a Patient and Public Involvement and Engagement specialist, she leads with compassionate curiosity, co-creating change with staff, leaders, and communities to build safer, fairer health systems.

Inspired by Audre Lorde’s words, “It is not our differences that divide us. It is our inability to recognise, accept, and celebrate those differences,” Olivia’s work is rooted in the belief that practical action, belonging and equity are essential to safe, high-quality care.

 
Camelia Muldermans 
Co-Founder | Co-Director
Creative Direction & Design Praxis

Camelia has a background in youth and community work, creative health, and social justice. Her approach is rooted in pluriversal design (multiple ways of being and knowing) and care-centred ecosystems. Her work weaves design and praxis to centre justice and shift power, co-curating with those structurally excluded from decision-making spaces. She likes to explore and connect dots, being and making across diverse cultures and contexts. Camelia thinks in rainbows, finding daily inspiration in dreams and details. She values growing slowly, holding complexity, and reconnecting with other ways of being.

Drawing on her experience as a neurominority with a rich ethnic and cultural heritage, she recognises difference as a dynamic source of creativity and possibility.

Embodying 20 years of intergenerational community practice, Camelia remains focused on arts and health equity, developing radical approaches to participatory design through her PhD in Global Health at UCL.

 
Dr Anna Glarin FRSA
Co-Founder | Co-Director
Strategic Direction & Operations
Anna’s background is in formal and non-formal education and creative participatory practice. With ten years of teaching in inner-city London primary schools, college and higher education, she also has over ten years of experience in participatory theatre practice. Realising the need for inclusive and accessible theatre-making provision for young people in her local area, she founded Waterloo Community Theatre in 2015. In addition, Anna co-led participatory performance company Project Phakama UK in East London for three years. Always a stickler for processes, Anna looks after finances and everything operational for Curious Collective.
 
Anna has an MA in Applied Theatre from the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama and she completed her reflective practice-led PhD with York St John University in early 2026. Her PhD research explores the potential and possibilities of making theatre with young people. Her other research interests include young people’s voices, power dynamics and representation. She has had peer reviewed papers published and serves on the editorial board of online journal ArtsPraxis.
 
Anna is a fellow of the Royal Society for Arts and Manufacture. Anna’s latest publication is a curated co-written conversation-style piece on practice available here
 
Amran Mohamed
Co-Director | Co-Curator 
Digital Communication & Cultural Documentation

Amran is a multidisciplinary creative, community researcher, visual storyteller, and cultural strategist dedicated to building care-centred systems that prioritise equity, belonging, and community voice. With a background spanning public health, research, and the charity sector, she has led national studies on COVID-19 and ethnicity, designed inclusive research strategies, and championed patient and public engagement, centring under-represented communities.

As part of Curious Collective, Amran blends storytelling, community engagement, participatory design, and creative research to empower marginalised communities to shape the spaces, systems, and narratives that affect their lives. Alongside her research practice, she is a London-based photographer and videographer whose work explores diaspora, urban belonging, health equity, and cultural identity.

Rooted in the belief that creativity can drive social change, her work moves fluidly between visual practice, cultural advocacy, and health equity to inspire connection, representation, and collective transformation.