E-J Scott is a curator and academic whose critical practice segues queer research in museums with co-curatorial production. He is the Stage 2 & 3 Leader of the BA (Hons) Culture, Criticism & Curation at Central Saint Martins.

E-J is deeply committed to enabling marginalised groups to advocate for social justice via the production of arts and heritage programming and in 2021, was the recipient of the UK Activist Museum Award for this work.

He is co-author of the Trans Inclusive Culture: Guidance on advancing trans inclusion for museums, galleries, archives and the heritage organisations (included in the Research Centre for Museums & Galleries’ [University of Leicester] Special Jury Prize, Museum + Heritage Awards, 2024). He was listed in the Big Issue’s Top 100 Changemakers of 2025: Communities and Equality.

In 2023 (with Art Fund backing), E-J launched the Trans Pride Collective UK & Ireland (a growing network of more that 30 Trans Pride organisations) with the ambition of building trans community collections in local museums across the nation (there are 15 so far). This collecting strategy was designed to archive trans joy as an antidote to the hysteria surrounding gender non-conforming minorities in the UK, whilst redirecting the ethics of Pride organising from hedonism to heritage. The new collection was displayed in the 2025 exhibition TRANSCESTRY: 10 years of the Museum of Transology at the Lethaby Gallery, Central Saint Martins.

Other projects include curating the Museum of Transology, Queer & Now (Tate 2017 - 2023), West Yorkshire Queer Stories and DUCKIE’s queer history projects. E-J also founded the British Digital Art Network (Tate/Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art).

His forthcoming publications include A Queer Treasury: Britain and Ireland since the 1950s (with co-authors Matt Cokk, Rebecca Jennings and Justin Bengry) and Queerness and Heritage, edited by Richard Sandell (University of Leicester), E-J Scott (University of the Arts, London) and Nicole Moolhuijsen (University of Leicester) – Key Issues in Cultural Heritage (Series editors: Laurajane Smith, Gönül Bozoglu), published by Routledge.

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