Florence Darling is Producer (Children and Young People) and leads on the development and delivery of BALTIC's children and young people's programme. Florence researches, initiates, implements and evaluates a programme that creates space for children and young people aged 0-19 from all backgrounds to engage with contemporary art.

Florence is also a PhD researcher from the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology at Newcastle University. Her ESRC-funded collaborative PhD with Culture Bridge North East is titled The Social and Cultural Value of Participatory Arts for Young People and examines how young people feel about taking part in arts-based projects and how valuable these opportunities are for them to express themselves, comprehend and reflect on their experiences and identities and communicate to others.​