About me
I have worked in museum education since 2001. My special area of interest is science and natural history in museums.
I am currently undertaking a PhD in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, using children’s photography to explore young children’s experience of Natural History in Museums. You can find out more about my thesis here.
I also carry out additional projects in museum education and evaluation on a freelance basis, which you can find out about on the museums and research pages.
Between June 2008 and July 2009 I worked at the Thackray Medical Museum in Leeds, as Education Officer. Here, I managed the Education programme, including both school and family learning.
Previous to this, between December 2001 and June 2008 I worked at Thinktank, the Birmingham science museum. The greater part of this time was spent in the role of Education Officer, where I worked with schools, although I started off in the informal learning department, working with families.
At both of these museums I have enjoyed communicating a huge variety of subjects to audiences across the spectrum. I have extensive experience of developing science-related workshops, shows, activities and projects. All of this is built upon years of working directly with visitors, both from schools and members of the public.
Before working in museums I completed a masters degree in Science, Culture and Communication at the University of Bath (2001). My first degree is in Human Sciences, which I completed at the University of Oxford (Mansfield College), graduating in 1999.
Beyond my life in museums, I love both nature and creativity. These come together in my other web-based project, WildBritArt, which is a clip-art repository for wildlife images that I have drawn.
I blog about natural history museums on my tumblr site, Stuffed Stuff.
You can also follow me on twitter.