Natural Sciences Collections Association

Current posts

• Curator of Zoology, Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow.

Contact details

Zoology Museum, Graham Kerr Building, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ Scotland.
E-mail:
Telephone: +44(0)141 330 4772
Fax: +44(0)141 330 5971

Qualifications

• BA (hons) Zoology.

Employment and experience

After graduating, I spent a summer on a vacation studentship at the Natural History Museum in London working for Juliet Clutton-Brock, curating artiodactyl osteological material. After this I came back to Glasgow , initially to take up a technical post at the Zoology Museum but within a year I was appointed museum assistant (ie assistant curator) in Zoology. I also did some teaching , demonstrating in 1st year student biology labs. I am responsible for all aspects of running the Zoology museum - collections care and management, access, University teaching, exhibition, education, administration and so on. Over the last few years I have become increasingly involved in middle management functions in the wider Hunterian and in the last two years have taken on a measure of responsibility for the medical collections at Glasgow University.

Committee work

• 1992 founder member of NSCG.
• 1993- 2002 served variously as ordinary committee member treasurer and membership secretary of NSCG.
• 1995 ordinary committee member BCG.
• 2003 to present membership secretary NatSCA.

Member of other professional organisations

• SPNHC.
• SHNH.

Additional information

Particular projects of interest at the moment are:

• Continued development and management of the National Bird Nest Reference collection.
• Curation and cataloguing of the shell collections.
• The history of the zoological and medical collections.
• Collection management of the medical collections.

And the one that never goes away...

• Ongoing maintenance of the wet-preserved collections