Natural Sciences Collections Association

Current posts

• Collections Manager, Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum: Supervising the curation, conservation and documentation of Hemiptera, Collembola, Embioptera, Ephemeroptera, Hymenoptera, Megaloptera, Mecoptera, Neuroptera, Odonata, Orthoptera, Phthiraptera, Plecoptera, Protura, Psocoptera, Rhaphidioptera, Thysanoptera, Thysanura and Trichoptera, pinned, slide and spirit collections and associated databases, reprint and correspondence, with a team of seven curators.

Contact details

Entomology Department, The Natural History Museum, London, SW7 5BD.
E-mail:
Telephone: 0207 942 5196

Qualifications

• BSc (hons) Forestry & Applied Zoology (UCNW, Bangor, 1977).
• MA Museum Studies (UCL London, 1994).
• AMA Museum Association Diploma (1995).

Employment and experience

• 1977-1980 Scientific Officer in the Lepidoptera section NHM Entomology Department.
• 1980-1997 Curator Hemiptera section, working on Aphidoidea, publishing taxonomic papers with Dr Roger Blackman.
• 1997-2003 Lead Curator, responsible for Hemiptera, Collembola, Neuroptera, Orthoptera, Phthiraptera, Psocoptera, Thysanoptera, and Trichoptera pinned, slide and spirit collections and associated databases, reprint and correspondence.
• 2003 to present Collections Manager as above.

Committee work

• 1996 - 2003 Natural Sciences Conservation Group, Secretary (1997-2001) & Chair (2001-03).
• 1998 Natural Sciences Conservation Group representative on the National Council for Conservation-Restoration.
• 2000 Member of United Kingdom Institute for Conservation Professional Accreditation Selection Board (Fast Track).
• 2003 to present Natural Sciences Collections Association, Secretary (2003-).

Member of other professional organisations

• Associate Member of Museums Association (AMA) and Participant in the MA Mentoring Scheme.
• NatSCA.
• SPNHC.
• Fellow of Royal Entomology Society

Additional information

• I am particularly interested in the preparation, conservation and management of microscope slide collections and I lecture and consult on this subject internationally.
• I am interested in aphid taxonomy in particular the taxonomy of the South American Aphid genus Neuquenaphis in Chile.
• I have compiled Conservation Surveys of the insect collections at Perth Museum & Art Gallery, Scotland (1994), of microscope slide collections at the Royal College of Surgeons of England, London (1999) and of the insect collections at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (2002).