Current Committee Role: Committee Assistant
About Me:
I currently work at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery (HMAG) where I am Collections and Engagement Curator of Natural Sciences and archaeology. The collections I care for at HMAG include Lower Cretaceous age fossils of dinosaurs and plants and also a collection of rocks and minerals from around the world. As part of my engagement work, I run a home education group.
During my career to date, I have worked in several different museums and worked on projects ranging from museum redevelopments at Folkestone and Canterbury Museums, the development of geology based learning resources, the conservation of pyritic specimens and public outreach. I am also very interested in the history of geology and have written articles on the history of geological collections such as those at Folkestone Museum.
I have been a member of GCG since 2007 and joined the committee in 2024. My first action as a committee member was to build an online distributed library of non-object based resources.
I am an associate of the Museums Association and in my spare time I enjoy fieldwork, photography and making useful things out of driftwood. In 2018 I published my first book, Fossils of Folkestone, Kent.