Welcome
After a period of consultancy work, I am joining the team at Lakeside Arts Centre at the University of Nottingham as Deputy Director on 2 August 2010.My consultancy practice, established three years ago, particularly focused on physical and intellectual access to museum collections and the built environment. During this period I worked with regional hubs, national, local authority, and independent museums, as well as professional membership bodies. This complemented my extensive experience primarily gained through curatorial and management positions, and related partnership working, at the Whitworth Art Gallery, the University of Manchester.
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Current and Recent Projects
- Interpreting public art in Manchester - pilot of QR codes (two-dimensional bar codes) for Manchester City Galleries.
- Review of collections management, and advice on the procurement of a new system for Sir John Soane's Museum, London.
- Scoping report on the development of SCAN (Scottish Council on Archives Network), the portal for archive services across Scotland, with associate Martin Bazley.
- Guidelines for preservation and sustainability of digital assets for Renaissance East Midlands.
- A feasibility study on the establishment of a picture library service for the Galleries of Justice Museum, Nottingham.
- Support and advice to five collections development projects in the region for Renaissance North West, part of the programme 'Unleash the Power of Your Collections' involving interactive displays, oral history projects and iTunes.
- East of Scotland Museums Partnership: Research into the feasibility of collaboration in IT for the 40 partner museums.
- Writing a Digitisation Guide for museums for Renaissance East Midlands.
- The Collected Collections. Feasibility Study for the North West Federation of Museums and Galleries.
- Reviewing Machine Readable Labelling Systems for Collections Management and Access.
Report for the London Museums Hub.
Client List
Imperial War Museum, London; Leicester City Council; Manchester City Council; Manchester Jewish Museum; National Centre for Citizenship and the Law; North West Fed; Preston City Council; Renaissance East Midlands; Renaissance London; Renaissance North West; Royal Northern College of Music; Ruskin Museum, Coniston; Scottish Council on Archives; South Ribble Borough Council; Tameside Metropolitan Borough Council; The East of Scotland Museums Partnership; The London Museums Hub; Sir John Soane’s Museum, London; The University of Manchester; The University of Salford.
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Jul 30, 2010
After a period of consultancy work, I am joining the team at Lakeside Arts Centre at the University of Nottingham as Deputy Director on 2 August 2010.
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Apr 11, 2010
A day about how RFID can help manage and spread information about museum collections in the future at the Vasa Museum, Stockholm on 13 April 2010.
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Dec 7, 2009
The interactive guides - 'Simple Guide to Digitisation' and 'Preservation and Sustainability Guidelines' produced for Renaissance East Midlands are both available from the Digital and Online pages on the MLA website.
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Nov 10, 2009
The interactive document 'Preservation and Sustainability Guidelines for Digital Assets in Museums' is now published on the Renaissance East Midlands website.
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Mar 23, 2009
The interactive 'Simple Guide to Digitisation' is now published on the Renaissance East Midlands website, and four briefing documents drawn from the guide are published on the UKOLN website.
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Oct 8, 2008
A one-day workshop organised by the Centre for Museology, at the University of Manchester on 6 October 2008
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May 13, 2008
The London Museums Hub is holding a free workshop at London Transport Museum on the 30 June to share the results of a number of recent projects.
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May 13, 2008
Reviewing Machine Readable Labelling Systems for Collections Management and Access
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