Experience

Amersham Museum

• United Kingdom
• Museums, Historical Sites, and Zoos
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Director

  • Jul 2022 - Present

  I am responsible for all aspects of the museum's management, including fundraising and budgets, policy and planning, accreditation, the development and delivery of public programming and exhibitions, collection care, and marketing and PR. I manage two members of staff, a team of freelancers and 125 volunteers. I am responsible for all aspects of the museum's management, including fundraising and budgets, policy and planning, accreditation, the development and delivery of public programming and exhibitions, collection care, and marketing and PR. I manage two members of staff, a team of freelancers and 125 volunteers.



Freelance

• Egypt
• Human Resources
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Freelance museum curator, pharmacy historian and lecturer

  • Oct 2009 - Present

  Project work including: - curating temporary exhibitions 2019/22 - 'Women at the heart of general practice' online & in-person exhibitions for Royal College of General Practitioners https://www.rcgp.org.uk/women-in-gp 2017/18 - '"this vexed question": 500 years of women in medicine' for Royal College of Physicians. Commended, British Society for the History of Science Great Exhibition Prize 2018 https://history.rcplondon.ac.uk/blog/hidden-history-women-medicine-curators-thoughts 2013/14 - 'War, Art & Surgery' for the Royal College of Surgeons https://www.rcseng.ac.uk/museums-and-archives/hunterian-museum/past-exhibitions/war-art-and-surgery/ - Wide-ranging medical history publications (see Publications section below) - researching & writing exhibition & webpage text, including: - 100 day Twitter countdown for Cardiff University School of Pharmacy's centenary - Pharmagraphics 'digital story' for Wellcome Collection https://wellcomecollection.org/series/WcpOjygAAJsLEXTc - display & web copy for Royal College of Physicians Museum https://www.rcplondon.ac.uk/museum-and-garden/museum/hoffbrand-collection - Re-display of the Turner Collection at the Cardiff School of Pharmacy https://www.cardiff.ac.uk/pharmacy-pharmaceutical-sciences/about-us/heritage/the-turner-collection - strategic support & policy, including a museum collections appraisal & options report for the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists that led to the employment of their first curator. - Delivery of bespoke training courses for museums & allied professionals. Pharmacy history lectures including: - pharmacy education - women in pharmacy history - English delftware pharmacy jars - the development of the pharmacy profession - the history of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society. Wide-ranging audiences include The Arts Society, History of Medicine diploma students, U3A, pharmacy students, medical & history societies. Pharmacy history research & advice for academic and media projects.


Royal Pharmaceutical Society
• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 100 - 200 Employee
• Keeper of the Museum Collections

  • Sep 2002 - Aug 2011

Royal College of Surgeons of England
• United Kingdom
• Hospitals and Health Care
• 200 - 300 Employee
• Interim Director of Museums and Special Collections

  • Feb 2010 - Sep 2010

Wakefield MDC
• Assistant Keeper of Social History

  • Oct 1998 - Aug 2002