I am currently a trainee on the UK National Archives program, 'Opening up Archives for the 21st Century' and I am based at Birmingham Central Library's Archives & Heritage department. I am researching towards an exhibition and website called 'Children's Lives', which looks at the history of childhood through Birmingham's rich archive collections. My placement also focuses on online interpretation, digitisation and digital preservation.
Previously, I worked at the Fitzwilliam Museum in Cambridge as Research Associate for the exhibition 'Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts'. In 2006, I gained a PhD in History of Art from the University of Aberdeen for my thesis 'The Nature of the Beast: depictions of the exotic animal in C19 British visual culture'.
