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Research interests
Unearthing stories within the Natural History displays at the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery through the hollistic repatriation project 'A Journey Home'.
Facilitating consultations with diaspora communities around museum practice, exploring concepts of; ownership, display & repatriation.
Reimaginging colonial museum displays through in-depth provenance research and creative response. Connecting with bi-cultural museum practices and animal conservation groups internationally to inform Bristol Museum's and University of Bristol's 'decolonial' responsibilities.
Research Groups and Themes
- Cabot Institute Environmental Change Research
- Brigstow Institute
Keywords
- Museums
- Curation
- Provenance Research
- Natural History
- Poetry
- Earth Sciences
- Reparative Justice
- Climate Action
- Decolonising the curriculum
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Materiality and Museum Extraction
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