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Henry McGhie

Henry A McGhie

Head of Collections and Curator of Zoology, Manchester Museum, University of Manchester, UK

Henry McGhie is the Head of Collections and Curator of Zoology at Manchester Museum, part of the University of Manchester. With a background as a field ornithologist, he has wide interests in nature conservation and environmental sustainability, and the ways that museums can support these agendas

Author Articles

Black and white photograph of Phil Catling wearing equipment to test eye tracking ability under vibration in 1975
By Emmeline Ledgerwood

‘We lost a type of job for a type of person in this country’: changing expectations of working in the UK scientific civil service

Many UK government research establishments were transformed by processes of organisational change during 1970–2005. This article explores the outcome of those processes by drawing on a series of original life story interviews with twenty former government scientists.
By Luisa Massarani

Science communication in Latin America: what is going on?

Colour photograph showing shelves of boxes containing photographs
By Elizabeth Edwards

Location, location: a polemic on photographs and institutional practices

By Henry A McGhie

Review: Science Museums in Transition: Cultures of Display in Nineteenth-Century Britain and America, edited by Carin Berkowitz and Bernard Lightman, University of Pittsburgh Press, 2017