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Professor Jane Henderson

board member
Professor of Conservation, School of History, Archaeology and Religion, Cardiff University I am the Secretary General International Institute for Conservation. I teach on the BSc and MSc degrees in Conservation and Collection Care. I serve on the editorial panel of the Journal of the Institute for Conservation, am a co-opted member on the trustee board of the Welsh Federation of Museum and Art Galleries. I am internationally recognised, I am a visiting Researcher of the Scientific Conservation Institute in Beijing and I serve on the European standards body CEN TC 346 WG11 and on the BSI standard group B/560 concerned with the conservation of Tangible Cultural heritage. Research interests include:
  • Decision making
  • Delivering excellence in access and use of collections
  • Influence techniques
  • Disaster or Emergency Preparedness Planning
  • Cultural heritage collections in Wales

Recent Publications:

  • Henderson, J. 2022. 'Conservators delivering change.' Studies in Conservation 67(S1), pp. 105-111. (10.1080/00393630.2022.2066320)
  • Sweetnam, E. and Henderson, J. 2022. 'Disruptive conservation: challenging conservation orthodoxy.' Studies in Conservation 67(1-2), pp. 63-71. (10.1080/00393630.2021.1947073)
  • Henderson, J. 2020. 'Beyond lifetimes: who do we exclude when we keep things for the future?' Journal of the Institute of Conservation 43(3), pp. 195-212. (10.1080/19455224.2020.1810729)
  • Henderson, J. and Lingle, A. 2020. 'Preventive Conservation on Archaeological Sites: UK Policy and Practice.' China Cultural Heritage 2, pp. 25-35.
  • Henderson, J., Waller, R. and Hopes, D. 2020. 'Begin with benefits: reducing bias in conservation decision-making.' Studies in Conservation 65(S1), pp. 142-147. (10.1080/00393630.2020.1787638)
  • Lingle, A. M. and Henderson, J. 2020. 'Preserving the archaeological archive.' In: Smith, C. ed. Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Switzerland: Springer, (10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3517-1)

Professor Michelle Henning

board member
Michelle writes and researches on photography, museums, media, modernism and visual culture. Her background is in fine art and cultural studies, but her research has increasingly focused on: museum media and exhibitions displays; a cultural and environmental history of photography; digital photography and social media. Funded by the AHRC she has researched in the archives of the British photographic company Ilford Limited. Previous grants have funded research into taxidermy in museums and the work of the Viennese polymath, social scientist and museum innovator Otto Neurath. She also sits on the editorial board of photographies journal, Revista de Comunicação e Linguagens and the journal Visual Culture in Britain. She has been involved in collaborative and advisory work with various UK institutions including Bristol Museums and Archives, Arnolfini and Tate Liverpool. She has been a member of the AHRC Peer Review College and of the jury for the Crespo Foundation After Nature prize at C|O Berlin.

  • Henning, M, 2024, A Dirty History of Photography: Chemistry, Fog and Empire(Chicago: University of Chicago Press)
  • Henning, M, 2024, 'Photography's Other Sensitivities', Media Theory 8:1
  • Henning, M, 2018, Photography: the Unfettered Image (London: Routledge)
  • Henning, M, 2015, Museum Media, Vol. 3 of The International Handbooks of Museum Studies (Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell)
  • Henning, M, 2006, Museums, Media and Cultural Theory (Maidenhead; Open University Press)

Professor Heather King

board member
Professor Heather King’s research examines the ways in which educators foster learner engagement with science across many contexts including schools, museums, the natural environment, and non-formal spaces such as maker-spaces. In particular, her work focuses on social and environmental justice concerns with respect to science education practice. Heather is co-chair of the Science and Technology Education Research Group at King’s College London and teaches modules in STEM education leadership, in STEM Making and Creating, and in Education in Arts and Cultural Settings. She is also the Vice President for Education at the British Science Association.

Professor Ross Parry

board member
Ross Parry is Director of the Institute for Digital Culture at the University of Leicester, and Professor of Museum Technology in its School of Museum Studies. A Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, former Tate Research Fellow, and former chair of the UK’s national Museums Computer Group, Ross is also one of the founding Trustees of the Jodi Mattes Trust - for accessible digital culture. He is a board member of Attenborough Arts Centre, and a member of the UK Research and Industry’s Steering Committee of its £19mn digital cultural heritage initiative ‘Towards a National Collection’. Previously he was visiting professor at the Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials (University of Southern Denmark), and from 2017 to 2021 he served on the International Advisory Board for the €6mn ‘Our Museum’ project, funded by Nordea-Fonden and Velux Fonden. Ross continues to lead the ‘One by One’ international consortium of museums, professional bodies, government agencies, commercial partners and academics, that together are working to build digitally confident museums. After a three-year national project in the UK (working with the Museums Association, Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund), the consortium’s subsequent projects have brought partners (including the V&A, Science Museum, National Museums Scotland and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales) into an action research collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution and American Alliance of Museums. The work now continues (in partnership with Surface Impression and Culture24), supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.

Selected publications:

  • Parry, R. (2023). ‘Code switching: Feeling the ‘emotional turn’ in digital cultural heritage’, in D. Giglitto, L. Ciolfi, E. Lockley & E. Kaldeli (eds.), Digital Approaches to Inclusion and Participation in Cultural Heritage: Insights from Research and Practice in Europe (Routledge).
  • Parry, R. & Dziekan, V. (2022). ‘Critical Digital: Museums and their Postdigital Circumstance’, in H. Barranha & J. S. Henriques (eds.) Art Museums and Digital Cultures: Rethinking Change (Universidade NOVA de Lisboa & Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology), pp. 9-19.
  • Parry, R., Foti, P. & Natale, S. (2021). 'When Digital Becomes the Object: Developing Computing Histories in Museums.' MW 2021. Published February 1, 2021.
  • Parry, R. (2019). 'How Museums Made (and Re-Made) Their Digital User', in T. Giannini & J.P. Bowen (eds.), Museums and Digital Culture. Springer Series on Cultural Computing (Springer), pp. 275-293.
  • Drotner, K., Dziekan, V., Parry, R. & Schrøder, K. (eds) (2019). The Routledge Handbook of Museums, Media and Communication (Routledge).
  • Malde, S., Kennedy, A & Parry, R. (2019). Understanding the Digital Skills & Literacies of UK Museum People. One by One (Leicester: University of Leicester).
  • Parry, R., Page, R. & Moseley, A. (eds) (2018). Museum Thresholds: the Design and Media of Arrival (Routledge).
  • Parry, R. (2013). 'The End of the Beginning: Normativity in the Postdigital Museum', Museum Worlds, vol. 1, 24-39.
  • Parry, R. (2013). 'The Trusted Artifice: Reconnecting with the Museum's Fictive Tradition Online', in K. Drotner and K. Schrøder (eds) Museum Communication and Social Media: The Connected Museum (New York and Abingdon, Oxon.: Routledge), pp. 17-32.
  • Parry, R. (2011). 'Transfer Protocols: Museum Codes and Ethics in the New Digital Environment', in J. Marstine (ed.) Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum (Routledge), pp. 316-331.
  • Parry, R. (ed.) (2010). Museums in a Digital Age. Leicester Readers in Museum Studies (Abingdon and New York: Routledge).

    • Dr Charlotte Sleigh

    board member

    Charlotte Sleigh is a researcher, writer and practitioner across the science humanities (science and history, literature, theology) and science communication. In recent years Charlotte has been involved with a number of art and science projects (e.g. Chain Reaction!, 2013 and Metamorphoses, 2017) and various forms of climate science communication. She has done consultancy and engagement projects for organisations including the Royal Society, local business and a UK City Council, as well as freelance work in editing and coaching for writing. Examples of her writing for general readers can be found at Noema and Aeon magazines and at Wellcome Stories.

    Charlotte has long-standing academic research interests in human-animal relations, their science and representation. Besides this, she has written widely on science and literature (Literature and Science, Palgrave 2010) - and on science fiction and early fandom in Britain. In recent years, Charlotte come to focus on intersections between theology and science; she is currently research consultant for the international project Equipping Christian Leadership in an Age of Science.

    Charlotte is a former editor of the British Journal for the History of Science and former president of the British Society for the History of Science.

    Selected publications

    • Sleigh, C, 2020, Human (Reaktion)
    • Sleigh, C, 2016, The Paper Zoo (British Library/Chicago)
    • Sleigh, C, 2012, Frog (Reaktion)
    • Sleigh, C, 2010, Literature and Science (Palgrave)
    • Sleigh, C, 2007, Six Legs Better (Johns Hopkins)

    Dr Tim Snelson

    board member
    Tim Snelson is associate professor in media history at the University of East Anglia. Tim’s research addresses the relationships between media, social and medical histories, focusing particularly on popular film and media genres (horror, true crime, psychological thrillers); media and mental health; youth and digital media; audiences and cinemagoing; material cultures; and screen heritage. His research has been published in journals including Media History, History of the Human Sciences, Science Museum Group Journal and Cultural Studies, and in monographs Phantom Ladies: Hollywood Horror and the Home Front (Rutgers University Press, 2015) and Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s (Edinburgh University Press, 2024). He was primary investigator on two recent Arts and Humanities Research Council grants on media and mental health, researched and delivered in collaboration with the British Science Association and Science Museum Group.

    Selected publications

    • Snelson, T, Macauley, W, and Kirby, D, 2024, Demons of the Mind: Psychiatry and Cinema in the Long 1960s (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press)
    • Snelson, T, Booth, T, et al, 2024, 'Objects of the Mind: Using film to explore the entangled histories of media and mental health', Science Museum Group Journal 21
    • Snelson, T, 2021, 'From In Two Minds to MIND: the Circulation of "Anti-Psychiatry" in British Film and Television in the Long-1960s', History of Human Sciences 34:5, pp 53-81
    • Snelson, T, Macauley, W, 2020, ‘The Influence of “Psychiatrist Friends” on British Censorship in the 1960s’, Journal of British Cinema and Television 17:4, pp 473-499
    • Ruiz, Polyanna, Snelson, T, et al, 2020, ‘“Look at What We Made”: Communicating Subcultural Value on London’s Southbank’, Cultural Studies 34:3, pp 292-417