I have worked in a variety of roles including curatorial, research and documentation roles. I am experienced in curatorial work, collections management, information management, museum ethics, contemporary collecting, funding proposals and collections research. Please contact me for freelance museum, collections and community history projects. 

I have worked with collections at the Royal Society of Sculptors, London Transport Museum, the Horniman Museum, the Wellcome Collection, the Royal Armouries and York Museums Trust, to name a few. I have worked across a wide range of collections including costume and textiles, firearms, decorative arts and social history collections. I have also worked with architectural and design collections at a number of museums. 

At the Royal Society of Sculptors (RSS), I led the archival research project, ‘Pioneering Women at the Heart of the Royal Society of Sculptors’ on the histories of female sculptors. I carried out research using the uncatalogued archive, developed the collections and instigated key acquisitions. I devised a public programme which included a series of ‘Reintroducing our Pioneering Women’ talks. I improved collections storage, advising on conservation matters and improving the environmental conditions of the store.

At London Transport Museum, my role involved documenting contemporary London. I managed collecting projects involving research,  acquisitions and managing collaborative community projects. I responded to collections reviews and identified gaps based on the Equality Acts’ protected characteristics to improve representation within the collections. I created opportunities to acquire material by building relationships with TfL departments and external groups such as TfL’s LGBTQIA+ staff network and young people in Newham. I also instigated contemporary collecting around difficult or traumatic histories such as COVID-19, women's safety and suicide prevention.

I have worked across a wide range of museum procedures, particularly those involving museum acquisitions. At the Horniman Museum, I managed the acquisitions and disposals process, carrying out due diligence and contributing to policies, procedures and collections development. I facilitated quarterly acquisition and disposal committees, liaised with donors, carried out basic conservation procedures as well as documentation, accessioning and storage. As a curator, I managed acquisitions at the Royal Society of Sculptors, London Transport Museum and Kingston Museum involving physical and digital objects.

Leading sector conversations on ethics and community collaboration in museums, I co-edited Ethics of Contemporary Collecting (2024). My co-editors and I presented a wide spectrum of fieldwork, inviting reflection as well as advocating for sector reform regarding funding and project management. In my co-written UCL Press chapter, ‘COVID-19: sensitivity, care, collaboration’ (2024), my co-author Ellie Miles and I argued for the centring of the welfare of those impacted by COVID when recording the contemporary history of COVID.