HORNIMAN - Key Persons
Andrew Smith - Chief Commercial Officer
Job Titles:
- Trustee
- Interim Chair of Historic Royal Palaces
Carole has a background in heritage and culture, public sector management and social development, including senior leadership roles at the National Lottery Heritage Fund, English Heritage, in the UK civil service and the London Community Foundation.
Carole is a Trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust and the London Emergencies Trust. She has Chaired the Board of Visitors of the Oxford University Natural History Museum. She is also a Lay Canon of Salisbury Cathedral. Carole has lived in south London for all her adult life, barring her recent time in Oxford, and is pleased to be able to bring her professional expertise to the Museum, which she has visited for over 30 years.
Role
Trustee
Caroline Cole lives locally to the Horniman Museum and Gardens, and has been a Trustee since 2016; she Chairs the Capital Projects Board.
Caroline read architecture at the University of Cambridge, and during her professional life has worked both as a design consultant and as a client commissioning design professionals for the built environment. She is the Founder of Colander Associates, a business that has advised many of the UK's most acclaimed architectural and engineering practices, and works with building owners, developers and government agencies, helping to formulate their approach to architecture. Caroline regularly publishes articles and speaks at conferences to promote good design to clients, and good business to the professionals. She is committed to integrated design and gender diversity, establishing the Equilibrium Network in 2015, to enable women to have equal influence in the design and delivery of the built environment. In 2019, she helped set up the climate emergency network, Construction Declares, which now has over 7,000 member organisations worldwide. She is a Trustee of the Ove Arup Foundation; Chair of SPACE Studios; an Honorary Fellow of the RIBA; a Professor at IE University, Madrid; Fellow of the RSA, and sits on the Design Review Panel for HS2. She is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Chartered Architects and has received the Freedom of the City of London. In her spare time, she is a ceramicist.
Role
Trustee
Job Titles:
- Head of Digital and Communications ( Temporary )
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- Exhibitions and Design Manager
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- Senior Curator of Anthropology ( Job Share )
Sarah Byrne is Senior Curator of Anthropology with a focus on Oceania.
Sarah received her BA in Archaeology and English at the National University of Ireland, Galway (1999) and subsequently worked on archaeological projects in Ireland, UK, Australia and Papua New Guinea. As part of her MA in Artefact Studies at UCL (2002), she researched the Pacific collections amassed by Alfred Court Haddon at the Horniman Museum (1902-15). Her doctoral research (2003-2008) focused on the long-term histories of stone monuments and rock art on Uneapa Island, Papua New Guinea. After her PhD, Sarah worked in local history publishing and a number of community heritage projects including leading a National Lottery Heritage Funded oral history project. Her main research focus is on Pacific Island material culture. She has worked with the British Museum, helping co-ordinate programmes for the Melanesia Project which involved source communities visiting the collections and assessing their contemporary relevance. Before coming to the Horniman, she was a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at UCL researching collections from the Banks Islands (Vanuatu) in UK Museums, focusing specifically on the Melanesian Mission.
Research interests
Pacific ethnographic collections
Theories of social practice
Relationship between archaeology and anthropology
Community heritage
Indigenous representation in museums
The role of oral history in museums
Relationship between memory and materiality
Digital anthropology
Landscape archaeology
Relationship between architecture and artefact
Actor-network theory
Job Titles:
- Visitor Experience Manager
Errol is the Head of Horticulture, managing the 16.5 acres of Gardens at the Horniman.
Eva Appelbaum is a leader in digital transformation, innovation and organisational development, and has been a Horniman Trustee since 2021.
She is currently a transformation consultant at WPP's Grey Consultancy. Eva has been included in Marketing Week's Vision100 and the BIMA Hot100 lists.
Eva was Amnesty International's first global digital director and GroupM's Asia-Pacific social media director in Singapore. She later led digital transformation for BBC marketing.
Eva was previously a trustee at the development charity ActionAid. She has a degree in Art History from the University of Toronto and an MA in Communications from the Universiteit van Amsterdam.
Role
Trustee
Job Titles:
- Events Programming Manager
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- Assistant
- Assistant Aquarium Curator
Hartley George is the Assistant Aquarium Curator and has worked at the Horniman since 2019.
Working across all sections of the aquarium, creating and maintaining interesting and educational displays as well as actively partaking in scientific engagement, Hartley's research interests to date have focused on coral reproduction and aquaculture as well as the effects of human induced climate change. Hartley studied Animal Science at The University of Nottingham before undertaking a Master's degree in Tropical Marine Biology at The University of Essex in 2017. During his Master's he studied coral reef ecology and developed practical fieldwork skills, conducting coral reef surveys in Indonesia. Hartley also has experience carrying out reef restoration in the Seychelles, maintaining floating coral nurseries and outplanting coral colonies to help rebuild damaged reefs. Hartley has also been involved with Project Coral, an innovative coral reproduction project, as well as work on breeding other marine organisms such as sea urchins, shrimpfish and clownfish.
Job Titles:
- Aquarium Curator and Living Collections Manager
Jamie Craggs is the Aquarium Curator and Living Collections Manager at the Horniman Museum and Gardens.
In addition, he is a Science Associate at the Natural History Museum, London, and in 2016 was elected a fellow of the Linnean Society of London, the world's oldest active biological society. Previously Jamie worked as the Head Aquarist at the London Aquarium during which time he developed his interest in coral biology. Jamie has also worked as an underwater cameraman based in Borneo, filming and photographing the amazing array of species that are found on the coral reefs in the Celebes seas. Since arriving at the Horniman in 2008 he has been improving the working practices, animal welfare standards, and captive breeding programs within the Aquarium. His main research interest is the reproductive biology of reef-building corals and in 2012 he founded Project Coral, a multi-year research project focused on developing techniques to predictably induce broadcast coral spawning events in closed system aquariums. To date, within the museums closed circuit research systems, gamete (egg and sperm) development has been induced in 17 Acropora species and in-vitro fertilisation capacity developed to produce genetically diverse coral in captivity. Through developing a deeper understanding of broadcast spawning events in captivity Project Coral aims to support climate change research focusing on reproduction, reef restoration efforts and develop new sustainable coral aquaculture techniques. Alongside his other roles, Jamie is a PhD student with the University of Derby focusing on the topic Project Coral. In 2018 Jamie was named Aquarist of the Year by the Marine Aquarium Societies of North America.
Job Titles:
- Principal Curator of Natural Sciences
Jo Hatton is Principal Curator of Natural Sciences, and has worked in the Department of Natural History at the Horniman Museum and Gardens since 2005.
As Principal Curator of Natural Sciences, Jo is responsible for managing, making available and promoting the Natural History collections, around 250,000 specimens. Major projects have included the curation of a 'Nature Base' gallery (opened 2009), publication of the Hart bird collection and other natural history specimen records online, and management of the Bioblitz Collections Review Project supported by the Esmee Fairbairn Collections Fund. Jo's current project involves researching and developing themes for the Natural History Gallery introductory area re-display, with funding from the DCMS / Wolfson Museum and Galleries Improvement Fund. Her career as a curator began with documentation and cataloguing projects at Liverpool Museum (insects and bird's eggs) and the National Museum of Wales (insects), before moving on to curate and interpret diverse zoology collections at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the Grant Museum of Zoology (University College London). Jo is a member of the Natural Sciences Collections Association, Society for the Preservation of Natural History Collections and a council member for the Society for the History of Natural History and London Natural History Society, and also represents the Horniman as part of the Lewisham Biodiversity Partnership.
Research interests
History of taxidermy, particularly Hampshire taxidermist and naturalist, Edward Hart (1847-1928). Hart's collection of mounted birds is one of the very best in Britain and most of the surviving taxidermy cases and notebooks are housed at the Horniman Museum and Gardens.
The scientific and historical importance of Frederick Horniman's founding Natural History collections.
Biological recording, as a contribution to environmental conservation.
Job Titles:
- Head of Knowledge and Information Management
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- Community Engagement Manager
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- Director, Collections Care and Estates
- Member of the Horniman 's Senior Management Team Responsible for Conservation
Kirsten Walker is a member of the Horniman's Senior Management Team responsible for Conservation, Documentation, Exhibitions and the management of the Horniman's estate across two sites.
Kirsten Walker is a member of the Horniman's Senior Management Team responsible for Conservation, Documentation, Exhibitions and the management of the Horniman's estate across two sites. Kirsten trained as an archaeological conservator, working for English Heritage for five years and for Newport Museum and Art Gallery, before joining the Horniman in April 1991 as a Conservation Officer, based at the Study Collection Centre. She went on to become Conservation Services Manager, before joining the Senior Management Team in 1998. Her key achievements include coordinating the major extension to the building in 2001 to mark the Horniman's Centenary, the redevelopment of the Aquarium, and the 2012 Gardens redevelopment. In her current role as Director, Collections Care and Estates, Kirsten recently project managed the redevelopment of two anthropology galleries. She also has the privilege of being based in the office formerly used by founder Frederick Horniman, in the iconic Clocktower. Kirsten is a Governor of Horniman Primary School, and holds a degree in Archaeological Conservation, a Masters in Museum Studies and a Masters in Public Administration. Kirsten lives in South London and enjoys knitting and sewing, going to the theatre, and walking.
Role
Director, Collections Care and Estates
Job Titles:
- Senior Curator, Nature Love
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- Trustee
- Senior Policy Adviser
Mayowa Ochere is a senior policy adviser within the Home Office, and is passionate about making sure disadvantaged communities are considered in policy development.
She has previously worked for HM Treasury and the Ministry for Housing, Communities and Local Government on a range of high-profile areas including social housing and financial services policy. Mayowa is an active member of her local community in South London, and serves as a Governor at Kelvin Grove Primary School in Lewisham and volunteers with local youth groups. Her ties to the Horniman can be traced right back to her visits during her primary school years and she now hopes to support the Horniman's appeal to young adults. Mayowa sits on the Horniman's Audit and Risk Committee as part of her role as a Trustee.
Role
Trustee
Michael Salter-Church MBE is a local resident and will be championing the Horniman, and supporting its work as Chair.
He is an elected member of the Council of the National Trust, the UK's largest charity for environmental and heritage conservation, and is Director of External Affairs, Policy & Sustainability at Openreach Ltd.
He founded the Community Interest Company that organised London's LGBTQ+ Pride event 2013-2022, turning it into the capital's third largest annual event and receiving the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service.
Michael has worked on a number of organising, advisory and fundraising committees, including Action for Children, the Terrence Higgins Trust and National Student Pride.
He served as an advisor in 10 Downing Street until 2015, leading on broadcasting and equal marriage legislation, then led public affairs work at J Sainsbury's plc before joining the team at Openreach, where he is also the senior sponsor of an employee network.
He is a member of the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership network.
Role
Trustee (Chair)
Job Titles:
- Senior Curator of Musical Collections
- Senior Curator of Musical Collections and Cultures
Mimi Waitzman is Senior Curator of Musical Collections and Cultures. She was appointed part-time Deputy Keeper of Musical Instruments at the Horniman in 2009, and assumed the role on a full-time basis in 2013.
In 2010, Mimi co-curated The Art of Harmony, a joint exhibition of instruments from the Horniman and the V&A and was lead curator of At Home With Music, a display exploring domestic keyboard instruments which opened in the Museum's Music Gallery in January 2014. Born in the USA, Mimi studied Music History and the Harpsichord at McGill University in Montreal. She later completed her graduate work at the University of Michigan where she became research assistant at the extensive Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments. In 1981, Mimi helped found a partnership in the UK, making, repairing and supplying early keyboard instruments. Having gained experience in their restoration, maintenance and conservation, she took on the curatorship of a National Trust collection of early keyboard instruments at Fenton House in North London, a part-time post held for 28 years. Mimi is the UK editor of book reviews for the Galpin Society Journal; Chairman, Musical Instrument Subject Specialist Network (MISSN); CIMCIM, member of musical instrument conservation working group and a member of the British Clavichord Society.
Research interests
The aesthetics behind the object: why do instruments of a particular place and time, sound, look and function as they do?
The 19th and 20th-century revival of interest in early music, with a particular focus on Dolmetsch.
Philosophies of collecting: public vs. private
Early keyboard instruments of all types and their repertoire.
Practical and theoretical tuning systems for early keyboard instruments.
The impact of environmental conditions on tensioned keyboard instruments.
Job Titles:
- Senior Curator of Social Practice
Navjot Mangat joined the Horniman Museum and Gardens as Senior Curator of Social Practice in January 2022.
Navjot's work focuses on participatory practice and its applications across different strands of museum work, from conservation and collections management to exhibition development and research, thinking about how communities can have more agency and influence over museum processes. He is passionate about making museums more accessible for those communities and people that have been historically marginalised and underrepresented. At the Horniman, Navjot will apply this practice and approach across exhibitions, programmes and processes, hoping to pilot new ways of working that centre our audiences and communities at the heart of what we do and how we do it. He is currently developing and consulting on a major new exhibition for 2023. Navjot joined the Horniman from the Victoria and Albert Museum where he was Senior Interpretation and Participation Producer for V&A East and previously worked at Royal Museums Greenwich, Culture& and the National Army Museum. He is a Trustee of The Line Art-Walk and a member of the Museums Association Decolonisation Working Group. Born and raised in east London, Navjot enjoys going to galleries and museums in his spare time, and has a collection of trainers built up over a decade.
Job Titles:
- Director of Finance and Corporate Services
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- Director of Content ( Interim )
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- Security and Operations Manager
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- Chief Executive ( Interim ) and Director, Communications and Income Generation