OUMNH - Key Persons
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- Collections Manager, Life
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- Visitor Service Assistant
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- Visitor Services Assistant
Visitor Services Assistant: Camille Britton; camille.britton@oum.ox.ac.uk; she/her/hers
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- Volunteer Engagement Officer
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- Education Officer
- Education Officer for Primary Schools and Adults
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- Collections Manager
- Collections Manager, Earth Collections
- Fellow of the Geological Society of London
Duncan is a Fellow of the Geological Society of London, and a member of The Palaeontological Association.
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- NERC Independent Research Fellow & Senior Researcher
- Research Fellow
Dr Dunn's research is concerned with understanding the origin and early evolution of animals and how the fossil record informs our view of those events. Specifically, she works on a group of organisms colloquially termed the Ediacaran Macrobiota. These organisms appear in the fossil record 570 million years ago and may represent some of the most ancient records of animal life. However, the morphology of these fossils is unlike anything within the repertoire of living animals and so many aspects of their (palaeo)biology remain contentious.
Frankie Dunn is a research fellow at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History, supported by both the Royal Commission for the Exhibition of 1851 and Merton College, where she holds a Junior Research Fellowship.
Prior to this, Frankie completed her PhD (2015-2019) at the University of Bristol, where she studied Ediacaran macrofossils under the supervision of Professor Philip Donoghue, Dr Alexander Liu and Dr Philip Wilby.
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- Leverhulme Research Fellow
Leonidas-Romanos Davranoglou is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow at the Museum, his Fellowship also receiving the generous support of the John Fell OUP Fund. Prior to his Fellowship, Leonidas undertook his DPhil (2015-2020) research in insect morphology and biomechanics at the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, under the supervision of Professor Graham Taylor and Dr Beth Mortimer. For his undergraduate degree (B.Sc. Hons.), Leonidas studied Zoology at Imperial College London (2012-2015).
Leverhulme Research Fellow; Leonidas Davranoglou; leonidas-romanos.davranoglou@oum.ox.ac.uk
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- Digital Collections Manager
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- Head of Earth Collections
Eliza has been at the Oxford University Museum of Natural History since 1993, and has worked in both the Earth and Life Collections. She was appointed Head of Earth Collections in 2017, and divides her time between collections management and collections-based research.
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- Web and Communications Officer
- Web Content and Communications Officer, Internship Coordinator
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- AHRC Doctoral Researcher
- Doctoral Researcher
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- Museum Executive Assistant
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- Community Engagement Service Assistant
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- AHRC Doctoral Researcher
- Doctoral Researcher
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- Visitor Services Assistant
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- Collections Manager
- Collections Manager, Hymenoptera and Lepidoptera
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- Visitor Services Assistant
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- Deputy Director and Head of Public Engagement
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- Bookings Administrator and Education Assistant
Scientific Advisor, Kurt Jackson: Bees (and the odd wasp) in my bonnet. March to September 2016.
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- Interim Deputy Events Manager
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- Collections Manager
- Collections Manager, Life
- Curator
Mark Carnall is the curator of the 150,000 specimens held in the Oxford University Museum of Natural History. He has previously worked and volunteered at local authority, national and other university natural history museums.
In addition to managing collections, he lectures on biology, palaeobiology and museological topics. His research interests are digitisation in museums, public engagement and natural history, sector wide advocacy for collections, models, casts and replicas as well as the implications on 3D printing on museum collections.
Carnall, M.A (2015) Underwhelming Fossil Fish of the Month, or how to get some use out of your useless fossils. The Palaeontological Association Newsletter: 89 75-81 (Available here)
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- Volunteer Service Assistant
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- Visitor Services Assistant
Visitor Services Assistant: Molly Appleby; molly.appleby@oum.ox.ac.uk; she/her/hers
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- Interpretation and Project Officer
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- Accountant
- Assistant Accountant
Nicole is the Assistant Accountant supporting the Museum from Finance Division. She is responsible for budgeting and forecasting, producing monthly accounts and working with staff to manage project finances.
Paul Smith is Director of Oxford University Museum of Natural History and Professor of Natural History. He is also a Fellow of Kellogg College. Prior to coming to Oxford he was Head of the School of Geography, Earth and Environmental Sciences at the University of Birmingham, as well as Director of the Lapworth Museum of Geology. He has spent most of his career working in university museums in Cambridge, Copenhagen, Birmingham and Oxford.
Paul undertook his BSc in geology at the University of Leicester before moving to the University of Nottingham for his PhD on the micropaleontology of conodonts from the Ordovician of Greenland. His PhD was followed by postdoctoral posts working on conodont palaeobiology in Nottingham and on the sedimentary basin analysis of Arctic regions in Cambridge. He has over thirty years' experience of Arctic field expeditions and was awarded the Polar Medal in 2017.
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- Redisplay Project Manager
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- Collections Assistant
- Collections Assistant, Life and IPM Coordinator
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- Deputy Visitor Services Manager
Deputy Visitor Services Manager: Robert Parker; robert.parker@oum.ox.ac.uk; he/him/his
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- Digital Communications Officer
- Social Media and Communications Officer
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- Head of Education
- Head of Learning
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- Digital Engagement Manager and Redisplay Project Manager
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- Visitor Service Assistant
Visitor Service Assistant: Silvia Pinna; silvia.pinna@hsm.ox.ac.uk; she/her/hers
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- Community Engagement Officer
Community Engagement Officer: Susan Griffiths; susan.griffiths@glam.ox.ac.uk; she/her/hers
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- Collections Management System Manager
- Collections Management Systems Manager