Miss Emma Bernard

A dedicated museum professional with over eight years of experience working on natural science collections in small local authority, large regional and national museums.

I have experience in collection management, documentation, SPECTRUM standards, policy development, collection re-storage, digitization, exhibition design and interpretation and outreach.

Curatorial responsibilities:

Currently responsible for the Fossil Fish Section.

Oversee visitors to the section, dealing with inquiries, loans, destructive sampling and exhibition requests.

Documentation and digitisation of the collection and part of the eMesozoic digitisation group.

Co- manager for the Earth Sciences offsite storage building.

I manage four volunteers who are working on working on various curation projects in the fossil fish collection.

I participate and lead in a number of out reach events every year, such as the Lyme Regis Fossil Festival, Scarborough Fossil Festival and Science Uncovered.

Regularly take part in collection enhancing fieldwork all around the world; America, Morocco, France and have lead field teams to Woodeaton Quarry, Oxfordshire.