Summary
I am a Curator in the Bird Group at Tring, jointly responsible for the avian spirit and skeletal collections. My work involves curation tasks in the collections, organising loans, answering enquiries and supervising research visitors.
Qualifications
Degrees
- MA Osteoarchaeology, University of Southampton, England
- BA Archaeology, University of Southampton, England
Employment history
Academic
- Research Assistant, University of Reading, United Kingdom, 2017 - 2019
Non-academic
- Curator, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, 2013 - ongoing
- Curatorial Assistant (Excavating Pitt Rivers), Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, 2012 - 2013
- Image and Data Capture Assistant (Red Box Project), English Heritage, 2012 - 2012
- Entomology Type Specimen Data Input Clerk, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 2011 - 2012
- Curatorial Assistant (Natural Environments), Manchester Museum, 2010 - 2011
- Collections Coordinator (AMEAD), Ashmolean Museum, 2009 - 2010
- Museum Assistant, Ashmolean Museum, 2008 - 2009
- Research Associate (Destructive Analysis Collection), University Of Birmingham c/o Bird Group Natural History Museum, Tring, 2008 - 2008
- Curator (Bird Group), Natural History Museum, Tring, 2006 - 2007
- Zooarchaeology Intern, English Heritage, 2004 - 2005
Highlighted publications
- Prŷs-Jones RP, Manegold A, White J (2021) The conundrum of an overlooked skeleton referable to Imperial Woodpecker Campephilus imperialis in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, (1) British Ornithologists' Clubdoi: 10.25226/bboc.v141i1.2021.a7
Highlighted publications
- Prŷs-Jones RP, Manegold A, White J (2021) The conundrum of an overlooked skeleton referable to Imperial Woodpecker Campephilus imperialis in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, (1) British Ornithologists' Clubdoi: 10.25226/bboc.v141i1.2021.a7