Miss Judith White
Curator, Birds
Division: LS Vertebrates Division
Team: Douglas Russell, Hendrik Van Grouw, Joanne Cooper, Judith White, Mark Adams Specialisms: curation, osteoarchaeology, osteology collections, skeleton preparation, spirit collections
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
- BA Archaeology, University of Southampton, England
- MA Osteoarchaeology, University of Southampton, England
Degrees
Employment history
- Research Assistant, University of Reading, United Kingdom, 2017 - 2019
Academic
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
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, 141 (1) : doi: 10.25226/bboc.v141i1.2021.a7
White J (2019) Use of the avian osteology collection at the Natural History Museum, Tring. Alauda, 87 (3) : 133 - 136.
Manegold A, White J (2014) Morphologische Anpassungen an das Klettern und Hacken beim Hüpfspecht Nesoctites micromegas (Picidae, Piciformes) dargestellt mit Hilfe der Computertomografie.. Vogelwarte. 52 : : 324 - 325.
RUSSELL DGD, White J, Maurer G, Cassey P (2010) Data-poor egg collections: cracking an important research resource. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology - Special Issue, 77 - 82.
Sykes NJ, WHITE J, Hayes TE, Palmer MR (2006) Tracking animals using strontium isotopes in teeth: the role of fallow deer (Dama dama) in Roman Britain. Antiquity, 80 : 948 - 959.