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Heritage education, curation and programming
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Graphic design and illustration
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Specialist knowledge of LGBTQ+ heritage, historic houses, museum learning, community engagement
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Lecturing, researching and writing
My teaching and lecturing experience:
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Lecturer for MA Museums and Galleries in Education, UCL Institute of Education (occasional from 2012-2018, regular 2018-9019)
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Lecturer and course designer for ‘LGBTQ+ Europe: History, Culture and Community’, a summer school for Richmond University and the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) (2019 – present)
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Lecturer for ‘European Art and Architecture’ travelling summer school for Richmond University and the American Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS) (2018)
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Guest lecturer for ‘Practice, Policy and Markets’ on the MA Arts and Cultural Enterprise, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2019)
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Guest lecturer for ‘Working in The Art World’ on the BA Art History and Visual Culture, Richmond, the American International University in London (2019)
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Regular presenter and facilitator for LGBTQ History Club, London Metropolitan Archives (2012-2018)
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Co-founder of PhD Queer Reading Group, UCL Institute of Education, (2014-2015)
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Guest lecturer for BA Culture, Criticism and Curation, Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London (2014)
I have also experience in speaking at at academic conferences and public events, including:
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Panel member for ‘Community Voices: Representation and Inclusive Practice’ at GEM (Group for Education in Museums) Conference 2019, Torquay Museum, Sept 2019
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‘The Historic House as a Queer Haven’ at Queering Memory: LGBTQ Archives, Libraries, Museums and Special Collections conference, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, June 2019
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Panel member at ‘Troubling Objects: interrogating collecting and collections’, Victoria and Albert Museum, Sept 2018
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Panel member for ‘What does a queer museum look like?’, Queer and Now, Tate Britain, June 2018
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Panel member for ‘Trancestory, now you see it, now you don't: how to spot, save and collect trans and queer theirstory’, Museum of Transology, Fashion Space Gallery, London College of Fashion, March 2017
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‘Excavating LGBTQ+ voices throughout the National Trust’ with Rachael Lennon (National Trust) at Without Borders’ LGBTQ+ Archives, Libraries, Museums & Special Collections conference, Bishopsgate Institute, London Metropolitan Archive & University of Westminster, July 2016
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‘Queer activism begins at home: the curator as activist in historic houses’ at Home & art: creating, performing and researching home, Geffrye Museum of the Home, May 2015
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‘Addressing the Balance: Negotiating Potential Conflicts Between Regular Visitors and Community Groups in Historic Buildings - UK & US Perspectives’ with Lauren Windham (US Capitol, Washington DC) at Museums in Action 2015: Museums mean business, Corning Museum of Glass, New York, April 2015
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‘There’s no place like homo: the deconstruction of the queer country house’ at ‘Queer and Now’ V&A Friday Late, Victoria and Albert Museum, Feb 2015
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‘Queer homes, queer houses’ at ‘Lines of Dissent’ the 12th LGBTQ History and Archives conference, London Metropolitan Archives, Dec 2014
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‘Master-Mistress: queer uncertainties in historic houses’ at Museums and Education in the 21st Century: global and local discourses, National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, June 2014
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‘Fetishising memory: The Holocaust memorial site as gay-cruising ground and the importance of pilgrimage as an affirmative queer experience’ at Museum Futures in an Age of Austerity, UCL Institute of Education, June 2013
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‘The Museum Through Queer Eyes: Bringing the "Outsider" Narratives Inside’ at ‘The future of LGBTI Histories’ Archives, Libraries, Museums & Special Collections (ALMS) Conference, Amsterdam Public Library, Amsterdam, Aug 2012
I am available for research and writing commissions. You can read some of my writing here:
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My PhD thesis 'Queer Activism Begins at Home: Situating LGBTQ+ Voices in National Trust Historic Houses'
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'Heritage and Queer Activism' chapter in Museum Activism
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'Queering Heritage Sites: a Manifesto' chapter in Prejudice and Pride: LGBTQ+ Heritage and its Contemporary Implications
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'Let's Talk about Sexuality: exhibiting LGBTQ voices'. In MuseumsEtc, On Sexuality: Collecting Everybody's Experience. Edinburgh: MuseumsEtc. (2015)
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'Let’s Talk About Sexuality: Capturing, Collecting and Disseminating LGBTQ Oral His- and Her-stories'. In O. Rhys & Z. Baveystock (Eds), Collecting the Contemporary: Recording the Present for the Future (pp. 336-367). Edinburgh: MuseumsEtc. (2014)
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'The Museum Through Queer Eyes', Journal of Education in Museums, 33, 49-58. (2012)
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Review of Tyburczy, Jennifer, Sex Museums: The Politics and Performance of Display. H-Histsex, H-Net Reviews. August, 2016
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'Curating LGBTQ Histories: Queer Season at Sutton House' on Notches
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'LGBT History Month: Octavia Hill' on Cemetery Club