Katherine works with colleagues in the research and curatorial team, as well as across the Museum, on a range of digital engagement and special projects, both online and in the museum itself. Katherine’s academic background in anthropology, archaeology, and art history inform her approach to the roles of digital interpretation in museums, as does her experience of working a variety of roles behind-the-scenes in collections care and working to produce exhibitions and public engagement.
Katherine first joined the Pitt Rivers Museum as Assistant Curator in Photographs where among other early projects, she co-curated Embroidered Visions: Photography of Sheila Paine with Philip Grover. She started her museum career at the Ashmolean, and moved on to a range of roles in the wider Museum and Heritage Sector from delivering science-led exhibitions, to working with Historic England, before returning to the Pitt Rivers Museum to work on digital projects.
She is currently on a part-time secondment at the Museum of Natural History helping deliver a variety of digital interpretation initiatives for the Life, as we know it redisplay project.
Katherine is keen to facilitate digital innovation within the museum and in collaboration with research partners, exploring how the digital space can support layered, multivocal interpretation, connecting the collections and the curatorial work happening at the museum with wider audiences.
Current usual working days at the Pitt Rivers Museum are Wednesday and Friday.
