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Dr Douglas James Mitcham is the Community Heritage Officer for Yorkshire Dales National Park Authority. He is an archaeologist with particular interests in prehistoric landscapes and monuments, lithic technology, archaeological theory and applied GIS in archaeology. He has worked in commercial archaeology and previously held a PhD studentship funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and Exmoor National Park Authority at the University of Leicester. His thesis produced a detailed synthesis of Exmoors Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes.
Dr Grazia A. Di Pietros research centres on the prehistoric cultures of the lower Nile Valley, especially in the period that witnesses the emergence of social complexity and the state (c. fourth millennium BC), and on the various social, economic, political and cultural transformations that accompanied the process of state formation. She obtained her PhD in African Studies/Archaeology and Prehistory of Africa at the University of Naples LOrientale in Italy (2011). Having conducted a major postdoctoral project at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, UK (201315), she is currently preparing the results of archaeological investigations carried out by the Italian Archaeological Mission of the Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, at the site of Naqada, Egypt, in 197786 for final publication, a project hosted by the Oriental Museum Umberto Scerrato, University of Naples LOrientale, Italy.
Dr Jack Davy was the collection manager for North America at the British Museum for many years, before completing a PhD studying miniaturisation among the Indigenous communities of the Northern Pacific coast of America. He currently works for the University of East Anglia on the Arts and Humanities Research Council project Beyond the Spectacle, which examines Native American interventions in Britain.
Cliff Swallow retired in 2009 after a career in electronics and project management working in the defence sector and air traffic control. He started building model boats about 20 years ago, attracted by the aesthetics and design functionality of sailing boats, and found it a therapeutic exercise to relieve the stress of a high-pressure job. He now works as a volunteer at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, carrying out model-building and model restoration.
Pat Howard has a degree in economics, and after a spell as a boat-builder, he joined a manufacturer of touring caravans to install management systems, and ultimately bought the company in the late 1970s. He spent the remainder of his working career, until retirement, leading this team to become the market leader the company is today. Now that he enjoys retirement with his wife and family, a significant part of Pats week is spent volunteering for the National Maritime Museum Cornwall, part of which is with the museums model-making group. Model-making in many forms has always been a part of his life; indeed, his working career of designing, making and selling touring caravans was really just a form of miniaturisation of family homes into towable boxes!
Dr Charlotte Dixon worked in collections care and conservation at Southampton City Council Museums before completing a PhD in 2018. This was an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award with the British Museum and University of Southampton. Her research used a museum-based approach to investigate models of boats from the Indian Ocean region and their potential to provide evidence for traditional boat-building techniques, maritime cultures and collecting histories. She has helped to deliver exhibitions internationally and is currently a Curatorial Assistant at the National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
Dr Christian Srhaug has a PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oslo. He is associate professor at stfold University College, in the Department of Health and Welfare Sciences. His research interests span issues such as indigenous people in a globalised world, voluntary work and care of the elderly, cultural heritage and the nation state, youth culture and identity crisis, digital welfare infrastructure and social work. His theoretical interests are in science and technology studies, material culture, medical anthropology and political ecology.
Dr James Lyon Fenner was awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Collaborative Doctoral Award at the University of Nottingham in 2014 for a project shared between the Geography Department at the university and the Science Museum, London. His doctoral research was based upon the British Small Craft displays within the Shipping Gallery of the Science Museum and investigated the stories behind the collection and individual objects displayed. He now works as a Portfolio Manager at the AHRC (now a partner in UK Research & Innovation).
Henry Milner is an architectural model-maker and artist specialising in Reconstructivism. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven; the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, Moscow; the Science Museum, London; and the River and Rowing Museum, Henley. His works have been exhibited in the Hermitage, St Petersburg; Museum Sztuki, Lodz; the Kunsthaus, Graz; and the World Fair in Beijing. The show Utopia Ltd at the Gallery of Russian Art and Design in London was dedicated to his constructions. His website is at https://henrymilnerltd.wordpress.com/.
Dr Susanne Kchler is a Professor of Anthropology and Material Culture at UCL. She has conducted ethnographic fieldwork in island Papua New Guinea and Eastern Polynesia over the past 25 years, studying the modular, composite image in relation to political economies of knowledge from a comparative perspective. Her work on the history of the take-up, in the Pacific, of cloth and clothing as new material and new technology has focused on social memory and material translation, and on the epistemic nature of pattern. The question of the return to the object and its theoretical and methodological imperative is the central theme of her forthcoming work, which follows publications on
