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Haas Ezzet continued to represent the University museums’ IT staff at meetings of the Committee for Museums and Scientific Collections (CMSC) and, in turn, to represent the CMSC at meetings of the University’s Information Communication and Technology Committee (ICTC). Clare Harris spent the reporting year on research leave, funded by the award of a British Academy / Leverhulme Trust senior research fellowship, during which she worked on a book provisionally entitled ‘The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet’. She made research trips to Scotland, India, China, and Tibet, gave lectures at the University of Vienna, and presented a paper at the International Association of Tibetan Studies conference in Bonn. Following the completion of the ‘Tibet Visual History’ project in October 2006, she gave several talks about the project’s website. Dan Hicks joined the staff of the Museum, from the University of Bristol, in the closing days of the reporting year as Lecturer-Curator in the Archaeology of the Modern Period, in succession to Professor Chris Gosden. He is focusing his initial efforts on making preparations to survey the Museum’s archaeological collections and to submit a range of grant applications to fund research on them. John Hobart continued to work across the four University museums, overseeing the use of Renaissance funding and advising on cross-museum policy and planning. During the reporting year much of his time was spent carrying out advocacy in preparation for the announcement of the government’s comprehensive spending review in the autumn, which will precede a new round of Renaissance funding. He continued to serve on the University museums’ education committee as well as to attend meetings of the Committee for Museums and Scientific Collections, and reported to other committees and panels as required. He also continued to serve on the Thames Valley Museum Group (and its sub-committees for strategy, grants, marketing, and learning), on Oxfordshire Museums Council (and its strategy group, the Oxfordshire Museums Joint Working Group), and the Audience Development South East committee. Hélène La Rue continued to work on the Museum’s music collections as time allowed, responding to numerous research enquiries, and hosting research visits. She continued to support the gamelan, tabla, and bagpipe sessions held at the Balfour Galleries throughout the year. In addition to extensive teaching commitments in both music and anthropology, she continued to lead, with Chris Gosden, the ESRC-funded ‘The Other Within’ project on the Museum’s English collections, curated with colleagues Community Music and Dance—the first special exhibition in the gallery in the new extension, and worked closely with collections and conservation staff in planning and preparing for the packing and removal of the music and sound collections from Banbury Road to the new repository. She died in service on 13 July 2007 aged fifty-five. Zena McGreevy continued to manage and supervise research visits to the Museum’s object collections throughout the year. In addition, she managed a team of contract and volunteer staff to sort, correctly identify, and develop a new locations system for the Museum’s collections of stone tools and related material in preparation for their removal to a new repository. She also worked with Adrian Vizor to complete the redisplay of the ‘Miniature Weapons’ and ‘Ball Games’ cases on the Museum’s lower gallery. In November 2006 she couriered the return to the Museum of a long-term loan to the Ulster Museum in Belfast. In 22
March 2007 she attended the Museums Association conference ‘Crowded House: Rethinking Stored Collections’, hosted by the Museum of Science and Industry in Manchester, and in July she attended a training course on ‘Object Handling and Packing’, also organized by the Museums Association. In June she provided advice to National Museums Scotland about its Australian collections and its proposed new displays. Andrew McLellan continued to manage the Museum’s ever-expanding education service. He contributed to the collaborative process of developing a joint education service across the University’s museums. In addition to his regular teaching activities, he was much involved in the planning for the Community Music and Dance exhibition and in the development of the Museum’s film-making projects. Chris Morton continued to hold a dual post as Career Development Fellow and Head of Photograph and Manuscript Collections. He continued to pursue his research on the Museum’s collections as time allowed. As part of his fellowship he organized, with Gilbert Oteyo, a series of community exhibitions of the Museum’s photograph collections in western Kenya (see back cover). He contributed two lectures to the ‘Cultural Representations’ lecture series, supervised an undergraduate dissertation in Archaeology & Anthropology, and coconvened the Museum’s Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography seminar series in Michaelmas and Trinity terms; with Gilbert Oteyo he presented a paper in the latter series on the community exhibitions project. In July he attended a two-day conference, organized by MLA and UNESCO at the Museum in Docklands, on museum collaboration, where he was able to develop links with African museum professionals and to discuss potential future research projects on the Museum’s collections. Julia Nicholson continued to oversee the Museum’s loans programme, updating and developing the Museum’s loan agreement documents and overseeing arrangements for the eight loan movements during the year. She also continued to serve as chair of the Museum’s Documentation Committee. From October 2006 she was again heavily involved in the Museum’s latest Designation Challenge Fund project ‘Cutting Edge’, overseeing the recruitment and management of the project team and working alongside Kate White to linemanage the project’s Interpretation Officer. She gave a number of talks about the Treasured Textiles exhibition to members of, amongst other organizations, the Lace Guild, the Textile Society Collectors Group, and the Oxford Asian Textiles Group. Michael O’Hanlon continued to be occupied with the administrative work entailed in running the Museum. He oversaw submission of the successful bid to the Heritage Lottery Fund, continued to serve on the strategy group of the University’s Academic Services and University Collections Group, the committee of the University Museums Group UK, the management team of the South East Hub, and as vice-president of the Paul Raymaekers Foundation. He gave evidence to the parliamentary select committee on museum funding. He continued, although with reduced involvement, to contribute to teaching in Archaeology & Anthropology. Laura Peers served on the Board of Governors of the Great Lakes Research Alliance for the Study of Aboriginal Arts and Cultures, founded by Professor Ruth Phillips, Carleton University, to make Great Lakes artefacts and knowledge about them accessible to scholars, and to form new research partnerships between Native communities and museums. She also collaborated on the related database project. She continued to serve on the Department of 23
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