Pitt Rivers Museum - University of Oxford

Galleries Disability Association. In early 2007 her job was retitled Access and Public
Relations Manager.
Cathy Wright continued to manage the construction of the new extension, the refurbishment
of the ICL (Inorganic Chemistry Laboratory) space as a repository for the Museum’s music
and stone tool collections, the refurbishment of other ICL space for joint use with the
OUMNH, and the preparation of plans for the HLF-funded remodelling of the Museum’s
entrance. In addition, she continued to manage the administration of the Museum, including
its finances, health and safety compliance, and personnel processes. As part of that
management, she attended a number of divisional and university-wide meetings as a
representative of the Museum. She also undertook additional training on new aspects of the
University’s finance system. As part of her management of the Museum’s trading activities,
she introduced a new policy covering the sale and reproduction of images to be implemented
in the new financial year. In collaboration with Kate White she began work on the Museum’s
new ‘way-finding’ project to provide improved signage and orientation for visitors to the
Museum. She assisted teaching and research staff in the preparation of grant applications to
research councils and the Director and other staff with grant applications to DCMS/Wolfson
and HLF. With the assistance of other Museum staff, and in collaboration with the
Oxfordshire Education Business Partnership scheme, she organized work-experience
placements for students from local Oxford schools and colleges. She produced and
maintained the Museum’s risk register and, as required by legislation, a number of health and
safety risk assessments, including a detailed fire risk assessment for the ‘In a Different Light’
event. She continued to be an Associate Member of the Association for Project Managers.
Chris Wingfield returned to the staff of the Museum in September 2006, joining the ESRCfunded
project ‘The Other Within: An Anthropology of Englishness’ as a project researcher.
His research has focused on the early publications of the Folk-Lore Society as well as the
Museum’s collections from Somerset and their connections with E. B. Tylor. He assisted in
the teaching of an optional paper for undergraduates and postgraduates on ‘Material Culture
and the Anthropology of Things’, run by Chris Gosden in Hilary Term. During the year he
presented a number of papers: at the conference of the European Association of Social
Anthropologists in Bristol, at the ‘Beyond Text’ conference in Manchester, at two meetings
of the Oxford University Museums Collections History Group, as well as (jointly with Alison
Petch) at the Museum’s Friday lunchtime seminar series. He was also selected for the
‘NaMu’ workshop on National Museum Narratives at the University of Leicester (funded by
a European Union ‘Marie Curie’ grant), where he presented a poster relating to his research.
He also continued to serve as treasurer of the Museum Ethnographers Group and attended its
annual conference at the National Maritime Museum, as well as guest editing the conference
section of the 2007 issue of the group’s annual Journal of Museum Ethnography.
ANNEX E
STAFF PUBLICATIONS
Those publications relating directly to the Museum’s collections are indicated by [*].
Helen Adams, ‘The Cutting Edge’, The Friends of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford,
Newsletter, no. 58 (March 2007), p. 6. [*]
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