As Research Support Officer, Carol is responsible for developing budgets for research grant applications and managing post-award project finance and reporting. She is the key contact for the research events programme, liaising with external and internal stakeholders to deliver research events. Carol also works with students, fellows and associates, and Research Department colleagues to ensure the smooth running of the department.
Carol is a UCL-trained museum researcher specialising in audience research and museum learning, and is experienced in managing international cultural projects and developing research in East Asian museum context. She has successfully delivered two AHRC-funded projects, including Time, Culture and Identity: the co-creation of historical research and the co-development of visitor experience in China and the UK (2019–2020) and Producing/Consuming Romantic Scotland: exhibition, heritage, nations and the Chinese market (2017–2018). Carol will be Co-Investigator for Communicating Time and Culture: Championing a global perspective in science and technology through public engagement, starting December 2022.
Email: carol.chung@sciencemuseum.ac.uk
Get in touch with Kathleen for all enquiries relating to research grants and research collaboration opportunities with the Science Museum Group at kathleen.walker-meikle@sciencemuseum.ac.uk.
As Research Grants Manager for the Science Museum Group, Kathleen is responsible for the development and management of all grant-based research at Science Museum Group’s five national museum sites. Kathleen is also a historian of medicine and science and received her PhD from University College London. She has published various articles and a monograph (Medieval Pets, Boydell & Brewer, 2012 – the first study of companion animals in the medieval period) along with popular history books on animals. Her research focuses on premodern medicine, natural history and animal-human relationships, including medieval toxicology and animals bites (the focus of a Wellcome Trust Fellowship Grant, University of York), translations of medical and natural history texts from Arabic to Latin in the medieval period, premodern pharmacology, late medieval magic and cosmology (University College London), early modern ageing, skin disease and animal diseases and skin (King’s College London, Renaissance Skin project). She is currently working on a project examining premodern zoonotic disease, including rabies, plague, scabies and leprosy.
Email: kathleen.walker-meikle@sciencemuseum.ac.uk
Get in touch with Vicki for all enquiries relating to research grants and research collaboration opportunities with the Science Museum Group at vicki.blud@railwaymuseum.org.uk.
Laura is Research Manager (Postgraduate and Skills) for the Science Museum Group, managing the Group's doctoral programme, including the Science Museums and Archives Consortium Collaborative Doctoral Partnership scheme. She is also responsible for convening the Science Museum's postgraduate teaching provision, developing the research skills training programme, and programming the Science Museum's research seminars. She is part of the project team for the grant-funded network 'The Building Heritage Infrastructure Network: community, locality, and materiality in the museum storeroom,' based between the University of Westminster, SMG, Amgueddfa Cymru, and the Ingenium Centre (Ottawa).
Laura’s Wellcome Trust-funded PhD project examined the role of therapeutic reading in nineteenth-century British lunatic asylums. She joined the Research and Public History Department following a year working at the Science Museum Group's new collections store in Wiltshire, with previous roles at organisations including the British Library, the National Trust, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and the British Museum. Her own research centres around the histories of medicine and psychiatry, book history, and museum storage and ethics.
If you are interested in PhD projects or placements please see our Opportunities page and get in touch with Laura at laura.blair@sciencemuseum.ac.uk.
Kate is the Editor-in-Chief of the Science Museum Group Journal, the scholarly, open-access, online journal published by the Science Museum Group, which presents peer-reviewed articles from staff and external authors on topics of interest to science museums. Kate supports internal staff to develop writing and publishing skills as well as editing external submissions through to publication in two Journal issues per year. Forthcoming projects include an updating of the Journal’s design and architecture so that it works even better for readers and authors. Kate has degrees in both history and psychology and has worked in museums for over 20 years as a Learning Officer, an Exhibition Developer and as Head of Audience Research. Her publications include King, H, Steiner, K, Hobson, M, Robinson, A and Clipson, H, 2015, ‘Highlighting the value of evidence-based evaluation: pushing back on demands for “impact”’, JCOM: Journal of Science Communication (Vol 14, Issue 2).
Find the Journal here http://journal.sciencemuseum.org.uk
Email: kate.steiner@sciencemuseum.ac.uk
Elizabeth is a UCL master’s student in English literature with research interests at the intersection of science and literature. She has worked at a small literary press and a literary agency, and combines this experience with her academic interests in ethics and philosophy of science through the Science Museum Group Journal.
As an undergraduate, she studied philosophy and literature at Columbia University, where she worked on the Undergraduate English Journal and with the university’s philosophy magazine. She presents at conferences on science in literature, and is particularly drawn to twentieth-century accounts of the hypothetical future.
She is interested in promoting innovative work that converses across academic disciplines, and in engaging the rapidly-changing technological landscape to facilitate Open Access publications.
