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Specific responsibility: Science collections, including astronomy, navigation, lighthouses, cartography, surveying, metrology, meteorology and oceanography.
Research interest/expertise: History of science 1600-1900; cultural and social history of science and technology; scientific instrument makers.
Specific responsibility: Science collections.
Research interest/expertise: Physical sciences and modern science.
Specific responsibility: Senior Curator of Biomedical Science.
Research interest/expertise: Contemporary collecting in biomedicine, patient experience, and prosthetics.
Specific responsibility: Curatorial support for science collections.
Research interest/expertise: History of Science collections.
Specific responsibility: Aviation, Road, Rail and Maritime transport.
Research interest/expertise: Scottish maritime history, in particular shipbuilding, shipmaster societies and offshore industries.
Specific responsibility: Technology Collections.
Research interest/expertise: Social and environmental impact of industry and technology.
Specific responsibility: Technology Collections.
Research interest/expertise: Industrial manufacture, particularly of iron and ceramic industries in the 19th century; social history of industry and technology; printing history and culture; colonial histories and legacies.
Specific responsibility: Curatorial support for Aviation collections.
Research interest/expertise: History of radar, Scottish military aviation.
Specific responsibility: Curatorial support for Communications collections.
Research interest/expertise: History of TV, radio and audio collections in relation to Scotland, Scottish inventors and innovators.
Specific responsibility: Curatorial support for technology collections.
Research interest/expertise: Materials collection.
Alison Morrison-Low is a Research Associate.
Dr Geoffrey N. Swinney is a Research Associate.
Project title: Science on Display: the Historical Relationships between Exhibit Label Texts, Scientific Objects, and Technologies at National Museums Scotland
Project title: Modelling innovation and ‘improvement’: the histories and geographies of the Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland models collection.
Project title: Imperial Flights and Encounters: recovering the experiences of People of Colour in Scottish wartime aviation, 1914-1945
Project title: Intellectual Properties: Transferring Science from Universities to National Museums Scotland
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