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Supporting museums and similar institutions to contribute to sustainable development
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Supporting museums and similar institutions to contribute to sustainable development
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Supporting museums and similar institutions to contribute to sustainable development
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Supporting museums and similar institutions to contribute to sustainable development

Museums for Better Futures

Strengthening museums’ contributions to high-ambition agendas

Museums for Better Futures Report

Bringing sustainable development, climate action and resilience together in museums
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Museums for Biodiversity

How can museums help protect and restore nature?
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Museums and the Sustainable Development Goals

How can museums help achieve the SDGs and use them as practical tools?
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Museums for Disaster Risk Reduction

How can museums build resilience in society, and in museums themselves?
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Museums for Human Rights

How can museums embed human rights as a normative framework to guide their actions and decisions?
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Museums for Climate Action

How can museums support transformative climate action?
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Playing a part in policy developments

How can museums contribute to policy development?
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Exhibitions

Exhibitions that demonstrate the Curating Tomorrow approach

A World of Birds, Mansfield Museum (2024)

Creating a new gallery for environmental education and action, getting collections out of storerooms
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Nature and Climate Change (2021-)

A low-cost exhibition for museums and other venues
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The Whitaker Museum and Art Gallery (2021)

Reinterpreting a small museum to explore the past, meet the present, and create the future
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Reimagining Museums for Climate Action (2020-21)

Crowd-sourcing ideas to transform global museums for climate action
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Heritage Futures (Manchester Museum, 2018-19)

How can heritage resource alternative futures?
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Climate Control (Manchester Museum, 2015)

What can be done to address climate change?
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Maude the Tigon (Manchester Museum, 2015–)

A famous animal is in the public eye again
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‘From the War of Nature’ (Manchester Museum, 2014)

There is nothing ‘natural’ about war
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Nature’s Library (Manchester Museum, 2013–)

Creating a mysterious ‘library of nature’
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Alan Turing and Life’s Enigma (Manchester Museum, 2012)

Exploring Alan Turing’s work on morphogenesis
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Living Worlds (Manchester Museum, 2011)

Exploring nature and people’s relationships with nature
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Darwin Festival (Manchester Museum, 2009–10)

Exhibitions for the Darwin bicentenary
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Exhibition for hire

‘Nature and climate change’, a low-cost exhibition for museums and other venues 

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Exhibition for hire

‘Nature and climate change’, a low-cost exhibition for museums and other venues

Training and development

Empowering people and organisations through workshops and capacity building

ICOM Award for Sustainable Development Practice in Museums

Consultancy work to develop the first international museum award in sustainable development
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ICCROM Our Collections Matter Programme

Consultancy work to transform heritage practice through training and tools
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Workshops and programmes

Online webinar series and in-person workshops, for groups of professionals and teams
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Speaking at conferences

Presenting sustainable development ideas at conferences, and supporting conference development
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Writing, research and teaching

Publications and research projects

Henry Dresser and Victorian Ornithology

The life of a 19th century ornithologist as a lens on society, business and science
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Other books, chapters and articles

Publications on ecology, museums, sustainable development and climate action
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Practice-based publications

Empowering museum professionals to mobilise museums for public benefit
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Curating Tomorrow guides

A series of open-access practical guides on climate action, sustainable development, human rights, biodiversity and more
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University teaching

Making the most of museums and collections
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About me

Who I am, what I do, why I do it

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About me

Who I am, what I do, why I do it

Clients I’ve worked with