Miss Judith White

Miss Judith White

Curator, Birds

Department: Life Sciences
Division: LS Vertebrates Division
Specialisms: Vertebrates, Birds
Team: Douglas RussellHendrik Van GrouwJoanne Cooper, Judith White, Mark Adams Specialisms: curation, osteoarchaeology, osteology collections, skeleton preparation, spirit collections
Contact: email
Phone: 0207942 6161

Summary

I am a Curator in the Bird Group at Tring, jointly responsible for the avian spirit and skeletal collections. My work involves curation tasks in the collections, organising loans, answering enquiries and supervising research visitors.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BA Archaeology, University of Southampton, England
  • MA Osteoarchaeology, University of Southampton, England

Employment history

    Academic

  • Research Assistant, University of Reading, United Kingdom, 2017 - 2019
  • Non-academic

    Curator, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, 2013 - ongoing

    Curatorial Assistant (Excavating Pitt Rivers), Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, 2012 - 2013

    Image and Data Capture Assistant (Red Box Project), English Heritage, 2012 - 2012

    Entomology Type Specimen Data Input Clerk, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 2011 - 2012

    Curatorial Assistant (Natural Environments), Manchester Museum, 2010 - 2011

    Collections Coordinator (AMEAD), Ashmolean Museum, 2009 - 2010

    Museum Assistant, Ashmolean Museum, 2008 - 2009

    Research Associate (Destructive Analysis Collection), University Of Birmingham c/o Bird Group Natural History Museum, Tring, 2008 - 2008

    Curator (Bird Group), Natural History Museum, Tring, 2006 - 2007

    Zooarchaeology Intern, English Heritage, 2004 - 2005

Publications

Prŷs-Jones RP, Manegold A, White J (2021) The conundrum of an overlooked skeleton referable to Imperial Woodpecker Campephilus imperialis in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 141 (1) : doi: 10.25226/bboc.v141i1.2021.a7

White J (2019) Use of the avian osteology collection at the Natural History Museum, Tring. Alauda, 87 (3) : 133 - 136.

Manegold A, White J (2014) Morphologische Anpassungen an das Klettern und Hacken beim Hüpfspecht Nesoctites micromegas (Picidae, Piciformes) dargestellt mit Hilfe der Computertomografie.. Vogelwarte. 52 : : 324 - 325.

RUSSELL DGD, White J, Maurer G, Cassey P (2010) Data-poor egg collections: cracking an important research resource. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology - Special Issue, 77 - 82.

Sykes NJ, WHITE J, Hayes TE, Palmer MR (2006) Tracking animals using strontium isotopes in teeth: the role of fallow deer (Dama dama) in Roman Britain. Antiquity, 80 : 948 - 959.

Introduction

Summary

I am a Curator in the Bird Group at Tring, jointly responsible for the avian spirit and skeletal collections. My work involves curation tasks in the collections, organising loans, answering enquiries and supervising research visitors.

Qualifications

    Degrees

  • BA Archaeology, University of Southampton, England
  • MA Osteoarchaeology, University of Southampton, England

Employment history

    Academic

  • Research Assistant, University of Reading, United Kingdom, 2017 - 2019
  • Non-academic

    Curator, Natural History Museum, United Kingdom, 2013 - ongoing

    Curatorial Assistant (Excavating Pitt Rivers), Pitt-Rivers Museum, Oxford, 2012 - 2013

    Image and Data Capture Assistant (Red Box Project), English Heritage, 2012 - 2012

    Entomology Type Specimen Data Input Clerk, Oxford University Museum of Natural History, 2011 - 2012

    Curatorial Assistant (Natural Environments), Manchester Museum, 2010 - 2011

    Collections Coordinator (AMEAD), Ashmolean Museum, 2009 - 2010

    Museum Assistant, Ashmolean Museum, 2008 - 2009

    Research Associate (Destructive Analysis Collection), University Of Birmingham c/o Bird Group Natural History Museum, Tring, 2008 - 2008

    Curator (Bird Group), Natural History Museum, Tring, 2006 - 2007

    Zooarchaeology Intern, English Heritage, 2004 - 2005

Publications

Publications

Prŷs-Jones RP, Manegold A, White J (2021) The conundrum of an overlooked skeleton referable to Imperial Woodpecker Campephilus imperialis in the collection of the Natural History Museum at Tring. Bulletin of the British Ornithologists’ Club, 141 (1) : doi: 10.25226/bboc.v141i1.2021.a7

White J (2019) Use of the avian osteology collection at the Natural History Museum, Tring. Alauda, 87 (3) : 133 - 136.

Manegold A, White J (2014) Morphologische Anpassungen an das Klettern und Hacken beim Hüpfspecht Nesoctites micromegas (Picidae, Piciformes) dargestellt mit Hilfe der Computertomografie.. Vogelwarte. 52 : : 324 - 325.

RUSSELL DGD, White J, Maurer G, Cassey P (2010) Data-poor egg collections: cracking an important research resource. Journal of Afrotropical Zoology - Special Issue, 77 - 82.

Sykes NJ, WHITE J, Hayes TE, Palmer MR (2006) Tracking animals using strontium isotopes in teeth: the role of fallow deer (Dama dama) in Roman Britain. Antiquity, 80 : 948 - 959.