TWO Disseminating Event – Workshop with Neil Curtis

Neil Curtis, Head of University Collections and Honorary Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland, has led an activity using selected objects from museum collections. In this, he follows an approach originally adopted with elementary school pupils to record and study objects, and also examines how the juxtaposition of different objects can lead to a richer understanding of objects and their contexts. For this activity, he uses a small number of objects from the collections of Aberdeen University Museums and Strasbourg University Museums.

Neil Curtis is Head of University Collections, and Honorary Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen, Scotland. He has studied Archaeology, Museum Studies and Education. His recent research has included studies of the history of museums, exhibitions and archaeology in Scotland, and the social and cultural roles of museums today, including repatriation and the treatment of human remains. He has a particular interest in using the University's extremely varied collections for teaching and learning, which included writing his Master's degree thesis on young children's learning with objects, and being co-author of "Online teaching and learning with digitised collections in Higher Education contexts, during Covid-19 pandemic' which was organised by University Museums in Scotland with funding from the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council. He is a Vice-President of Universeum.