Our Researchers

[{"ID":50,"Title":"Sarah Murray MA(Dis), BA(Hons)","Sort":1,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003ECuratorial Manager\u003C/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESarah has curated a number of exhibitions for the Museum including several earthquake-related displays.\u00a0Her areas of research consider New Zealand and the First World War, public history and the collecting of traumatic events. She is the author of several books and journal articles and is an Adjunct Fellow in History at the University of Canterbury.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDEwOF0/SarahMurray2.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDBd/SarahMurray2.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/sarah-murray-ma-dis-ba-hons/"},{"ID":970,"Title":"Roger Fyfe MA(Dis), BA(Hons)","Sort":2,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003E\u003Cspan\u003EEmeritus Curator\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003ERoger Fyfe is Emeritus Curator Human History at Canterbury Museum and was formerly Senior Curator Human History. His current research interests are the documentation of technological\u00a0aspects of traditional M\u0101ori and Oceanic material cultures through the analysis of significant collections cared for by Canterbury Museum. Previous publications have focused on the museum\u2019s Egyptian mummy and Benin bronzes. Roger was Adjunct Associate Professor at the University of Canterbury for many years.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDU2XQ/RogerFyfe-1500.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/RogerFyfe-1500.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/roger-fyfe-madis-bahons/"},{"ID":76,"Title":"Paul Scofield PhD, MSc(Hons)","Sort":3,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003ESenior Curator Natural History\u003C/h5\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPaul Scofield is the Senior Curator of Natural History and Adjunct Professor in Palaeontology in the Geology Department at the University of Canterbury.\u00a0\u003Cspan\u003EHe has published over 150 scientific papers and is the author of two best selling books\u00a0\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cem\u003EThe Albatross, Petrels and Shearwaters of the world\u00a0\u003C/em\u003E\u003Cspan\u003Eand\u003C/span\u003E\u003Cem\u003E\u00a0Birds of New Zealand: A Photographic Guide.\u003C/em\u003E\u003Cspan\u003E\u00a0\u003C/span\u003E\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDExMV0/PaulScofield.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDFd/PaulScofield.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/paul-scofield-phd-mschons/"},{"ID":357,"Title":"Julia Bradshaw BSc ","Sort":4,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003ESenior Curator Human History\u003C/h5\u003E\u003Cp\u003EJulia has a background in West Coast and Otago history. She has a special interest in New Zealand\u2019s gold-rushes, Chinese, women and remote places and her publications have covered these topics. Julia\u2019s current research interests include colonial women, Chinese in Canterbury and trailblazers in Canterbury, Antarctica and South Westland.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDczXQ/JuliaBradshaw-1200.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/JuliaBradshaw-1200.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/julia-bradshaw-bsc/"},{"ID":53,"Title":"Anthony Wright MSc, FNZIM","Sort":7,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003EDirector\u003C/h5\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EWhilst Anthony is the Director of Canterbury Museum, he trained as a botanist and geologist, becoming Curator of Botany at Auckland Museum in 1980. Since that time he has continued his research interests in northern New Zealand offshore island floras (principally the Three Kings Islands) and the flora of Rarotonga, Cook Islands.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003E\u00a0\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDNd/20150923-AW1-crop.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsIngiLDEzNV0/20150923-AW1-crop.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/anthony-wright-msc-fnzim/"},{"ID":62,"Title":"Richard Bullen PhD, PGDip(Dist), LLB, BA","Sort":8,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003EResearch Fellow\u003C/h5\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ERichard Bullen is the Head of Art History and Theory at the University of Canterbury. He has published widely on the aesthetics of the Japanese tea ceremony. He curated the \u003Cem\u003EPleasure and Play in Edo Japan\u003C/em\u003E\u00a0exhibition at Canterbury Museum (2009), and edited the accompanying publication. Richard researches East Asian collections in New Zealand.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDYyXQ/Richard-Bullen.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/Richard-Bullen.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/richard-bullen-phd-pgdipdist-llb-ba/"},{"ID":151,"Title":"Lyndon Fraser PhD, MA(Hons), DipTchg","Sort":9,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003EResearch Fellow\u003C/h5\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrize-winning author and historian Lyndon Fraser is Associate Dean (Research and Postgraduate) at the University of Canterbury. His most recent publications include \u003Cem\u003EFar From Home: English Migrants in New Zealand\u003C/em\u003E (co-edited with Angela McCarthy) and \u003Cem\u003ERushing for Gold\u003C/em\u003E (2016, co-edited with Lloyd Carpenter). He was the historian for One Land, a six-part television series which set three families in 1850s New Zealand and jointly curated the Passports exhibition at Te Papa.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDc3XQ/LyndonFraser.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/LyndonFraser.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/lyndon-fraser-phd-mahons-diptchg/"},{"ID":66,"Title":"Terry Hitchings MSc, DipTchg, FNZIC","Sort":10,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003EResearch Fellow\u003C/h5\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter a working lifetime teaching chemistry and physics, a chance meeting with two entomologists in the mountains led to his becoming a volunteer in the Invertebrate Zoology Department of the Museum in 1992. After five years he was appointed an Honorary Research Fellow with special responsibilities for the Ephemeroptera (Mayfly) collection. His particular interests include mayfly distribution and taxonomy. He has authored and co-authored several publications in these areas.\u00a0\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDYyXQ/TerryHitchings.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/TerryHitchings.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/terry-hitchings-msc-diptchg-fnzic/"},{"ID":150,"Title":"Tim Hitchings MB, ChB","Sort":11,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003EResearch Fellow\u003C/h5\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003ETim is a part-time research fellow in invertebrate zoology.\u00a0His research interest is in the taxonomy and general biology of New Zealand ephemeroptera (mayflies), in association with his father, Terry Hitchings. He has been pursuing this with field collection and lab work at the museum since 2009.\u003C/p\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EPrior to developing this new interest, his previous training and experience in biology had been only at an undergraduate level, before diverting to medicine, which he continues to practice as a general practitioner in Belfast.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDEwM10/TimHitchings.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/TimHitchings.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/tim-hitchings-mb-chb/"},{"ID":152,"Title":"Peter Johns MSc","Sort":12,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003EResearch Fellow\u003C/h5\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EAfter retiring from the University of Canterbury in 2000, Peter volunteered as a Research Associate and then Research Fellow at the Museum. Peter has a wide range of entomological expertise that includes weta, millipedes, centipedes, cockroaches and craneflies. He has also amassed a nationally significant entomological collection of over 140,000 arthropods, which he has generously donated to the Museum.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDEwM10/PeterJohns.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/PeterJohns.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/peter-johns-msc/"},{"ID":63,"Title":"David Harrowfield DSc, BSc ","Sort":13,"Date":"","ShortDesc":"\u003Ch5\u003EResearch Associate\u00a0\u003C/h5\u003E\n\u003Cp\u003EDavid Harrowfield began his association with Canterbury Museum in the mid-1950s. In 1975 he made his first visit to Antarctica and joined the staff, as Antarctic Curator, Registrar of Antiquities then Archivist, until 1987. \u00a0He helped establish Antarctic Heritage Trust, was Research Officer Antarctic Division DSIR, for Christchurch International Airport and the Antarctic Attraction. He has made nearly 50 visits to Antarctica and produced over 200 Antarctic-related publications. In 2008 he received the New Zealand Antarctic Medal. David\u2019s primary interests are early New Zealand mountaineering, Antarctic science, particularly the Ross Sea party in World War One and New Zealand\u2019s Antarctic programme.\u003C/p\u003E","ImageSmlLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzY0MCw0MjAsInkiLDc2XQ/DavidHarrowfield.jpg","ImageMedLink":"assets/Uploads/_resampled/CroppedFocusedImageWzU0MCw1NDAsInkiLDBd/DavidHarrowfield.jpg","Type":"","PageLink":"/research/our-researchers/david-harrowfield-dsc-bsc/"}]