Paulette Milnes

Paulette combined her interests in museum, medicine, and tertiary education in a thesis examining university museums.

After working in the tertiary education sector for nearly two decades, including working in a university heritage collection, I decided to combine my interests in museum, medicine, and tertiary education in a thesis examining university museums. There has been a lot of debate in recent times surrounding human remains in museums. Much of this debate has been focused on the place of indigenous remains and the Body Worlds exhibitions. I am interested in how this debate has affected the holding and use of human remains in tertiary level museums which are used for research and teaching on the human body. I am also interested in the wider context of how museums are utilised as teaching resources in the modern university environment, and how ideas of the normal and the non-standard body are portrayed in medical education.

Paulette's MA in Museum and Heritage Studies is entitled: A Pound of Flesh: Human Remains, Ethics and Museums in Tertiary Education