Staff
Professor Ian Carradice BA PhD FSA
Course Director, worked for 12 years as a curator at the British Museum before moving to St Andrews in 1989. Since 1990 he has also been in charge of all the University’s museum collections and he was responsible for the development of both the Gateway Galleries and MUSA projects. He now has the title Director of Museums. His work for the museum community also includes service as a Board Member of the Scottish Museums Council 1995-2001 and as Convener of University Museums in Scotland 1999-2005. He also currently serves on the UK’s Treasure Valuation Committee.
He has published widely on museological subjects and is also an expert on ancient Greek and Roman coinage, on which he has published many books, most recently The Roman Imperial Coinage vol II.1 (2007).
He has supervised student research on a wide range of subjects, including museum histories, museum governance, collecting policies, live interpretation and the use of high technology in museum display.
Annette Carruthers BA FMA
Senior Lecturer. Worked for 14 years in local authority museums in Leicestershire and Cheltenham as Assistant Keeper and then Keeper of Applied Art. Both museums have wonderful collections of material from the Arts and Crafts Movement which became her main research interest, resulting in numerous exhibitions and displays and several comprehensive published catalogues.
From 1991 to 1994 she held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, based jointly in the University of St Andrews and the National Museums of Scotland, which culminated in an edited book on The Scottish Home and a major exhibition at the Royal Museum in Edinburgh. This project enabled her to gain experience of museums across Scotland and she has also travelled widely to study museums and galleries abroad.
Since 1995 Ms Carruthers has taught both full-time and part-time students of Museum and Gallery Studies, focusing particularly on museum audiences and their needs and on museum management.
Ann Gunn BA AMA
Lecturer, has worked as Keeper of Art at Nottingham City Museums, Assistant Registrar at Princeton Art Museum, USA, and Registrar of the University of St Andrews Art Collection. She also ran her own gallery which specialised in contemporary Scottish art. She is Honorary Curator of the University’s Fine Art Collection and manages the Museums, Galleries and Collections Institute (MGCI), She is also Chair of Fife Contemporary Art & Craft, and a member of the Fife Committee of the Art Fund.
She has undertaken research for the Museums and Galleries Commission, Museums Galleries Scotland and the Scottish Institute of Maritime Studies. She has published on 18th -20th century British art, and on research and scholarship in museums. She is co-author of Lifting the Veil: Research and Scholarship in United Kingdom Museums and Galleries (1999), and her most recent publication is The Prints of Wilhelmina Barns-Graham, a complete catalogue (2007).
She has supervised student research on a wide variety of collections management issues, ethics, museums and national identity, collections research, conservation, display and interpretation.
Dr Ulrike Weiss, MA, PhD
Lecturer, has worked as assistant curator at the Wuerttemberg State Museum at Stuttgart, as the first Blackwell Curator for the Lakeland Arts Trust, and as Exhibitions Curator at the History Museum, Hanover. Her exhibitions topics there ranged from Goethe’s Lotte (on the real-life people behind Goethe’s Sorrows of Young Werther) to a project on Night and one on The Horse.
Her research interest is in eighteenth-century and early nineteenth-century art. Her publications on German Rococo sculpture and interior decoration include “Carved Images”: On form and function of Swabian relief sculpture 1715 to 1780 (1998) and she has recently finished a book of biographies of the Hanoverian Guelphs.
Professionals from the Scottish museum community and colleagues in other departments of the University also make substantial contributions to the teaching of Museum and Gallery Studies. In particular, help with project work is provided by Staff in the University's Museum Collections Unit