Jack Ashby

(MENAFN- The Conversation) Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge, University of Cambridge Profile Articles Activity

Jack Ashby is the Assistant Director of the University Museum of Zoology, Cambridge. His key zoological interest is in the Australian mammals, and the history of how the West came to understand and represent them. His work more broadly explores the biases influencing how nature is presented to the world, particularly through museums and their colonial legacies. His books, Nature's Memory: Behind the Scenes at the World's Natural History Museums (2025), Platypus Matters: The Extraordinary Story of Australian Mammals (2022) and Animal Kingdom: A Natural History in 100 Objects combine these scientific and social stories.
He was a 2022-2023 Headley Fellow, supported by Art Fund, exploring the colonial histories of the Australian mammal collections in Cambridge. He is President of the Society for the History of Natural History, a trustee of the Natural Sciences Collections Association,an Honorary Research Fellow in UCL Science and Technology Studies, and winner of the Zoological Society of London's award for communicating zoology. For many years he was the Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL.

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• –present Manager of the Grant Museum of Zoology, UCL, University College London

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