Katrina (BSc, MA) has a background in Archaeology, Anthropology and Museum Studies. In her current role she is documenting, photographing and packing collections at MAA’s off-site stores, ready for the move to the new Centre of Material Culture. Katrina began working with the Anthropology collection at MAA in 2018, including couriering international loans and documenting West African collections for the AHRC-funded Museum Affordances project. She has also worked with collections at the Duckworth Institute, Cambridge and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
Katrina has an MA in the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas from UEA, Norwich and a BSc in Archaeology from the University of Exeter. She has always been interested in cross-disciplinary ways of working and brings her knowledge of mathematics, science, materials and manufacturing to her current work where possible. She has written a number of blogs, which you can read here: https://www.museums.cam.ac.uk/blog/author/katrina-dring/
She is particularly interested in the crafting processes: how, why and by whom things are made and remade. Katrina enjoys bringing information from her own craft experiences to gain a deeper understanding of the objects she works with.
Katrina began working with the Anthropology collection at MAA in 2018 as a Collections Assistant for the AHRC-funded Museum Affordances Project, working to document the West African collection made by Northcote Whitridge Thomas. From 2019-2020, she was the Collections Assistant for Anthropology, documenting and caring for collections, couriering international loans and assisting the collections manager.
She has also worked with collections at the University Library and the Duckworth Collection in Cambridge, and the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter.
