AHRC Fellow to look into disposal by sale
Patrick Steel, 24.10.2011
MA appoints Janet Ulph to AHRC Fellowship
Janet Ulph, a professor of commercial law at the University of Leicester, has been appointed Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellow at the Museums Association.
As part of the fellowship, Ulph will look into sales and transfer of part of museum collections to other museums, analysing past transfers and sales and working alongside the MA's Ethics Committee to provide futher guidance on legal issues around sale and transfer.
Ulph said: "I have spent the last few years researching illicit trade in cultural property, and will be publishing a book on this in 2012, so it is an area that I am familiar with.
The fellowship, thinking about law and ethics, sounded interesting, and I wanted to help."
The fellowship lasts one year and runs until then end of October 2012.
For more on the ethics of transfer and sale, click here
As part of the fellowship, Ulph will look into sales and transfer of part of museum collections to other museums, analysing past transfers and sales and working alongside the MA's Ethics Committee to provide futher guidance on legal issues around sale and transfer.
Ulph said: "I have spent the last few years researching illicit trade in cultural property, and will be publishing a book on this in 2012, so it is an area that I am familiar with.
The fellowship, thinking about law and ethics, sounded interesting, and I wanted to help."
The fellowship lasts one year and runs until then end of October 2012.
For more on the ethics of transfer and sale, click here
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