Teaching staff
The Summer School will be taught by an international team of experienced trainers.
Dr Manvi Seth, Pro-Vice Chancellor Indian Institute of Heritage
Since August 2002 she has been teaching in the Department of Museology. Prior to this, she worked as the Curator, Decorative Arts, Maharaja Sawai Man Singh II Museum, City Palace, Jaipur. Professor Seth is Chair of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Working Group of CIDOC, ICOM and Elected member of the executive council of ICCROM.
Dr Juhi Sadiya, Assistant Professor IIH
Dr. Juhi Sadiya is serving as Assistant Professor in the Department of Museology, at the Indian Institute of Heritage (Formerly National Museum Institute). She is a UGC-JRF recipient. Her doctoral research focuses on the relevance and potential of natural history museums in Indian Society. Earlier she worked as a Guest Lecturer in the Department of Museology, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh. She was a Research Fellow at the National Museum Institute under the project, ‘Documentation of Intangible Cultural Heritage’. Dr Sadiya has also worked at the National Children’s Museum, New Delhi.
Stephen Stead BSc, Trainer and Heritage data integrator
Stephen Stead was a founder member of CIDOC Conceptual Reference Model Special Interest Group (CRM-SIG). He has worked on the CRM since 2000 and is one of the editing team that guided the standard through the ISO standardization process. He has delivered tutorials on the CRM in more than a dozen countries, including Korea, Brazil, Greece, Russia, and the USA. He is a graduate in Archaeological Science from the Institute of Archaeology, University of London and has worked as an independent consultant in the Heritage sector since 1991. He is a visiting lecturer at the University of Southampton and the University of Kent at Canterbury. He has served on the CIDOC Board since 2001.
Nick Crofts PhD, chair CIDOC Training Association
Nick has been working internationally for museums, libraries, and archives since 1986. He has a background in the humanities and information science and enjoys working at the intersection of the two fields - explaining technical issues to curators and art history to computer programmers. Nick was instrumental in the development of ISO 21127 (aka the CIDOC CRM), an international standard for the exchange of cultural heritage information. Nick currently works as a consultant in cultural informatics and is a Visiting Professor at the Indian Institute of Heritage.