Ray Barnett B.Sc., M.Sc., A.M.A., F.R.E.S., F.L.S.Current:Available for freelance consultancy work regarding museum policy and management advice, collection management and natural science curation. In addition available for entomological fieldwork, advice and research. Member of the Educational and Curatorial Advisory Board of the ss Great Britain. Member of the Friends of Bristol Museums, Galleries & Archives Committee. Member of the West of England Combined Authority (WECA) Pollinator Panel.Senior Vice-president of the British Entomological and Natural History Society (BENHS).Council member and Archivist to the Bristol Naturalists' Society. Volunteer advisor to the Natural Science curatorial team at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery and to the Bristol Regional Environmental Records Centre (BRERC).Convenor of the Bristol Moth Group.Compiler of 'Beetles of the Bristol Region'.Museum experience:Head of Collections (1996-2022) & Archives 2014-2022. As such, member of Bristol City Council's Culture & Creative Industries Senior Management Team responsible for curatorial, conservation, documentation, learning, environmental records and operational staff across 5 accredited museums. In addition responsible for the Bristol Archives (previously Bristol Records Office).Lead on policy and practice for collection management, research and interpretation; collection storage and development, digital collections; accreditation and designation; decolonisation and Health and Safety. Key projects include: approach to and display of Colston statue in M Shed; creation of M Shed; collection development at Bristol Museum and Art Gallery; management of dockside steam railway, cranes and boats.Natural Science experience:Joint author of 'Butterflies of the Bristol Region,' 'Moths of the Bristol Region, ' Dragonflies and Damselflies of the Bristol Region, ' Geological Sites of the Bristol Region '.President of the British Entomological and Natural History Society 2022-24.Three times President of the Bristol Naturalists' Society. Natural History Curator at Ipswich, Leicester Coventry and Bristol museums between 1983 and 1996. Student vacationship at Natural History Museum, London 1980.Leader of University of Bristol Botanical and Zoological Expedition to East Kenya 1982.50 years of entomological fieldwork experience, since a young teenager. Experienced in media appearances.Specialties: Collection management, museum project management. British lepidoptera, hemiptera and coleoptera.