Human Remains in UK Institutions
Human Remains Advisory Service
The Human Remains Advisory Service (HRAS) helps smaller museums deal with claims for the repatriation of human remains from their collections.
The HRAS has a team of mainly specialist advisers, who are available to work with museums on claims and who can provide professional and independent advice on specific issues.
Any museum making a request should have formally endorsed the Guidance for the Care of Human Remains in Museums as its procedure for dealing with requests for return, or have developed its own procedure - which it should make available. Final decisions on claims are taken by museums.
Museums interested in engaging the HRAS should complete the request for advice form and send it DCMS at the address given.
Specialist advisers
Advisers have been appointed on the basis of their skills and experience and not as representatives of their organisations.
Dr Sam Alberti
Lecturer in Art Gallery and Museum Studies at the University if Manchester Centre
for Museology and Research Fellow at the Manchester Museum. Member of the
Museum's Human Remains Committee.
Tristram Besterman
Freelance Advisor in the museums, cultural and higher education sectors. Former
Director of the Manchester Museum and Chair of the UCL Human Remains Working
Group.
His Honour Paul N R Clark
Retired Circuit Judge and former Chairman of the Friends of the Ashmolean Museum,
Oxford.
Prof Nicholas Deakin CBE
Visiting Professor, Centre for Civil Society, London School of Economics.
Dr Joseph Elders
Archaeology Officer for the Cathedral and Church Buildings Division, Church of
England. Chairman of the Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Christian Burials in
England.
Dr Cressida Fforde
Co-chair of the World Archaeological Congress Repatriation Committee. Heritage consultant and researcher.
Anne Galbraith OBE
Chair of the Valuation Tribunal Service and independent health and education
consultant.
Russell Hewitson
Principal Lecturer in Law, Northumbria University and Justice of the Peace.
Dr Julian Litten
Funerary Historian. Member of the Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Christian
Burials.
Sally MacDonald
Panopticon Project Leader and Deputy Director, UCL Museums and Collections
Dr Simon Mays
Human Skeletal Biologist for English Heritage and Secretary of the English
Heritage/Church of England Advisory Panel on the Archaeology of Christian Burials
in England.
Michael O'Hanlon
Director, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford and Co-Head of the University's
School of Anthropology.
Sebastian Payne
Chief Scientist, English Heritage. Member of the Advisory Panel on the Archaeology
of Christian Burials in England.
Dr Laura Peers
Curator/Lecturer at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford on native American
cultural history and material culture.
Professor Naomi Pfeffer
Professor of Social and Historical Studies of Health, London Metropolitan
University. Chair of Consumers for Ethics in Research.
Professor Charlotte Roberts
Professor of Archaeology, Durham University; physical anthropologist. Researcher
and teacher of the study of human remains from archaeological sites.
James Steele
Research Reader and Director of the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins,
University College, London. Former Chair of the British Association for Biological
Anthropology and Osteoarchaeology.
Hedley Swain
Head of Department, Early London History and Collections, Museum of London.
Alison Taylor
Editor and Outreach Officer, Institute of Field Archaeologists, School of Human and
Environmental Sciences, University of Reading. Former County Archaeologist for
Cambridgeshire.
Bill White
Senior Curator of Human Remains, Museum of London
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