Dr Jude Philp is Senior Curator of the Macleay Collections at the Chau Chak Wing Museum.

Prior to her work at the University of Sydney Jude has worked in the anthropology divisions at the Australian Museum and the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge (where she also undertook her PhD). Her research centres on 19th-century collections and cultural interactions of people from the Torres Strait and south-east coastal Papua New Guinea.

In her role with the Macleay Collections, Dr Philp is interested in stimulating research into the collections and increasing the purposefulness of museum holdings through exhibition, research and events. As part of this commitment to connecting the Collections to conversations across the University of Sydney and beyond.