Meet our Team

Jayne grew up with a love of natural history and geology. She graduated with an honours degree in Geology before completing a master’s degree in Micropalaeontology. After a spate of travelling and working on a gold mine in Western Australia, she returned to the UK to follow a career in museums, first at the Natural History Museum then with UCL Museums & Collections. Jayne spends part of the year at South Georgia and the rest at home in Bath, UK.

Passionate about the great outdoors, Jayne developed an appetite for travelling which led to hiking the Himalayas of Nepal, the Rocky Mountains of Canada, the volcanoes of New Zealand and Bolivia and now working in South Georgia.

Jayne enjoys visiting and exploring all aspects of culture and heritage, from city art galleries and museums, architecture and formal gardens, to post-industrial landscapes and open wild spaces.

Helen was brought up in the Shetland Islands, Scotland. She travels from 60° North to almost 60° South to work in South Georgia. Following in both her grandfathers’ footsteps, as they each travelled to South Georgia for employment in the island’s whaling industry in the 1950s.

Helen studied her honours and master’s degree in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Her research interests include social history, anthropology of craft and making, museum anthropology, whaling history, and Shetland’s history. She has worked for Aberdeen Archives, Gallery and Museums and the Shetland Museum and Archives.

Helen enjoys making things and combining this with her love of the outdoors. South Georgia is the perfect place for her with its mixture of beautiful landscape, fascinating wildlife and a small island community.

Will studied zoology and ecology at university before working in a range of practical wildlife roles both in the UK and overseas. He most recently worked as a tour guide in the Highlands where he shared the natural and cultural heritage of Scotland with visitors from around the globe. He is excited to continue sharing the important stories that comprise our natural and cultural heritage – albeit this time in the even more remote and breathtaking backdrop of South Georgia.

In his spare time Will enjoys watching wildlife, walking in the outdoors, and learning about the world. With albatrosses, seals, hills, huts, and the fascinating setting of Grytviken whaling station all on South Georgia Museum’s doorstep he’s certain he won’t be bored.

Lauren grew up in Portsmouth, UK, where city life is a vast contrast to the life on South Georgia. Lauren studied a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Ethics and spent the next few years in an operations team opening stores across the UK and Ireland before landing her dream job in Antarctica.

Lauren worked at Port Lockroy for the UK Antarctic Heritage Trust which sparked her love for the polar regions, from the history to the wildlife, and led on to her working in South Georgia for SGHT. Lauren, essentially a fossil at this stage, is returning to South Georgia for her fourth season and is excited to FINALLY summit Duce, actually maybe stick to a running schedule and to hopefully see the elusive orcas.

Liz is the Buyer for the museum gift shop. She is based in England and worked for 22 years as the retail manager and buyer for a major tourist attraction before joining the South Georgia Heritage Trust in 2010. Her main aim is to increase the profitability of the shop and to source unique high quality gifts for our visitors. Liz concentrates on products that are environmentally friendly and produced ethically.