Research projects

Category of partnership

Research partnerships

Project or program /collaborative programs

University of Melbourne

  

Arts Faculty

Centre for Classics and Archaeology

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’*

 

Asia Institute

IRRTF 2015-2017 ‘Research Networks Australia and China: Cultural Materials Conservation Cooperative Research Network’

 

Indigenous Institute

ARC 2019 LP190100419 ‘3D printing of custom musical instruments for heritage and industry needs’

Cross faculty

Dept. Infrastructure Engineering

ARC Linkage LP220100105 ‘Modelling the decay of stone heritage using Machine Learning’

 

Materials Characterisation and Fabrication Platform (Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology)

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

Melbourne TrACEES Platform (Trace Analysis for Chemical, Earth and Environmental Sciences)

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

School of Chemistry

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

School of Earth Sciences

ARC DP230100033 ‘Megalithic Connections: Imperilled Cultural Heritage in Laos and India’

ARC 2019 LP190100419 ‘3D printing of custom musical instruments for heritage and industry needs’

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

School of Mathematics and Statistics

Data Science Industry Project 2022 ‘20th century paintings from Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand: Mapping their materials and Processes’

 

Victorian College of the Arts

ARC 2019 LP190100419 ‘3D printing of custom musical instruments for heritage and industry needs’

University sector

  

Australian universities

Flinders University

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

La Trobe University Institute of Art

ARC 2019 LP190100419 ‘3D printing of custom musical instruments for heritage and industry needs’

 

MAMU- Music Archive Monash University

ARC 2019 LP190100419 ‘3D printing of custom musical instruments for heritage and industry needs’

 

Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (Powerhouse Museum)

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

University of Technology Sydney

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

International universities

Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)

2022 ‘Bacterial nanocellulose with entrapped enzymes as novel biocleaning material for cultural heritage conservation’

2022 Chula Centennial Fund (C2F) ‘Identification of colorants used in paintings based on narrow band wavelength LEDS’

2022 Chula Centennial Fund (C2F) ‘Identification of Pigments by multi-spectral imaging technique using narrow band LEDS’

 

National Museum (The Philippines)

DFAT Australia ASEAN Council 2017 ‘Natural disasters & cultural

Heritage in the Philippines: recovery & reconstruction (AAC157)’

 

Universitas Gadjah Mada (Indonesia)

ARC 2019 LP190100419 ‘3D printing of custom musical instruments for heritage and industry needs’

 

Shaanxi Provincial Institute of Archaeology

MoU

Australian 2017 Synchrotron Infrared Beamtime ‘Two Chinese Mural Paintings from the Tang Dynasty (618-907) and Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368): characterising their binders and pigments’

IRRTF 2015-2017 ‘Research Networks Australia and China: Cultural Materials Conservation Cooperative Research Network

 

Henan Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage

MoU

IRRTF 2015-2017 ‘Research Networks Australia and China:

Cultural Materials Conservation Cooperative Research Network’

 

The School of History, Zhengzhou University

MoU

IRRTF 2015-2017 ‘Research Networks Australia and China:

Cultural Materials Conservation Cooperative Research Network’

 

University of West Attica (Greece)

Erasmus + Programme

Community sector

  

Indigenous

ANKA (Arnhem, Northern and Kimberley Artists Aboriginal Corporation)

MoU

 

Warlayirti Artists

Copland Grant

 

Durrmu Arts Aboriginal Corporation

ILA grant, Archive project
 

The Mulka Project

NLA funding, Museum project

ARC 2019 LP190100419

 

Warmun Art Centre

AIATSIS, Two-way partnering agreement

 

Kanamkek-Yile Ngala Museum, Thamarrurr Development Corporation – Wadeye

Research agreement

 Jilamara Arts

Research agreement

 

Moa Arts

RIC Proof of Concept Fund 2020, Scaling the National Conservation Program: developing cultural conservation product for delivery and licensing into rural, regional and remote Australia and beyond

Rural organisations

Bathurst Regional Council

Willem Snoek Award 2018 Daniel Swartz RE-ORG @ BRC (Bathurst Regional Council)

 

Yackandandah Museum

Copland Award - Interpretive exhibition of fire-damaged items in the Yackandandah Historical Society collection. Willem Snoek Award 2021 Madeleine Fraser, Joshu Loke, Samantha Rogers The YDHS-GCCMC Fire Project

 

Daylesford and District Historical Society

Willem Snoek Award 2019 Jessica Doyle Environmental survey of Daylesford & District Historical Society

 

Chiltern Athenaeum

Willem Snoek Award 2017 Camielle Fitzmaurice and Isabella Spiteri Conservation Assessment and Plan

Public institutions

  

State institutions

Art Gallery of New South Wales

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

Museums Victoria

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

Queensland Museum

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

South Australian Museum

ARC 2017-2020 LP160100160 ‘A national framework for managing malignant plastics in museum’

 

ACMI

Faculty of Arts sponsored time-based media fellowship

 

Parks Victoria

ARC Linkage LP220100105 ‘Modelling the decay of stone heritage using Machine Learning’ ( (In preparation)

International museums

Tate (UK)

Research exchange, time-based media
 

MoMA (US)

Research exchange, performance acquisitions
 

Balai Seni Negara National Art Gallery (Malaysia)

ANSTO DINGO Beamline 2017 ‘5801: Investigation of the water transport properties of artists' acrylic emulsion paint films for cultural materials conservation’

Professional bodies

  
 

AICCM

Faculty of Arts Collaborative Grant: A national approach for the conservation of Australia’s cultural material