Post-graduate research
2022
- Aarsen, Jordan, "An Analysis of Metal Soap Formation:A Case Study of 7 Known Model Oil Paint Samples and 3 Samples Taken From Late 19th Century and early 20th Century Oil Paintings"
- Alexander, Cody, Conserving kalikina Bornstein, Daniel, 3D Imaging of Musical Instruments: investigating 3D imaging for heritage conservation
- Bramich, Emily, Investigating and Proposing Conservation Strategies for a Ptolemaic Limestone Funerary Stela (C.332- 30 BCE) Restored in Early 20th Century
- Dacey, Emma, Malignant polymers in photographic collections: A case study of investigating polymer components of mid- to late-twentieth century photographic materials
- Davis, Rachel, Defining resilience: A history of silo art in Victoria and an investigation of paint materials
- Duckett, Georgina, Testing the Efficacy of three Essential Oils as potential green biocides for architectural stone and terracotta
- Flores, Leandra, Clear as a Gel: An Exploration of the Use of Alpha Amylase and Gellan Gum Gels to Reduce Aged Wheat Starch Paste from Watercolour Paper
- Kozyrevich, Sasha, Investigation of UV Photography in Varnish Identification Molinari, Michelle, An Investigation into Deterioration Susceptabilities of Oil Paint on Aluminium Substrates
- Poppins, Victoria, Evaluating Solid Phase Microextraction Gas Chromatography Mass Spectrometry (SPME GC/MS) analysis for identifying Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) in Cellulose Nitrate and Cellulose Acetate based museum objects
- Sullivan, Genevieve, Conserving The Laos Bells: Investigating Preservation Strategies for c.2000-year-old Decorative Archaeological Bronze Bells
- Walker, Isabel, A Materials Investigation of a Polychrome Guanyin Sculpture Head
- Williams, Annabelle, Conservation and materials identification of an Indian inlay table as a practice-based, owner- focused project
- Wily, Georgina, Development and application of a methodological approach to an outdoor sculpture
2021
- Bray, Vanessa, An Exploration In The Conservation of Elastic and Elastane Materials; Aging, Treatments, and Storage With Case Study: The Arts Centre Melbourne Akira Collection, Sydney Dance Company
- Bridie, Rubie, Documenting Performance: The Conservation of Performance Art Archives
- Collins, Bernadette, Preserving plastic: what we know about treating plastics in cultural heritage collections: A literature review & analysis: treatment of plastics
- Colton, Imogen, Sustainable Material Choice for Conservation: Life Cycle Assessment Methodologies in an Australian Context
- Dellas, Peter, Residual Surfactant Material: A Study of Degradation Processes on Oil Paint Films Etherington, Kerry, Penfold’s Plastics: from Utopian Promises to Invaluable Epitaphs
- Ghoukassian, Gemma, The concept of “bespoke codes of ethics” for conservation professionals: An inquiry into its benefits for an ethnographic museum
- Gonzales, Micaella Angelica, Conservation of Paper-Based and Digital Archives of Southeast Asian Modern Artists in the Collection of National Gallery Singapore
- Gralton, Elizabeth, Getting a grip on Delaware solutions in agarose: a literature review of chelators in rigid gel for paper conservation treatments
- Harrington, Freya, The Costume Collection of the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery, 1780s – 1920s: A collection assessment
- Hollingworth, Jayde, Intangible Cultural Heritage in Australian Fashion Hornum, Emily, Re-Enactment: A Conservation Strategy For Performance-Based Art
- Hutchinson, Rory, Green chemicals in conservation: the effectiveness of cyrene, isopropyl myristate, cyclomethicone, and dibasic ester
- Ignatia, Phoebe, Plastic Fantastic— Conserving Polymer-based Materials in Textile and Accessories Collections
- Ishiwata, Meiling, Textured Japanese Paper as a Fill Material in Leather Conservation: an Experimental Research of an Alternative to BEVA 371
- Legg, Isabelle, Whose digital heritage? Cross-cultural archiving projects in Australian Indigenous communities
- Lewis, Sunita, Cultivating Community Access via Digital Records: Facilitating Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conservation Through Increased Cross-Cultural Participation
- Lim, Cheralyn, Getting Unstuck: Conserving Two Self-adhesive Photographic Albums from the Kanamkek-Yile Ngala Museum
- Lojkine, Frances, Assess and plan for the preservation of four tukutuku from Christchurch Cathedral, New Zealand
- Mikolaitis, Manon, Persistent Preservation Standards? Time-Based Media Installations and the Shifting Paradigm of Museum and Conservation Practices
- Mitchell, Paddy, "Cultivating Community Access via Digital Records: Facilitating Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage Conservation Through Increased Cross-Cultural Participation"
- Pigott, Katherine, Developing conservation management plans and treatment priorities for the University’s Middle Eastern Manuscript Collection
- Revell, Monique, Keep it Separate, Keep it Safe: Exploring Rooibos Tea as an Economical and Accessible Adsorbent Alternative for Semi-synthetic Cellulose Plastics
- Scibiorski, Christopher, Flowing On From Acquisitions
- Topp, Katherine, Stakeholder Engagement and Action Heritage: Documenting the NKC collection through collaborative action research
- Veleña, Israelex, Piña as a fibre source for leaf casting: identifying its potential
- Wang, Jingwen, How can conservators work with communities whose cultural beliefs and practices are outside their own experience and knowledge?
- Wood, Lydia, Evaluating the Conservation of Plastinated Material Zeitz, Eleanor, “Saving the Nation’s Memory” and Artist’s Intent: an argument for crowd-sourced digitisation
- Zhang, Yuhong, "Care and Collection Survey of the Modern and Contemporary Chinese Women’s Dress Collection at the Baillieu Library, University of Melbourne"
2020
- Coleman, Paul, Documenting internet-based art: Conceptual frameworks for documentation as conservation Davies, Jackson, Reconstructing E. Phillips Fox’s Rocks and Sea (c.1911)
- Drury, Kathryn, Materials used as linings for the temporary and permanent backfill/reburial of Archaeological Sites Dyer, Jesse, hyperjpegness — conserving the velocity of digital images
- Fitrani, Laila Nurul, Identifying Degradation of Unsaturated Polyester Resin in Indonesian Artist’s Material
- Flanagan, Denise, The Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material and its impact: past, present and future
- Lambert, Kate, Considerations and recommendations for improving the condition and display/storage of the Cranbourne Meteorite at the University of Melbourne: An international comparative study
- Mansfield, Lisa, Art in flux: stewarding Learning to Love You More along its life trajectory McKenzie, Julia, Emerging Shifts In Conservation Practice: An Overview Morrison, Emma, The Land of Streams Glen Moriston Invernesshire 1881 Putri, Gadis Fitriana, Art Material Availability in 20th century Southeast Asia: Japan-Occupied Indonesia, 1942-45
- Ranisau, Amalia, Sign of the Sun: Determining the Original Binding for the Grammar Book Whitintoni Editio cum interpretamento Francisci Nigri Diomedes de Accentu, Written by Robert Whittington (c. 1480-1553) and Printed by Wynkyn de Worde (ca.-1534) 1519
- Raynolds, Louella, The Support Materials of Australian Women War Artists: Investigations into Supply and Choice Concerning Works in Oil by Nora Heysen, Stella Bowen, and Sybil Craig (1943-1946)
- Song, Sandra, Investigating KARIBARI, the Drying Boards and their Materials Used Thomev, Velika, Climate Change and Cultural Material Conservation in Australia
- Walker, Isabella, The Conservation of Conservation: The Excavation, Preservation and Restoration of Conservation's Past Through Historiographical Analysis
- Welsh, Lucy, The Conservation of Rock-Art at Gariwerd: A response to recreational impacts
- Yee, Sandra, Investigating anoxic storage methods for the long-term preservation of a large, fragile work on paper by Winsome Jobling
2019
- Melissa Holt, Technical examination and treatment options for the pillar blocks from the Tomb Chapel of Mose (18th- 20th Dynasty).
- Annabel Livingstone, Version Control: How and Why Things are Conserved
- Bella Lipson-Smith, Version-control: a study of why and how things are conserved at a particular moment and the extent to which a model based on version-control might effect change in processes both within and beyond conservation.
- Michael K. Davies, GAPS IN THE LEAVES: A re-conceptualisation of the item record, as a public document, based on the version control system.
- Margaret Barclay, Sustaining a future: An examination of sustainable collection management at the Castlemaine Art Museum
- Heather Berry, Closing the Gap: Conservation and Community Run Museums
- Grace Barrand, Targeting Specialist Skill Deficiencies through Work Integrated Learning: a Case Study in Frames Conservation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Rebecca Delaney, Artists acrylic paints exposed to high humidities: Evaluating suitable cleaning systems to remove dirt pick-up
- Anurati Krishnamurthy, Mould removal techniques on artist acrylic paint: comparing the use of 70% ethanol in water against enzymatic cleaning and the use of short wavelength ultraviolet (UV) radiation.
- Jessica Walsh, Cleaning painted surfaces with green chemicals: Investigating the sustainable removal of natural and synthetic resin varnishes from oil-based painted surfaces
- Lia Sumichan, Affandi’s Materials and Techniques: A Preliminary Technical Art Study of Paintings from the 1950s Catherine Gill, Investigation into and proposed conservation of the portrait "Jack Wetherly a Victorian Native"
- Jessica Doyle, Daylesford Historical Society and Museum: Developing sustainable actions for the management of a small community museum.
- Rong Wei Sim, Examining and investigating the intangible qualities of musical instruments using a non-invasive acoustic characterisation technique.
- John David Morrison, Problems with the Plasticiser: In search of ideal cleaning methods for Plasticised Poly (Vinyl Chloride)
- Patrice Holstock, Archaeological Plastics: An experimental study of how a soil/burial environment might affect the deterioration of plastic artefacts.
- Kate Ritchie, Identifying plastics in the musical instruments collection of the Grainger Museum
- Rachelle Bridges, To clear or not to clear: Comparison of the long-term effects of the A to F aqueous washing system on two types of paper
- Jessica Gray, Keeping Our Spirits Up: Analysis and Case Study Treatment of Fluid-Preserved Botanical Specimens at the Australian Museum
- Ashley Hayes, Acquiring the Ephemeral: An Exploration into the Conservation of Performance Art Daniel Schwartz, Repatriation as Conservation: Moving Toward a Decolonised Conservation Ethic
- Juanita Kelly-Mundine, Safeguarding Australian Indigenous Performance: Maintaining Living Cultural Heritage in Cultural Institutions
- Maite Toro, Intergenerational Pottery Practices: Documentation of the materials and techniques used to make the traditional pottery transmitted from generation to generation in Barichara, Colombia
- Kaleigh Kenney, Virtually Conserved: Digital Reproduction in the Modern Museum
- Laura Daenke, The Investigation and Conservation Treatment of an Albrecht Dürer woodcut: The knight and the lansquenet, a Case Study
- Constantina Iacovou, Investigating Australian bromoil prints within a large photographic donation: a case study from the Monash Gallery of Art (MGA) collection
- Toni Sampson, Building a Toolkit for community-based conservation education Jessica Rachel Brennan, The characterisation of pigments and resins from church panel paintings in Wadeye, NT
- Murphy Bouma, Invasion of Melbourne: An investigation into the condition and cultural significance of Invader’s street art in Melbourne
- Alice Hackworth, The Investigation and Treatment of an 18th Century Japanese Woodblock-Printed Map
- Caitlin Knight, Knowing the Original through the Remnants: Authenticating the Binding of a 1577 Holinshed’s Chronicles from the University of Melbourne Collection.
- Kathleen Tara Rowbottom, Making Meaning of Material from the La Mama Fire
2018
- Alexandra Taylor, What constitutes the term verifiable and what does it mean of certainty and requirements for proof in art authentication
- Angela Payne, Angela Payne Mind the Gap: Using contemporary conservation theory to approach archaeological excavation
- Bailey, Thomasin, Investigation of the Material and Ageing Properties of Malaysian Rubber Paints
- Bakhri, Saiful, Contextualising Cultural Materials Conservation in Indonesia: Discipline, Profession, and Professional Practice
- Bennion, Lily, Evaluating Value: Significance Assessment and Aboriginal Art Centre Based-Collections of Cultural Material
- Christine Mizzi, Christine Mizzi An analysis of wallpapers from Captain Mills Cottage, Port Fairy, Victoria Claire Rowson, Claire Rowson Conservation Management Plan: Coining Master Tools at the Perth
- Clare Kim, Challenges of Plastic Identification: a case study of archaeological plastic finds excavated from the Former Wheeler Residence in Mernda, Victoria
- Congreve,Tristan, Conservation and Comic Books: A question of approach and applied methodology
- Deborah Peart, The Kauer woman Emily Vering, Considering Costa Scena: Using object biography to deal with the ‘myth’ around a family heirloom
- Ewing, Madeleine, Waterborne Acrylic Coatings for Contemporary Outdoor Mural Paintings: an investigation into the efficacy of Carboset 527 as an anti-graffiti barrier layer
- Harding, Anastazja, A Collaboration Examination Of Traditional Retablo And Santos-Making Skills, Usage, And Conservation
- Ka Ian Kong, An Investigation into the Conservation of the Replaced Limestone Jambs/Pedestals of Janet Clarke Hall, University of Melbourne
- Katrina Watson, Framing Polaroids cameras in the conservation of plastics
- Kyra, Kim, Shen Shaomin’s I want to know what infinity is: An investigation of the materiality and deterioration mechanisms of a plastic kinetic sculpture
- Lee, Sang Hee, Damage and Perception of Change: the realities of Tropical Climates and Place
- Lily Bennion, Evaluating Value: Significance Assessment and Aboriginal Art Centre Collections
- Marie Claire Petrowski, Early Plastics Manufactured in Melbourne by Nylex: Composition and Condition c. 1950-1980
- Maurice, Rose, Let it wash over you: The long term effects of Richards Wolbers' Immersion Solutions A=F for the Aqueous Treatments of Works on Paper
- Mizzi, Christine, An analysis of materials and techniques used to produced the wallpapers at captain mills cottage
- Molly Culbertson, Good process and cultural sensitivity: the changing relationship between cultural materials conservation and remote aboriginal cultural collections
- Nick Baylart, Exploration into the treatment of silver mirroring using siloxane masking techniques: towards the wholistic conservation of photographs
- Redman, Chris, Saving Games: Identifying challenges from online updates to console video games and exploring potential solutions through documentation and involving the gaming community.
- Rose Maurice, The long-term effects of Richard Wolbers’ Immersion Recipes A-F for Aqueous Treatments of Works on Paper
- Rowson, Claire, Conservation Management Plan: Coining Master Tools at the Perth Mint
- Sophie Phillips, An exploration of the condition and significance of the fluid preserved specimens held in storage at the Tiegs Museum of Zoology
- Stewart, Hannah, Microclimate Framing for Tropical Environments: Investigating the use of microclimate frames to protect paintigns in hot and humid climates
- Thompson, Karen, A Preliminary Investigation into the Influence of Archaeological Contents on the Condition tf Polyethylene Packing Bags
- Tobin, Gen, George Colville (1887-1970): Materials investigation of the Canvas Oil Painting Waratah Bay (c. 1949) and Other Composite Supported Paintings
- Vernon, Kim, Investigation into the Behaviour of Hydrogenated Castor Oil in Modern Oil Paints
2017
- April Kim, Educating young museum visitors of cultural materials conservation Candice Crammer, Time-based media preservation: risk analysis and recoverability in the ACMI Collection
- Celeste Wing Young, The theory of Volunteerism within the Cultural Heritage and Arts Sector for cultural materials conservation
- Lois Waters, Developing a Treatment Strategy for Screenprints: Investigating the Larry Rawling Print Workshop Rosemary Gooden, The Role of Conservation in the Commemoration of the Holocaust
- Amelia O’Donnell, '‘Dirty Audit’ an emerging’s conservator’s reflections on the dynamics and realities of collection project work at the Kimberley Aboriginal Law and Culture Centre (kalacc), Fitzroy Crossing, Western Australia