Research Fellows and Research Conservators
RESEARCH FELLOWS
Dr Leo Dokos
Extending the life of tapestries using non-destructive strain measurement techniques and damage detection
Dr Leo Dokos and Melin Sahin
Displaying and storing historic textiles: monitoring the pressure and internal environment of pressure mounts
Dr Paul Garside
The characterisation of the deterioration mechanisms of textile fibres
Dr Fiona Handley
Fabric of the Past: Interpreting the textiles and people of Quseir-al-Qadim, Egypt
Dr Peter Jones
The symbolic use of dress and textiles in early nineteenth-century popular protest
Dr Elizabeth Kramer
Anglo-Japanese Textile Culture and Victorian Britain, 1875-1900
Dr Jane Malcolm-Davies
A survey of church effigies and religious memorials as three-dimensional representation of 16th century dress
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Dr Shelagh Mitchell
Garter Ladies
Dr Sonia O’Connor
X-radiography of organic artefacts
Dr Andrew Wilson
Source, trade and exchange of textile raw materials in Pre-Hispanic Peru utilising stable isotope signatures: implications for conservation and curation
Dr Xiaomei Zhang
Developing improved collections management and tools for silk textiles
RESEARCH CONSERVATORS
Rosemary Baker
A study of synthetic textile dyes
Jenny Band
The preservation of surviving royal textiles in Hampton Court Palace from the closure of the Great Wardrobe maintenance department in 1782 until the present day
Nicola Gentle
The rare survival of a seventeenth century middle-class bed with textile hangings of printed wool
Kate Gill
An investigation into the materials and construction of early saddles and upholstered seat furniture
An evaluation of a portable X-ray unit for on-site examination in historic houses
Alison Lister
Wall hangings at the Royal Festival Hall
Doon Lovett
Relating Computed Tomography (CT) Images to Excavation Findings
The characterisation of the degradation process of polyurethane
Cordelia Rogerson
The characterisation of 19th century painted banners: manufacturing methods and materials
Amber Rowe
An investigation of archival sources to identify the cut and construction of missing components of clothing worn by George Mallory on the 1924 Everest expedition
Morwena Stephens
Developing a physico-chemical text of British Wool Tradecloths to identify their presence in Ethnographic artefacts
Karen Thompson and Mike Halliwell
An initial exploration of the benefits of using transmitted visible light and infra-red photography to access information concealed within multi-layered textiles
