Grimwade Centre

Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at The University of Melbourne - conservation lab, cultural research, community engagement

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@ArtsUnimelb Here is the booking link: https://t.co/yL6wxBWndT

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Masters students @artsunimelb @cultcons Danni Lin and Mollie Liu will talk at this event with Sophie Couchman. See: After the Fire: Recovery Efforts at the See Yup Temple — See Yup Temple 四邑關帝廟

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Grimwade International Conservation Scholar Jane Henderson from @cardiffuni @CUHistArchRel recently visited the Grimwade Centre, thanks to the generous support of the Miegunyah Bequest. Her visit culminated in a keynote lecture on her current research on risk in conservation.

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The Grimwade Centre's Dr Caroline Kyi led our recent intensive subject on the conservation of street art. During the class, local artist Ling painted a mural, educating students on mural art creation. Interested in studying conservation? Learn more: https://t.co/wHTqmSIXdl

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The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation is deeply thankful to the Cripps Foundation for its transformational support to elevate the Grimwade Centre’s work to a research institute. Read more: https://t.co/MAyy0xfcTk

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Grimwade Centre researchers, Daryl Howard from @ausynchrotron @ANSTO, and Leila Alhagh used synchrotron-based scanning X-ray fluorescence microscopy (SXFM) to investigate three seventeenth-century illuminated Persian manuscripts from @UniMelbSpC https://t.co/Tct1tJrEee

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Paula Dredge @LucillaRonai taking time to calibrate our sensors for 2025 and Advanced Conservation Practice.

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See what conservation @ArtsUnimelb have been working on https://t.co/2ltD5C3bMm working with the See Yup Temple post fire collection recovery

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Sureeporn Khampaeng from @ChulalongkornU also joined @cultcons to work on her PhD ‘Identification of pigments by multispectral imaging technique using narrow-band LEDs’. Workshops on hyperspectral imaging, technical photography, the Specim camera and more @ArtsUnimelb

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Join the Grimwade Centre team in 2025! We have recently advertised an academic role: https://t.co/AJbBlgaXQZ and a professional role: https://t.co/ugulfsOunl . Applications close 7 January 2025.

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Join the Grimwade Centre, (0.8 FTE) Fixed-term, 5 years. Reporting to the Discipline Chair, you will facilitate teaching, research, and engagement activities, including administrative assistance for Masters and PhD programs. https://t.co/rMn2jFkdqx

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We are recruiting - specialising in 3D objects, with expertise in inorganics, to deliver postgraduate teaching. You will focus on teaching, dedicating 90% of your time to delivering education https://t.co/edRQRX35GM

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Read the many papers and guest editorial: Cultural Materials Conservation: Self, Systems and Society, AICCM 50th Year Anniversary https://t.co/l65gWbboC4

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Farewell Watsachon Leksomboon, PhD on ‘Removal of foxing stains in old paper using xylanase and organogel’ Chulalongkorn University, Thailand. A joy to host you @cultcons for 6 months to learn about nanocellulose, gels and foxing. A great collaboration for @ArtsUnimelb

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Congratulations to Grimwade Centre Associate Professor Nicole Tse (right), who was awarded the AICCM Medal @AICCM_OZ last night. Nicole has served as Chief Editor of the AICCM Bulletin since 2012, has more than 38 publications and co-founded @aptccarn.

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EoIs sought for a PhD project examining heritage as a thin market to explore what promotion, product and resource development will support new forms of enterprise and sustain economic support for Indigenous heritage. https://t.co/RPwzJFz1Fh

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Grimwade Centre director Robyn Sloggett was in Canberra this week to receive her @arc_gov_au Industry Laureate Fellowship award from @AliciaPayneMP. The fellowship project will deliver a step-change in the capacity for Indigenous communities to care for their cultural heritage.

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Pleased to see that the Indonesia's national museum reopens after devastating fire and the work of the Indonesian Heritage Agency: https://t.co/DsMaEbZDRE

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Reminder: Expressions of Interest for PhD studies as part of the ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship "Safe Keeping: Effecting solutions for risk to remote Indigenous heritage" close tomorrow Wednesday, 2 October. Full details: https://t.co/dJsysGVPxE

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Cultural material conservation students #JiaheYi #DanniLin staff #NicoleTse & historian #SophieCouchman See Yup Temple a President #MichaelLam Acts of kindness as Chinese temple gutted by fire starts long rebuild https://t.co/R0EpCRj1Nq