The Board
AusHeritage is managed by a Board of Directors comprising:
- Chair Vinod Daniel
- Deputy Chair Roger Beeston
- Deputy Chair Ian Cook
- Deputy Chair Michael Crayford
- Treasurer Andrew Durham
- Secretary Heather Mansell
- Other directors
Chair Vinod Daniel, Australian Museum, Sydney
Vinod Daniel is the Head, Cultural Heritage and Science Initiatives Branch at the Australian Museum. He is also a board member of the Australia India Council (Department for Foreign Affairs and Trade), Vice Chairman of the International Council of Museums-Committee for Conservation and President of the Board for the Centre for Environmental Education Australia. He previously worked at the Getty Conservation Institute and between 1993 and 1995, was a Board Member of the Western Association for Art Conservation, USA. He has published and presented over 50 papers in international journals and conferences. He was awarded the Indo Australian Award for 2009 by the Indo Australian Association and is currently one of the sixty Australians invited by Tourism Australia to be part of their “Friend of Australia” program.
Deputy Chair Roger Beeston, RBA Architects and Conservation Consultants Pty Ltd
Roger Beeston is the founding director of the award winning, Melbourne-based private practice, RBA Architects + Conservation Consultants, which was established in 1994. Roger has been a member of AusHeritage since 1998 and a Board member and Deputy Chair for over 8 years, during which time he has participated in several missions, including to India, Myanmar, Brunei and China.
Roger is a Registered Architect and an Associate of the Australian Institute of Architects(AIA) where he has served as a Jury Chair and Member for the AIA Awards, as well as being a past recipient of the AIA John George Knight Award for Heritage Architecture on multiple occasions. Roger is also a long standing member of The Society of Architectural Historians of Australia and New Zealand,the National Trust of Australia and Australia ICOMOS and has served for several years on the Cultural Heritage Academic Advisory Board at Deakin University, Geelong,where he currently teaches part time.
During over 20 years experience as a conservation architect and heritage management consultant in private practice, Roger has worked on a wide variety of heritage places, including lighthouses, railway stations, town halls, hospitals, gaols, large scale and modest residences and entire municipalities. Past projects have involved sites ranging in scale from Melbourne’s famous late 20th century Vault sculpture through to the major refurbishment works at Parliament House of Victoria.
By continuing to engage in the contemporary building industry as well as the field of heritage conservation and management, Roger has acquired detailed expertise in traditional and new building technologies, enabling him to develop authentic and sustainable remedial conservation strategies. In addition, through continued exposure to international debate on conservation practice via AusHeritage, Roger has acquired a keen grasp of evolving conservation management practice.
Roger is passionate about engaging in the Asia Pacific region in the field of heritage conservation.
Deputy Chair Ian Cook, 3CS AsiaPacific
After four years as a cadet art restorer at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Ian began his professional career in 1969 when he moved to Canberra to work at the National Library of Australia as its first conservator.
He took a degree in Applied Science (analytical chemistry) at the Canberra College of Advanced Education in 1978; established the Preservation Services Branch at the Library; worked with colleagues to create the Australian Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Material and the conservation training program at what was to become the University of Canberra. In 1985 he was appointed inaugural Director of the State Conservation Centre of South Australia (later called Artlab Australia).
During the nineties he was involved in developing national policies and strategies for collections management and conservation. He represented South Australia on the Heritage Collections Council and was for some time, the Convenor of the Conservation and Collections Management Working Party which developed the National Conservation and Preservation Policy and Strategy – Australia’s Heritage Collections.
Ian was the inaugural Chair of AusHeritage Ltd (1995-1998) and currently serves on the Board. Ian was recently appointed Deputy Chair of the UNESCO Australian Memory of the World Program, is supporting the development of a new edition of Significance – Significance 2.0 as Sector Advocate for the Collections Council of Australia and is writing a monograph on cultural mapping for the ASEAN Committee on Culture and Information with Emeritus Professor Ken Taylor, ANU. He is currently the director of 3CS AsiaPacific consultancy.
Ian’s interests are broad ranging and include the heritage politics, Asian studies, international affairs, the workings of UNESCO and the history of conservation.
Deputy Chair Michael Crayford
Michael Crayford is Assistant Director of Collections at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney. He has worked in museums and galleries and in the broader cultural industries since 1981 within Australia and overseas. He has a particular interest in museums and heritage, art in public spaces and developing cultural collaborations and partnerships with individuals and agencies in the Indo-Pacific rim.
Treasurer Andrew Durham, Artlab Australia
Andrew Durham is Director of Artlab Australia. He would like to see AusHeritage focus on advocacy and promotion in the next few years in order to achieve a strong role for cultural heritage conservation in the Australian Government’s international programs. Similarly he hopes to achieve greater recognition in East Asia of the value of Australian expertise in developing and implementing culturally sustainable development solutions.
Secretary Heather Mansell, State Library of NSW.
Secretary Heather Mansell
As Manager, Preservation at the State Library of NSW, Heather directs the development and implementation of preservation policy strategies, including a commercial conservation and preservations service. Her previous work experience includes Chief Conservator at the National Library in Canberra and Head of the Paper Laboratory at Artlab Australia in Adelaide. Heather’ special interests lie in the preservation of library collections (including digital preservation), collection management and adult education and training.
Directors
Bruce Pettman
Bruce Pettman is the Principal Heritage Architect in the NSW Government Architect’s Office and he manages the GAO Heritage Group. Bruce has more than 25 years experience in the assessment, conservation and adaptation of historic cities, buildings and structures in South Australia, New South Wales and the Asia & West Pacific regions. He is a founding member of AusHeritage and has undertaken significant heritage projects in Malaysia, Sri Lanka, Hong Kong and Bali as well as lecturing on building conservation throughout the region since 1993.
Marcelle Scott, University of Melbourne Conservation Service
Marcelle Scott is Academic Programs Coordinator at the Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation at the University of Melbourne. She has a B App Sc (Cultural Materials Conservation) specialising in objects conservation and a Grad Dip of Arts (Archaeology), with a thesis that focused on rock art site management and conservation. She recently completed a Graduate Certificate in University Teaching from the University of Melbourne. She has over twenty years experience in the conservation profession, working both in State institutions and with community museums, and was National President of AICCM from 1999-2001. She is currently the Editor of the peer-reviewed AICCM Bulletin. Her research interests relate to conservation education and her current projects, supported by a Learning and Teaching Performance Fund grant, and a Carrick Institute for Learning and Teaching in Higher Education, investigate interdisciplinary teaching and learning, and the educational benefits of internships and other practice-based exchanges. She joined the Board of AusHeritage in 2006, and participated in the mission to India in 2007.
Ken Taylor, Humanities Research Centre, Australia National University
Ken Taylor has degrees in Geography, Town Planning and Landscape Architecture. Until 2002 he was Professor of Landscape Architecture and Co-Director of the Cultural Heritage Research Centre, University of Canberra. He has had a research interest in cultural landscapes since the mid-1980s and published nationally and internationally on meanings, values and cultural landscape conservation. He has been a consultant to UNESCO and ICOMOS. He curated an exhibition for the National Library of Australia ‘Country and Landscape’ in 2006. He has been interviewed as part of the National Library of Australia’s oral history program featuring people who have made a significant contribution in their field in Australia.
Ken Taylor is also currently a Visiting Professor at Silpakorn University, Bangkok, where he teaches on the International Program in Architectural Heritage Management and Tourism and supervises doctoral students.. He has also undertaken work and given lectures/conference papers in Indonesia, India, China, Cambodia, Myanmar, Canada, UK, France and USA, including papers on Canberra, and is internationally known for his work.
His attachment to Canberra as THE city in the landscape has been consistent since he came in 1975. He is recognised as a leading thinker on Canberra’s planning and its background. For a number of years (2000-2003) he did a weekly broadcast on Canberra’s suburbs on ABC 2CN Breakfast Show. His book on Canberra, Canberra: City in the Landscape, was published in 2006. He is also currently working with Ian Cook on a handbook on cultural mapping for ASEAN countries: this is a joint AusHeritage-ASEAN COCI undertaking and is also collaborating on a book on international implications of cultural landscapes.
His teaching experience has covered place meaning; cultural landscape values and conservation; heritage conservation; historic site management; site planning and design; theory and history of Landscape Architecture; landscape assessment. He has extensive experience in supervision of PhD students and examining theses.
Board Member, Landscape Research Group and Associate Editor Asia-Pacific for the international journal Landscape Research.
Chair, ACT Place Names Committee
Member ACT Historic Places Management Committee
Chair, History Heritage Working Group for Centenary of Canberra (ACT Chief Minister’s Department).
Member of Board of AusHeritage
Corresponding Member ICOMOS International Scientific Committee on Cultural Landscapes
Member Expert Advisory Panel – Wind Farms and Landscape Values, National Assessment Methodology Project 2006-2007.
Charlotte Galloway
Charlotte Galloway is a Lecturer in Curatorial Studies at the Australian National University, Canberra. Her specialist art history field is the Buddhist art of Burma. Charlotte worked at the National Gallery of Australia for many years, in the curatorial and registration areas. She travels frequently to Southeast Asia for research and conferences, and is currently involved in a collaborative project with the Museum Seni Asia, Kuala Lumpur to develop an online exhibition resource. Charlotte’s interests are training for museum professionals, collection management, display and interpretation in museums.
Susan Duyker, BEc BA BSc(Arch) BArch
Susan Duyker, Associate and built heritage specialist with Godden Mackay Logan Pty Ltd, Heritage Consultants, has had fifteen years of wide-ranging heritage experience with state and local government authorities. Prior to joining Godden Mackay Logan, Susan was a specialist adviser to the Council of the City of Sydney on heritage-related issues and developments. Earlier, she worked with the Sydney Harbour Foreshore Authority and manager of the Sydney Cove Authority archives. Susan has been involved in a wide range of Australian projects including conservation planning for large complex sites and providing heritage advice and input into their redevelopment. Her consulting expertise includes heritage impact assessments and providing heritage advice and input into masterplans, adaptive re-use schemes and urban design studies. Susan is a member of Australia ICOMOS and a member of the Built Advocacy Committee of the National Trust of Australia (NSW).
Catherine Millikan
Catherine is a Moveable Objects Conservator in private practice in Melbourne …