The Board
AusHeritage is managed by a Board of Directors comprising:
- Chairman Vinod Daniel
- Deputy Chairman Roger Beeston
- Deputy Chairman Bruce Pettman
- Deputy Chairman Jason Copland
- Treasurer Andrew Durham
- Secretary Heather Mansell
- Other directors
Chairman Vinod Daniel, Australian Museum, Sydney.
Vinod Daniel is the Head of The Research Centre for Materials Conservation and the Built Environment at the Australian Museum. He previously worked at the Getty Conservation Institute. He is presently a National Council Member, of the Australian Institute for Conservation of Cultural Materials and Editor of its Bulletin. His is also an advisory Council Member for the International Council for Bio-deterioration of Cultural Property and Adjunct Faculty of the National Museum Institute, New Delhi. Between 1993 and 1995, he was a Board Member of the Western Association for Art Conservation, USA. He has published and presented over 40 papers in international journals and conferences.
Deputy Chairman Roger Beeston, RBA Architects and Conservation Consultants Pty Ltd.
Roger Beeston has been practicing as an Architect since 1985, and since 1987 as Conservation Architect, originally with Allom Lovell and Associates and, since 1994 as Director of his own firm, RBA Architects and Conservation Consultants Pty Ltd. He has been a member of AusHeritage since 1998 and has participated in two AusHeritage missions to India since that time.
Deputy Chairman 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.
Deputy Chairman Jason Copland
Jason Copland was the founder and Managing Director of Compass Research (Myanmar) a leading full service market and social research company in Myanmar. Jason has been designing and managing research projects for a wide audience in South East Asia for 12 years and a member of AusHeritage since 2003. He has organised international conferences and workshops between AusHeritage and Myanmar cultural and heritage experts.
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
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.
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.
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.