Ms Claudia Hildebrandt
MSc(Freiberg)
Expertise
Current positions
Technical Specialist
School of Earth Sciences
Contact
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Research interests
Exploring how curatorial and technical skills can support students learning and research via colleciton based research projects
Exploring how partnerships between artists and scientists can inform each others practices, well-being and understanding of pressing global themes.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
Title: Migrating Rocks: Intercultural Research and Exchange around the Use and Repatriation of Rock Samples (based on a case study in Aotearoa New Zealand)
Principal Investigator
Role
Principal Investigator
Description
Black Life Matters and the fall of the Colston Statue in Bristol have rekindled discussions about colonial legacies in museums, collections, educational and scientific institutions and foregrounded questions about cultural…Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
03/01/2024 to 31/10/2024
Global Heritage Local History
Principal Investigator
Description
Historic geological collections are unique resources that reconnect us with the natural world beneath our feet as well as the planet’s and our very own human history. They offer an…Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
01/03/2023 to 31/07/2023
How do we ethically decolonise a rock and mineral collection?
Principal Investigator
Description
What research can be done into the practice of how to ethically decolonise rock and mineral collections? And how can we bring curatorial practice, poetry, academic thinking and art into…Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
02/02/2023 to 31/07/2023
Publications
Recent publications
01/04/2023Geology and microvertebrate faunas of the Rhaetian Westbury Formation of Doniford Bay, Somerset
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian basal bone bed of Saltford, near Bath, SW England
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
Anatomy of a Late Triassic Bristol fissure: Tytherington fissure 2
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
Beginning of Mesozoic marine overstep of the Mendips: The Rhaetian and its fauna at Hapsford Bridge, Vallis Vale, Somerset, UK
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
A Rhaetian microvertebrate fauna from Stowey Quarry, Somerset, UK
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
