Ms Claudia Hildebrandt
MSc(Freiberg)
Expertise
Current positions
Technical Specialist
School of Earth Sciences
Contact
Press and media
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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
Roots to Reimagining Natural History: Equitable indigenisation and repair in postcolonial natural history and collections practice
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Natural history collections are not just boxes of specimens—they hold stories about science, culture, history and the environment. Some stories are based on thinking and practices during colonial and postcolonial…Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
22/01/2026 to 31/07/2026
Practising Return: Policy, Power and Partnership
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Can natural sciences collection offer a new look at the processes and policies linked to repatriation of museum holdings by taking a place-based approach?
Critiquing the Bristol Museum & Art Gallery's…Managing organisational unit
Dates
01/08/2025 to 30/11/2025
Practising Return: Policy, Power, and Partnership
Principal Investigator
Description
Can natural sciences collection offer a new look at the processes and policies linked to repatriation of museum holdings by taking a place-based approach?Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
01/08/2025 to 30/11/2025
Connected Earth: Bristol
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Description
Opening up the Environment 2026 project funded through NERC to showcase role models working in environmental science.Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
01/07/2025 to 31/03/2026
Respecting Rocks
Principal Investigator
Description
How do we create a national community of researchers and practitioners engaged in ethical ways of working with rocks and minerals at the same time as creating protocols of collecting…Managing organisational unit
School of Earth SciencesDates
03/03/2025 to 31/07/2025
Publications
Recent publications
15/05/2025Migrating Rocks
Microvertebrates from a Rhaetian neptunian dyke at Holwell, Somerset
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
Microvertebrates from the basal Rhaetian Bone Bed (Late Triassic) at Lavernock, South Wales
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
Microvertebrates from the Lower Greensand Group (Lower Cretaceous) of Clophill, Bedfordshire, UK, and Nutfield, Surrey, UK
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
Microvertebrates from the Rhaetian bone beds at Blue Anchor Bay, Somerset
Geological Magazine
