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
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
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
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
01/08/2025Microvertebrates 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
Onset of the Rhaetian Transgression in deep waters at Lilstock, North Somerset
Proceedings of the Geologists' Association
