Our qualified conservators have the specialist skills to help you achieve your historic building, paint or artefact conservation challenges. Lincoln Conservation combine the latest technologies with specialist knowledge and expertise and have worked within the Heritage Sector for over 25 years. We have achieved results acclaimed across the UK and Europe.
Paul is a full time Research Fellow at the University of Lincoln permanently assigned to Lincoln Conservation.
Early in his career Paul worked in a museum environment, focussing primarily on objects conservation and collections management (disaster planning, environmental monitoring, display cases & mounts, storage and housekeeping). After a brief spell in buildings conservation Paul moved to the University of Lincoln in 2007 initially to provide technical support before finally moving into a more research focussed role.
Over the years Paul has developed a keen interest in Maritime Heritage and Military Vehicles, focussing on the analysis of painted surfaces. His research has quantified the precise colours, sequence of application and types of paints used on both World War I and II period tanks and other armoured vehicles, defining the precise nature of the camouflage schemes used.
Similar work on maritime vessels from the 18th century has defined their appearance and helped to date hull timbers and fittings and helped define their working life span. His research has also informed the characterisation of the quality and extent of early paint layers on these vessels, invisible beneath modern overpaints radically altering conservation strategies.
Paul’s interests in the built environment lie within the field of architectural paint research and historic decorative interiors (including wallpapers) in the context of vernacular, ecclesiastical and industrial architecture.
Paul also manages on-site conservation projects with a high level of student engagement providing “real world” experience for both under and post graduate conservation students. This highly rewarding aspect of his work helps to develop the students time management & problem solving skills, health & safety awareness, team working and stimulates new research ideas.
University of Lincoln, Faculty of Art, Architecture & Design, BA Conservation & Restoration (2004 – 2007).
English Heritage, The Historic Interior: Commissioning and Managing Conservation Research (2009).
Doncaster Museum & Art Gallery, Assistant Conservator.
Railton Price Building Conservation, Conservator.
The Institute of Conservation (ICON).
Society for Nautical Research
Phillipa is an architectural paint researcher and conservator with a background in art history.
Based in both London and Lincoln, Phillipa has worked on a variety of architectural paint research projects across the UK, as well as building recording and conservation in Bulgaria. She has also previously worked as an archivist for The Royal Household’s Property Section.
Alongside her current role, Phillipa is also undertaking a PhD focusing architectural paint research and interior design.
Phillipa is interested in the material culture of paint, wallpaper, and other decorative finishes, and the role of architectural paint research in informing building archaeology.
Rhiannon is an architectural paint researcher and an accredited paintings conservator who has 13 years’ experience working in the field of the conservation of historic interiors and decorative surfaces.
During the course of her career, Rhiannon has gained valuable experience of project management and supervision of interns and students. An active member of the conservation community, Rhiannon acted as the secretary of the Icon Paintings Group for 10 years, and remains on the committee. Through her work with the committee she has helped to organise a number of high profile international conferences, and has co-edited three sets of post-prints published through Archetype Publications. Rhiannon has acted as an associate lecturer to the University of Lincoln since 2014, and has published articles and given papers at a number of conferences.
Rhiannon was a recent recipient of a Tru-Vue grant and has commenced training to be an assessor for the Conservation and Collections Care Technician’s diploma, a new work-based qualification being offered by the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Institute of Conservation.
University of Northumbria at Newcastle 2002 – 2004 - MA Conservation of Fine Art, with commendation
De Montfort University 1999 – 2002 - BA (Hons) Conservation & Restoration 2:1 (upper centile)
Accredited member of ICON (membership number 19970)
Rosie is a historic interiors research and conservation manager, specialising in architectural paint research. She is Secretary of the Traditional Paint Forum and a committee member of the ICON Historic Interiors Group
Mark is an archaeologist who has worked on the recording and interpretation of buildings and landscapes.
Mark did a doctorate at University College London on the development of the late medieval landscape of eastern Sussex. He subsequently worked at Archaeology South-East based at the Institute of Archaeology, London, becoming the Deputy Director and Manager.
In 1996 he left the Institute to become a Lecturer, later Senior Lecturer, in Medieval Archaeology at Queen’s University Belfast. He was appointed Reader in Heritage at the University of Lincoln in 2017.
He has worked on survey and excavation projects across northern Europe, including Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Norway and Greenland, as well as England. He has a particular interest in medieval buildings and has published widely on the subject. He is on the editorial board of Vernacular Architecture.
Mark is the Academic Director of Lincoln Conservation.
PhD — University College London, 1996
BA (Hons) — University College Cardiff, 1980
Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland
Mike is an experienced product designer with 10 years professional experience in industry and nearly 10 years working in academia. Mike has designed and managed the development of many products from concept through to production including office furniture products, domestic goods and industrial components.
Mike has particular expertise and research interests in 3D digital design tools looking specifically at 3D digital reconstruction and fabrication techniques with the aim of improving the process and methods in the creation, manipulation and reproduction of 3D objects. Tools used to support this activity include:
Dr Cathy Daly is an archaeological and ethnographic conservator and a research specialist in climate change impacts on cultural heritage.
Cathy is a senior lecturer in conservation teaching on the BA and Graduate Diploma courses.
As a practicing conservator Cathy worked in museums, in private consultancy and on research excavations. In 2014 she received her PhD in which transferable methodologies for the site level assessment and measurement of climate change vulnerabilities at Ireland’s two World Heritage sites were developed and applied. This research grew from work undertaken during a Masters in World Heritage from the University of Cottbus, Germany. The potential impacts of climate change on heritage assets, and the possibilities for monitoring and adaptive management, continue to be the focus of Cathy's research.
For more on Cathy's recent publications and activities please see drcathydaly.com
PhD - Cultural Heritage Management and Climate Change (2014) Dublin Institute of Technology
MA - World Heritage Studies (2009) BTU Cottbus
BSc - Conservation of Archaeological Artefacts (1998) University of Wales Cardiff
BA - Ancient History and Archaeology (1994) Trinity College Dublin
Irish National Blue Shield Committee (INCBS) founding member (2011-present)
International Council on Sites and Monuments (ICOMOS) Climate Change Working Group
Higher Education Academy (HEA) - Associate Fellow.
Dr Lynda Skipper is an experienced conservator / conservation scientist specialising in materials analysis, pigments and wallpapers.
Lynda Skipper is a senior lecturer and programme leader for the BA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage. She lectures and advises on a range of topics, including science and preventive conservation, and practical gilding techniques.
Lynda has previously worked as a conservator in the museum sector (Science Museum), heritage organisations (National Trust, Cambridge Colleges Conservation Consortium), and in private practice (Howell and Bellion, Compton and Schuster). Her research interests include industrial objects, modern materials, historic wallpapers and pigments. She has been involved in a range of projects in these area, such as the uncovering of wallpapers at St Pancras Renaissance Hotel, and Mrs Smiths Cottage in Lincolnshire. She also carries out materials analysis, ranging from pigment analysis to fibre and plastics identification using a variety of analytical techniques, including SEM-EDX, FTIR, XRF and PLM.
2016 University of Lincoln PGCE
2016 Fellow of the HEA
2014 Associate Fellow of the HEA.
2007 University of Lincoln MA Conservation of Historic Objects.
2006 University of Lincoln Graduate Diploma Conservation Studies.
2005 University of Cambridge PhD Biochemistry.
2002 University of Cambridge BA Natural Sciences (Genetics).
Consultancy through Lincoln Conservation includes materials analysis and preventive conservation, training courses, as well as advising on other conservation projects within her specialism.
Melina Smirniou is a conservator and archaeological scientist. She has worked as a conservator at the stone, wall paintings and mosaics section of the British Museum, co-directed and founded Conservators Without Borders and now serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the non-profit organization Heritage Without Borders. Before joining Lincoln, Melina was a visiting Lecturer teaching technology, deterioration and conservation processes at UCL Qatar.
Her research interests include the Late Bronze Age primary production and trade of glass in Egypt, Mesopotamia and the Eastern Mediterranean, as well as analysis and characterisation of glass and glazed ceramics from a wide range of chronological periods and regions.
Belinda Colston is Professor of Analytical Chemistry and Cultural Heritage
Belinda’s interest lies in the application of science to the conservation of cultural heritage (including both objects and the built environment). Her doctorate at the University of Manchester, in collaboration with the British Museum and the Oxford Institute of Archaeology, developed new scientific methodologies for the study of the late Iron-age (Durotrigian) pottery industry in Dorset, UK.
Over the last 20 years, Belinda has led a large cross-disciplinary research group in heritage science, and founded the Historic and Ancient Materials Group at Lincoln in 2007. The research, combining aspects of chemistry, biology/biotechnology, materials science, archaeology and conservation, focuses on the underlying chemical and physico-chemical processes affecting the degradation and sustainability of heritage assets in a changing environment, and the development of new conservation materials.
PhD - University of Manchester, 1989
BSc (Hons) - University of Manchester, 1989
Member of the Institute of Conservation
Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
Leah is a practising conservator, lecturer, and researcher, with a particular interest in the social history and conservation of textiles within domestic interiors.
Leah combines work with Lincoln Conservation with teaching on the full range of academic courses in Conservation of Cultural Heritage at the University of Lincoln, where she specialises in the interventive and theoretical conservation of social history objects, as well as professional practice skills. Leah’s work with Lincoln Conservation complements these interests. She brings expertise in the preventive and interventive conservation of textiles to the team, and has been responsible for overseeing commercial projects involving student engagement.
Leah's research interests include the social history of tapestries within country house interiors during the long eighteenth-century, tapestries and other textiles as material culture, and the intersection of conservation practice with material culture studies. Her published work focuses on the relationship of the tapestries at Doddington Hall, Lincolnshire, with the house's eighteenth-century interiors and the culture of the country house.
In addition to her work with the University of Lincoln, Leah has worked with large and small heritage organisations and private clients as a freelance conservator, consultant, or member of staff. Her work in small museums and with private collectors in particular has given her an interest in outreach and engagement through conservation, such as public workshops and volunteer/CPD training.
PhD Conservation of Cultural Heritage, University of Lincoln, 2015-.
MA Conservation of Historic Objects (Distinction), University of Lincoln, 2011.
Graduate Diploma Conservation Studies (Distinction), University of Lincoln, 2010.
Institute of Conservation (ICON) - Member.
Higher Education Academy (HEA) - Associate Fellow.
Henning Schulze is a Senior Lecturer in the School of History and Heritage since 2009.
Previously he has worked at the Conservation Training Programme for the Qianlong Garden Conservation Project at the Forbidden City, Beijing; provided by (CRAFT) Conservation Resources for Architectural Interiors / Furniture, and Training, a joint project of the Palace Museum, Beijing and the World Monument Fund, New York. 2010.
Dr. Jim Cheshire is a cultural historian specialising in the material culture of the nineteenth century.
Jim is Reader in Cultural History within the School of History and Heritage. He has written research reports and statements of significance for Lincoln Conservation heritage projects and advises the team on project related publications and research audits.
Jim's specialist field is the visual and material culture of the nineteenth century. He has published widely on interior design, ecclesiastical design and publishing history and has worked on several exhibitions and curatorial projects. His latest monograph, Tennyson and Mid-Victorian Publishing was issued by Palgrave Macmillan in 2016 and was based on the archival holdings of the Tennyson Research Centre in Lincoln. His current projects include a study of portraiture and photography in the Victorian period, an overview of nineteenth-century interior design in public buildings and an essay on the stained glass of William Morris. For a detailed list of publications and research projects see http://staff.lincoln.ac.uk/jcheshire.
PhD (Victorian Studies) Exeter University 1998
BA (Hons) English Literature & Medieval Studies, Exeter University 1992.
Higher Education Academy – Fellow.
Since 2015, Sarah has utilised her specialist skills in the conservation of ceramics and decorative surface in a teaching role at the University of Lincoln, supporting the studies of undergraduate and postgraduate students. As a Conservator, she has been involved with numerous projects with Lincoln Conservation on tiled schemes and historic interiors, ranging from the conservation on a tiled tomb in King’s Lynn to reinstating Lincrusta panels in a Synagogue in Brighton. All projects have utilised Sarah’s extensive problem-solving capabilities, keen attention to detail and pragmatic approach to conservation on site.
Sarah began an MSc in the Conservation of the Historic Environment in 2015, obtaining a greater depth of understanding of the agencies involved in the theory and practice of buildings conservation, legislative issues and the management of heritage assets. This included the authorship of the Conservation Management Plan for Lincolnshire County Council Offices which was subsequently used to support related changes to the building. The research element of the course concentrated her analytical skills on approaches to the conservation of linoleum and deepened her interest in the conservation of twentieth century materials.
In addition to her teaching role, Sarah has undertaken two successful HLF projects. The first for Aurora Wellbeing Centre, a cancer charity in the development phase of their HLF bid investigating the links between heritage and wellbeing. This was a collaborative project working with heritage professionals and health care practitioners. Following cooperative activity planning during the Aurora project, she was asked to support Bassetlaw District Council in their project highlighting the origins of the Mayflower Pilgrims in North Nottinghamshire through the creation of a new Gallery at Bassetlaw Museum and an associated Trail in the wider landscape.
Sarah continues to teach at the University of Lincoln while undertaking further research and began a PhD in 2018, concentrating on approaches to the conservation of post war interiors.
Qualifications
University of Reading, MSc Conservation of the Historic Environment (2015 – 2017)
University of Lincoln, BA (Hons) Conservation & Restoration (2004 – 2009)
Memberships
The Institute of Conservation (ICON)
Institute of Historic Buildings Conservation (IHBC)
Twentieth Century Society
