She's recently moved from The London Archives to The Chatham Historic Dockyard, and the challenges, solutions and objectives have changed. She'll be covering topics big and small, from large capital projects to tearoom swap shops.
We will include a circulated PDF resources guide with every website, handout, initiative, and practice that Alex has collated over the years.
This 45 minute catch up promises to provide lots of tips, insights and practical solutions that you can take away and use in your own work place and at home!
Conservator, Historic Dockyard Chatham
Alex is the Conservator for the Historic Dockyard Chatham, managing a large collection of mixed object collection, from books and paper to large vehicles and covering 50 scheduled and listed monuments across a conservation site. She has been active in Conservation since 2016, beginning her training in interventive conservation at Kent History and Library Centre in Maidstone. Since that time, she has worked with several large institutions covering the areas of Central London, Southern England and Wales on a wide variety of projects covering surveying, packaging, interventive treatment, exhibition production, condition analysis and much more. She spent time as The London Archive's Green Group Lead, looking for practical and workable solutions to waste management within the conservation and archives sector. She has spoken at the Sustainability for Archives Manager’s Conference and published for the Institute of Conservation. In 2024 she received ICON's Marsh Award for Environmental or Sustainability Focus in Conservation.