Doctoral dissertations supervised
2013- Emily Brennan, UCL. Cross-cultural study of barkcloth.
2013 Caroline Cornish, Royal Holloway. Curating Science in an Age of Empire: Kew's Museum of Economic Botany.
2012 (as advisor) Sara Albuquerque, Birkbeck. Exploring tropical nature in British Guiana: RBG, Kew's collections revisited.
2006 Sarah Edwards, School of Pharmacy. Medical ethnobotany of Wik, Wik-Way and Kugu peoples of Cape York Peninsula, Australia.
2005 Manon Savard, University of Cambridge. Epipalaeolithic to early Neolithic subsistence strategies in the northern Fertile Crescent.
1998 (as advisor) Simone Riehl, Tübingen University. Archaeobotany of the Troad.
Masters dissertations based on the Economic Botany Collection (2007-, incomplete)
2014 MSc, Preventative Conservation, University of Northumbria. Sheila Banks. Hazardous substances in economic botany collections.
2014 MSc, Herbal Medicine, Westminster. Kim Walker. The Development of Eucalyptus as a medicine 19th-20th Centuries.
2014 MA, Paper Conservation, University of the Arts. Nicole Monjeau. The Treatment of Japanese Hair Ornaments from the Parkes Collection of Japanese Paper.
2013 MA, Paper Conservation, University of the Arts. Natalie Rodriguez. The conservation of pith paper chrysanthemums.
2012 MA, Museum studies, UCL. Jacqueline Winston-Silk. Fossicking for Strange Plants: an object biography of New Zealand Vegetable Sheep specimens in the Economic Botany Collection.
2011 MA Principles of Conservation, UCL. Nicola Harrison. Surveying significance: the John J Quin collection of Japanese lacquer.
2011 MA, Museum studies, UCL. Felicity McWilliams. Material culture & economic botany: nineteenth century ethnographic collecting for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2010 MA, History of Design, RCA. Nancy Casserley. Out of Order: the Parkes Collection of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Paper.
2010 MA, Artefact Studies, UCL. Esmee van der Heijden. An investigation into a 19th century collection from a prehistoric lake dwelling site: Wetzikon-Robenhausen.
2008 MA, Textile Conservation. Luba Dovgan Nurse. Conservation of a rare Maori cloak.
2008 MSc, Ethnobotany, University of Kent. Caroline Isaza Aranguren. Palm fibre in South America: use, production and conservation.
2007 MA, Museum studies, UCL. Caroline Cornish. Precious dust: a history of the Egyptian collection at Kew Gardens.
Undergraduate dissertations supervised
2012 BA, Conservation, University of the Arts. Cristina Rico Liria. The conservation of a basketry shield from the Amazonian Uaupes river.
2011 BA, Conservation, University of the Arts. Soo Yeon Kim. The conservation of Korean paper kite.
2011 BA, Conservation, University of the Arts. Naoko Koseki. The conservation of a Pre-Columbian shroud from the north coast of Peru.
2009 BA, Conservation, University of the Arts. Emily Brennan. The conservation of a Jamaican lace-bark bonnet.
2007 BA, Botany, University of Reading. Jenny Taylor. Historic wheats in the Economic Botany Collection.
2013- Emily Brennan, UCL. Cross-cultural study of barkcloth.
2013 Caroline Cornish, Royal Holloway. Curating Science in an Age of Empire: Kew's Museum of Economic Botany.
2012 (as advisor) Sara Albuquerque, Birkbeck. Exploring tropical nature in British Guiana: RBG, Kew's collections revisited.
2006 Sarah Edwards, School of Pharmacy. Medical ethnobotany of Wik, Wik-Way and Kugu peoples of Cape York Peninsula, Australia.
2005 Manon Savard, University of Cambridge. Epipalaeolithic to early Neolithic subsistence strategies in the northern Fertile Crescent.
1998 (as advisor) Simone Riehl, Tübingen University. Archaeobotany of the Troad.
Masters dissertations based on the Economic Botany Collection (2007-, incomplete)
2014 MSc, Preventative Conservation, University of Northumbria. Sheila Banks. Hazardous substances in economic botany collections.
2014 MSc, Herbal Medicine, Westminster. Kim Walker. The Development of Eucalyptus as a medicine 19th-20th Centuries.
2014 MA, Paper Conservation, University of the Arts. Nicole Monjeau. The Treatment of Japanese Hair Ornaments from the Parkes Collection of Japanese Paper.
2013 MA, Paper Conservation, University of the Arts. Natalie Rodriguez. The conservation of pith paper chrysanthemums.
2012 MA, Museum studies, UCL. Jacqueline Winston-Silk. Fossicking for Strange Plants: an object biography of New Zealand Vegetable Sheep specimens in the Economic Botany Collection.
2011 MA Principles of Conservation, UCL. Nicola Harrison. Surveying significance: the John J Quin collection of Japanese lacquer.
2011 MA, Museum studies, UCL. Felicity McWilliams. Material culture & economic botany: nineteenth century ethnographic collecting for the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew.
2010 MA, History of Design, RCA. Nancy Casserley. Out of Order: the Parkes Collection of Nineteenth-Century Japanese Paper.
2010 MA, Artefact Studies, UCL. Esmee van der Heijden. An investigation into a 19th century collection from a prehistoric lake dwelling site: Wetzikon-Robenhausen.
2008 MA, Textile Conservation. Luba Dovgan Nurse. Conservation of a rare Maori cloak.
2008 MSc, Ethnobotany, University of Kent. Caroline Isaza Aranguren. Palm fibre in South America: use, production and conservation.
2007 MA, Museum studies, UCL. Caroline Cornish. Precious dust: a history of the Egyptian collection at Kew Gardens.
Undergraduate dissertations supervised
2012 BA, Conservation, University of the Arts. Cristina Rico Liria. The conservation of a basketry shield from the Amazonian Uaupes river.
2011 BA, Conservation, University of the Arts. Soo Yeon Kim. The conservation of Korean paper kite.
2011 BA, Conservation, University of the Arts. Naoko Koseki. The conservation of a Pre-Columbian shroud from the north coast of Peru.
2009 BA, Conservation, University of the Arts. Emily Brennan. The conservation of a Jamaican lace-bark bonnet.
2007 BA, Botany, University of Reading. Jenny Taylor. Historic wheats in the Economic Botany Collection.
