Mark Nesbitt - ethnobotanist & curator
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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.

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