Staff & Publications

OCC staff are: Head Conservator Celia Bockmuehl (ACR Icon), Deputy Head Conservator Nikki Tomkins (ACR Icon), Senior Conservator Maria Kalligerou, and Conservators Jasdip Singh Dhillon, Jess Hyslop (ACR Icon), Emma Skinner, Anna Gallwey, and Alice Derham.

• The Conservation of Peter Small’s Pedigree by Emma Skinner, on the St John’s College Library Blog (January 2023).
• Life in plastic: repairing architectural plans on polyester film by Jess Hyslop, on the Icon website (July 2022).
• Textiles and text: A collaborative approach to conserving textile-covered manuscripts – podcast of a talk by Jane Eagan and textile conservator Maria Hayward, on the University of Oxford podcasts website (April 2022).
• A catalogue of problems: Conserving the Bodleian booklists by Nikki Tomkins, on the Jesus College Library Blog (December 2020).
• Conservation for Digitisation – a collaborative internship by Emma Skinner, an online presentation hosted by the Institute of Conservation Emerging Professionals Network (October 2020).
• First letter home, and the toilet paper map 1957 (Acc 2019/191) by Celia Bockmuehl, on the Magdalen College Libraries and Archive Illuminating Magdalen blog (August 2020).
• Bookbindings at Keble College – a book conservator’s vade mecum by Jane Eagan, on the Keble College Special Collections website (2020).
• The Clothworkers’ Company project (a project to conserve three printed volumes with botanical specimens and one early manuscript Bible) by Maria Kalligerou, on the Corpus Christi College website (2020).
• Woven Fabrics in Book Conservation: An Investigation into the Properties of Aerolinen and Aerocotton by Celia Bockmuehl, Nikki Tomkins, et al, in Studies in Conservation, Vol 65, Issue 7 (2020).
• Conserving Magdalen College MS GR 3: the ‘Musterbuch’ and more by Katerina Powell, first presented at Icon Book and Paper Group conference ‘Unexpected fame: conservation approaches to the preparatory object’ in October 2018 and subsequently published on the Icon website (2020).
• ‘Blessed is that paper’: The Dhan Su Kagad project in Amritsar by Jasdip Singh Dhillon, a blog post detailing research made possible by Icon’s Fred Bearman Research Grant, on the Icon website (September 2018).