climate change
Climate change protest poster © S. Joy
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BSUK's Climate Change Working Group covers both tangible and intangible heritage, particularly in the context of indigenous peoples, specific belief systems, and their culture and practices. The WG aims to bridge the current gap between cultural heritage organisations and climate change agencies, in the context of both tangible and intangible cultural heritage; both face risks from changes to the environment. The WG will identify climate threats in the UK affecting cultural heritage, by
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MEMBERS
Suzanna Joy - CHAIRBio
Suzanna Joy has been a member of UK Blue Shield since 2012, and Trustee since 2020. She is a cultural heritage consultant with nearly 30 years’ experience, having been based in Australia then the UK and has worked in many places around the world. For the past 17 years Suzanna worked for the engineering company Arup, building and leading their Cultural Heritage and Historic Environment team. She worked on a number of natural disaster projects for Arup which included cultural heritage assessment and reconstruction masterplanning. Suzanna is an Army Reservist and is now an Officer with the UK Military’s Cultural Property Protection Unit where she works within the UK to support UK forces and overseas with other nations' civil and military CP specialists. Suzanna started her career working with Indigenous traditional owners in Australia and has an interest in the value of intangible and local community cultural heritage. |
Helen VincentbIO
Representing CILIP (Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals) and the library sector on UK Blue Shield. Helen Vincent is an expert on documentary heritage. Beside her role as Head of Rare Books, Maps and Music Collections at the National Library of Scotland, she is currently Chair, Advisory Committee on Cultural Heritage (CCH), IFLA (International Federation of Library Associations), 2023-25. As 2015-23 committee member and former Chair of IFLA’s Rare Books and Special Collections Section and member of CCH 2021-23, she has been involved in developing international guidelines for digital reunification projects and for working with rare books and special collections. She served on CILIP Rare Books and Special Collections Special Interest Group committee 2012-22. Helen represents the National Library of Scotland on the Scotland’s Nationals for Culture and Climate group. |
Augustin GuibaudBIO
Augustin is an Assistant Professor in Energy in the Department of Civil, Environmental, and Geomatic Engineering at University College London. There, he leads fundamental and applied research on fires in order to improve safety and sustainability. His work on heritage conservation encompasses integrated fire protection of heritage buildings, wildfire risk assessment and mitigation, and the development of numerical models to capture complex fire-structure interactions. Since 2020, Augustin has been a member of the CNRS/Ministère de la Culture Research Group "Notre Dame". This group aims to generate knowledge from the data gathered following the 2019 Fire of Notre Dame de Paris. He also acts as an expert witness in the ongoing inquiry. Augustin has been actively involved with Blue Shield United Kingdom since 2023, where he has increased the focus on wildfire risk assessment for heritage sites in the UK. |
Brittni BradfordBio
Brittni Bradford is currently a PhD researcher in cultural property protection at Newcastle University (Department of Media, Culture, and Heritage) with an MA in Museum and Artefacts Studies from Durham University and a BA in Anthropology (Archaeology) from the University of South Florida. Her background includes experience in museum collections management and related emergency planning in Florida (USA) and additional experience performing remote and field archaeological assessment(s), having worked with organisations such as Saving Antiquities For Everyone (SAFE) and the Florida Public Archaeology Network (FPAN). Her expertise include the use of digital geospatial (GIS) mapping for heritage protection, such as: proactive domestic implementation of the 1954 Hague Convention & Protocols, emergency planning/preparation, and risk or damage assessment related to armed conflict and climate change scenarios. She is currently an active Member of the Emergency Planning & Response, Armed Conflict, and Climate Change working groups. |
Katrina ThomsonBIO
Katrina Thomson is a senior manager with the National Trust for England, Wales and Northern Ireland, specialising in cultural heritage curatorship and conservation management. The National Trust is Europe’s largest conservation charity, and the world’s largest single-holder of historic houses open to the public. Katrina has over 25 years’ applied experience in heritage protection and interpretation across an extensive range of historic sites. Based in the Trust’s SW region, her current portfolio embraces some of the most significant mansion estates in Trust care, as well as the World Heritage properties of Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites in Wiltshire, and the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape. Previous roles include Head of Collections, Libraries and Archives, and Deputy Head Curator for the National Trust for Scotland, and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Scottish National Gallery in Edinburgh. She has worked on multiple capital projects and exhibitions, including the award-winning conservation and reinterpretation of the iconic battlefield of Culloden, near Inverness. Katrina is a Fellow of the UK Clore Leadership Programme and has held voluntary positions on the Scottish Committee of the National Lottery Heritage Fund, with the international NGO Cultural Heritage without Borders (Albania), and the British Army’s Cultural Property Protection Unit. |
Jody ButterworthBio
Jody Butterworth joined the Endangered Archives Programme team in 2012 as curator. The Programme facilitates the digitisation of archives around the world that are in danger of destruction, neglect or physical deterioration while making them available to as wide an audience as possible. EAP is supported by Arcadia and administered by the British Library. As part of her role, Jody co-authored Remote Capture: Digitising Cultural Heritage in Challenging Locations. She applied to the Barakat Trust to have the book translated into Arabic as part of outreach within the Middle East and North Africa regions. Jody has MAs in the History of Art and Archaeology (SOAS) and in Museum Studies (Leicester). Prior to returning to her hometown of London, she spent seven years working and studying in Asia (Japan, China and Mongolia). |
Jonathan Ferry
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