Dana has c.40 years’ experience working with museums and heritage organisations. She is an accredited professional archaeological conservator and founding director of a Community Interest Company focusing on specialist materials, research, training and public engagement with heritage. Dana is a graduate of UCL Bartlet’s Sustainable Heritage MSc programme and is increasingly involved in cultural education, engagement and community projects. Her community project CSI: Sittingbourne received the 2012 IIC Keck award, for the best project for public engagement in conservation; this honour was co-awarded, with the Acropolis Museum in Athens. This ‘grass roots’ project is based in a town centre shopping mall and is thus accessible to ‘new audiences’ and community involvement.
Dana specialises in partnership projects, local community, business and public sector funded projects, project management, volunteer and professional training, as well as engaging new audiences with expert knowledge. She actively contributes to her professional body and heritage conferences. She is a highly skilled materials scientist/conservator who has published widely in her specialist field; specialist in community work; and designer of creative/educational workshops based around heritage material and a facilitator, evaluator and mentor for skills development; with more than 30 years’ experience in supervising students, interns and volunteers through informal placements and structured internships; specialist heritage advisor / ‘critical friend’.
Testimonials
“Dana Goodburn-Brown is a dynamic worker and creative thinker. She is a knowledgeable and skilled conservator who gives so much more to our projects. ”
— Dr Sophia Adams.
“Dana Goodburn-Brown has been described as a combination of the intrepid adventurer Indiana Jones and the TV coroner Quincy. Laughing, Dana prefers the Quincy comparison but adds a more contemporary analogy – a CSI detective.”
— BBC KENT - Jo Geear.
“Dana not only brings years of skill and knowledge in archaeological conservation when she works with our collections at Folkestone Museum, but also a passion and ability to communicate the work she undertakes with visitors. We can say, with total confidence, that Dana and her team not only leave our artefacts in the best condition but our community also engaged and informed about our collections and the work to preserve them, we recommend her services 110%”
— Darran Cowd
