Research Associates are Courtauld postgraduate students appointed to specific collection-based projects in the Courtauld libraries, archive and Gallery. Research Associates are apppointed in December for a year. Between two and five Associates are appointed to each project, to form a team investigating a topic or theme chosen to explore and to interpret the collection. They work under the supervision of collection curators and / or academic staff members. The Research Associates present the result of their investigation at two workshop sessions.

The 2011 Research Associates are:

 

Anna Cooper (MA Conservation of Easel Paintings)

Roxanne Sperber (MA History of Art)

Harriet Pearson (MA Conservation of Easel Paintings)

Alexandra Thom (MA History of Art)

 

Contributing to the continuing Courtauld Collections theme, the 2011 Research Associates Project is entitled Conservation and Art Historical Analysis: Works from The Courtauld Gallery.  It comprises a collaborative investigation, from technical and art-historical standpoints, into two paintings from the Courtauld Collection: a sixteenth-century, Northern panel painting of Job and his Comforters and a fourteenth-century, Florentine panel of the Virgin and Child Enthroned with Saints, with the Crucifixion.

 

The 2011 project is co-ordinated by Dr Aviva Burnstock (Head of Conservation), Dr Caroline Campbell (Schroeder Curator of Paintings, The Courtauld Gallery) and Professor Caroline Arscott (Head of Research).