Dr Jocelyn Bardot

I am a Research Fellow with experience in archival research to support the return of First Nations objects and Ancestral Remains. My expertise lies in leveraging globally distributed archives to assemble and curate collecting histories.

My current research, funded by the German Lost Art Foundation, traces Oceanic cultural belongings and Ancestral Remains from London commercial outlets to major German collecting institutions between 1880 and 1955. Further information about this research can be found online here.

Previously, I have contributed to the following research projects through my involvement with the Return Reconcile Renew (RRR) Centre for Repatriation Training, Practice and Research:

• ‘Collection Ecologies for Repatriation Practice’ (2022-2024) funded by the AIATSIS Return of Cultural Heritage program.
• Ngurra Business Case consultancy (2021-2022) funded by AIATSIS.
• Australian Research Council LIEF Project 'Restoring Dignity: Networked knowledge for repatriation communities’ [LE170100017] (2018-2021).
• Australian Research Council Linkage Project 'Return, Reconcile, Renew: Understanding the history, effects and opportunities of repatriation and building an evidence base for the future' [LP130100131] (2014-2018).

My research interests include:

• Tracing journeys of Australian Indigenous collections through institutions
• Provenance sources, methodologies and best-practice
• Understanding the commercial trade of ethnographic collections during the long nineteenth century
• Data curation for provenance and repatriation practice