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Robyn Burgess has been working or studying in the heritage space for over three decades, starting as a University of Canterbury uni student where she thrived studying art and architectural history and philosophy. After completing a post-grad honours at Canterbury, Robyn took off to Europe in 1989. Proving that Arts degrees can in fact lead directly to amazing career opportunities, Robyn quickly found work as a field investigator in the threatened buildings team of the Royal Commission on the Historical Monuments of England (now Historic England), where she trained as a buildings surveyor and worked throughout the southern half of England for 4 years. Each summer during this time, she joined a colleague working for the British School, surveying archaeological excavations at Sparta, Greece. At the end of 1994 Robyn returned to New Zealand and was appointed live-in curator of Fyffe House, KaikÅura, and over the next 2 years she gained a post grad diploma in museum studies through Massey University. For 7 years from mid 1996 Robyn was senior conservation advisor for historic heritage in Department of Conservation's Whanganui Conservancy. Then from 2003 she joined Opus as principal heritage consultant in Christchurch, leaving in 2007 to study at ICCROM in Rome on a two-month intensive conservation of built heritage course. On return to New Zealand later in 2007 Robyn once again joined Historic Places Trust (now Heritage New Zealand) and remains as a Senior Heritage Assessment advisor (Listing) in the Canterbury/West Coast office, a job she just loves. |
