The IHBC is delighted to announce that Professor Jukka Jokilehto has agreed to serve as the judge for the IHBC’s Annual Gus Astley Student Award submissions for 2014 – the institute’s annual award presented for an outstanding item of relevant taught-coursework accepted as part of either under-graduate or post-graduate courses in the UK.
David McDonald, IHBC Education Secretary added: ‘The reputation of the Gus Astley Awards has grown over the years. To have Professor Jukka Jokilehto as judge this year raises the bar yet again. The Awards are not only an incentive to raise the standard of dissertations, but the number and quality of entries also provides a research resource and inspiration for others’.
Bob Kindred IHBC’s Research Consultant and a trustee of the Gus Astely fund that underpins the award, said: ‘As the Chair of the Gus Astley Trustees I am delighted that Professor Jokilehto will be the judge of the submissions for the 2014 awards. IHBC members hugely appreciated his very thought-provoking presentation to the recent Edinburgh School, so it is especially pleasing that we may well hear a few more guiding thoughts from him in the award presentations in Norwich in 2015!’
‘Jukka has had a distinguished career at ICCROM, on the World Heritage Committee and the ICOMOS International Training Committee and has been involved in heritage conservation policy and practice in many parts of the world. He has taught conservation history and theory, and the planning and management at numerous universities, including the Universities of York and Rome and I am sure will bring many valuable insights to the judging process.’
