Joanne Hackett

Joanne Hackett is a Lecturer in the History of Art at the University of Glasgow, affiliated with the Kelvin Centre for Conservation and Cultural Heritage Research. With over 25 years of experience in museums like the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, she specializes in textile conservation, particularly focusing on costume and mixed-material organic objects. Her research emphasizes the cleaning and stabilization of vulnerable organic materials and plastics. She holds fellowships from the International Institute of Conservation and the American Institute for Conservation, and contributes to the Scientific Committee of the Bayeux Tapestry.

Her career includes leadership roles in major exhibitions such as 'Balenciaga: Shaping Fashion' and 'Club to Catwalk: London Fashion in the 1980s'. Her publications span topics like cyclododecane applications in conservation, ultrasonic cleaning of historic textiles, and PVC material preservation. Teaching responsibilities include courses on textile conservation principles and ethics. Her work bridges practical conservation with academic research, addressing challenges in dynamic display and material degradation in museum collections.