Rebecca Repper

Rebecca Repper's research interests focus on collecting history and management of cultural heritage collections. She is particularly interested in collection data, particularly photograph collections, and how documentation methodologies can facilitate access/use and create new understandings. This is the focus of her current PhD research, which analyses the documentation practices Western Australian photograph collections through the application of CIDOC-CRM.

She is currently a Research Associate with the ARC Linkage Project 'Wrecks, Encounters and Peoples: Mobilising Dutch East India Company (VOC) Collections for New Global Stories' (LP210300960, University of Western Australia).

Rebecca has worked as an aerial archaeologist in Jordan and Saudi Arabia, and managed historical and digital photograph collections and site data associated with the archaeology and heritage of those regions. She was previously a research assistant with the 'Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa' Project at the School of Archaeology at University of Oxford and the 'Aerial Photographic Archive for Archaeology in the Middle East' (APAAME) Project at the University of Western Australia.

She has experience in Roman and Middle East artefacts and archaeology, collection and archival research, digitisation and database management/registration, and aerial photograph and remote sensing interpretation for archaeology. She has participated in archaeological fieldwork in Spain, England, Lebanon, Jordan and Saudi Arabia.