Rebecca Hawcroft
Head of Heritage Places
Rebecca Hawcroft is a heritage practitioner, with over twenty years experiecne, providing high-level, strategic heritage planning and advice.
Rebecca specialises in heritage assessments, management and interpretation. She has expertise working with multidisciplinary teams in local and state government heritage policy and planning work, providing research, planning and implementation on a wide range of conservation projects.
Rebecca has published widely on heritage and architectural history. She has a deep interest in modernism and is the president of DoCoMoMo Australia. In 2017 Rebecca curated the National Trust award winning exhibition ‘The Moderns: Sydney’s European Design Legacy’ for Museums of History NSW and edited the book The Other Moderns. She is also co-host of Two Point Perspective, a podcast on architecture produced by Museums of History NSW.
In 2020 and 2021 Rebecca was a sessional academic for Design, History and Theory at the University of New South Wales and is a former deputy editor of Historic Environment, the academic journal of Australia ICOMOS.
- Head of Heritage Places
- Master of Heritage Conservation, Faculty of Architecture, University of Sydney
- Graduate Certificate, Museum Education and Heritage Interpretation, Australian National University
- Bachelor of Arts (Hons), University of Sydney
- Summer School Short Course, Conservation of Traditional Buildings, University of Canberra
- President, DoCoMoMo Australia, July 2023–present
- Member, National Trust NSW Building Committee
- Member, Australia ICOMOS
