Staff Profiles
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Nadia Bajzelj
Archaeologist - Heritage Advisor - Project Manager - Historic Artefact Specialist
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Nadia is a senior archaeologist who has undertaken work on a wide variety of projects within Australia – both Indigenous and historical – over the past decade. These projects range from busy inner-city developments to isolated rural sites.
Nadia heads CWHC’s historic heritage division and has considerable expertise in the identification, cataloguing and analysis of historical artefacts and has run numerous training sessions teaching other archaeologists how to catalogue historic artefacts. Nadia has written numerous historic artefact reports, managed the on-site artefact processing on a large-scale historical projects and recently directed an historic excavation in Melbourne’s CBD.
Not limiting herself to historic archaeology, Nadia has also project managed Indigenous excavations and surveys across Victoria and has also written and co-authored numerous Indigenous heritage reports and CHMPs. She has worked with DEECA providing training to their staff members on the process of recording Indigenous sites and is currently working with the Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation on an oral history/cultural values project.
In addition to her excavation and artefact skills, Nadia loves delving into the meaning of artefacts, their connections to people and telling stories. In this capacity she has taken part in the preparation of display schemes for the installation of historical artefacts within Melbourne’s CBD, as well as the online content relating to the artefacts to Wesley Place. She also worked with Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation to create signage about the Indigenous heritage at the Donnybrook Train Station.
Nadia has presented at both the Victorian Archaeological Colloquium and the ASHA conference and at the 2019 ASHA conference she and her co-author Christopher Biagi won best paper for their presentation. Nadia's interest in studying the past began in primary school, watching SBS history documentaries of Henry VIII with her mum and sister and she loves working with young people and inspiring in them an interest in the past.
Nadia heads CWHC’s historic heritage division and has considerable expertise in the identification, cataloguing and analysis of historical artefacts and has run numerous training sessions teaching other archaeologists how to catalogue historic artefacts. Nadia has written numerous historic artefact reports, managed the on-site artefact processing on a large-scale historical projects and recently directed an historic excavation in Melbourne’s CBD.
Not limiting herself to historic archaeology, Nadia has also project managed Indigenous excavations and surveys across Victoria and has also written and co-authored numerous Indigenous heritage reports and CHMPs. She has worked with DEECA providing training to their staff members on the process of recording Indigenous sites and is currently working with the Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation on an oral history/cultural values project.
In addition to her excavation and artefact skills, Nadia loves delving into the meaning of artefacts, their connections to people and telling stories. In this capacity she has taken part in the preparation of display schemes for the installation of historical artefacts within Melbourne’s CBD, as well as the online content relating to the artefacts to Wesley Place. She also worked with Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung Cultural Heritage Aboriginal Corporation to create signage about the Indigenous heritage at the Donnybrook Train Station.
Nadia has presented at both the Victorian Archaeological Colloquium and the ASHA conference and at the 2019 ASHA conference she and her co-author Christopher Biagi won best paper for their presentation. Nadia's interest in studying the past began in primary school, watching SBS history documentaries of Henry VIII with her mum and sister and she loves working with young people and inspiring in them an interest in the past.