Museum Studies at Leicester
Current PhD students
Supervised by Gemma Angel |
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Charlotte Emma Hook |
Campus-based, full-time | The Role of Provenance in Deciding the Fate of Colonial Collections of Human Remains |
Supervised by Stacy Boldrick |
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Niki Ferraro |
Campus-based, full-time | Mounting Empire: The National Gallery and British Imperialism |
Pelin Lyu |
Campus-based, full-time |
Exploring the Concept & Institution of Contemporary Chinese art museums in Shanghai since 2000 |
Teresa Porciani |
Campus-based, full-time (History) | Figural Sculpture in Anglo-Saxon England: networks, agency and cross-cultural contacts, c. 700–900 |
Jianan Qi | Campus-based, full-time | Art Academies in the Revolutionary Art World from 1979 to 1989 in China |
Elina Sairanen |
Distance Learning, part-time | Examining the role and impact of contemporary art museums established by luxury companies as actors in the contemporary art field |
Supervised by Katy Bunning |
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Ana Beatriz Almeida | Campus-based, full-time | Histories, Cultures and Heritage |
Candace Beisel | Distance Learning, part-time | Museums’ preference for donors may arise from regional values |
Christine Hristova | Distance Learning, part-time | Beyond the Duality? Examining the Southern Branch of the National Palace Museum as an "Asian Art and Culture Museum" |
Lijia Ma | Campus-based, full-time | Developing community museums in urban China |
Danielle Megaffin | Campus-based, full-time | Confronting the Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: Truth, Trauma, and Reconciliation in Canadian Museum |
Aïcha Mehrez | Campus-based, full-time | Addressing legacies of slavery and empire in the art museum |
Lauren Safranek | Distance Learning, part-time | Whose national narrative? Emotion, complexity, and impact at the National Museum of American History |
Supervised by Yunci Cai |
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Isabel Collazos Gottret | Campus-based, full-time | Defining decolonisation in Bolivian museums: from rhetoric and practices to conceptualisation |
Kwong Chuen Ching (Kenneth) | Distance Learning, part-time | Modern Buddhist Art Museums and Monuments as places for Buddhist Practices - A study of Tsz Shan Monastery Buddhist Art Museum, Tung Lin Kok Yuen and Buddhist Art Treasure of Dharmashtiti Group in Hong Kong |
Jo Hartwell | Distance Learning, part-time | Creating a heritage of conflict: an empirical study into the impact of women’s participation in the management and interpretation of Bisesero Genocide Memorial site, Rwanda. |
Supervised by Sandra Dudley |
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Kristin Barrus | Distance Learning, part-time | Exploring the Contributing Influences for Entry into Twenty-first Century Quiltmaking |
Emily Levick | Distance Learning, part-time | Feminine Fabrications: Gendered Objects and the Display of Textiles in Museums |
Louise Macul | Distance Learning, part-time | Decolonising Museum Notions of Authenticity in the Sarawak Museum: the Lepo' Tau Kenyah, Kayan, and Berawan paintings |
Annika E. Mazzarella |
Campus-based, full-time |
Shells, Ships & the ‘Spirit’ of the Sea: a comparison on the ‘Materiality’ of Water in Museums between Marine Mollusc Shells and wooden Scandinavian Viking Ships. |
Ava Salzer | Campus-based, full-time | Presenting the Unknown: infrastructure, influence and information in the management of uncertain objects in museums and galleries |
Molly Stock-Duerdoth |
Campus-based, full-time |
Audience creativity as the privileged meaning-making locus in the museum assemblage |
Yoshiko Wada | Campus-based, full-time | The Soul of Things: The lifeworlds of boro and Boro textiles and their interlocutors in time and space |
Supervised by Corinne Fowler |
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Mohammed Dhalech | Campus-based, full-time | Race and Rurality : How well and widely known is the heritage and history of racially diverse people in rural Britain? |
Supervised by Simon Knell |
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Jiayi Chang | Campus-based, full-time | In Pursuit of the China Dream: The Communist Party of China and its Uses of Heritage |
Rachael Cooksey | Distance Learning, part-time | Investigation into the extent and value of reminiscence therapy in Archives and possibilities for collaboration with healthcare organisations |
Xiangnuo Ren | Campus-based, full-time | Chinese contemporary art museums and cultural identities |
Yanpeng Song | Campus-based, full-time | From Moral Indoctrination to Moral Experience: An Experiential Model for Promoting Middle School Children's Moral Education in China's Museums |
Mohan Zhu | Campus-based, full-time | |
Supervised by Suzanne MacLeod |
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Elizabeth Gray | Campus-based, full-time | The Art of (Re)Performance: Interpreting Theatre and Dance History in the Museum |
Jane Hardstaff | Campus-based, full-time | Pathways to Wellbeing: exploring the social and spatial role of museums in supporting mental wellbeing |
Meredith Peruzzi | Distance Learning, part-time | Crafting Deaf-Friendly Museums and Programming |
Weilun Sun | Campus-based, full-time | Chinese Local Museum |
Supervised by Nuala Morse |
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Yanrong Jiang | Campus-based, full-time | How can creative museum-based learning activities improve children wellbeing in the Chinese context? |
Minju Oh | Campus-based, full-time | Registers of Empathy' of Visitors towards the 'Painful History' of South Korea within South Korean National Museums |
Supervised by Ross Parry |
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William Clarke | Distance Learning, part-time | |
Hoda Hemaily | Distance Learning, part-time | Rethinking Accessibility: Community Empowerment through Marketing and Technology |
Kathleen Lawther | Campus-based, full-time | Why connect national digital collections? Big data mapping, modelling and simulation for digital heritage and culture |
Zhuolin Li | Campus-based, full-time |
‘Who uses digital sound archives?' |
Shelby Navone | Campus-based, full-time | Improving inclusivity and accessibility for disabled and neurodivergent people in digital performance and culture. |
Clarissa Wilson | Campus-based, full-time | What role for digital storytelling? Technologies and narratives to enable people in all their diversity |
Supervised by Richard Sandell |
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Rachel Adams | Distance Learning, part-time | Military Museums At A Time of Change |
Holly Bee | Campus-based, full-time | Deeds Not Words |
Miranda Chavis | Distance Learning, part-time | The Outward Museum: Museums and the Consequences of Meaningful and Relevant Civic Engagement |
Yuqiao Hu | Campus-based, full-time | |
Amisha Karia | Campus-based, full-time | Culture-led wellbeing: investigating the changing skills of the cultural workforce |
Isabelle Lawrence | Campus-based, full-time | Hidden, Revealed: investigating representation and narratives of disability in the British Museum |
Sophie Leighton | Distance Learning, part-time | What might be gained or lost by museums expressing a moral or ethical position on divisive contemporary issues? |
Nicole Moolhuijsen | Campus-based, full-time | The LGBTQ+ equality movement and the agency of museums |
Kristen Van Hoven | Distance Learning, part-time | Museo-Medical Partnerships and their Impact on Health and Wellbeing |
Supervised by Rosie Shirley |
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Henry Gayfer | Campus-based, full-time | Remembering our maritime past: exploring the role of maritime heritage in Norfolk’s museums in the process of constructing identities and sense of place in England. |
Lucrezia Gigante | Campus-based, full-time | The Spatial Politics of Art Organisations: Public Programmes as Sites of Cultural Citizenship |
Lucy McPherson | Distance Learning, part-time | Building Collective Memory: How the Victoria and Albert Museum is Collecting Artefacts of the Covid-19 Pandemic and their role in Public Memory |
Supervised by Alice Tilche |
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Victoria Guzman Monge | Campus-based, full-time | Power Struggles in the Art Museum: Authority or authorities? |
Supervised by Dave Unwin |
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Camila Plaza Salgado | Campus-based, full-time | University Museums. Institutions, knowledge communities and narratives in the science museums of the University of Chile, 1940-1960 |
Sandra Samolik | Distance Learning, part-time | Art Authentication Through Provenance Research, Art Forensics and A |
Supervised by Giasemi Vavoula |
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Gemma Cantlow | Campus-based, full-time | The Secret Lives of Digital Museum Resources and Collections: Teaching Practice and Interactions with the Smithsonian's Learning Lab. |
Mingshi Cui | Campus-based, full-time | Exploring the role of intercultural and international communication and collaboration when producing an exhibition in a digital era |
Han Jiang | Campus-based, full-time | Human-Centred Design in Collection Digitalisation: An analysis of collaborative approaches and contextual factors. |
Zi Yan Liao | Distance Learning, part-time | Digital museum learning: Possibilities and affordances of Cultural Institutions’ digital resources in Singapore school contexts. |
Phill Morris | Distance Learning, part-time | Safeguarding the Uilleann pipes |
Xuwen Yang | Campus-based, full-time | Towards a conceptual framework of playfulness in the museum: visitors, interactive exhibits, and playful experiences |
Supervised by Sarina Wakefield |
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Aisha Al Muftah | Campus-based, full-time | Modern Art in Qatar: Building a Nation Post-Independence |
Wael Dugdugi | Campus-based, full-time | How are Museums Being Used in Saudi Arabia to Facilitate Access to Saudi Arabia’s Cultural Heritage? |
Supervised by Sheila Watson |
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Evangeline Collins | Distance Learning, part-time | How do genocide museums create emotion within their exhibitions that impacts visitors’ responses and behaviour? |
Despina Gerasimidou | Distance Learning, part-time | Museum/Library sleepover: re-conceptualizing the museum and library visitor experience. |
James Shallow | Distance Learning, part-time | Changes in memory and meaning in the retention of conflict-related material culture within domestic space |
Supervised by Isobel Whitelegg |
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Laura E Dudley | Campus-based, full-time | From Re-Construction to Co-Production: remembering and restaging past participatory exhibitions |
Caroline Fucci | Campus-based, full-time | Brazilian Contemporary Art in the Global Biennial Context, 1998-2020 |
Eleni Ganiti | Distance Learning, part-time | The museum of contemporary art through its permanent collections |
Catalina Imizcoz | Campus-based, full-time | The Modern Paradigm and the Exhibitionary Form |
Xueer Zou | Distance Learning, part-time | Alternative Art Institutions and Their Practices in Pearl River Delta Economic Zone, China |