Current PhD students

Supervised by Gemma Angel

• 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

• Niki Ferraro (campus-based, full-time): Mounting Empire: The National Gallery and British Imperialism
• Pelin Lyu (campus-based, full-time): Exploring the Concept and 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

• 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"
• Sophie Leighton (distance learning, part-time): What might be gained or lost by museums expressing a moral or ethical position on divisive contemporary issues? (co-supervised with Richard Sandell)
• 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

• Isabel Collazos Gottret (campus-based, full-time): Defining decolonisation in Bolivian museums: from rhetoric and practices to conceptualisation
• Yi-Ru Guo (campus-based, full-time): The role of Kinmen Museum in reconciliation between mainland China and Taiwan
• 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

• Kristin Barrus (distance learning, part-time): Exploring the Contributing Influences for Entry into Twenty-first Century Quiltmaking
• Zihui Ding (campus-based, full-time): Selective Authenticity About Living Materials: Cultural Community Participation in Small and Medium-Sized Community Museums
• 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 and 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

• Angela Billings (distance learning, part-time): Curating the colonial: the afterlives of museums, heritage sites and great houses in Jamaica and England
• 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?
• Pamela Sithole (campus-based, full-time): Using oral history and storytelling about the experiences of global majority students to understand, communicate and transform the university award gap and the experience gap

Supervised by Simon Knell

• 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

• Damon Fisher Shusterman (campus-based, full-time): Poetry on Display - Creating New Poetic Experiences in Museums
• 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
• Elizabeth Peterson Jennings (distance learning, part-time): Exploring the Potential Impact of Universal Design Principles on Marginalized University Students’ Wellbeing and Retention in Southeastern US University Museums (co-supervised with Richard Sandell)
• Isabelle Lawrence (campus-based, full-time): Hidden, Revealed: investigating representation and narratives of disability in the British Museum (co-supervised with Richard Sandell)
• Chia-Ying Lin (campus-based, full-time): Curating Visual Culture for Social Inclusion (co-supervised with Richard Sandell)
• Islam Mohammed (co-supervised with Jason Hughes (Sociology))
• Meredith Peruzzi (distance learning, part-time): Crafting Deaf-Friendly Museums and Programming (co-supervised with Richard Sandell)
• Weilun Sun (campus-based, full-time): Chinese Local Museum
• Carys Tyson-Taylor (campus-based, full-time): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship with National Museums NI ‘A tragedy not to preserve now, while there is still time’ – the establishment of a Folk Museum for Ulster, 1929-1964 (co-supervised with Richard Sandell)
• Allenda Witzel (campus-based, full-time): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Power and partnerships – principles, values and structure with British Museum (co-supervised with Richard Sandell)

Supervised by Nuala Morse

• Holly Bee (campus-based, full-time): Deeds Not Words
• Andrea Hadley-Johnson (campus-based, full-time): Behind the Cell Door: Exploring how enhanced opportunities for self led creativity impact on the wellbeing of adults living in prison
• Jane Hardstaff (campus-based, full-time): Pathways to Wellbeing: exploring the social and spatial role of museums in supporting mental wellbeing
• Chris Jeavons (campus-based, full-time): ‘Community-engaged mindfulness in the museum: Introducing ‘dual-focused’ mindfulness-based interventions to object-centred care in the museum space.’
• Yanrong Jiang (campus-based, full-time): How can creative museum-based learning activities improve children wellbeing in the Chinese context?
• Amisha Karia (campus-based, full-time): Culture-led wellbeing: investigating the changing skills of the cultural workforce
• 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

• 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
• Allenda Witzel (campus-based, full-time): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Power and partnerships – principles, values and structure with British Museum (co-supervised with Richard Sandell)

Supervised by Richard Sandell

• 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):
• Elizabeth Peterson Jennings (distance learning, part-time): Exploring the Potential Impact of Universal Design Principles on Marginalized University Students’ Wellbeing and Retention in Southeastern US University Museums (co-supervised with Suzanne MacLeod)
• 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 (co-supervised with Suzanne MacLeod)
• Sophie Leighton (distance learning, part-time): What might be gained or lost by museums expressing a moral or ethical position on divisive contemporary issues? (co-supervised with Katy Bunning)
• Chia-Ying Lin (campus-based, full-time): Curating Visual Culture for Social Inclusion (co-supervised with Suzanne MacLeod)
• Nicole Moolhuijsen (campus-based, full-time): The LGBTQ+ equality movement and the agency of museums
• Meredith Peruzzi (distance learning, part-time): Crafting Deaf-Friendly Museums and Programming (co-supervised with Suzanne MacLeod)
• Kristen Van Hoven (distance learning, part-time): Museo-Medical Partnerships and their Impact on Health and Wellbeing

Supervised by Rosie Shirley

• 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
• Wilda Zhang (campus-based, full-time): Socially-engaged art projects in rural China

Supervised by Alice Tilche

• Anand Gupta (campus-based, full-time): Museums on the roof of the extended Eastern Himalayas: An ethnographic study of museum and heritage cultural movement of the bordering tribes of Arunachal Pradesh, North-East India
• Victoria Guzman Monge (distance learning, part-time): Power Struggles in the Art Museum: Authority or authorities? (co-supervised with Isobel Whitelegg)
• Dale Sindell (distance learning, part-time): Food and Culture in Spain's Art Museums

Supervised by Dave Unwin

• 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

• 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
• Jianjun Ye (campus-based, full-time): Games in the Transformation of Museum: An Investigation into the Gamification Strategy of Contemporary Chinese Museums

Supervised by Sarina Wakefield

• 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

• 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

• 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
• Victoria Guzman Monge (distance learning, part-time): Power Struggles in the Art Museum: Authority or authorities? (co-supervised with Alice Tilche)
• 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