Museum Studies at Leicester
Completed PhD research
Our postgraduate researchers come from all over the world and they research and write about museums from all over the world. Many of them have gone on to become professors and leading academics in a range of disciplines. Others are senior museum professionals. The following list includes past research students and links to their thesis. Browse the list and explore the links, to get a flavour of the range of doctoral research that takes place in the School of Museum Studies, and be inspired for your own doctoral journey.
2024
- Mingshi Cui - Displacement Revisited — Rethinking the Social Role of Digitisation in Museum Practice
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Laura Dudley - From Re-Construction to Co-Production: remembering and restaging past participatory exhibitions
Supervisors: Isobel Whitelegg, Suzanne MacLeod and Sian Vaughan (BCU)
2023
- Sofia Katharaki - Emotional Narratives at Holocaust Exhibitions in the UK: Exploring Visitors’ Engagement and Experience
Supervisor: Sheila Watson - Blaire Moskowitz - Exploring the Expert Web Understanding Interactions Between Museums and Online Communities
Supervisor: Ross Parry - Torhild Skatun - Science, Identity and Belonging: Engaging through co-design with young people at a science museum: a qualitative study of process
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Anna Tulliach - Art and War – Anglo-American Troops in Italy (1943-45)
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Stefania Zardini Lacedelli - The Museum as a Platform for Sound Culture
Supervisor: Ross Parry - Yang Chen - Exhibitionary Spaces in Japanese Art, 1860s-1970s: Models, Terminologies and Territories
Supervisor: Isobel Whitelegg - Thomas Duncan - Developing museum and exhibition design through practice-centred study and application of narrative theory and film
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Gina Wouters - The Relativity of Relevance: How Artists Are Serving as a Catalyst for Organizational Change in Historic House Museums
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Lingling Xie - Design and enterprise in contemporary China: A new role for museums and heritage
Supervisor: Simon Knell
2022
- Olatunde Barber - Modernity and Identity: The National Gallery of Modern Art Lagos (NGMAL) and the Politics of Nation Making
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Abbey Ellis - “The Castness of the Things”: A Visitor’s-Eye View of Value in the Cast Gallery of the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Blanca Jove Alcalde - Thinking institutional frameworks with care: The relation between participation and authorship in discursive public programmes
Supervisor: Isobel Whitelegg - Yahao Wang - Representing ethnic minority cultures in China: Museums, heritage, and ethnic minority groups
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Kristina Wright - Transcultural Encounters between Asia and Africa: Experiencing ‘otherness’ through the arts in Seoul and Nairobi
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Cesare Cuzzola - Materiality in the Socially Engaged Museum: The role of collections within socially purposeful museum practice at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Jennifer Durrant - Disposal from Museum Collections: Navigating the ethos, ideals, and practice of transparency
Supervisor: Janet Marstine - Gee Sun Hahn - Korean Museums, Intangible Heritage and the formation of national identity
Supervisor: Sheila Watson - Jennifer Hunt - Beyond the Stereotype: Representing Disability in the National Museums of Great Britain
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Wen-Yi Liu - Dark Heritage Sites and Impacts on Visitors’ Engagements with the Past in Taiwan
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Lanzhou Luo - Museums and Heritage in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Chiara Marabelli - Original Copies? Readdressing the Value of Classical Cast Collections in Contemporary Museum Practices
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Mari Moystad - Lived experiences in museums: Engaging visitors’ hearts and minds
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Daniel Turetsky - Ritual objects, spiritual heritage and the museum space between: Examining the curatorial formation of intangible heritage narratives for faith-based exhibits in Israel museums
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson
2021
- Sophie Kazan - Dialogues of tradition and modernity: The development of contemporary art in the United Arab Emirates
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Sumi Kim - Curating Culture, Exhibiting Nation: The Development of South Korea’s Cultural Diplomacy and Korean Exhibitions in ‘Universal’ Museums
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Kuan-Yin Liu - Understanding the Organisational Hybridity of Cultural and Art Organisations: The Case of Contemporary Art Spaces in Taiwan
Supervisor: Janet Marstine - Jingyu Peng - How Did That Interactive Make You Feel? Towards a framework for evaluating the emotional and sensory experience of next generation in-gallery technology
Supervisor: Ross Parry - Ainul Wahida Radzuan - The Roots of Intangible Cultural Heritage amongst the Malays of Negeri Sembilan, Malaysia: The Customary Law of Adat Perpatih
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Amornchat Sermcheep - London Transport posters: from publicity materials to museum exhibits
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Chanin Suriyakul Na Ayudhya - Interpretive Synergies Between Science And Intangible Cultural Heritage: A Case Study Of Communicating Knowledge About Thai Rice Farming In A Science Museum
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Aikaterini Vlachaki - Towards Participation in Museum Architecture
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Dana Saif Almazrouei - UAE Museums Integrating Female Empowerment Approaches to Capture Marginalized Emirati Women’s’ Voices For Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage
Supervisor: Nuala Morse - Aisha Almisnad Almohannadi - Museum Silences on Wartime Rape: The Case of the Imperial War Museum
Supervisor: Nuala Morse
2020
- Simon Atkinson - Recoding Heritage Sites as Non-Formal Learning Institutions: enabling the self-directed adult learner.
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Laurence Brasseur - Decentring the Museum: Examining Young People’s Perceptions and Experiences from a Sociocultural Perspective.
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Samantha Fabry - Protecting the protected: World Heritage Sites and collections; defining, recognising and protecting Outstanding Universal Value in its entirety.
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Armand De Filippo - Outside and beyond: the manuscript as object and the implications for interpretive settings.
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Yeung Yeung Fok - Cultural Heritage Policy, Civil Society and Identity in Hong Kong.
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Louisa Kramer - Management Practice Supporting Sustainable Development in the German Art Collection.
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Kate McPhail - Feminist Art Histories and Masculinity: Reading the Mainstream Art Museum.
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Elena Settimini - Cultural landscape and living heritage in the Vineyard Landscape of Langhe-Roero and Monferrato.
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Naomi Terry - ‘Betwixt and Between’: Exploring Invisibility and Narrating Mixed-Race Identity in UK Museums.
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Zoi Tsiviltidou - The DiStoMusInq framework: Digital storytelling for students’ inquiry-based museum learning.
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Lauren Vargas - Understanding museum digital maturity through data collection and use.
Supervisor: Ross Parry