Completed PHDs 2010-2019

2019

• Simon Atkinson – Recoding Heritage Sites as Non-Formal Learning Institutions: enabling the self-directed adult learner
  Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula
• Jennifer Bergevin - Narratives of Transformation: Reframing and naming the impact of activist museum practice on visitors
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Laurence Brasseur - Decentring the Museum: Examining Young People’s Perceptions and Experiences from a Sociocultural Perspective
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Ceciel Brouwer - Museum ethics in the collection, interpretation and display of contemporary photographs of children expressing a bodily awareness
  Supervisor: Janet Marstine
• Katherine Bunning - Reframing ‘Culturally Specific Museums’: The Emergence of Rights-Based Museums in the United States
  Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson
• Oonagh Quigley - Engaging object visitor encounters at the museum: a phenomenological approach
  Supervisor: Sandra Dudley
• Raivis Simansons - Europe’s Journey to Modernity: Developing the House of European History in Brussels
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• 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
• Zheng Zhang - New Ways Of Sharing: A Relational Approach To Understanding The Groundwork For Sino-Japanese Repatriation
  Supervisor: Simon Knell

2018

• Wijitra suriyakul na Ayudhya - Supporting Family Learning in Thailand's National Science Museum: Design and Evaluation of Mobile Tools.
  Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula
• Lesley Barker - Repurposing Museum Interpretation in American Historic House Museums.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Ashild Brekke - Changing practices - a qualitative study of drivers for change in Norwegian museums and archives.Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Laura Crossley - Feeling the Squeeze and Doing It Anyway: Community Engagement in English Museums, 2013 - 2014.
  Supervisor: Sheila Watson
• Victoria Hollows - Trust in the Museum: Aligning the internal and external values of the organisation. 
  Supervisor: Janet Marstine
• Sarah Hughes - Understanding Cultural Participation and Value in Barnsley.
  Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson
• Ariane Karbe - Learning from Hollywood? Narrating exhibitions with suspense.
  Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod
• Yon Jai Kim - The Making of the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), South Korea, 1969-2016.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Wen-ling (Melody) Lin - Understanding Organisational Change in Museums: An Investigation of Evolving Museum Priorities and Practices at The National Museum of Natural Science, Taiwan.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Mercy McCann - Networks, relationships and social change: reimaging the museum as a key actor in a system of social progress and responsibility. A case study of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Victoria McGuinness - Open Project Management (OPM): People, Purpose, and Museum Projects.
  Supervisor: Sheila Watson
• Anna Mikhaylova - Spatial evolution of a museum building: the case of the State Historical Museum in Moscow (1875-1997). 
  Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod
• Pal Negyesi - How The Motor Museum Saw The Automobile: Curating The Automobile As Commodity, As Design And As Social History In Germany And Austria In The 20th Century – From National Identity To Mobility.
  Supervisor: Ross Parry
• Sarah Plumb - How might the experiences and perspectives of community participants collaborating in socially engaged art practices be heard, considered and equally valued alongside those of the artist and gallery? What ethical implications for the artist and the gallery arise when community participants’ experiences are considered in this way? 
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Raivis Simansons - Europe’s Journey to Modernity: Developing the House of European History in Brussels.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Ruth Webber - Picturing Home: exploring the everyday homemaking practices of migrant, refugee and asylum-seeking women in Glasgow.
  Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson

2017

• Brenda Judith Caro Cocotle - University museums: Border-crossing territories? The institutional boundary between university and university museum as complex territories.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Laura Diaz - Feminist curatorial interventions in museums and organisational change: transforming the museum from a feminist perspective.
  Supervisor: Janet Marstine
• Marin Freya Hanson - Quilts in between: The material culture of commemorative community patchwork made for Chinese adoptees in the U.S.
  Supervisor: Sandra Dudley
• Ching-Yueh Hsieh - Exhibiting minority culture: An exploration of exhibitions of lndigenous culture in museums of Taiwan.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Isabel Margarida Teixeira Monteiro Melo - Identity Work in Portuguese Local Museums: Exploring Adult Engagement and Experiences.
  Supervisors: Viv Golding and Sheila Watson
• Ryan Nutting - Model lives: the changing meanings of miniature ethnographic models from acquisition to interpretation at the Horniman Free Museum 1894-1898. Supervisor: Sandra Dudley
• S Plumb - How might the experiences and perspectives of community participants collaborating in socially engaged art practices be heard, considered and equally valued alongside those of the artist and gallery? What ethical implications for the artist and the gallery arise when community participants’ experiences are considered in this way?
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Stefania Savva - The potential of a museum-school partnership to support diversity and multiliteracies-based pedagogy for the 21st century.
  Supervisor: Viv Golding
• Cheng-Yi Shih - Museum making in Taiwan: Exploring the production of museum architecture from the perspective of design and use.
  Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod

2016

• Kathleen Pirrie Adams - When media becomes form: Declining conventions of materiality, space, and audience in the popular music museum.
  Supervisor: Ross Parry
• Mona Ali - Rethinking visitor studies for the United Arab Emirates: Sharjah Museums as case study.
  Supervisor: Sheila Watson
• Laurel Louise Brierly - Recreating revolutionary roles: How preadolescent students explore the Boston Tea Party through theatre.
  Supervisor: Viv Golding
• Romina Delia - Life is a play and the museum is its stage: Contemporary immersive performance in the Baroque Palace.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Haitham Abdelrazek Eid - The museum innovation model: A museum perspective on open innovation, social enterprise and social innovation.
  Supervisor: Ross Parry
• Petrina Foti - The 'Black Box Conundrum': Agile curation at the Museums of the Smithsonian Institution 2016.
  Supervisor: Ross Parry
• Catharina Hendrick - The agile museum: Organisational change through collecting ‘new media art’.
  Supervisor: Janet Marstine
• Amy Hetherington - Designing for the Post-Millennials: What assumptions are made by staff in museums about child digital literacy when designing digital interactives?
  Supervisor: Ross Parry
• Kirstin James - Gifting culture: Comparing display practice at the British Museum and the Pitt Rivers Museum.
  Supervisor: Sandra Dudley
• Da Kong - Imaging China: China’s cultural diplomacy through loan exhibitions to British museums.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Shih-hui Li - New national history and the shaping of Taiwanese identity: representing Taiwan at the National Museum of Taiwan History.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Chungju (Ahlua) Lin - Special exhibitions and national museums in Taiwan: an investigation.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Cintia Velazquez - Understanding the past in the history museum. Visitor research in two Mexican Museum.
  Supervisor: Sheila Watson
• Elena Villaespesa Cantalapiedra - Measuring social media success: The value of the balanced scorecard as a tool for evaluation and strategic management in museums.
  Supervisor: Ross Parry
• Alexandra Woodall - Sensory engagements with objects in art galleries: material interpretation and theological metaphor.
  Supervisor: Sandra Dudley

2015

• Stephanie Bowry - Re-thinking the curiosity cabinet: A study of visual representation in early and post Modernity.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Jennifer Jankauskas - Acquiring contemporary art in today’s global market: collecting strategies at small, mid-sized and regional American museums.
  Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod
• Elee Kirk - Crystal teeth and skeleton eggs: snapshots of young children’s experiences in a natural history museum.
  Supervisor: Viv Golding
• Sang Hoon Jang - A representation of nationhood: the National Museum of Korea.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Ashraf Melika - Pharonic material culture and identity formation in contemporary Egyptian society.
  Supervisors: Sandra Dudley, Simon Knell
• Masanori Oki - A comparative study of professional association in the museum sectors of Britain and Japan.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Geun-tae Park - The role of cultural development in urban strategy: the hub city of Asian culture in Gwangju, Korea.
  Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson
• Chulani Rambukwella - Heritage representation in culturally diverse societies : a case study of the Colombo National Museum in Sri Lanka.
  Supervisor: Sandra Dudley
• Briley Rasmussen - Pedagogy for the modern: Victor D'Amica and the Museum of Modern Art, 1929-1969.
  Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod

2014

• Mette Houlberg - Negotiating experiences visiting statens museum for kunst.
  Supervisor: Viv Golding
• Maria Tseliou - Museums and heteronormativity : exploring the effects of inclusive interpretive strategies.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Helen Wilkinson - Negotiating change : curatorial practice in UK museums, 1960-2001.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell

2013

• Jeremy Ottevanger - Sustaining digital products in the museum sector: Balancing value and resources through good decisions.
  Supervisor: Ross Parry
• Barbara Ann Rothermel - The university art museum and interdisciplinary faculty collaboration.
  Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod
• Jennifer Binnie - Perception and well being: A cross-disciplinary approach to experiencing art in the museum.
  Supervisor: Sandra Dudley
• Alan M Kirwan - Museums in the construction of a diverse and inclusive Ireland.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Heather Hollins - How can disabled people be empowered to influence decision-making in museums.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Serena Iervolino - Ethnographic museums in mutation experiments with exhibitionary practices in post-colonial Europe.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Afshan Heuer - Darwin and the evolution revolution: Audiences, culture, worldview, transformative learning.
  Supervisor: Viv Golding
• Andrew Wulf - Make-believe America: the crucial years of US cultural diplomacy through international exhibitions, 1955-1975.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Gudrun Whitehead - How the Viking myth is created in museums and how it impacts society.
  Supervisor: Sheila Watson
• Jennifer A. Walklate - Timescapes : the production of temporality in literature and museums.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell
• Donna McFarlane - Representing blackness: Marcus Garvey and the politics of museology in post-colonial Jamaica.
  Supervisor: Viv Golding

2012

• Ceri Jones - An illusion that makes the past seem real: the potential of living history for developing the historical consciousness of young people.
  Supervisor: Sheila Watson
• Julia Petrov - Dressing ghosts: Museum exhibitions of historical fashion in Britain and North America.
  Supervisor: Sandra Dudley
• Alex Whitfield - Digital ethics: Sacred devotional objects on display in the online museum.
  Supervisors: Ross Parry, Sandra Dudley

2011

• Cristina Lleras Figueroa - Towards new narratives of the multicultural nation: Negotiating difference in the national museum of Columbia.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Yuka Shimamura-Willcocks - Social inclusion and museums: Understanding self and other in the context of Japanese society and visually impaired people.
  Supervisors: Eilean Hooper-Greenhill, Sheila Watson
• Sarah (Sally) A. Hughes - Museum publishing: Production and reception of museum books.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell

2010

• Susan D. Baldino - Museum learners club: Social environments for inclusive learning.
  Supervisor: Richard Sandell
• Amy Jane Barnes - From revolution to commie kitsch: (Re)-presenting China in contemporary British museums through the visual culture of the cultural revolution.
  Supervisor: Simon Knell