Han Jiang

Han Jiang is a PhD candidate at the School of Museum Studies. She works on the area of digital museums, digital collections, and co-design in technology. She previously studied at UCL (London, UK) and Nanjing University (Nanjing, China).

She has held several positions at cultural organisations (UCL Art Museum, London; Palace Museum, Beijing; Nanjing Museum, Nanjing) and have participated in many research projects at the School of Museum Studies and ICOM. 

Her PhD research aims at understanding how museums develop digital collections through co-designing with stakeholders and participants from various institutional, disciplinary and cultural backgrounds. In particular, it looks at interactions between design participants who use different technologies, skills, and knowledge to construct engagement in the design process. The research findings will map out the dynamic relationship between museum professionals and stakeholders, and produce a conceptual model describing the impact of different design methods involved in the development of digital collections. Her other interests include the intersections between cultural organisations and design anthropology, game studies, user experience design, and STS.

Jiang, H. and Li, X. 2023. "From Metamuseum to Metaverse. Exploring Institutional and Individual Art Curation Practice in Digital Gaming Experience", The Art Museum in the Digital Age, 16-20 January.

Jiang, H. 2022. "Crafting engagement: Designing Online Collections for Museums", ICOM UK Online Event, 28 September.

PhD Museum Studies, University of Leicester, 2021-on

MA Museum Studies, UCL, 2019-2020

BA Archaeology (Provenance Studies), Minor in Arts and Creative Industries, Nanjing University, 2015-2019