Isabel Collazos Gottret

I am museum studies researcher with a background in cultural management with a social change perspective.

My research project analyses the heterogenous experiences of colonisation and decolonisation in Bolivia, as they shape museum-making and practice. As a project that disentangles the complexities of decolonial theory, praxis and discourse, my thesis will shed light on overlooked issues, strategies and limitations that are encountered by museum practitioners decolonising their work. For practitioners and organisations who aim to meaningfully engage in decolonial praxis, the process of disentanglement will provide useful questions and frameworks that decentre monolithic museum-making processes while valuing and caring for the lived, empiric and acquired museological expertise necessary to move transformative and creative decolonial praxis forward.

"Doing research in Humanities: tools, perspectives and representation" talk given to Undergraduate students of Hispanic language and philology of the Universidad Autónoma Gabriel René Moreno, Santa Cruz de la Sierra (2023).

I have been awarded a studentship from the Midlands4Cities doctoral training partnership to undertake my PhD.

"The Domestication of Decolonisation. Counteracting from research practice" presented during M4C Research Festival (Birmingham, 2023)

"Employee wellbeing: a leader's compass navigating management change" presented in the INTERCOM Conference entitled 'The Future Museum. Framing the skills and mindsets of the visionary leader' (Doha, 2023)

Master of Arts in Development Studies, with a focus on social development: education, health, work. University of Panthéon-Sorbonne, distinction.