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Project connecting digitally catalogued collections in UK museums receives three years’ funding worth £800,000
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/august/digitally-catalogued-collections-uk-museums-funding
Joint venture between the University of Leicester, Art UK and Collections Trust supported by Arts and Humanities Research Council aims to ultimately collect data for 100 million object records
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Themes
https://le.ac.uk/gge/research/contemporary-environments/anthropocene-research-group/themes
The Anthropocene Research Group at Leicester is inclusive and involves researchers across the School of Geography, Geology and the Environment, School of Business, Media and Communication, Museum Studies, Engineering.
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Addressing the museum attendance and benefit gap: inequality, representative participation and implementation science
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/research-archive/addressing-the-attendance-and-benefit-gap
Survey data on who visits museums and decades of research in cultural sociology internationally tell us that museum visiting reflects the socio-economic gradient, closely tracking inequalities in education, income, employment, mental health and other indicators of social...
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Completed PHDs 2010-2019
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/research-degrees/completed-phd/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...
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News
https://le.ac.uk/rcmg/current-news
Information about all of RCMG's current research projects and events can be found below.
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Digital museum of Sikh heritage to mark 10th anniversary with free event at the University of Leicester
https://le.ac.uk/news/2025/october/digital-museum-sikh-heritage-10th-anniversary-event-university-leicester
A museum which showcases Sikh heritage will mark its tenth anniversary with a celebration hosted by the University of Leicester.
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Community Collaboration at Kettles Yard
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/study/work-placement/community-collaboration-at-kettles-yard
Molly Stock-Duerdoth, MA in Museum Studies (Currently Learning and Engagement Coordinator, Glyndebourne Opera House.) Over the summer, I was lucky enough to have undertaken my placement as Community CoLAB Assistant Curator at Kettle’s Yard.
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Supervision
https://le.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/supervision
Cancer Studies Cardiovascular Sciences Genetics Healthcare and Pharmacy in Practice Molecular and Cell Biology Population Health Sciences Psychology and Visual Sciences Respiratory Sciences Life...
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Oversight and scrutiny
https://le.ac.uk/museum-studies/about/journals/museum-society/oversight-and-scrutiny
Museum and Society secures and maintains high academic standards in the following ways. The journal adheres to the principles and guidelines set out by COPE in relation to authorship.
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Dissertation
https://le.ac.uk/modules/2027/mu7549
Module code: MU7549 The dissertation provides an opportunity to carry out an extended piece of research into a subject or issue which has captured your imagination.