Postgraduate research
Museum studies
Art and its Institutions: Histories and Practices
- Art history and the museum
- Art history – trans-historical approaches
- Curatorial studies
- Iconoclasm and destruction in art
- Provenance studies
- Art history and the museum
- Art worlds and art communities
- Global contemporary and modernist contexts
- National galleries
- Art museums - architecture, design, space and experience
- Art history and institutional history (Brazil, Latin America, Europe)
- Art history - transnational and situated approaches
- Biennials and their histories
- Histories of the contemporary
- Non-collecting arts institutions
Cultural Heritage and Cultural Practice
- Asian museology and heritage
- Critical heritage studies
- Indigenous cultural heritage
- Displacement and exile
- Tangible and intangible culture
- Cultural practice: experience, representation, understanding (S-/SE Asia; UK)
- The interpretation of heritage sites
Culture: Politics and Representation
- “Culturally specific” museums
- Museums, heritage and racial histories
- Museums, privilege, and racial bias
- Museums and contemporary racism
- Culture for development
- Cross-cultural exchanges and diplomacy
- Indigenous cultural heritage
- Cross-cultural exchanges and diplomacy
- Janet Marstine
- Curating difficult histories
Museum Work: Cultures and Practices
- Asian museology and heritage
- Museum anthropology
- Museum ethnography
- Museums as spaces for social care
- Organisational ethnography
- Taxonomy (Palaeontology, Natural History)
Museums: Design, Space and Innovation
- Design methodology and the museum
- Exhibitions and interpretation
- Museum architecture
- Socially sustainable museum design
- Accessible digital design
- Models, replicas and simulations
- Design methodology and the museum
- Digital exhibition design
- Mobile learning applications in museum and heritage contexts
Museums: Engagement and Participation
- Co-production
- Community engagement in museums, heritage and arts practice
- Co-production
- Participatory pedagogy and participatory action research
- Participation and public engagement
- Creative engagement with digital archives
- Mobile learning applications in museum and heritage contexts
Museums: Experience and Affect
- Material culture
- Objects in museums
- Sensory engagement and experience
- Design and spatial experience
- Emotional and therapeutic role of museum spaces and objects
- Emotions and history
Museums, Heritage Sites and Cultural Institutions: History and Memory
- Museums in US history
- Museum history
- Museum history
- Natural history
- Emotions and history
- Museums and the making of history
- Museums, historical understanding and historical consciousness
- Historiography, archives, institutional memory (arts institutions)
Museums: Social Agency and Organisational Change
- Equality, diversity and human rights
- Non-western museology
- Museum design ethics
- Theories of change
- Digital transformation and change
- Equality, diversity and human rights
- Museums and disability
- Organisational change
- The museum and activism