Postgraduate research

Our research strengths include: digital heritage, archaeological curatorship, history, practice and theory of exhibitions, ethnography and anthropology, knowledge exchange and public engagement, cultural management and planning, contemporary science and the arts, performance and activism; and arts practices in formal and informal education.

Dr Kostas Arvanitis welcomes PhD applications in the following broad areas:

• Digital curating in museums, galleries and heritage environments
• Artificial Intelligence and immersive technologies in museums
• Social media and cultural participation
• Understanding engagement and impact through/of digital media in the museum and heritage sector
• Museum exhibitions in 'non places'
• Collecting the 'everyday'
• Spontaneous memorials
• Archaeological sites as 'open-air museums'
• Archaeological monuments in urban settings
• Archaeological curatorship and museum archaeology
• Interpretation and display of Greek archaeology
• Museum professionalisation

Dr Abigail Gilmore welcomes PhD applications in the following areas:

• International and UK cultural policy; 
• Communities and their participation in the creative economy; 
• The role of place in cultural management and cultural planning methodologies; 
• Digital media and engagement with arts audiences;  
• Collaborative learning models and partnerships between arts organisations and universities

Dr Emma Martin welcomes PhD applications in the following areas:

• Collectors and Collecting Histories; Ethnography and Asian Art
• Colonial Collecting and Knowledge Production
• Ethnographic Objects and Connoisseurship
• Object Histories / Biographies
• Histories of Museums and Displays; Ethnography and Asian Art
• Contemporary Collecting / Collectors; Ethnography and Asian Art
• Buddhist Art
• South Asian, Himalayan and Tibetan Art and Ethnography
• Histories of Curating and Curatorial Networks
• Curating / Displaying the Sacred
• Diaspora Engagement with Ethnographic Collections

Dr Simon Parry welcomes PhD applications in the following broad areas:

• Contemporary science and the arts 
• Arts practices in formal and informal education
• Performance and activism

Prospective applicants for the PhD should review our staff page for a potential supervisor and contact the relevant person directly. Your email of enquiry should include a research proposal and a Curriculum Vitae detailing your prior education and any academic accomplishments or relevant employment.

• See our staff list