ICP PhD students

Current students

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  Lauren Barnes

  (Mis)Representing Korea: Collectors, Museums and their role in shaping public perceptions of the Korean Peninsula (1884 – Present)

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  Rui Gonçalves Cepeda

  Mediating provisional communities: The production and management of collaborative artistic practices and their after-life

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  Alan Crookham

  Curating archives in exhibitions of fine art

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  Althea Corinne Cupo

  Identifying Barriers to Learning in the Presentation of Difficult History

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  Izaak David

  Hearing Change: Music, Regeneration, and Placemaking in Levenshulme, Manchester

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  Catalina Delgado Rojas

  State-sponsored symbolic reparations
  Official memorialization spaces in transitional societies

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  Yasmin Foqahaa

  Culture Under Siege: A Cultural Policy Framework for Cultural Sustainable Development

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  Gumring Hkangda

  Conflicted Objects: Histories of Violence, Trauma and Loss entangled in Kachin material culture from northern Burma/Myanma (1960 – Present)

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  Katy Jackson

  Staffing discomfort: Care and emotion in museum work with narratives of conflict-related sexual violence

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  Chukyi Kyaping

  Decolonising the sacred: Acknowledging the colonial experiences of Tibetan Buddhist collections in the British Museum

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  Qinyue Liu

  New Media Artists and Conservators: Bridging the Gaps between Personal and Institution-based Media Art Preservation Practices

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  Eh-den Perlove

  Ghostlight: Illuminating Oppressive Structures That Impede Marginalized Groups in Contemporary Theater in the United States

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  Henriette Pleiger

  Interdisciplinary Exhibitions and the Production of Knowledge

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  Kate Sanderson

  Audience development in UK theatre: an exploration of contemporary practice

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  Robert Simpson

  ‘A community united will never be broken’: Spontaneous Memorialisation as an Act of Community Resilience and Social Solidarity

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  Susana Sanchez-Gonzalez

  Opening the "numinous" book: Exploring the "reading experience" and "bookish emotions" as curatorial and engagement tools in book exhibitions.

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  Matthew Smith

  Das Auto, the People’s Car: DIY heritage car restoration and wellbeing

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  Thuy Thi Thu Tran

  International organizations and the global mobility of cultural policy

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  Joe Traynor

  The Strategy for Museums in Scotland; Cultural Policy, Nationhood and Value

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Past students

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  Ifigeneia Anagnostou

  Re-reading and re-writing the Greeks: Refurbishments of Greek Collections in the UK University Museums at the dawn of the 21st century

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  Dr Maria Arias

  Social Media and Museum Brands as Networks: An Actor-Network Theory Study of the Manchester Art Gallery

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  Dr Hannah Chalk

  How are objects attributed value?

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  Dr Sophie Everest

  Thinking through antelopes: Film, taxidermy and the museum

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  Dr Sarah Feinstein

  Present-ing the Past: Heritage Management and Cultural Production at Maze Long Kesh Prison and Ebrington Barracks, 2000-2015

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  Dr Elizabeth Gow

  Enriqueta Rylands: A Study of Private Collecting and Public Philanthropy, 1889-1908

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  Dr Pauline Hadaway

  Cultural policy and political intervention in post conflict Northern Ireland

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  Dr Julian Hartley

  Museums and the Digital Public Space: Researching digital engagement practice at the Whitworth Art Gallery

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  Frances Liddell

  The Crypto-Museum: Investigating the impact of blockchain and NFTs on digital ownership, authority, and authenticity in museums

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  Dr Rob McCombe

  Gold Under Gravel, Gold Under Glass: Anglo-Saxon objects through excavation, collection and display

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  Dr Lukas Hughes-Noehrer

  Artificial Intelligence and the Useful Art Museum: A Cross-Disciplinary Approach Towards Machine Learning and its Implications in the Museum Sphere

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  Dr Halona Norton-Westbrook

  Between The ‘Collection Museum’ and The University: The Rise of the Connoisseur-Scholar and the Evolution of Art Museum Curatorial Practice, 1900-1940

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  Dr James Pardoe

  How tangible heritages have been developed from the intangible significance of literary figures (with special reference to the Romantic poets)

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  Dr Barbara Pezzini

  Making a Market for Art: Agnew’s and the National Gallery, 1850-1944

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  Dr Chris Plumb

  Exotic animals in eighteenth-century England

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  Dr Emma Poulter

  My doctoral research is based on the West African collections at the Manchester Museum.

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  Dr Julia Snape

  My research topic is the display of medieval objects, including painting and decorative arts, in the museum from the late eighteenth century to the present day.

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  Dr Rachel Souhami

  My research seeks to develop a theorisation of exhibitions as a medium of communication in order to investigate how the elements of an exhibition combine to present a subject.

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  Dr Virginia Tandy

  The impact of the postwar funding system on the production and practices of heritage.

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  Dr Eleanor Thompson

  Displaying Dress: New methodologies for historic collections.

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  Lisa Urbanic

  A Sculptural Space: The Display of Antonio Canova’s Sculptures and Copies in Private British Collections 1790-1830

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  Dr Chiara Zuanni

  Mediating the Past: Museums and Public Perceptions of Archaeology

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