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Caroline Morris (University of the West of England)
I am a PhD student at UWE. My project is a study of material biography and display. I am interested in museums as media, and objects as a means of contact with previous possessors. Dr Simon Chaplin (Wellcome Library)
My main area of research is anatomy and medical collections in London in the 18th and early 19th century, with a particular focus on the museums of John and William Hunter and their contemporaries. I am also interested in the history of medical and n... Caroline Cornish (Royal Holloway, University of London)
I`m a PhD student in the Social and Cultural Geography group at Royal Holloway, currently researching the spaces and collections of the Kew Museums of Economic Botany. Ilja Nieuwland (Huygens Institute, Royal Netherlands Academy of Sciences)
I`m currently mainly occupied with the history of the acquisition and display of palaeontological collections, particularly vertebrates - with special attention for the role of these collections and their specimens for popular culture and the popular... Bridget Yates (University of Gloucestershire)
I am a PhD student at the University of Gloucestershire researching rural volunteer run museums in market towns and villages. I gave a paper on the Victoria Jubilee Museum, Cawthorne (1884 to 1915) to the Voluntary Action History Society Conference i... Rebecca Wade (University of Leeds)
I am writing a doctoral thesis on: `Pedagogic Objects: The Formation, Circulation and Exhibition of Teaching Collections in British Art and Design Education, 1837-1857`. I am interested in nineteenth century voluntary societies, polytechnic exhibitio... Dr Mark Westgarth (University of Leeds)
my research interests are in the history of collecting, and more particularly in the development of the art and antiques markets in the 18th and 19th centuries and the relationship to the establishment of museums. My work explores the emergence of t... Sam Alberti (Royal College of Surgeons)
I am Director of Museums and Archives at the Royal College of Surgeons; previously I held a joint post between the University of Manchester Centre for Museology and the Manchester Museum. I am interested in the history of natural history and medical ... Tom Freshwater (South Hill Park Arts Centre)
I am interested in: contemporary artist residencies and their interventions in museums; the influence of antiquaries and their activities on the development of museums, particulary the early 18th century in the UK. Joe Cain (Science and Technology Studies, UCL)
Current research interests include the history of evolutionary studies, history of American science, history of natural history, and science`s research infrastructure. Also undertakes research in teaching and learning practices in higher education. Jeremy Coote (Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford)
My research interests are focused on the history of the University of Oxford`s Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Until now most of my work has been concerned with the history of particular collections and their display and interpretation. A spe... John Gould
I am interested in the intersection of museum histories and the history of archaeology in the late C19 and early C20 England. With particular emphasis on regional practises in Cornwall, Manchester, Cheshire and Lancashire. Karen Knight (City University)
I am a PhD student at City University researching the potential values of public museum collections held in closed stores. The research focuses on local authority museums in England and explores the historical and philosophical influences on their d... Fay Bound Alberti (Queen Mary, University of London)
My research areas include the histories of medicine, emotion and gender. I am interested in the history of anatomical display, and in the representation of the body across a number of disciplines. I am currently working on the anatomical and cultural... Alan Crookham (The National Gallery)
I am interested specifically in the history of the National Gallery in London and more generally of related national museums and galleries. I am currently looking at collectors who have had a relationship with the National Gallery, with a particular... Catherine Pearson PhD (UCL)
I undertook a historical survey of the UK`s museums from 1925 to 1965, with an emphasis on the period of the Second World War for the subject of my PhD. The study considered the short and long term consequences of this conflict on curatorship and th... Emmeline Leary
Interior and exterior design of purpose-built museums- Victorian and earlier.
I wrote my PhD thesis (London Consortium, University of London) on the emergence and development of the single-artist retrospective exhibition in eighteenth and nineteenth century Europe. `Artists in Retrospect: The Rise and Rise of the Retrospective...
Flavio Häner, MA (Museum of Pharmacy, University of Basle)
In my PhD project I`m researching the collections for history of pharmacy and anatomy at the university of Basle. Based on theories of collecting and museology, I`m working out concepts to understand collections as more than a sum of material object... Helen Wilkinson (University of Leicester)
My PhD thesis looks at changing approaches to curatorial expertise in British museums between 1960 and 1997. I am using contemporary archival sources and professional literature and am just about to start a programme of interviews with people who wor... James Wallis (University of Exeter)
I am a PhD student based at the University of Exeter and the Imperial War Museum in London. My AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award is titled `Remembrance, Commemoration and Memory: Negotiating the Politics of Display in the Imperial War Museum Public P... Laura Breen (University of Westminster)
I am PhD student exploring the ways in which contemporary ceramic artists` engagement with museological practice has shaped the meaning and discourse around ceramics. I am currently looking for historic examples of ceramic/clay artists` installations... Marieke Hendriksen (Leiden University)
My current research concerns the interrelations between the history of eighteenth century anatomical collections and the rise of aesthetics. I am also interested in the role of objects, emotions and sensory perceptions in epistemological cultures.
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