About the Centre

The Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage is home to dynamic teaching and research.

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Research Interests

Our research intersects museums and heritage studies, cultural theory and history. Our undergraduate and postgraduate courses support students to critically engage with museum practice.

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Postgraduate Researcher Dominic Bilton will be speaking about the exhibition (Un)Defining Queer at this year’s Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium.

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Research Associate Dr Arran Rees talks about a survey he recently undertook on queer cataloguing in museums in a new Medium post. Arran wrote up the post after giving a talk at the Science Museum’s LGBTQ+ Research Seminar Series in January.

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Museums and Participation: Loosening the Difficulty is a two day workshop taking place on 14 and 15 June 2023 at...

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Stuart Bowes recounts his experience of presenting the current findings of his PhD at the European Registrars Conference 2022.

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This exhibition co-curated by Postgraduate Researcher Dominic Bilton delves into the Whitworth’s collection to examine how we can use a queer lens to define what the term 'queer' means.

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Dr Helen Graham and Dr Arran Rees are panellists in this seminar organised as part of a series looking at...

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Postgraduate Researcher Dominic Bilton will be speaking about his research at this year's Queer Heritage and Collections Network Symposium.

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MA students from the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies have curated eight new online exhibitions using a range of open access collections.

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