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Join our PhD community to study museums and participation
We are currently advertising a full funded PhD in collaboration with the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford. The PhD is titled Inside-out and outside-in: Participatory Methods for Science and Technology Collections.
Research interviews and the value of new perspectives
Postgraduate Researcher Stuart Bowes discusses his experiences of conducting research interviews and considers their impact on his work with the Royal Armouries.
Hip hop museology: remixing museum practices around Black British popular culture – PhD opportunity
Applications are invited for a collaborative doctoral award in partnership with Leeds Museums and Galleries, based in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies.
Excavating the Future: Utopia as a Method of Historical Analysis
An article by Dr Liz Stainforth has recently been published in the Utopian Studies journal.
Imagining a Decolonised Museum: Strike MoMA
Join us to explore the strategies of Strike MoMA who are activating a politics of strike, exit and abolition to organize for a Post-MoMA future.
Danish Golden Age Painting — David Jackson
In this online talk, art historian Professor David Jackson discusses the role of the visual arts in Denmark during the first half of the 19th century, a period of exceptional creative production.
Designing for Democratic Engagement: Climate Emergency
For this event we are joined by a panel of speakers who will each draw on their research and practice to suggest different ways democracy and climate emergency might be configured.
In Conversation — In a New Light: Histories of Women and Energy
Join us for this ‘in conversation’ event with the editors of a new book that shines a light on women’s...