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The Centre's MA in Art Gallery and Museum Studies students have developed a Hide & Seek Family Art Trail to create a family friendly angle to the university's Public Art Trail.l

We're currently calling for speakers prepared to rise to the challenge of sharing their current work in three minutes at the next Heritage Show + Tell on 8 December 2015

As part of next year's Association of Critical Heritage Studies Biennial Conference, Helen Graham and Liz Stainforth of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums Galleries and Heritage are organising a panel on the theme of Heritage Futures/Utopian Currents.

Legacies of War, a research and public engagement project made up of a team of researchers at the University of Leeds (including Dr Claudia Sternberg of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage), is one of four winners of the inaugural Vice-Chancellor’s Impact Awards.

Dr Helen Graham, Research Fellow in Heritage and Centre Director, will take part in a live discussion organised by the Heritage Lottery Fund, on the subject of heritage participation on Thursday 17 September from 12.30 to 1.30pm.

This post in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies is aimed at individuals with proven research experience within the field of Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage, with the ability to teach at both undergraduate and postgraduate level, as well as a clear and compelling vision for personal academic development.

Jade French, PhD student in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies recently won #BeACritic, a competition run by The Double Negative magazine, Liverpool John Moore's University and Arts Council England to find the best emerging arts critics.

Drawing on innovative practice and research experiments, a collaborative research team of twenty people, including Dr Helen Graham of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums Galleries and Heritage, have worked together to design and carry out a research project focused on participation in heritage decision making.

This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, creative and flexible individual to be responsible for marketing across the Library’s public engagement activities.