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A new MA course at the University of Leeds will offer students the opportunity to study Curating Science, combining theory and practice to promote new understandings of art and science for the 21st century.

This part-time fixed term post in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies is aimed at academics with proven abilities to carry out teaching and research in Art Gallery, Museum and Heritage Studies.

Lecturer in Heritage Studies, Liz Stainforth, has recently embarked on a Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities, University of Edinburgh, and takes up a second Fellowship, in Australia, in June.

Three fully-funded White Rose College of the Arts & Humanities network PhD studentships are available within the Universities of Leeds, York and Sheffield, commencing in October 2018.

We are 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 6 March 2018.

Can you imagine being the only woman or man on your university course? A new temporary exhibition exploring the life and work of Mary Barker, the first woman to be accepted onto the textile industries course at the University of Leeds, is currently on show at ULITA – an Archive of International Textiles.

The School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies would like to hear from art galleries, museums, heritage or arts organisations interested in hosting one of our MA placement students.

The first of three workshops organised in partnership between the University of Leeds, Manchester Metropolitan University and Helen Storey Foundation took place in Manchester on Thursday 12 October 2017.

MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies students will be working with the museum, galleries and archives across the University of Leeds campus as part of one their core modules, Interpreting Cultures.