Museum Studies at Leicester
Completed PhD research
Our postgraduate researchers come from all over the world and they research and write about museums from all over the world. Many of them have gone on to become professors and leading academics in a range of disciplines. Others are senior museum professionals. The following list includes past research students and links to their thesis. Browse the list and explore the links, to get a flavour of the range of doctoral research that takes place in the School of Museum Studies, and be inspired for your own doctoral journey.
2024
- Mingshi Cui - Displacement Revisited — Rethinking the Social Role of Digitisation in Museum Practice
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Laura Dudley -
Supervisors: Isobel Whitelegg, Suzanne MacLeod and Sian Vaughan (BCU)
2023
- Sofia Katharaki -
Supervisor: Sheila Watson - Blaire Moskowitz -
Supervisor: Ross Parry - Torhild Skatun -
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Anna Tulliach -
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Stefania Zardini Lacedelli -
Supervisor: Ross Parry - Yang Chen -
Supervisor: Isobel Whitelegg - Thomas Duncan - Developing museum and exhibition design through practice-centred study and application of narrative theory and film
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Gina Wouters - The Relativity of Relevance: How Artists Are Serving as a Catalyst for Organizational Change in Historic House Museums
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Lingling Xie - Design and enterprise in contemporary China: A new role for museums and heritage
Supervisor: Simon Knell
2022
- Olatunde Barber -
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Abbey Ellis -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Blanca Jove Alcalde -
Supervisor: Isobel Whitelegg - Yahao Wang -
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Kristina Wright -
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Cesare Cuzzola -
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Jennifer Durrant -
Supervisor: Janet Marstine - Gee Sun Hahn - Korean Museums, Intangible Heritage and the formation of national identity
Supervisor: Sheila Watson - Jennifer Hunt -
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Wen-Yi Liu -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Lanzhou Luo - Museums and Heritage in the People’s Republic of China, 1949-1979
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Chiara Marabelli -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Mari Moystad -
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Daniel Turetsky - Ritual objects, spiritual heritage and the museum space between: Examining the curatorial formation of intangible heritage narratives for faith-based exhibits in Israel museums
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson
2021
- Sophie Kazan -
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Sumi Kim -
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Kuan-Yin Liu -
Supervisor: Janet Marstine - Jingyu Peng -
Supervisor: Ross Parry - Ainul Wahida Radzuan -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Amornchat Sermcheep -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Chanin Suriyakul Na Ayudhya -
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Aikaterini Vlachaki -
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Dana Saif Almazrouei -
Supervisor: Nuala Morse - Aisha Almisnad Almohannadi -
Supervisor: Nuala Morse
2020
- Simon Atkinson - .
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Laurence Brasseur - .
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Samantha Fabry - .
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Armand De Filippo - .
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Yeung Yeung Fok - C.
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Louisa Kramer - Management Practice Supporting Sustainable Development in the German Art Collection.
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Kate McPhail - .
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Elena Settimini - .
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Naomi Terry - .
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Zoi Tsiviltidou - .
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Lauren Vargas - .
Supervisor: Ross Parry