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 Museum Studies at Leicester, and be inspired for your own doctoral journey.
2025
- Gemma Cantlow -
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Elizabeth Gray -
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Yuqiao Hu -
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Han Jiang -
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Isabelle Lawrence -
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Camila Plaza Salgado -
Supervisor: David Unwin - Xiangnuo Ren -
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Jiayi Chang - In Pursuit of the China Dream: The Communist Party of China and its Uses of Heritage
Supervisor: Simon Knell
2024
- Rachel Adams -
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Miranda Chavis -
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Rachael Sarah Cooksey -
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Mingshi Cui - Displacement Revisited — Rethinking the Social Role of Digitisation in Museum Practice
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Laura Dudley -
Supervisors: Isobel Whitelegg - Wael Dugdugi - To visit or not to visit? Visitor motivations and non-visitor perceptions of museum visitation in Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Supervisor: Sarina Wakefield - Tom Eaton -
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Niki Ferraro -
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Eleni Ganiti -
Supervisor: Isobel Whitelegg - Lucrezia Gigante -
Supervisor: Nuala Morse - Emily Levick -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Pelin Lyu -
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Lijia Ma -
Supervisor: Katherine Bunning - Jianan Qi -
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Ava Salzer -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - James Shallow -
Supervisor: Sheila Watson
2023
- 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 - Yanrong Jiang -
Supervisor: Nuala Morse - Sofia Katharaki -
Supervisor: Sheila Watson - Sheng-Yen Lin -
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Louise Macul -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Blaire Moskowitz -
Supervisor: Ross Parry - Minju Oh -
Supervisor: Nuala Morse - Eloisa Rodrigues -
Supervisor: Isobel Whitelegg - Torhild Skatun -
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - Yanpeng Song -
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Rachel Teskey -
Supervisor: Ross Parry - Anna Tulliach -
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Kristy Van Hoven -
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Brendon Wilkins -
Supervisor: Giasemi Vavoula - 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 - Stefania Zardini Lacedelli -
Supervisor: Ross Parry
2022
- Blanca Jove Alcalde -
Supervisor: Isobel Whitelegg - Olatunde Barber -
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Cesare Cuzzola - Museum and Art Gallery
Supervisor: Richard Sandell - Jennifer Durrant -
Supervisor: Janet Marstine - Abbey Ellis -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - 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 - Lived experiences in museums: Engaging visitors’ hearts and minds
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 - Yahao Wang -
Supervisor: Stacy Boldrick - Kristina Wright -
Supervisor: Simon Knell
2021
- Dana Saif Almazrouei -
Supervisor: Nuala Morse - Aisha Almisnad Almohannadi -
Supervisor: Nuala Morse - 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
2020
- Armand De Filippo -
Supervisor: Sandra Dudley - Samantha Fabry -
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Yeung Fok -
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Louisa Kramer-Weidenhaupt -
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Peter Lester -
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Kyle McPhail -
Supervisor: Suzanne MacLeod - Martina Santillan -
Supervisor: Simon Knell - Elena Settimini -
Supervisor: Lisanne Gibson - Naomi Terry -
Supervisor: Richard Sandell