Research in the Centre for Curatorial Studies (CCS)  

Doctoral Research (PhD/MPhil)

If you would like to find out more about supervision for PhD or MPhil study in CCS or talk about your research proposal please feel free to contact the CCS academic staff team:

Dr Michaela Giebelhausen
Dr Rebecca Breen

Please contact our Postgraduate Research Administrator, Wendy Williams in the first instance for details.

Current Research Activities

The Centre for Curatorial Studies is pleased to announce a collaborative initiative with the École du Louvre:

The Modalities of Museology and Curating: Where to Next?

Round table discussion to be held at the Festival de l’histoire de l’art, Fountainebleau, 31 May to 2 June, 2013

Participants
- Dominique de Font-Réaulx, chief curator, Musée du Louvre, Director of Musée Delacroix and Professor at the Ecole du Louvre
- Michaela Giebelhausen, Director of the Centre for Curatorial Studies, University of Essex
- Nicholas Humphrey, Coordinator of the Tudor and Stuart Gallery Team, British Galleries Project, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
-Sophie Mouquin, Director of Studies, École du Louvre and Associate Professor in Art History, University Charles de Gaulle Lille 3
- Gennaro Toscano, Head of Studies, Department of curators, Director of research and scientific relations, Institut National du Patrimoine

This roundtable has grown out of the recent collaboration of the École du Louvre and the Centre for Curatorial Studies at the University of Essex. It aims at probing the different approaches to museology and curating in the UK and France. Over the last three decades, the UK has seen a proliferation of museum studies and curatorial courses. In France, such curricula exist mainly (but, we may add, almost only) at the École du Louvre for students and at the Institut National du Patrimoine for curators.

The participants of the roundtable will reflect on the historical conditions which shaped the study of these subjects, both in the UK and in France. They will also discuss the fascinating interdependencies of the related yet separate fields of museology and curating, and debate current developments as well as future opportunities and desiderata, especially in the field of research.