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Research projects

Curating Art, Heritage, and Museums research projects

Every year, some of our students work on an exciting ‘real-life’ project that opens to the public. Our optional ‘Working on a Project’ modules include subject-specific opportunities such as:

  • curating new exhibitions and displays
  • designing new interpretation panels
  • designing and running learning and education sessions

On this module you'll run a project as part of a student team, putting your ideas into practice. Some of the activities you'll be responsible for include:

  • managing a budget
  • writing labels
  • arranging objects
  • hanging artworks
  • liaising with professionals

We also run extra-curricular projects as part of our MGH Futures programme.

World So Obscured

Students developed an online exhibition that connected natural history objects at the GNM: Hancock with six local women identifying artists and their practices. Read more about this research project.

Print Matters

Students set up an exhibition of print media at the Laing Art Gallery. Read more about this research project.

Practising Reflection

Students created a workbook and poster to support and encourage reflection with professional practice. Read more about this research project.

Oh My Geordie God!

This exhibition was timed to coincide with the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian’s Wall. The project highlights the issues around common problems of stories that do not make it into public awareness. Read more about this research project.

Hidden Narratives

What stories can we uncover if we explore the objects from the World Cultures collection in the Great North Museum: Hancock? Read more about this research project.

Northumberland's Oldest Art

In December 2014, a large boulder decorated with ancient art was recovered during an archaeological excavation on the outskirts of Newcastle. Read more about this research project.

Interdisciplinary projects

A selection of projects from within:

  • Film
  • Media, Journalism, and Public Relations
  • Curating Art, Heritages, and Museums

Current research projects

Early English Church Music

The aim of the series is to make available church music from the eleventh to the seventeenth centuries in a form both scholarly and practical.

The CoHERE Project

CoHERE addresses an intensifying EU Crisis through a study of relations between identities and representations and performances of history.

Following the Flight of the Monarchs

Following the Flight of the Monarchs is an interdisciplinary project bringing together artists and scientists, connecting with ecosystems and communities along the migration routes of monarch butterflies as they travel the 3,000-mile journey between Mexico and Canada each year. The project, led by

Voiceless? Classical Singers and COVID-19

Led by Dr. Larry Zazzo and Dr. Adam Behr, this British-Academy funded project explores the impact of COVID-19 on the wellbeing of a cohort of 20 professional across five countries.

Arts in Action (South Africa)

This UKRI-funded project, led by Nanette de Jong, investigates drivers of gender-based violence in rural South Africa and arts-based interventions.

Completed projects

The Polluted Leisure Project

This project explores how we can better understand and respond to assemblages of pollution and leisure.

Advancing Gender Equality in Media Industries

This pan-European project led by Professor Karen Ross is co-funded by the EU Rights, Equality and Citizenship programme and Justice programme, 2017-2019.

The Katip-Celebi Newton Fund Project

Co-ordinated by Professor Chris Whitehead, this project seeks to develop new valorisations of the Istanbul Land (Theodosian) Walls.