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Governance

Aims of the Institute

MGCI works locally, nationally and internationally with museum collections, research and teaching. It is governed by the Institute Director and the staff of Museum and Gallery Studies, with an Advisory Board consisting of people from the university, and from the wider industry sector.

MGCI aims:

  • to be a focus for quality research on the history, theory and practice of museums
  • to initiate, carry out and promote research
  • to facilitate the research of others
  • to encourage interdisciplinary and collaborative research
  • to research further the training needs of the sector
  • to enhance the teaching portfolio by developing short courses for CPD, career development and specialist expertise

Directors

Advisory Board

University of St Andrews

  • Prof Laura Moretti (Head of School of Art History)
  • Professor Frank Lorenz Müller (Dean of Arts and Divinity)
  • Dr Agnes Bos, Ann Gunn, Nicôle Meehan and Dr Ulrike Weiss (Museum and Gallery Studies)
  • Dr Sam Rose (Art History Impact Officer)
  • Kate Keohane (PhD Representative)
  • Jamie Allan Brown (EU-LAC-MUSEUMS Project Representative)
  • Katie Eagleton (Museums of the University of St Andrews)
  • Gabriel Sewell (Special Collections and Library Services)
  • Professor Rebecca Sweetman (School of Classics)

Industry

  • Philip Long (Chief Executive, National Trust for Scotland)
  • Dr Xavier Dectot (former Keeper of Art and Design, National Museum of Scotland)
  • Gillian Findlay (Curatorial and Engagement Manager, City of Edinburgh Council)
  • Nat Edwards (Museum Consultant)
  • Christopher Baker (Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery)
Staff Profiles
Dr Lenia Kouneni
Dr Lenia Kouneni

Lenia has a BA Hons (Archaeology and Art History) from the University of Athens, Greece, as well as an MLitt (Late Medieval and Renaissance Italian Art) from St Andrews, where she also completed her PhD in 2009. She has worked as a Neil Macgregor scholar at the National Gallery, London, doing research for the National Inventory Research Project, and has participated in a number of archaeological excavations in Greece. 

Dr Bruno Brulon Soares

Dr Bruno Brulon Soares, Lecturer.

I am a museologist and anthropologist trained in Brazil, and my research interests have focused on the relationships of museums with the living and the political uses of heritage. I have a Ph.D. in Anthropology (2012) and another in Contemporary History (2019) both from Universidade Federal Fluminense, and an MA in Museology and Heritage Studies (2008) from Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro.

I am currently a Lecturer in Museum and Heritage Studies in the School of Art History. Prior to joining St Andrews I was Professor of Museology and Heritage Studies at Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (2013-2022) and I was Chair of the International Committee for Museology of ICOM, the International Council of Museums (2019-2022).

Dr Nicôle Meehan

MLitt MA, Lecturer. Nicôle joined the University of St Andrews in 2016 as an Associate Lecturer in Museum and Gallery Studies. Her research examines the role of the digital cultural object in the production of transcultural memory after the postdigital turn. Nicôle has previously worked in diverse roles across the museum sector in the UK and US. She has been Head of Education at the Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery (University of Glasgow), managed a digitisation traineeship programme for young people at the National Galleries of Scotland and was Historic Scotland’s first Online Content Officer. During 2013-14 she was the Elsevier Fulbright Scholar in Bibliometrics which allowed her to spend a year in the US studying and finally working at the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum, Colorado.

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