PhD Scholarship on 'Museums, Cities, Politics, and Policy', School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester

Projects may look at contemporary issues to do with culture-led regeneration, city rebranding, cultural tourism and creative industries or "creative economy" or studies may seek to focus on the role of the museum in constructing or reconstructing the identity of a city - for example, as an assertion of the "civility" of the community in late nineteenth century colonial cities. Within this broad set of interests' subjects for study will be focused on the ways in which museum developments have operated to construct or affect meaning in cities and have in turn been affected by their urban context. In analysing the operation of knowledge and power in these spaces the successful project will seek to understand the political and policy contexts and effects of cultural spaces, programmes and institutions.