Current research students

Read about current students' research projects in Museum and Heritage Studies.

Ping Wei

A research focus on the intercultural interpretation and display of Chinese material culture, using the Canterbury Museum collection as a case study.

Ruihe Qi

Ruihe's study will take a comparative view, focusing on Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and China.

Sara Joyce Macdonald

Sara Joyce is researching museum interpretation of taxonomic names within natural history.

Anamaria Rojas Munera

Anamaría focuses her PhD on the dynamics and narratives of community-based museums from South America through the lenses of sociomuseology.

Matteo Collina

Matteo Collina has a BA in Graphic Design and Visual Communication, and a MA in Cultural Heritage Photography.

Robert McClean

Robert McClean is researching methods of historic heritage identification and management that contribute to social, cultural, and environmental values.

Valentin Gorbachev

Gorbachev specialises in technologies to visualise the past and unconventional methods of museum display such as replication and 3D modelling.