• Lecturer (History of Art)

telephone: 01413306247
email: Liz.Hancock@glasgow.ac.uk

Office Hour: Call or email for appointment

Research Interests

• Furniture and furnishing textiles
• History of collecting, collections and museums

• Bo Hanley: ‘Commissioning for Purpose: Local Authority Collections and the Art of Commissioning for Acquisition’
• Christopher Maxwell: 'The Dispersal of the Hamilton Palace collection, 1882-2010'
• Ann (Bet) Mcleod: 'The Western Ceramics Owned by the Dukes of Hamilton'

• Zhiyong Lu: 'Chinese Metal Threads of Famen Temple Silk, Tan Dynasty (618-907) - research on their history and conservation' (2nd supervisor)
• Yi Wang: 'The Western Impact on Chinese Ceramics Design During the 17th-18th Century' (2nd supervisor)

Core and specialist option courses (not all are offered each year):

• Research and Professional Skills (MLitt)
• Student Exhibition (MLitt)
• Work Placement (MLitt)
• Critical Themes in the Display and Reception of Objects (MLitt)

Administration

• Director, Postgraduate Taught Programmes in History of Art
• Adviser of Studies (Postgraduate)
• Christies' Education Joint Board

Journal Articles

'Collecting and Display in Museums: Vernacular Furniture in Glasgow, 1900-1950', Vernacular Buildings, Vol. 30 (2007).

'A Dug Out Chair from the South Lake District', Regional Furniture, Vol. XIX (2005), pp. 80-82.

'Sir William Burrell's furniture dealers: a progress report on provenance research', Regional Furniture Society Newsletter, Vol.40 (Spring 2004), pp. 18-19.R.A. 

Brown and Elizabeth Hancock, 'The Crealocks, two soldier artists: from the Crimea to the Zulu War', Journal of the Society for Army Historical Research, Vol. 78 (2000), pp. 243-51.

Conference Papers

'A joint initiative for Research & Development in Glasgow', Proceedings of the University Museums in Scotland Conference on Research: Collections, Museums and Research (2002), available here

Electronic Resources

Nick Pearce, Elizabeth Hancock, Chinese Art - Research into Provenance (CARP), web-published database resource (2004)