Xuan Han
Email: x.han.1@research.gla.ac.uk
Address: School of Education, St Andrew's Building
Research title: Women’s experiences of family-programming in museums: A feminist perspective on museums’ role in inclusive education for parents and carers.
Research Summary
My research focuseson how museums can optimize audiences' museum experience and provide social platforms to support self-improvement of working mothers.
Grounded in Participatory Relational Aesthetics and Intersectional Feminism Theories, the study critically examines the limitations of current museum practices that may marginalised mothers' needs with multiple social identities.
This research will highlight three levels: audience barriers, museum practices, sectore services. The findings will have both theoretical and practical implications, and museums can have a chance to rethink their educational programs, exhibit designs, and participatory strategies to better support working mothers.
Supervisors
Conferences
Han, X. (2025) A case study of linguistic practices of a Chinese-English bilingual young reader. Presented as part of the Dr Elizabeth Nelson team on the conference Reading Worlds: Exploring Identity, Justice, and Multimodality in Children's and Young Adult Texts, hosted by Children's Literature Research Group, School of Education, University of Glasgow, in-person, June 2025
Han, X. (2025) The Everyday Amazing: Children’s Agency in Shaping their Identities through Shared Book Reading. Presented as part of the Dr Elizabeth Nelson team on the conference The Child and the Book Conference 2025: Children Shaping The(ir) World: Between the Exceptional and the Everyday, hosted by The Child and the Book Conference 2025, Tilburg University, Online, 24 April 2025