Postgraduate Research at the Kelvin Centre
Our postgraduate research students work across the disciplines of art history, conservation, and scientific analysis. Example areas of investigation include:
- dyed and painted textiles
- dress and textile history
- dye and fibre history
- artists' materials and methods
- painted stage cloths and theatrical design
- mechanics of painted cultural heritage
- museum and object collection research
- conservation of modern and contemporary art.
Current Students
- Claire Banks - Company Drawings of Natural History: Evolution of techniques and materials
- Jonathan Cleaver - Technical Innovation and the Development of Carpet Design in the Stoddard Templeton Archives
- Rosa Costantini - From the Golden Age to the Digital Age: Monitoring historic tapestries
- Victoria de Lorenzo - Connecting Threads: The transnational textile trade between nineteenth-century Britain and the Spanish-speaking world
- Carter Lyon - Spanish Golden Age Art Theory in Practice: A case study of Vicente Carducho’s Self Portrait in the collection of Sir William Stirling Maxwell
- Evelyn Robertson - Plastics Identification within the Works of Peter Chang
- Daniel Sánchez Villavicencio - Understanding Flexible Painted Textiles through the Characterisation of Glasgow Museums’ George Kenning’s Banners
- Tess Visser
Past Students
- Lucie Whitmore - PhD completed 2019 - Fashion narratives of the First World War
- Toolika Gupta - PhD completed 2017 - The influence of British rule on elite Indian menswear: the birth of the sherwani
- Julie Wertz - PhD completed 2017 - Turkey red dyeing in late-19th century Glasgow: Interpreting the historical process through re-creation and chemical analysis for heritage research and conservation
- Jing Han - PhD completed 2016 - The historical and chemical investigation of dyes in high status Chinese costume and textiles of the Ming and Qing Dynasties (1368-1911)
- Caroline Ness - PhD completed 2014 - Famous, Forgotten, Found: Rediscovering the career of London couture fashion designer Giuseppe (Jo) Mattli, 1934-1980