Dr Katherine Lloyd

  • Senior Lecturer in Museum Studies (Information Studies)

Biography

I joined the University of Glasgow in 2018 as a Learning and Teaching specialist. I primarily contribute to postgraduate teaching and professional training within the College of Arts. I am also involved in public engagement with the university's collections, working alongside cultural partners at Kelvin Hall, including The Hunterian. 

In 2022 I was awarded a College Teaching Excellence Award as part of the Museum Studies Teaching Team. 

I have held research and teaching positions at Newcastle University, the University of Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University.

My PhD, completed in 2014, examined the role of heritage in young people's conceptualisations of national identity and belonging in Scotland.

I have worked in Visitor Studies and Learning and Engagement in museums and community heritage organisations in Scotland and Canada, and undertaken research and teaching in collaboration with Tyne & Wear Archives and Museums, North East England. I have also collaborated with the National Library of Scotland as supervisor on collaborative doctoral partnership funded under the Scottish Cultural Heritage Consortium. 

I am an active participant of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies, having attended conferences in Gothenburg (2012), Canberra (2014) and Montreal (2016) and organised events for the ACHS UK Chapter. 

Research interests

My research and teaching interests focus on: 

  • Critical Heritage Studies & Museology
  • Cultural Politics
  • Nationalism and National Identities
  • Museums and Migration
  • Intangible Cultural Heritage (ICH)
  • Museum Learning and Engagement
  • Visitor Studies
  • Community Heritage, Co-production, and Digital Participation

Linking these themes is an interest in how people utilise the past in the present and the role that cultural heritage plays in shaping people's sense of self and their relationships with others. I am particularly interested in issues surrounding identities, belonging, place, memory and empathy in museums.

Publications

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Number of items: 11.

2024

Cheadle, T. , Brunache, P. , Lloyd, K. , McColl, M., Plaquevent, B. and Pickens, C. (2024) Radical collaboration: co-creating feminist online graduate courses through a university and museum partnership. Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, 9(1), 1696. (doi: 10.55370/dsj.v9i1.1696)

2023

Economou, M. , Lloyd, K. and Spooner, R. (2023) Trends in museum studies programs: supporting critical thinkers and critical doers. In: King, B. (ed.) New Directions for University Museums. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 139-157. ISBN 9781538157725

2018

Mason, R., Galani, A., Lloyd, K. and Sayner, J. (2018) Experiencing mixed emotions in the museum: empathy, affect, and memory in visitors' responses to histories of migration. In: Smith, L., Wetherell, M. and Campbell, G. (eds.) Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present. Series: Key issues in cultural heritage. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 124-148. ISBN 9780815370024 (doi: 10.4324/9781351250962-8)

Nic Craith, M., Kockel, U. and Lloyd, K. (2018) The convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage: absentees, objections and assertions. In: Akagawa, N. and Smith, L. (eds.) Safeguarding Intangible Heritage: Practices and Politics. Series: Key issues in cultural heritage. Routledge: London ; New York, NY, pp. 118-132. ISBN 9781138580756 (doi: 10.4324/9780429507137-8)

2016

Lloyd, K. (2016) Co-curation in the classroom: networked learning and digital participation in North East England. Historic Environment, 28(2), pp. 70-83.

2015

Eckersley, S., Lloyd, K. and Whitehead, C. (2015) Introduction: Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe. In: Whitehead, C., Eckersley, S. and Lloyd, K. (eds.) Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781472425188

Lloyd, K. (2015) Negotiating place, heritage and diversity: young people's narratives of belonging and exclusion in Scotland. In: Whitehead, C., Eckersley, S. and Lloyd, K. (eds.) Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781472425188

Whitehead, C., Eckersley, S., Lloyd, K. and Mason, R. (Eds.) (2015) Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe: Peoples, Places and Identities. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9781472425188

Whitehead, C., Mason, R., Eckersley, S. and Lloyd, K. (2015) Place, identity and migration and European museums. In: Whitehead, C., Eckersley, S., Lloyd, K. and Mason, R. (eds.) Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe: Peoples, Places and Identities. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 7-60. ISBN 9781472425188

MeLa Consortium, (2015) MeLa Project: Critical Archive. [Website]

2014

Lloyd, K. (2014) Beyond the rhetoric of an “inclusive national identity”: Understanding the potential impact of Scottish museums on public attitudes to issues of identity, citizenship and belonging in an age of migrations. Cultural Trends, 23(3), pp. 148-158. (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2014.925279)

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Number of items: 11.

Articles

Cheadle, T. , Brunache, P. , Lloyd, K. , McColl, M., Plaquevent, B. and Pickens, C. (2024) Radical collaboration: co-creating feminist online graduate courses through a university and museum partnership. Dialogues in Social Justice: An Adult Education Journal, 9(1), 1696. (doi: 10.55370/dsj.v9i1.1696)

Lloyd, K. (2016) Co-curation in the classroom: networked learning and digital participation in North East England. Historic Environment, 28(2), pp. 70-83.

Lloyd, K. (2014) Beyond the rhetoric of an “inclusive national identity”: Understanding the potential impact of Scottish museums on public attitudes to issues of identity, citizenship and belonging in an age of migrations. Cultural Trends, 23(3), pp. 148-158. (doi: 10.1080/09548963.2014.925279)

Book Sections

Economou, M. , Lloyd, K. and Spooner, R. (2023) Trends in museum studies programs: supporting critical thinkers and critical doers. In: King, B. (ed.) New Directions for University Museums. Rowman & Littlefield: Lanham, Maryland, pp. 139-157. ISBN 9781538157725

Mason, R., Galani, A., Lloyd, K. and Sayner, J. (2018) Experiencing mixed emotions in the museum: empathy, affect, and memory in visitors' responses to histories of migration. In: Smith, L., Wetherell, M. and Campbell, G. (eds.) Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present. Series: Key issues in cultural heritage. Routledge: Abingdon, Oxon, pp. 124-148. ISBN 9780815370024 (doi: 10.4324/9781351250962-8)

Nic Craith, M., Kockel, U. and Lloyd, K. (2018) The convention for the safeguarding of the intangible cultural heritage: absentees, objections and assertions. In: Akagawa, N. and Smith, L. (eds.) Safeguarding Intangible Heritage: Practices and Politics. Series: Key issues in cultural heritage. Routledge: London ; New York, NY, pp. 118-132. ISBN 9781138580756 (doi: 10.4324/9780429507137-8)

Eckersley, S., Lloyd, K. and Whitehead, C. (2015) Introduction: Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe. In: Whitehead, C., Eckersley, S. and Lloyd, K. (eds.) Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781472425188

Lloyd, K. (2015) Negotiating place, heritage and diversity: young people's narratives of belonging and exclusion in Scotland. In: Whitehead, C., Eckersley, S. and Lloyd, K. (eds.) Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781472425188

Whitehead, C., Mason, R., Eckersley, S. and Lloyd, K. (2015) Place, identity and migration and European museums. In: Whitehead, C., Eckersley, S., Lloyd, K. and Mason, R. (eds.) Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe: Peoples, Places and Identities. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey, pp. 7-60. ISBN 9781472425188

Edited Books

Whitehead, C., Eckersley, S., Lloyd, K. and Mason, R. (Eds.) (2015) Museums, Migration and Identity in Europe: Peoples, Places and Identities. Ashgate: Farnham, Surrey. ISBN 9781472425188

Website

MeLa Consortium, (2015) MeLa Project: Critical Archive. [Website]

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Supervision

Franziska Mucha 

Co-creative events for engagement with digital cultural heritage collections

Abstract:

More and more cultural heritage institutions digitise their collections aiming to unlock potentials of accessibility, usefulness, and meaning to a new variety of users. However, there is a lack of robust knowledge about what exactly enables successful engagement with digital collections. This project aims to narrow this gap by investigating the relationships of three stakeholder groups participating in co-creative use of collections: museum practitioners, active users, and Open GLAM community members. It focuses on three main research questions:

  • What are the challenges and benefits of co-creative events for these stakeholders?
  • How do these stakeholders collaborate and what are the factors impacting their collaboration?
  • What is the role of digital reuse and creative practice in engaging users with cultural heritage collections?

These questions are examined in three co-creative events: a hackathon about discomforting objects on display at The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Scotland; a Coding da Vinci hackathon with openly licensed digital cultural collections in Dortmund, Germany; and a workshop for remixing museum objects with digital tools at the Museum Europäischer Kulturen, Berlin, Germany. The methodology focuses on participants’ collaborative and creative processes and combines ethnographic methods with practice research, using participant observation, creative workshops, interviews, and surveys.

The research provides multi-faceted insights into reusing digital collections and highlights the crucial role of social motivations, media practices, and institutional contexts for engagement. The findings suggest that, in order to unfold the social potential of collections, digitisation needs to be complemented with socio-affective spaces in which diverse participants can develop relationships, negotiate meanings, and explore uses of cultural heritage. The thesis thus outlines practice-oriented approaches for effectively supporting these processes.

Teaching

I am Information Studies PGT Convenor and Programme Convenor for MSc Museum Studies. I teach, mark and moderate across all courses on the programme. 

2022-23 Teaching

Convenor:

  • Introduction to Museology 
  • Museum Learning and Engagement

Team Teaching:

  • Museum Skills and Professional Practice
  • Managing and Using Collections
  • Exhibition Development
  • Work Placement
  • Dissertation and Applied Dissertation

I also contribute to postgraduate teaching in the Centre for Gender History. 

Additional information

Selected Past Projects

MeLa*: European Museums in an age of migrations, Research Field 01, Newcastle University (with Prof Chris Whitehead (PI), Prof Rhiannon Mason, Dr Susannah Eckersley)

The MeLa Project was a four year multidisciplinary and collaborative Research Project involving nine European Partners, which was funded in 2011 within the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission.

Research Field 01 examined the historical and contemporary relationships between European museum representations and identity, using the focus of “people(s)” and “place” to investigate how fluidity, fragmentation, dislocation and mobility impact on individual and museum constructions of identity and belonging. The analysis of key displays in museums, interviews with museums’ staff and visitor studies highlighted the importance of place for the historical contextualisation of objects and events and, therefore, the explanation of past and present phenomena that may be socially divisive, such as racisms. Through the engagement with place, museums can develop more inclusive forms of representation, localise social differences and tensions, contribute to greater social awareness, and create progressive senses of belonging.

Co-Curate North East, Newcastle University

Co-Curate North East was an interdisciplinary project funded through the AHRC Connected Communities Digital Transformations research scheme. The project worked with schools and community groups across the North East of England to curate digital materials from museums, libraries, archives and community heritage organisations. 

Memberships and Professional Bodies

  • Association of Critical Heritage Studies 
  • Social History Curators Group
  • Museum Association