Lucrezia is a Museum Studies researcher with an interest in contemporary public culture and the politics of place-based cultural participation. She is particularly interested in the political agency and responsibility of cultural organisations in producing and reproducing ideas of place through their public programming.

Lucrezia earned her PhD from the University of Leicester’s School of Museum Studies, with funding from AHRC Midlands4Cities. Her doctoral research focused on art organisations’ place-based public programmes as sites for progressive cultural citizenship.

Currently, Lucrezia is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow on the AHRC Place-based Research Programme. Prior to this role, she was a Post-doctoral Research Associate with Culture Commons, working on the UK-wide open policy development programme ‘The Future of Local Cultural Decision Making’, with research supervision from the University of Leeds. This 12-month programme culminated in a digital policy report which presented a new suite of policy recommendations for cultural devolution. In this role, she also led the evaluation of a series of live projects developed by the University of Kent’s School of Architecture, Design and Planning as part of Medway Heritage Action Zone.

As part of her current role, Lucrezia convenes the Early Career Place Network, which brings together researchers, policy makers and practitioners interested in place-based work.

Lucrezia’s work experience spans academia, where she held teaching and research-focused roles, as well as public programming and communication in visual art and heritage contexts, including with the UNESCO Global Network of Water Museums.

Lucrezia's research is located at the intersection of Museum Studies, Cultural Geography and Cultural Policy. It takes an interdisciplinary approach to study the politics of place-based cultural practices, and the critical investigation of cultural citizenship.

Her research interests include: 

• The political agency of museums and cultural institutions, particularly their implication in producing and reproducing ideas of place
• Place-based cultural policy, particularly how they shape the conditions of place-based work
• Community engagement in arts and heritage, particularlymechanisms of participatory governance and decision making
• Place-based public programming
• Cultural citizenship, particularly through public culture and art instituions
• Socially engaged practice
• Feminist theories of place
• Participatory and creative research methods

Research groups

• Place & built environment

Lucrezia supervises Master's student dissertations in Urban Studies and Social Policy and has been an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) since 2022.