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.
Please check the research interests of our staff if you're considering applying for postgraduate research study.
Current Students
- Claire Banks - Company drawings of natural history: the evolution of techniques and materials
- Charlene Jordan - The natural dye colours of Winti: cultural influences, chemical analysis and preservation of Suriname’s Afro-spiritual textile heritage pre-1850
- Nysa Noelle Loudon - The Ecology, Materials, and Aesthetics of Unusual Fibres
- 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
- Katie McClure - Synthetic Caledon textile dyes: development of analytical protocols for identification and colour preservation in heritage collections
- Alison Spence - Archivally-embedded textiles, digitisation and digital materiality
- Tess Visser - The Materials and Methods of Six Oil Paintings by Glasgow Boy Artist David Young Cameron (1865-1945)
Past Students
- Victoria de Lorenzo - PhD completed 2024 - Connecting threads: The transnational textile trade between nineteenth-century Britain and the Spanish-speaking world
- Daniel Sánchez Villavicencio - PhD completed 2023 - Unravelling the technique of double-sided painted silk banners through the characterisation of five Kenning examples of Glasgow Museums Collection
- Jonathan Cleaver - PhD completed 2021 - The interrelationship of carpet weaving technologies and design in the work of James Templeton and Company, Glasgow, carpet manufacturer, 1890 – 1939
- Rosa Costantini - PhD completed 2021 - Strain across historic tapestries: a multi-analytical investigation on damage mechanisms and conservation strategies
- Lucie Whitmore - PhD completed 2019 - Fashion narratives of the First World War
- Hannah Elizabeth Woodward-Reed - PhD completed 2018 - The context and material techniques of royal portrait production within Jacobean Scotland: the Courts of James V and James VI
- Toolika Gupta - PhD completed 2017 - The influence of British rule on elite Indian menswear: the birth of the sherwani
- Stacey Clapperton - PhD completed 2017 - Making it real: methods and materials of British war artists, 1914-1919
- 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