Current research students

Read about current students' research projects in Museum and Heritage Studies.

Ping Wei

A research focus on the intercultural interpretation and display of Chinese material culture, using the Canterbury Museum collection as a case study.
Ruihe Qi

Ruihe's study will take a comparative view, focusing on Aotearoa New Zealand, Australia, and China.
Sara Joyce Macdonald

Sara Joyce is researching museum interpretation of taxonomic names within natural history.
Anamaria Rojas Munera

Anamaría focuses her PhD on the dynamics and narratives of community-based museums from South America through the lenses of sociomuseology.
Valentin Gorbachev

Gorbachev specialises in technologies to visualise the past and unconventional methods of museum display such as replication and 3D modelling.
Tatenda Tavingeyi

Tatenda's research focuses on the integration of Indigenous knowledge systems and mainstream technoscience for sustainable heritage management.
Yiqi Shen

Yiqi's doctoral research examines the role of digital narratives in shaping visitors’ emotional and affective engagement with cultural heritage.
Franziska Jacob

Franziska will combine theory and practice in Museum and Heritage Studies, using methods like exhibition analysis, visitor research and interviews.