Museum and Gallery Studies MA: Who teaches this course

• Staff teaching on this course

Find out more here about the Faculty or School where you will be taught and about some of the key teaching staff for this course.

Staff and contributory practitioners

The Faculty of Art, Design and Architecture teaches this course. The course is developed and delivered by specialist academic staff and museum and gallery practitioners. The interdisciplinary breadth and depth of our research, teaching, and practice-based experience ensures that our teaching staff are at the forefront of contemporary museum and gallery study.

Peta Cook

Title:  Curator, Kingston Museum

Dr Stuart Davies

Title:  President of the Museums Association

David Faulkner

Title:  Director, Stanley Picker Art Gallery

Dr Duncan Grewcock

Title:  Course director
Email: d.grewcock@kingston.ac.uk 

Duncan is senior lecturer in museum and gallery studies at Kingston University and course director of the Museum and Gallery Studies MA. Duncan's professional background is in museum and heritage consultancy. His consultancy experience ranges across all kinds of museums and galleries from the smallest volunteer run operations to large international institutions. His recent doctoral research challenges existing approaches to the theory and practice of contemporary museum and gallery study, disrupting the museum and doing museology differently.

Chris Horrocks

Title:  Principal lecturer
Email: c.horrocks@kingston.ac.uk 

Chris has published widely in the field of cultural theory and art. His publications include Marshall McLuhan and Virtuality, and Tokyo Glamrock. He is currently working on a publication entitled Cultures of Colour: Visual, Material, Textual and is on the editorial board of Immprint Publications, whose output includes Bob and Roberta Smith's A is for Book and Fashion Forever by Ian McKell and Liz Farrelly. He has recently visited Beijing to present a paper on the Gao Brothers banned sculpture MissMao.

Dr Paul Micklethwaite

Title:  Research Fellow Sustainable Desig

Helen Potkin

Title:  Head of School, Art and Design History
Email: h.potkin@kingston.ac.uk 

Helen is course director for the History of Art, Design and Film BA (Hons), the Visual and Material Culture BA(Hons), and the Museum and Gallery Studies BA(Hons). Her particular research interests are in twentieth-century sculpture, public art, performance and body art.

David Spence

Title:  Director of programmes, Museum of London

Dr Helen Wickstead

Title:  Senior lecturer