Fiona Candlin
Professor
Department of History of Art
Birkbeck University of London
United Kingdom
Biography
Fiona Candlin worked in the education department at Tate Liverpool, and in the School of Architecture and Art History at Liverpool University, before being appointed to a lectureship jointly held by Birkbeck and the British Museum in 2000. In this role she established and organised the World Arts and Artefacts Certificate programme. Between 2005 and 2007, Fiona was Visiting Professor on the KonstLab studio programme at Gothenburg University, Sweden, and she joined the department of History of Art at Birkbeck in 2009.
Research Interest
Museology
Publications
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'The Dubious Inheritance of Touch: Art History and Museum Access', Journal of Visual Culture. vol. 5 (2):137-154, 2006.
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'Independent Museums, Heritage, and the Shape of Museum Studies', Museums and Society. vol. 10 (1). 2012.
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'Open House at the Vintage Wireless Museum', Open: Cahier on the Art and the Public Domain. Issue 23. (Bi-lingual English /Dutch journal), 2012.
