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Staff profile / Gaynor Kavanagh

Dean of Cardiff School of Art & Design

Professor Kavanagh is an internationally recognized scholar in the field of museum studies, with an extensive publication record.

A qualified and experienced curator, she was part of the world-renowned Department of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester between 1980 and 1999. She left to set up the Graduate School at Bath Spa University.

Between 2000 and 2004 she was Dean of Media and Culture at Falmouth College of Art. She then took a year out because of her father’s failing health, during which time she taught museum studies on a fractional basis at Winchester School of Art and chaired their Research Committee.

She became head of Cardiff School of Art and Design at UWIC in October 2005 and Dean from August 2006.

Originally from Pontypool, she now lives in Cardiff and Camerton.

Professor Gaynor Kavanagh is a member of WIRAD.
Monographs:

(2000), Dream Spaces: Memory and the Museum, Leicester University Press, Leicester
(1994), Museums and the First World War, Leicester University Press, Leicester
(1990), History Curatorship, Leicester University Press, Leicester

Edited Books

(1998), Making City Histories in Museums, Leicester University Press, Leicester
(1996), Making Histories in Museums, Leicester University Press, Leicester
(1994), Museum Provision and Professionalism: Leicester Reader in Museums Studies, Routledge, London
(1991), Museum Languages: Objects and Texts, Leicester University Press, Leicester
(1991), Museums Profession: Internal and External Relations, Leicester University Press, Leicester

Book Chapters / Essays [inc. exhibition catalogues]

(2007), Kavanagh, G, ‘Museums in a Broken World’ in J. Osmond (ed), Myths, Memories and Futures: the National Library and National Museum in the Story of Wales, p47-57, Cardiff: Institute of Welsh Affairs
(2007), Kavanagh, G, ‘Talismans of Affinity’ in Agenda, p62-4, Cardiff: Institute of Wales Affairs
(2004), Kavanagh, G, ‘Museums and the lightness of life’ in Nordisks Museologi, (2), p 37-46.
(2003), Kavanagh, G, ‘Melodrama, pantomime of portrayal? Representing ourselves through exhibitions in history museums’ in B.M. Carbonell. (ed), Museum Studies, p 348-355. Oxford: Blackwell.

Conference Papers / Presentations

(2008), Kavanagh, G, Objects that speak? Projections and obfuscations in our relationships with the material world, Material Worlds Conference, University of Leicester
(2005), Kavanagh, G. Hard truths and bitter realities. In: Museums Association Conference, Keynote session, London.
(2005), Kavanagh, G. Weighing the years: memory and the sense of touch. In: 1st Annual Lectures in Memory. Southampton: University of Southampton.
(2005), Kavanagh, G. Life stages and material memories. In: Cultural Memory Series, University of London.
(2003), Kavanagh, G. Public lecture and seminar at the British Museum on museums and the mind, as part of the BM’s 250th anniversary celebrations, 2003
(2004), Kavanagh, G. Solid air: objects and memories. In: The European Reminiscence Conference, London.

Exhibitions / Events

2008 presented research paper to the Department of Art History, University of Reading
Advisory Panel Member, National Railway Museum, York
Advisory Panel Member, National History Museum, St Fagans
2006 Lecture for Institute of Welsh Affairs at the National Museum of Wales; Inaugural Lecture, UWIC
2003 Public lecture and seminar at the British Museum on museums and the mind, as part of the BM’s 250th anniversary celebrations. Research Residencies

Membership of Professional Bodies

Museums Association (Fellow)

Gaynor Kavanagh At Cardiff School of Art & Design, we believe in being at the top of our game and that includes being able to deliver programmes that really make a difference. We give our students every opportunity to explore all kinds of creative and professional possibilities, in an environment that recognises the importance of taking risks and seizing the initiative. We are interested in ideas and how these are examined through practice.