Dr Louise Purbrick

Dr Louise Purbrick is Senior Lecturer in the History of Art and Design in the School of Historical and Critical Studies. She completed her DPhil in Art History at the University of Sussex in 1993 and has since published much of this work, on the material culture of the Great Exhibition of 1851, in articles and book chapters. Pubrick has a continuing interest in nineteenth century art and industry but her current research lies in two areas: the meanings of everyday life and the domestic world; the development of new museum practices and cultural policies at sites of conflict. Since 2004, Purbrick has worked with Belfast-based cross-community project, Healing Through Remembering, on the establishment of a museum of the conflict ‘in and about’ Northern Ireland.