Dr Elizabeth Carnegie
Lecturer in Arts and Heritage
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Elizabeth Carnegie joined the Management School in 2005 with particular responsibilities for arts and heritage management and is now programme director for the new badged route MSc Creative and Cultural Industries. She has considerable experience of the museums and galleries sector having worked as a curator of history with Glasgow Museums and participated in a number of high profile and award winning projects including setting up the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art (1993) and redisplaying the People's Palace in 1998. She was on the Interpretation Panel of the Glasgow Gallery of Modern Art (1993) and subsequently became deputy director of North East Lincolnshire Museums Service prior to entering academia. She previously worked as a lecturer at Edinburgh Napier University. Other teaching experience includes cultural studies courses for the University of the Highlands and Islands and on MBA/MSC programmes in Hong Kong. Elizabeth has taught a wide range of arts management subjects, and has teaching experience at all levels.
Elizabeth holds an MA (hons) Scottish Ethnology, University of Edinburgh, an MA Museum Studies, University of Leicester, and a PhD in representation from the University of Edinburgh.
Elizabeth is a member of editorial Board: International Journal of Heritage and Sustainable Development and the Programme Director for MSc Management (Creative and Cultural Industries) and a member of the Learning and Teaching Committee.
Research Interests
Elizabeth is currently researching the role of contemporary faith in society and the shaping of cultural and religious identities within Diasporic communities. She is involved in a project at Goreme, Cappadocia with Associate Professor Hazel Tucker, University of Otago, New Zealand. Another current project with Dr. Derek Bryce, University of Strathclyde, considers representations of the Near East within nationally funded galleries and museums. A third projects examines the representation of creation myths within museums working with Leeds City Museum and drawing on research at Museum of Creationism, Kentucky.
Research Grants have included:
- AH/G001146/1: AHRC Research Workshops - Impact of Arts & Humanities Research Scheme. "Qualitative Methods of Enquiry into the Arts Consumption Experience and its Impact". Principal Investigator. 2008.
Teaching
- MGT 6069: Introduction to the Creative and Cultural Industries
- MGT 6071: Cultural Leadership and Management
- MGT 868: Critical Issues in Tourism
Publications
Selected recent publications include:
Smith, M and Carnegie, E. (2006) With Melanie Smith, `Bollywood Dreams? The Rise of the Asian Mela as a Global Cultural Phenomenon´, Public History Review, UTS, 12
Devereux, C and Carnegie, E. (2006) `Pilgrimage: journeying beyond self´, Special Edition Wellness Tourism, Tourism Recreation Research, 31, 1
Carnegie, E. (2006) `It wasn´t all bad´: Representations of working class cultures within social history museums and their impacts on audiences, Museum and Society, 4:2
Carnegie, E. (2006) Religion, Museums and the Modern World, MARTOR, the Museum of the Romanian Peasant Anthropology Review, 11
Carnegie, E. and McCabe,S. (2008) `The Symbolic (Re)Creation of National Spaces for Re-enactment Events´, Current Issues in Tourism, July/August,Issue 4
Carnegie, E (2009) Catalysts for Change? Museums of Religion in a Pluralist Society, Special Edition, Selwyn, T, Graburn N and A. Ron (eds) Journal of Management, Spirituality and Religion
Carnegie, E. (2010) Museums in society or society as a museum? Museums, culture and consumption in the (post) modern world, in Kerrigan, F and O'Reilly, D (eds) Parcelling the Past: selling heritage in the modern world, New directions in arts marketing, Taylor Francis, 2010