Thesis Title: Interaction, Interpretation & Information in Museums & Galleries

Supervisors: Professor Paul Luff, Professor Christian Heath

Date of entry: 2019, Full-Time

Lucy Meechan is a PhD student with a background in Art History, now based in the Work, Interaction & Technology research group at Kings Business School, where her research approaches issues of aesthetics from an interactional perspective. She specialises in video-based studies of social interactions within museums and galleries, drawing upon Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis (EMCA).

She has collected data at institutions both in the UK and mainland Europe, including the Royal Academy, London, and Belvedere Palace, Vienna. In particular, she is interested in the further advancement of video-based methodologies for studies within these cultural settings, currently working in collaboration with the Laboratory for Cognitive Research in Art History at the University of Vienna to explore the distinctive opportunities afforded by combining Mobile Eye Tracking (MET) with EMCA- informed video analysis.

Lucy’s current PhD research is part of CASE Studentship between the Economic and Social Research Council (ESCR) and the Royal Academy, London.

Together with Professor Dirk vom Lehn and Professor Christian Heath, Lucy is currently working on a book entitled "The Neglected Visitor" contracted by Columbia University Press.