2026 Young and Emerging Researchers' Forum

Lucrezia Gigante is a Museum Studies researcher with an interest in contemporary public culture and the politics of place-based cultural participation. She is particularly interested in the political agency and responsibility of cultural organisations in producing and reproducing ideas of place through their public programming.
She earned her PhD from the University of Leicester's School of Museum Studies, with funding from AHRC Midlands4Cities, with a research project focused on art organisations' place-based public programmes as sites for progressive cultural citizenship.
Currently, Lucrezia Gigante is a Research Associate at the University of Glasgow on the AHRC Place-based Research Programme. Prior to this role, she was a Post-doctoral Research Associate with Culture Commons, working on the UK-wide open policy development programme 'The Future of Local Cultural Decision Making'.