Robert Knifton

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Robert Knifton is University Academic Fellow in Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage at University of Leeds. At the Visual and Material Culture Research Centre at Kingston University in 2015 he co-curated the HLF-funded project Histories in the Making that examined the history and heritage of Kingston School of Art. He was researcher on the AHRC Beyond Text project Collecting and Curating Popular Music Histories at the Institute of Popular Music, University of Liverpool. He co-curated Centre of the Creative Universe: Liverpool and the Avant-Garde for Tate Liverpool in 2007, as part of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Project with Tate and Manchester Metropolitan University.