Lisa Hinkins

I am a first year AHRC Techne Collaborative Doctoral Award Phd Researcher with the University of Brighton. My doctoral thesis title is, 'Where are all the Lesbians? In search of Lesbian Lives in Museums.'

This project is in collaboration with the Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust (RPMT). My central aim is to investigate how RPMT represents lesbian historic and contemporary lives and identies, through the interrogation of it's collections and written archive records. 

The project draws on gender and sexuality studies, art history, material and visual culture and museum studies to utilise an intersection of methodologies: archive and catalogue research in the RPMT's museums, and close analysis of LGBTQ+ displays informed by autoethnography and autotheory. I will develop workshops and exhibition making at RPMT with trans-generational cis-gendered and trans lesbian women participants to foster mutual learning and recognition, empowering those involved as active partners of the institution. 

I am a co-curator of the Queer the Pier exhibition currently on display in the Spotlight Gallery at Brighton Museum & Art Gallery.