'Redeeming death: mortality, portraiture, and the quest for salvation in Tudor England and Wales'.
Lead Research Organisation:
Swansea University
Department Name: College of Arts and Humanities
Abstract
The project will take the National Portrait Gallery's unique collection of Tudor portraits as its key source for investigating sixteenth-century responses to mortality, self-fashioning as reflected in Elizabethan portraiture, and their relation to theological precepts and spiritual coping strategies developed in the context of the English Reformation.
| Description | Documentation Work |
| Organisation | English Heritage |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | I have brought my research and documentation skills to English Heritage, in order to assist with audits and re-hangs of early 17th century portraits |
| Collaborator Contribution | Providing electronic and historic resources (objects) |
| Impact | Increased knowledge of the arts and heritage sector Networking |
| Start Year | 2017 |
| Description | Knowledge Transfer Partnership - Trusted Source |
| Organisation | University of Oxford |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | I am in the process of submitting short articles for a general audience to the Trusted Source knowledge transfer partnership. Facilitated by the National Trust and Oxford University |
| Collaborator Contribution | Hosting the platform, peer reviewing my articles. |
| Impact | Online publications Increasing research profile |
| Start Year | 2019 |