Dr Louise Mullagh
Lecturer in Arts ManagementProfile
Dr Louise Mullagh is an inter-disciplinary researcher and lecturer whose work broadly explores understandings of place-based knowledge in our data-driven society, through lenses of technology, arts and culture and policymaking. Her work challenges data-driven understandings of the world, advocating for situated, lived experiences to be integrated into digital knowledge systems.
Louise’s research and teaching spans Critical Data Studies, digital curation, and arts and culture. She has used creative methods including walking, design fiction and speculative methods to engage policymakers in rethinking data-driven decision-making.
Currently, she is investigating the relationship between data-driven and situated understandings of place, decentralised knowledge curation and AI’s role in creative industries. Her work contributes to rethinking data activism, participatory governance, and the future of cultural knowledge systems in an increasingly algorithmic world.
Current Teaching
LICA417 - Personal Development (Module Convenor)
LICA420 - Research Methods
LICA412 - Strategic Thinking in Creative and Cultural Industries (Module Convenor)
LICA405 - Research Dissertation supervision
Career Details
Prior to becoming Lecturer I was Senior Research Associate in Imagination Lancaster (Population and Policy). I was also Research Associate on the AHRC funded Living Design and Located Making projects at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. (December 2017 - December 2019).
I have over a decade of experience of working as an arts manager in museums, and hold an MA in Museum Studies (Manchester) ; MRes in Digital Innovation (EPSRC funded, Lancaster); BA (hons) Fine Art: Practice and Theory (Lancaster) and PhD (EPSRC funded) in Digital Innovation (Lancaster).
01/05/2025 → 30/04/2026
Research
13/01/2025 → 31/03/2025
Research
29/11/2024 → ¡
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01/10/2022 → 31/08/2025
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14/03/2022 → 31/05/2022
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03/05/2021 → 29/10/2021
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01/03/2021 → 31/07/2021
Consultancy
31/07/2018 → 31/08/2019
Research
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- Cultures
- Imagination Lancaster