Laura Bergin
Laura Bergin is currently pursuing her doctoral studies at St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford, in the field of Social Anthropology and Museum Ethnography. Her research examines the face mask within the context of COVID-19, analysing the varied methods and results of its creation, exhibition, dissemination, and commodification. She works at the intersections of art and the social sciences, with a particular interest in how contemporary art challenges and informs both curatorial and anthropological practice. She employs practice-based methodologies in much her academic work, having experimented with sketching, photo-essay, photomontage, digital and non-digital collage, digital mapping, virtual curation, and film. She blends academic research with professional experience having served as both a curator and a prepatorial assistant in the museum sector. Her artwork, utilising mainly digital collage and photography, has been exhibited by the Royal Anthropological Institute. She completed her MPhil in Visual, Material, and Museum Anthropology at the University of Oxford with Distinction in 2021.
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Laura is graduate convenor for year 2022 - 2023.
