Dr Claire McGee
@clairemcathrine.bsky.social
📍Norwich/Northumberland
Academic researcher interested in: art, anthropology, global visual and material culture, costuming, death studies, subcultures and digital humanities
Academic researcher interested in: art, anthropology, global visual and material culture, costuming, death studies, subcultures and digital humanities
Pinned
Centre for African Art and Archaeology
University of East Anglia
www.uea.ac.uk
For those of you interested in my research on the visual culture of the Marock metal scene in Botswana, you can read my profile on the Centre for Africa Art and Archaeology page at UEA: www.uea.ac.uk/groups-and-c...
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We actually have some AHRC PhD funding! www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
AHRC | University of Essex
Arts and Humanities Research Council
www.essex.ac.uk
November 18, 2025 at 6:21 PM
We actually have some AHRC PhD funding! www.essex.ac.uk/postgraduate...
Incredibly grateful to have studied for, and achieved, a PhD… but the ‘career’ job hunt really is demoralising 😥
November 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Incredibly grateful to have studied for, and achieved, a PhD… but the ‘career’ job hunt really is demoralising 😥
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Early Career Researchers wanted!
Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.
Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:
Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.
Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:
🎤 Are you an early career researcher passionate about communicating with the wider public? Applications for the 2026 British Science Festival Award Lectures are now open!
Next year's Festival is in Southampton, 16-20 Sept.
Find out more and apply >
www.britishscienceassociation.org/award-lectures
Next year's Festival is in Southampton, 16-20 Sept.
Find out more and apply >
www.britishscienceassociation.org/award-lectures
Award Lectures
Details on how to become an Award Lecturer at the British Science Festival
www.britishscienceassociation.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Early Career Researchers wanted!
Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.
Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:
Apply to speak/perform at next year's British Science Festival #BSF26. We'll be at the University of Southampton.
Award Lectures are available in seven areas incl. social sciences, and seek to highlight the interdisciplinarity of science, research and innovation:
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We're offering our MA in Heritage and Museum Studies as a two-year degree with placement from next autumn. I'm very happy to talk to anyone interested in taking it: www.essex.ac.uk/courses/PG01...
MA Heritage and Museum Studies with Professional Placement - Heritage and Museum Studies Degree | University of Essex
MA Heritage and Museum Studies with Professional Placement offers a unique opportunity for you to gain relevant work experience within an external business.
www.essex.ac.uk
October 30, 2025 at 4:58 PM
We're offering our MA in Heritage and Museum Studies as a two-year degree with placement from next autumn. I'm very happy to talk to anyone interested in taking it: www.essex.ac.uk/courses/PG01...
Always coordinate your water bottle to your shoes 🧡
October 20, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Always coordinate your water bottle to your shoes 🧡
Back working with PAL in the gloriously brutalist Main Library
October 20, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Back working with PAL in the gloriously brutalist Main Library
Really looking forward to speaking later today at Crossing Borders: Metal Music Scenes and Extremity at Liverpool John Moores University
October 3, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Really looking forward to speaking later today at Crossing Borders: Metal Music Scenes and Extremity at Liverpool John Moores University
Working on a conference paper for this Friday… it’s good to be back writing and thinking again 🖤
September 29, 2025 at 1:32 PM
Working on a conference paper for this Friday… it’s good to be back writing and thinking again 🖤
After 2 years… I’ve finally got the news I’ve been waiting for, my ankle is no longer broken and the tendons, although heavily scarred, are healed!! I need more physio and OT, but it’s amazing news, especially as I’m finally starting to feeling like myself again ☺️
September 25, 2025 at 7:22 PM
After 2 years… I’ve finally got the news I’ve been waiting for, my ankle is no longer broken and the tendons, although heavily scarred, are healed!! I need more physio and OT, but it’s amazing news, especially as I’m finally starting to feeling like myself again ☺️
Refracting Resilience: Tesfaye Urgessa's
Dialogues with Memory and Flesh -
At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. artafricamagazine.org/refracting-r...
Dialogues with Memory and Flesh -
At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. artafricamagazine.org/refracting-r...
Refracting Resilience: Tesfaye Urgessa’s Dialogues with Memory and Flesh - ART AFRICA Magazine
At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. Tesfaye Urgessa, The Fragile Mind, 2025. Oil and lacquer on canvas. Copyright of the arti...
artafricamagazine.org
September 21, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Refracting Resilience: Tesfaye Urgessa's
Dialogues with Memory and Flesh -
At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. artafricamagazine.org/refracting-r...
Dialogues with Memory and Flesh -
At the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich, painting bears witness to trauma, displacement and the slow work of healing. artafricamagazine.org/refracting-r...
"If we gave up now, it would destroy our scene." Botswana's death metal cowboys Overthrust are flying the flag for African metal www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...
"If we gave up now, it would destroy our scene." Botswana's death metal cowboys Overthrust are flying the flag for African metal
Botswana's Overthrust have overcome hardship and tragedy to fly the flag for African metal
www.loudersound.com
September 21, 2025 at 6:13 PM
"If we gave up now, it would destroy our scene." Botswana's death metal cowboys Overthrust are flying the flag for African metal www.loudersound.com/bands-artist...
Endoscopy done, currently feel
mashed off my face… roll on the results - Fingers crossed for no coeliacs 🤞
mashed off my face… roll on the results - Fingers crossed for no coeliacs 🤞
August 21, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Endoscopy done, currently feel
mashed off my face… roll on the results - Fingers crossed for no coeliacs 🤞
mashed off my face… roll on the results - Fingers crossed for no coeliacs 🤞
Currently 3/5 through a really lovely temping contract atm. I went into it thinking it’d be standard admin and it’s ended up being an amazing insight into a section of the uni I knew little of before. Not only is it a warm & welcoming team, but I’ve been able to collaborate a little on a project ❤️
August 20, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Currently 3/5 through a really lovely temping contract atm. I went into it thinking it’d be standard admin and it’s ended up being an amazing insight into a section of the uni I knew little of before. Not only is it a warm & welcoming team, but I’ve been able to collaborate a little on a project ❤️
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Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters
Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters
Kelvingrove park is site of Scotland’s first skatepark, Kelvin Wheelies, which has been covered in rubble for decades
Scotland’s first outdoor skatepark – currently buried beneath rubble in Glasgow’s Kelvingrove park – will be excavated next week in an attempt to preserve its legacy.
Archaeologists at the University of Glasgow are inviting volunteers to join them as they begin their excavation and survey work at the former Kelvin Wheelies park, which has been underground for more than three decades. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
August 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Archaeologists to excavate Glasgow skatepark – with help from skaters
Belongings are very nearly finished being moved into my new place…
August 9, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Belongings are very nearly finished being moved into my new place…
Back at UEA, temping, with a lovely lunchtime view 😍
August 5, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Back at UEA, temping, with a lovely lunchtime view 😍
Back in Norwich!
August 4, 2025 at 12:27 PM
Back in Norwich!
Power cut in my mums town and surrounding areas, have ended up with half the local population in Ashington Asda buying candles. Never thought I’d be annoyed we don’t live in Ashington anymore, if only for the luxury of electricity 😂
July 31, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Power cut in my mums town and surrounding areas, have ended up with half the local population in Ashington Asda buying candles. Never thought I’d be annoyed we don’t live in Ashington anymore, if only for the luxury of electricity 😂
One thing that’s quite nice about job rejections now is that at least they now start ‘Dear Dr McGee’…
July 24, 2025 at 6:53 PM
One thing that’s quite nice about job rejections now is that at least they now start ‘Dear Dr McGee’…
I'm on the hunt for a job, links for posts are welcome... I have interdisciplinary research and teaching with a focus on (global) visual & material culture, anthropology, subcultures, clothing & costume, social media, community & kinship... also experience as a library assistant
July 21, 2025 at 12:55 PM
I'm on the hunt for a job, links for posts are welcome... I have interdisciplinary research and teaching with a focus on (global) visual & material culture, anthropology, subcultures, clothing & costume, social media, community & kinship... also experience as a library assistant
On Friday night I went with @pumaparded.bsky.social to see the brilliant Botswana death metal band Overthrust 🤘 SO glad to see them play live again, and this time in the UK!
July 20, 2025 at 11:54 AM
On Friday night I went with @pumaparded.bsky.social to see the brilliant Botswana death metal band Overthrust 🤘 SO glad to see them play live again, and this time in the UK!
Thank you to my department, The Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas for a wonderful graduation celebration! 🎉
July 16, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Thank you to my department, The Sainsbury Research Unit for the Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas for a wonderful graduation celebration! 🎉
Go to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, make @pumaparded.bsky.social interact with the art (and sheep)
July 15, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Go to the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, make @pumaparded.bsky.social interact with the art (and sheep)
I have spent many lunch breaks over the past 12 years, sitting on the floor against this Henry Moore sculpture chatting with my lovely BA, MA and PhD friends - it felt only fitting to take a picture with it today to say goodbye to an old friend
July 14, 2025 at 9:41 PM
I have spent many lunch breaks over the past 12 years, sitting on the floor against this Henry Moore sculpture chatting with my lovely BA, MA and PhD friends - it felt only fitting to take a picture with it today to say goodbye to an old friend