The National Trust has appointed Dr Jayne Knight as Assistant National Curator of Photographs. The newly created post was advertised recently and is a fixed-term contract for one year. Jayne will work alongside the Trust's National Curator of Photographs, Anna Sparham.
Jayne is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre for Design History, at the University of Brighton and since January 2025 has been a Science Museum Group Research Associate.
Jayne completed her PhD titled From company museum to national collection, 1927-2023: telling the story of popular photography through the Kodak Museum Collection, with the University of Brighton and National Science and Media Museum in 2024. She holds a MA in the History of Photography from De Montfort Univesrity. Her MA dissertation was titled Connecting Culture and Industry: London Zoo and its Photographic Advertsing in the 1920s.
She has undertaken a number of projects with NSMM and the National Railway Museum collection. Her research interests include popular photography, photographic history, design history, institutional histories, material and visual culture.
See: https://research.brighton.ac.uk/en/persons/jayne-knight
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