Team

Doctor John Cooper

Principal Investigator

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John Cooper is Principal Investigator of the AHRC Listening to the Commons and St Stephen's Chapel projects. John teaches history at the University of York, where he specialises in the Tudor period. His research interests range from Parliament and political culture to royal propaganda, architecture, art and music. He is historical consultant to the BBC series Gunpowder and to the Royal Armouries, and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries.

Professor Damian Murphy

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Co-Investigator

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Dr Damian Murphy is Reader in Audio and Music Technology at the School of Physics, Engineering and Technology, University of York, and is the University Research Champion for Creativity. He leads the AudioLab, an outward facing multi-disciplinary team with specialist expertise in core audio, music and acoustic engineering research, who work in partnership with key collaborators from industry, cultural and creative sectors. He has been principal investigator on a number of AHRC and EPSRC funded projects relating to room acoustics simulation and auralisation, and published over 100 journal articles, conference papers and books in the area. Dr Murphy is also an active sound artist and in 2004 was appointed as one of the UK's first AHRC/ACE Arts and Science Research Fellows, investigating the compositional and aesthetic aspects of sound spatialisation, acoustic modelling techniques and the acoustics of heritage spaces.

Doctor Catriona Cooper

Post-Doctoral Research Associate

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Catriona is an archaeologist with a background in computational approaches and buildings. She is the PDRA on the Listening to the Commons project and works between the Department of History, Digital Creativity Labs, and the Centre for Digital Heritage. Her research interests lie in multisensory approaches to studying the past, digital recording methods and collaborative research. She is also the treasurer for the UK Chapter of the CAA.

Melanie Unwin

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Project Partner, UK Parliament

Melanie Unwin MA(RCA) is the Deputy Curator of the Parliamentary Art Collection, having previously worked at the British Library and before that in higher education as a lecturer in art and design history. She was the commission curator of ‘New Dawn’ a permanent artwork by Mary Branson, which celebrates the campaign for women’s suffrage in Parliament. She is currently Co-Curator for Parliament’s exhibition ‘Voice and Vote. Women’s Place in Parliament’ to mark the 2018 anniversaries of women’s franchise and the legislation to allow women to enter Parliament as MPs and Peers for the first time.

Doctor Mari Takayanagi

Project Partner, UK Parliament

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Dr Mari Takayanagi is a Senior Archivist at the Parliamentary Archives and historian with a particular interest in women & Parliament in the early 20th century. Her doctoral thesis ‘Parliament and Women c. 1900-1945’, finished in 2012, considered how legislation affected women’s lives and gender equality, women’s roles on Parliamentary committees and the history of women staff in Parliament. She is currently Co-Curator for Parliament’s exhibition ‘Voice and Vote. Women’s Place in Parliament’ to mark the 2018 anniversaries of women’s franchise and the legislation to allow women to enter Parliament as MPs and Peers for the first time.

Doctor Hannah Greig

Adviser

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Hannah is a Senior Lecturer in the History Department and member of the Centre for Eighteenth Century Studies. Her research interests lie in the social, political and material history of Britain in the long eighteenth century (c.1688-1830).

Doctor Sarah Richardson

Adviser

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Dr Sarah Richardson is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Warwick specialising in the political history and culture of nineteenth-century Britain. Her latest book is The Political Worlds of Women: Gender and Political Culture in Nineteenth-Century Britain (Routledge, 2013). She is currently working on a collective biography of the Cobden sisters (daughters of Richard Cobden MP).

Amy Galvin-Elliott‌

Associated PhD Student, University of Warwick

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Amy Galvin-Elliott is a PhD candidate in the History department at the University of Warwick. Her studies form part of a collaborative project between the University of Warwick and the Parliamentary Archives, and her project is kindly funded by an Economic Social Research Council Collaborative Doctoral Award. The project is entitled From Suffragette to Citizen: An exploration of female experience of political spaces in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She is interested in the women’s suffrage movement in Britain, nineteenth century political culture, and spatial theory and the social creation of space.