Donna Rose

Donna Rose is completing an Irish Research Council Enterprise Partnership Scheme Postgraduate Scholar PhD that focuses on the ethical and sensitive development, conservation, management, and mediation of the material remains of Ireland’s institutional systems. Her research is based at University College Dublin School of Architecture, Planning & Environmental Policy, the National College of Art and Design, and the National Museum of Ireland.

In 2022, she completed a research project at the National Gallery of Ireland which focused on the history and ongoing legacies of colonial violence and Transatlantic trade in enslaved people as represented in the Gallery collections. 

At NEMO’s European Museum Conference 2024, Donna Rose will deliver the workshop "Can we talk about precarious employment? Mitigating risk while sustaining meaningful change for museums, staff and communities" on Monday 11 November.