Reports
Fiona Candlin, Andrea Ballatore, Mark Liebenrood, Alexandra Poulovassilis, Peter Wood, George Wright, Maria Golovteeva, Helena Bonett (2025) Closed Museums and their Collections 2000-25: A summary of the data, Birkbeck, University of London. ISBN: 978-1-0369-3362-3
Valeri Katerinchuk, Nick Larsson and Alexandra Poulovassilis (August 2022) The Mapping Museums Knowledge Base: technical report. Birkbeck, London
Fiona Candlin, Jamie Larkin, Andrea Ballatore and Alexandra Poulovassilis (March 2020) Mapping Museums 1960-2020: A report on the data Birkbeck, University of London, London
Book
Fiona Candlin, Toby Butler, and Jake Watts. Stories From Small Museums (2022) Manchester University Press
Articles
Wright, George, Ballatore, Andrea, Poulovassilis, Alexandra, Wood, Peter (2026) ‘From Notes to Models: Leveraging LLMs for Museum Closure Data’. In: Balke, WT., et al. New Trends in Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries. TPDL 2025. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2694. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-032-06136-2_8
Ballatore, Andrea and Katerinchuk, Val and Poulovassilis, Alex and Wood, Peter (2023) Tracking museums’ online responses to the Covid-19 pandemic: a study in museum analytics. ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage , ISSN 1556-4673
Candlin, Fiona and Ballatore, Andrea, (2023) ‘A geography of UK museums’. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 48:1, 2023, 213-229
Candlin, Fiona, and Ballatore, Andrea and Larkin, Jamie and Poulovassilis, Andrea and Katerinchuk, Valeri and Liebenrood, Mark (2023) ‘The UK Museum Boom: Continuity and change 1960–2019’. Cultural Trends, online
Larkin, Jamie, Ballatore, Andrea, & Mityurova, Katerina (2023), Museums, COVID-19 and the pivot to social media. Curator: The Museum Journal, Wiley Periodicals LLC
Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Katerinchuk, Valeri and Candlin, Fiona (2023) ‘Designing a system to chart the development of the UK museum sector: an iterative approach’. Journal of Systems and Information Technology 25:1 192–218
Candlin, Fiona and Larkin, Jamie (2020) ‘What is a Museum? Difference all the way down’. Museum and Society 18 (2). 115–131
Poulovassilis, Alexandra and Larsson, Nick and Candlin, Fiona and Larkin, Jamie and Ballatore, Andrea (2020) ‘Creating a Knowledge Base to research the history of UK Museums through Rapid Application Development’. ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage 12 (4) 1–27
Candlin, Fiona and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2019) ‘Understanding and managing patchy data in the UK museum sector’. Museum Management and Curatorship, 35 (4) 446–459
Candlin, Fiona, and Larkin, Jamie and Ballatore, Andrea and Poulovassilis, Alexandra (2019) ‘The Missing Museums: Accreditation, Surveys, and an Alternative Account of the UK Sector’. Cultural Trends, 29 (1) 29:1, 50–67
Some of these articles are behind paywalls. Final drafts of each article are available on BIRON once the journal’s embargo period has expired. Alternatively, contact the team for an eprint