Dr Violeta Tsenova
I am an interdisciplinary researcher with expertise in cultural heritage, design, public history, and film. Currently, I hold a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowship at Hasselt University, Belgium. My research as a MSCA Fellow brings together participatory design, public history, and heritage studies, to develop tools and spaces for hybrid collectives (assemblages of human and more-than-human actors) to reflect on past urban heritage transitions, engage with present-day changes, and collaboratively envision future possibilities.
Previously I worked as a Research Fellow at StoryLab, Anglia Ruskin University, and as a postdoctoral researcher with the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) at the University of Luxembourg. I completed my PhD at Newcastle University for which I explored the (many) intersection(s) between Human-Computer Interaction design and the means for interpreting and communicating history, heritage, and personal narratives at cultural sites.