Dr Ruth Adams

Ruth is currently researching the cultural and social history of the South Bank Centre and the Royal Festival Hall in particular, and examining the role of women within electronic dance music scenes.

'The New Girl in the Old Boy Network’: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll at the V&A’, in Levin A. (ed.) Gender, Sexuality and Museums: A Routledge Reader, (Routledge, London, 2010).
 
'The Englishness of English Punk: Sex Pistols, Subcultures and Nostalgia' in Popular Music and Society, Vol. 31, No. 4, October 2008.
 
'Exhibiting Design: Art versus Industry?' in Design Principles and Practices: An International Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, 2007.
 
‘Idol Curiosity: Andy Warhol and the Art of Secular Iconography’ in Stuart & Walton (eds.), Theology & Sexuality: The Journal of the Centre for the Study of Christianity and Sexuality, Vol. 10.2, March 2004.
 
Co-editor of, and contributor to Room 5: The Journal of the London Consortium (Lawrence & Wishart, London, 2000) Paper entitled: ‘Drella Plays the White Man: Andy Warhol and the Cultural Construction of White Masculinity’.
 

Ruth supervises between twelve and fifteen MA dissertations per annum, and she is currently supervising a PhD thesis entitled ‘Festivals as International Businesses: The Internationalization of the Trinidad and Tobago Carnival.

Ruth team teaches the Core Module ‘Culture, Theory & History’ and also teaches the supporting module ‘Culture & Commerce’.

Ruth is the faculty representative on the Staff-Student Liaison Committee.

‘The V&A: Empire to Multiculturalism?’ at The Contentious Museum Conference (Aberdeen University, November 2008).
 
'The New Girl in the Old Boy Network’: Elizabeth Esteve-Coll at the V&A’ at British Academy of Management Conference (Harrogate, September 2008).
 
‘Exhibiting Design: Art vs. Industry?’ at International Conference on Design Principles and Practice, hosted by Common Ground Conferences and Publishing (Imperial College, January 2007).
 
‘The Englishness of English Punk’ at Manchester: Music and Place, hosted by the Manchester Institute for Popular Culture (Manchester Metropolitan University, June 2006).
 
‘The V&A: Continuity and Change’ at CRESC (The ESRC Centre for Research on Socio-Cultural Change) Inaugural Conference - Culture and Social Change: Disciplinary Exchanges (The University of Manchester, July 2005).
 
‘Notes from Underground: Vertical Symbolism in Dostoyevsky’ at Down and Dirty Conference, hosted by Institute of Contemporary Arts (London, July 2003).
 
‘Dumb Blondes’ lecture at Hair the Show art exhibition at the Tablet Gallery curated by Marcia Farquhar (London, March 2003).
 
‘Idol Curiosity: Andy Warhol and the Art of Secular Iconography’ at Dangerous Sex: Contesting the Spaces of Theology and Sexuality Conference hosted by Glasgow & Stirling Universities (Glasgow, April 2002).
 
‘Immorality in Immateriality’ at Cultural Studies: Between Politics and Ethics hosted by Bath Spa University College (Bath, July 2001).
 
‘A Pot to Piss In? Kant, Duchamp and the Aesthetics of Iconoclasm’at Travelling Concepts Conference hosted by Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (Amsterdam, March 2001).
 
Participant in Panel Discussion, ‘Race in the Visual Arts’ at Picturing Whiteness Symposium held at Tate Britain (London, February 2001).
 

Ruth is a consultant (unpaid) for SOWF, a project sponsored and supported by the South Bank and Bankside Cultural Quarter which aims to put young people at the heart of the arts as visitors, creators and advocates.
She is a volunteer contributor to King’s Widening Participation scheme, and she also undertakes some voluntary educational work with local schools.
 

October 2000 – July 2003
Organisation: University of the Arts, London. Central St Martin’s College of Art & Design
Position: Visiting Tutor, Contextual Studies for BA (Hons) Product Design
 
November 1997 – July 2003
Organisation: RSA: Royal Society for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
Position: Project Administrator/Researcher on a variety of projects relating to education, art and design, workplace ethics, and the future of the professions
 
July 2001 – August 2001
Organisation: American Institute for Foreign Study (UK) Ltd in affiliation with The London Institute
London Summer Art & Design Programme at Central St Martin’s
Position: Assistant Class Leader/Course Reader: British Design & Designers
 
Qualifications
October 2004 – December 2005
King’s College, London
King’s Institute of Learning & Teaching Merit
Postgraduate Certificate in Academic Practice (PGCAP)
 
October 1999 - September 2005
The London Consortium
Doctoral Programme: Cultural Studies & Humanities
Thesis title: Gentlemen and Players: The Victoria and Albert Museum - An Institutional Case Study of the Culture and Society Tradition
(Recipient of AHRB funding)
 
October 1998 – September 1999
The London Consortium
M.Res Cultural Studies & Humanities Merit
Dissertation title: ‘Remote Culture? British Television and the Visual Arts’
(Recipient of AHRB funding)
 
October 1994 – July 1997
Lancaster University
BA (Hons) Sociology & Visual Culture First Class Honours