Professor Bryony Onciul

Professor Bryony Onciul holds a Personal Chair in Museology and Heritage Studies in the HaSS Department at the University of Exeter, Cornwall Campus. She is a Visiting Professor in Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, Canada. Bryony holds a Future Leaders Fellowship (FLF) and is an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Fellow. She is currently delivering two AHRC funded research grants in Canada and Aotearoa, and she will begin the FLF in 2025.

Bryony is the author of Museums, Heritage and Indigenous Voice: Decolonizing Engagement, published by Routledge, and the lead editor of Engaging Heritage, Engaging Communities published by Boydell and Brewer. She researches and publishes on community engagement, decolonizing museology and heritage, difficult histories, truth and reconciliation, identity, performance, understanding place, environment, and the power and politics of representation.

Bryony is a Senior Fellow of HEA and teaches modules on heritage, museology, public history, Indigenous history, and environmental change. She established a Postgraduate Programme in International Heritage Management and Consultancy that launched in 2018. Bryony supervises PhD students and welcomes applications related to her research.