The Department for Culture and Communication is pleased to announce that on 23 December 2025 our associate, Barbara Lovrinić Higgins, successfully defended her PhD dissertation entitled Re-working Cultural Memory and Heritage in the Digital Age: Cultural Policies for LAM Institutions from the EU Perspective.
The dissertation was developed within the CULTMED project as part of the PhD programme in Cultural and Media Management at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade. Through its thematic focus and methodological approach, the research further deepens the Department’s ongoing work in the fields of digital culture and cultural policies.
The evaluation committee emphasised that “the dissertation by Barbara Lovrinić Higgins meets the highest academic and methodological standards and provides an original contribution to heritage studies, media theory, and cultural policy. Moreover, it successfully combines conceptual reflection with empirical evidence and opens up new directions for future research and practice in the field of digital cultural heritage.”
As a prelude to the scholarly publications emerging from this research, we share a link to an article published in IRMO Aktualno, in which Barbara analyses the impact of European Union policies on the digital transformation of libraries, archives, and museums, with particular emphasis on their institutional convergence into the concept of “memory institutions”.
We congratulate Barbara on her very good doctoral dissertation and look forward to the continuation of our joint research collaboration.
