Staff Profile
Professor Nela Milic
- Professor of Arts Practice
College of Creative Arts, Technology and Engineering
Professor Nela Milic
- Professor of Arts Practice
College of Creative Arts, Technology and Engineering
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Before joining Buckinghamshire New University in 2024, I was Coordinator of Contextual and Theoretical Studies at the University of the Arts, London. My career highlight is the display of work at the Olympic stadium in London and the Venice Biennale as part of Vlatka Horvat’s project By the Means at Hand for Croatian Pavilion in 2024. Belgrade’s Culture Centre in Serbia has my work in its collection. I have delivered projects for the Royal Opera House, Barbican, Arts Council England, John Lewis, Al Jazeera, Campbell Works, Oxo Tower, LIFT, London Film Festival etc. and I ran Refugees and the Arts Initiative – a British national organisation for the ‘refugee arts’. I was a recipient of the European Cultural Foundation Artistic Grant for the project Wedding Bellas and I won Southwark community arts award for my project Here Comes Everybody in 2015.
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I studied for my MA and PhD at Goldsmiths, University of London and I completed my BA at Westminster University. I am a Senior Fellow of Higher Education Academy.
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Memory Studies, Practice-Based Research and Socially Engaged Arts.
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I am an associate member of UAL’s TRAIN research centre and a co-chair of Arts and Memory Working Group of Memory Studies Association (MSA). I am on editorial board of the Journal of Arts and Communities and a founding member of Postsocialism and Art research platform at UAL.
I am a reviewer of UCL Press, Palgrave MacMillan, the Journal for Art, Design & Communication in Higher Education, Memory Studies Journal, Studia Politica, Feminist Review, Latin American and Latinx Visual Culture. I evaluate EC’s Marie Curie, Creative Europe, COST applications in the humanities and am a consultant for the Science Fund of Republic of Serbia. I am part of the AHRC funded Peace and Conflict Cultural Network and Arts and Reconciliation research project for which I have created an installation Text Illuminations.
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I am part of PhD supervisory teams for doctoral students at UAL – Marta Marciska, Andreea Paciu and Hannah Kemp-Welch (Techne) and Rebecca Plume at BNU. Four of my students completed their doctoral studies. I would continue supervising students working in memory studies field as well as participatory arts. I have acted as an internal examiner at BNU, external examiner at UNSW, Sydney and UPV/EHU University of the Basque Country and am a member of Community for Artistic and Architectural Research (CA²RE).
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I am currently working on ‘Voices of Memory’ exhibition and symposium at the Brunel Shed (11-21st of November 2025) for which I am collaborating with a variety of institutions, artists and academics. They come from Charles University in Prague, Compultense University in Madrid, Goldsmiths, University of London, but also BNU.