Research
Research at the Galton Collection | Recent research undertaken
Research at The Galton Collection
The Galton Collection is an excellent resource for university groups outside UCL who wish to use the material for teaching practicals.
Enquiries from academics and researchers who wish to gain access to the collection for study of particular objects are also welcome. It is possible to preview some of the collection online, click here to view the online galleries.
Please contact the curator to find out more.
Recent research undertaken
- Galton, the science of mental ability and late 19th Century texts
- Galton's Photography in relation to other visual practices in the late 19th Century in Europe
- Life writing, psychoanalysis and the problem of Narrative Authority
- The Hottentot Venus in Print: Science, Aesthetics and the Popular
- A Social History of Obsession: Disability, Statistics and Psychiatry
- Galton's "Number Forms", comparison of modern data with that collected in 1870's - 1880's on mental faculty
