2022 — Present
Museum Studies · PhD
Dokuz Eylül University
New Museology through the example of Northern European museums and proposals for the museums of the future
MERT KOFOĞLURESEARCHER & ENTREPRENEUR
MUSEUM STUDIES · CULTURAL HERITAGE RESEARCH, FIELDWORK & ENTREPRENEURSHIP
MertKofoğlu.
Understanding and rethinking
the changing role of museums.
PhD Candidate · Dokuz Eylül University
01 / ACADEMIC WORK
DOCTORAL RESEARCH
From Northern Europe
to New Museology.
Academic background
ORCID 0000-0002-6383-0293 ↗2019 — 2022
Museum Studies · Master’s degree
Dokuz Eylül University
Institutional use of social media in museums
2014 — 2019
Art History · Bachelor’s degree
Ege University
Forgery in twentieth-century art
Sharing knowledge,
thinking together.
What is a museum, and what should it be?
Yıldız Technical University · Museums and Museology Seminar
How does art help us understand ourselves?
Çelebi Foundation · Youth Camp
Assessing social media skills in museum practice
İstanbul Bilgi University · Cultural and Arts Management Conference, CAMMA
Examining social media use in museums in Türkiye and around the world
SHAKIN’ · Sharing Footnotes of Subaltern Knowledge and Practices, Belgrade
Women and Tourism Workshop
Dokuz Eylül University · Graduate School of Social Sciences
9th International Conference on Culture and Civilization
Tashkent University · Online
03 / FIELDWORK & INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS
A perspective shaped
by the field.
50+COUNTRIES
1.000+MUSEUMS VISITED & STUDIED
I have had the opportunity to visit and study over 1,000 museums in more than 50 countries. This field experience is an important part of my academic work and my perspective on museums.
Explore the museum atlas ↗MEMBERSHIP
ICOM Active member
INTERNATIONAL CONTACTS
ICOMOS · CIDOC · MuseumNext · Mediterranean Museums Forum
From research
to practice.
Alongside my academic work, I develop projects in cultural heritage and museum studies.
I.
MuseaPass
One of the projects I am developing in museum studies and cultural heritage.
II.
Heriticore
Part of my entrepreneurial work in cultural heritage and museum studies.
III.
NoventisLab LTD
The UK-based company through which I conduct my entrepreneurial activities.
Book translationBusiness developmentContent localizationProject management
EDITING & TRANSLATION
Happiness
Economics
I edited the English edition of Happiness Economics and translated it into Turkish.
English editingTurkish translation
EDITING & TRANSLATION
İzmir Puppet Days
Book editing and translation.
ARISE
Academic Research Intelligence & Scholarly Evaluation: A Three-Stage System Proposal for Academic Quality Assessment in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
A three-stage proposal for evaluating academic quality in the age of AI: AI assessment, independent human peer review, and a blind synthesis of the two reports. The paper proposes museum studies and cultural heritage research as the initial pilot fields.
Open access · English
EXPLORE THE IDEA
How does ARISE work?
Select each of the three independent stages to explore the system.
FIRST REPORT
AI assessment
A language model trained on academic content assesses the work using the same five quality dimensions. This stage provides the first independent report.
Output: AI assessment report
THE SAME FIVE DIMENSIONS AT EVERY STAGE
- 01Originality
- 02Intellectual rigor
- 03Interdisciplinary impact
- 04Openness and reproducibility
- 05Human dimension
A summary of the system proposed in the white paper. This is not a scoring tool.
From research
to the page.
Reflections on museums, cultural heritage and the field.
Explore the articles ↗