Kate Allanson Conlon is a Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation-funded PhD candidate at the University of Lancashire and intern in the Global Cultures department, National Museums Liverpool, based at the World Museum. Her thesis explores the socio-political messages framed within the covers of women’s magazines from the Japanese Empire, with a specific focus on Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Kate also holds a bachelor’s degree in Asia Pacific studies and a master’s degree in North Korean studies both completed at the University of Lancashire.
In 2023, Kate was awarded the Madeleine Ginsburg Internship Award for her time as a curatorial intern at the Gawthorpe Textiles Collection. In 2024, Kate presented her paper ‘Short Hair, High Heels and Modern Girls: A semiotic analysis of the female subjects in Chen Chin’s bijinga paintings 1933-1936’ at the European Association of Taiwan Studies annual conference in Vienna, where she was shortlisted as a finalist for the EATS young Scholar Award.
