Raphaëlle Goyeau

Prior to coming to UEA, Raphaëlle completed a Master in Library and Information Services Management at the University of Sheffield. Her dissertation looked at Higher Education students' experiences of using digital special collections and primary sources.

Raphaëlle is interested in the networks of collecting and knowledge creation in the Early Modern period, and more specifically in the Elizabethan Society of Antiquaries and its Stuart revival.

Originally from France, Raphaëlle came to the United Kingdom to study Theatre and Creative Writing at Brunel University, and joined UEA in 2022 as part of the Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) "The Origins and Development of the Cotton Collection at the British Library". Her thesis will focus on the organisation and hierarchisation of the Cotton manuscript, using the surviving material elements of the collection, including the bindings, title pages, and added illustrations.

Raphaëlle worked in both academic and rare book libraries since 2018. She is trained in both modern and special collection cataloguing. She is currently the Assistant Librarian (Academic Skills and Project Support) at Clare College, Cambridge, where is runs study skills workshops for undergraduates. Her other most recent positions involved the cataloguing of pre-1900 collections at the Museum of the Order of St John's, and supporting the work of the Whipple Library.