Hi Sarah
This dialogue took place while I was on holiday, so now that the heat's died down, I thought I'd respond off list. The Theatre Museum (now known at V&A Theatre Collections) does a lot of work with the research community. As well as 2 collaborative PhD's in progress, we are designing an induction course for undergrads and postgrads about conducting research on the performing arts. This has been piloted over the last 2 years with Royal Holloway College, and will be repeated again in November. Admittedly, our collections combine library items, archives, ephemera and museum objects but researchers are encouraged to see them all as a single resource. See www.vam.ac.uk/tco for more information about the collections.
Best wishes
Claire
Claire Hudson
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V&A Theatre Collections
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Hello
I work for Evidence Base at the University of Central England. We've just started a study on behalf of the Research Information Network (www.rin.ac.uk) investigating finding aids/discovery services to help researchers working in universities to find artefacts from museums to use in their research.
In my background research for this I've obviously come across a lot of examples of museums working with the public, schools etc to promote greater engagement with and use of their collections, but I'm struggling to find many examples of museums working specifically to encourage greater use of their collections by university researchers.
I would be very grateful for any suggestions of museums or projects which might be worth looking it. Please email me ([log in to unmask]) if you have any ideas.
Many thanks
Sarah
Sarah McNicol
Evidence Base
University of Central England
84 Aldridge Road, Perry Barr, Birmingham, B42 2SU
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