Hi all
May be of interest!
Best
Nicky
Nicky Boyd
Museum Consultant (audience research & evaluation)
17 Lizban Street
Blackheath
London SE3 8SS
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From: Museums Computer Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Helen
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Subject: For, With, On: What research do museums, galleries and heritage
organisations Śneedą? - 13th November
For, With, On:
What research do museums, galleries and heritage organisations ‘need’?
13th November, 2-5pm
Discovery Centre,
Leeds Museums and Galleries
Open call: A workshop for all those involved in or interested in cultural
sector-university research partnerships.
Have you commissioned research?
Have you conducted researched in ‘partnership’ or ‘collaboration’?
Have you facilitated research on your collections?
Have you been researched?
Research has moved up the agenda for museums and heritage oragnisations.
Pressures of evidencing ‘impact’ or improving effectiveness have led larger
institutions to become regular commissioners of research done for them –
whether exit surveys, detailed visitor research or research to underpin
displays. In recent years opportunities for research with University-based
researchers have been facilitated by the Arts and Humanities Research
Council’s strategies for partnership and impact and have reflected a wider
turn towards the use of material and visual culture in research.
Simultaneously more traditional ideas of researching on museums – producing
knowledge about them – are arguably called into question as funding
increasingly prioritizes partnerships, ideas of co-production of knowledge
and putting the control for setting research agendas in the hands of (some)
cultural institutions (e.g. the changes in Collaborative Doctoral Awards).
In this changing landscape of what constitutes quality, useful and necessary
research, this workshop aims to identify the different possibilities created
by research for, research with and research on museums, galleries and
heritage organisations. We will explore question such as: When is it helpful
for museums and heritage oragnisations to collaborate? What new forms of
knowledge production are emerging through collaboration? When is
commissioning better than collaboration? What kinds of research on museums
might be in the ‘public interest’?
The workshop will begin with short contributions from our invited speakers.
The workshop will conclude with our speakers drawing the discussion together
through a round table discussion.
Confirmed speakers:
Tim Boon, Head of Research and Public History, Science Museum Group
Professor Keri Facer, University of Bristol and Arts and Humanities Research
Council Connected Communities Leadership Fellow Camilla Nichol, Head of
Collections, Leeds Museums and Galleries Georgina Young, Paul Hamlyn Fellow
in Arts Participation and Engagement on the Clore Leadership Programme and
Senior Curator, Contemporary History, Museum of London.
To attend the workshop register with Helen Graham with the following details
by 6th November:
Name:
Organisation and Position:
Why are you interested in attending the workshop? (just add a few sentences
so we can get a sense of the different motivations for coming to the
workshop)
For further details contact:
Helen Graham
University Research Fellow in Tangible and Intangible Heritage Director,
Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage
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Details of how to get to Discovery Centre:
http://www.leeds.gov.uk/museumsandgalleries/Pages/kirkstallabbey/Visitor-Inf
ormation.aspx
Funded by Higher Education Innovation Fund and co-organized by the Centre
for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage and the Centre for
CollaborativeHeritage Research.
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