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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-Information.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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