Visitor Studies: Embracing Change?
Happy New Year from the VSG Committee!
Do your professional New Year goals and resolutions involve getting out more? Sharing your own good work? Learning from and meeting others? Staying up to date on best-practice and engaged with issues facing the sector?
If so, booking your attendance at the 2015 VSG conference might be the best way to begin your 2015.
The theme of the 2015 VSG Conference will be Visitor Studies: Embracing change?
Society is changing. Technology is advancing. Visitors are changing. Ways to engage with culture are changing. Funders' expectations are changing. As Bob Dylan once said: "The times they are a' changing." How are we in visitor studies embracing these changes? How is the discipline adapting and evolving? Where do we as practitioners need to re-evaluate our working practices, and how do we strike that balance of preserving our current approaches whilst responding to new research techniques and methodologies? More importantly, how are we measuring the impact of these changes, and how can visitor studies ensure that it stays relevant and influences the work of colleagues, leaders, funders and other decision makers?
The annual VSG conference is a two-day event which provokes and stimulates debate on key issues in the sector. Each year it brings together delegates from across the country working in a wide range of cultural organisations (including museums, zoos, botanical gardens, libraries, galleries, universities and visitor attractions as well as freelancers) and in a range of positions (including audience research, evaluation, audience development, visitor studies, learning, education, community engagement and others).
Each day will commence with a thought-provoking keynote speaker and the Programme, which will be announced very soon, is packed with case studies, interactive workshops and panel discussions.
Book your place now at http://vsg-conference-2015.eventbrite.co.uk/
Lyndsey Clark
Interpretation - Exhibitions - Engagement projects
www.ltclark.co.uk
@ltclarkuk
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