Officially announcing the second series of the New Museum School Podcasts from Culture&. From October 2019 – May 2020, I worked with 18 of our New Museum School trainees and podcast producer Catriona Oliphant from Chrome Media, as they researched, wrote and recorded their own podcasts on themes relevant to their work-placements and interests. IContinue reading “New Museum School podcasts 2020”
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Behind the Scenes at the Museum – book launched
Your access-all-areas guide to the world’s most amazing museums! Last year I worked with the fantastic editorial team at DK books as the lead consultant on this new children’s book all about museums. The aim was to give children an an exclusive tour of the world’s most exciting museums and discover their hidden treasures. ItContinue reading “Behind the Scenes at the Museum – book launched”
Developing Emotions – resources launched
As you may know, I am currently doing my PhD in the Centre for the History of the Emotions at Queen Mary University. Recently, I was lucky enough to be involved, in the capacity as a cultural heritage consultant, in the Developing Emotions schools project, led by the wonderful Living with Feeling team. Developing Emotions isContinue reading “Developing Emotions – resources launched”
Once Upon Us
This summer I was lucky enough to be asked to speak as part of a panel for the Once Upon Us project by @immuto_c. The project was inspired by the latest medical research on how our environment influences our genetic expression and how memories could move across generations through DNA coding. It explored how weContinue reading “Once Upon Us”
Developing Emotions in the Classroom: Teacher Workshops
This summer the Living with Feeling project launched ‘Developing Emotions’, a new schools engagement programme. Over the next year and beyond, we’ll be working with primary and secondary school teachers to develop educational and pastoral resources about emotions, with the aim of improving children’s emotional literacy and wellbeing. To launch this programme, we held three workshops withContinue reading “Developing Emotions in the Classroom: Teacher Workshops”
Resort(ing) to a seaside retreat
I have come away to be beside the sea. This weekend I am staying in a family home Airbnb in a room with a desk and WiFi in St Leonard’s on Sea with the express purpose of getting some serious writing done on my PhD research. I’m having a lovely time so far. It’s aContinue reading “Resort(ing) to a seaside retreat”
Sensory social club
Last week I went to visit one of our Culture& trainees, Chloe, at London South East College Bexley to observe her delivering workshop for the college’s transition day. Chloe is completing her traineeship at the Prince Philip Maritime Collections Centre, Royal Museums Greenwich in the collections care and conservation team. Chloe and her colleague HelenContinue reading “Sensory social club”
Magical Margate
Yesterday we had our Culture& team away day in Margate. It was a wonderful and magical day. It was great to spend time with my Culture& colleagues and share updates, ideas and ambitions for how we can help make the museum and cultural sector more diverse. The sun was shining and sea breeze cool andContinue reading “Magical Margate”
Podcast launch
Our New Museum School trainees have all written, recorded and produced their own podcasts about issues, objects, collections and narratives inspired by their placements at their host museums. I’m so proud of them! You can listen to them here: https://www.cultureand.org/podcasts/
The Isolated Baronet
How can we plan and design ethical interpretations of difficult histories and personal experiences? Today I went to Calke Abbey for a conference run by the National Trust and Leicester University Museum Studies on their new collaboration and exhibition ‘HumanKind‘. To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Henry Harpur, ‘The Isolated Baronet’, thisContinue reading “The Isolated Baronet”
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