I am delighted to announce that A Museum Studies Approach to Heritage, the latest in the Leicester Readers series published by Routledge, is now available to buy. Co-edited by myself, Sheila Watson and Katy Bunning, the book draws on existing work and brand new chapters written by academics from across the world. Here’s the blurb from…
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New course: Socially Engaged Practice in Museums and Galleries
At the School of Museum Studies’ Fiftieth Anniversary Conference, Museums in the Global Contemporary, last week, a brand new course, ‘Socially Engaged Practice in Museums and Galleries, was launched. I was involved in its development, last summer, as Research Associate on the project, and it’s great to see that all that hard work has come to…
Museums in the Global Contemporary
I’m recovering today from an exhausting but enjoyable few days at the School of Museum Studies’ Fiftieth Anniversary Conference, Museums in the Global Contemporary. I didn’t get to see as many sessions as I would’ve liked, but I did manage to write a few live(-ish) blogs for the conference website. You can read them, and the…
Draft programme: The Museum in the Global Contemporary: Debating the Museum of Now
The draft programme for the forthcoming Leicester Museum Studies Fiftieth Anniversary Conference is now available on the ‘Global Contemporary’ website (where you can also book a place). Me and Malika Kraamer will be presenting a paper – ‘Unplaced heritage: Making identity through fashion’ – on Wednesday, 20th April, which is based on the chapter we’re…
CFP: The Museum in the Global Contemporary: Debating the Museum of Now
2016 will be the 50th anniversary of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. To celebrate, the School is organising a major international conference in April and is particularly encouraging creative contributions. It should be a really exciting and inspiring event, with something for everyone, and far beyond the typical academic conference! See below for the call…
Museum Studies Dissertation Reviews
I’ve just realised that I’ve made a serious omission on this blog – I haven’t yet written about one of the larger editing jobs I currently do. For the last couple of years I’ve been Field Editor for Museum Studies Dissertation Reviews. Dissertation Reviews: … features overviews of recently defended, unpublished doctoral dissertations [aka theses]…
Introducing Museum Studies on Dissertation Reviews
I have news! Over the last few months I’ve been through a fairly comprehensive application/interview process to become the Field Editor of a new Dissertation Reviews strand, Museum Studies. And I got the job! Unpaid (naturally), but excellent CV fodder and it will give me the opportunity to do a little bit more editing –…