Quick post to alert you all to the first episode of the new OU-BBC Co-production ‘Art That Made Us’, which will be broadcast this evening (Thursday 7th April) on BBC2 at 9pm. I am an academic consultant on the series, which has been an absolutely brilliant experience! It’s a great series. Be sure to tune…
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Sprout: REF and those elusive 4* triggers
So, by way of an update, I recently started working back in Museum Studies at the University of Leicester as a ‘REF Pathway’ Research Associate. Over the next six months (five months now, to be precise), I will be supporting the REF-able academics within the School to write and publish outputs judged to meet the…
Sprout: What coaching is (and what it isn’t)
A little while ago I mentioned I was planning on starting a coaching offer for final year PhD students and early career researchers (ECRs). It’s become increasingly clear to me that there is a real need for genuinely affordable advice and support. And, as a one-time PhD student, ECR and now precarious academic, I understand…
New job!
I am delighted to be able to write that I have been appointed as an Associate Tutor at the University of Warwick, based within the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies. I will be leading the MA module, ‘Museums and Heritage: Policy and Practice’ starting next week. An exciting new challenge for 2019! Photo…
Save Garden Street Island!
A quick post in the eye of the storm between lectures and seminars (more about that later), to urge my readers (assuming I have any readers!) to consider signing this petition calling for the preservation of Garden Street Island, which is currently under threat of demolition for the second time in three years. Garden Street…
Ch ch ch ch changes…
In the last month, three big things have happened: I am now employed on a full-time permanent basis by Tricolor. I am working on behalf of Tricolor at Sutton Hoo (that’s one childhood dream ticked off!). Because of the new job and changed circumstances, I’ve had to ditch the teaching course – but not before…
Advertising and Public Memory Social, Cultural and Historical Perspectives on Ghost Signs
In September 2016, ‘the first scholarly collection to collection to examine the social and cultural aspects of the worldwide interest in the faded remains of advertising signage’ (aka ‘ghost signs’, will be published by Routledge. Edited by Stefan Schutt, Sam Roberts and Leanne White, the volume includes a chapter written by Colin Hyde of the…
New Chinese Propaganda pages on the British Library website
Great news! The British Library now has an online guide to the Chinese Propaganda poster collection, which includes a downloadable list of posters with their shelfmarks, based on the catalogue I put together at the end of last year.
The Portland Collection at the Harley Gallery, Nottinghamshire: a review
Just a quick post to mention that my review of the new Portland Collection gallery at the Harley Gallery has been published in the latest issue (May 2016) of the Museums Journal (pp. 44-47) – it’s not yet online but I will add a link when it becomes available. the review can be read online. The…
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…