Research
Early Year in Museums: Practice – Research Seminar
Newcastle TBC , United KingdomYou are invited to attend a seminar discussing young children in museums from the perspectives of both museum professionals and researchers. Children in their early years are a growing audience for museums, galleries and heritage sites. Young children (from birth to 5 years old) bring with them the need for new practices amongst the staff […]
Pitching Your Research to the Media
OnlineHoping to share your research with a wider public audience? Looking to raise your media profile? This online session will help you workshop a media pitch for your humanities research and will arm you with the tools needed to approach journalists and producers. The session will be made up of two parts. The first will […]
Engage Journal 46 The Launch Event
OnlineJoin us for an online panel discussion chaired by Professor Sarah Perks, with special guests to be announced, which will focus on our new Journal topic of Generation Z and the future of creative work. This is a FREE event. Please register using this link: https://engage.org/happenings/engage-journal-46-the-launch-event/ Accessibility If you have any access requirements please let […]
Making sense of academic research
OnlineThis online session for practitioners in museums, archives, libraries and other arts and cultural organisations will explore how to find relevant academic research and use it to improve your own service. There are many ways in which academic research can be used to develop and improve cultural services - including learning and community engagement practices. […]
Decolonising Portrait Collections and Interpretation: Care, Repair and Intersectional Re-Imaginations
Online , United KingdomA webinar for museum, gallery and heritage professionals and academics engaged with portrait research, interpretation and display. How can we use portraiture to unearth erased or invisible histories or challenge colonial narratives? And what role does the radical imagination play in decolonial and intersectional curatorial practices and interpretations of portraiture? This event will engage with […]
Decolonising Portrait Collections and Interpretation: Failure as Social Justice Praxis
OnlineA webinar for museum, gallery and heritage professionals and academics engaged with portrait research, interpretation and display. This event will explore practical examples of 'failed' anti-racist work. Our speakers will share how they navigated through them and equip participants with tools to deal with 'failure'. Working in an anti-racist way is 'messy', non-linear, highly emotive […]
Understanding British Portraits Annual Seminar
National Portrait Gallery St. Martin's Place, London, United KingdomWe are delighted to announce that this year’s Understanding British Portraits Annual Seminar will take place in the National Portrait Gallery’s new Mildred & Simon Palley Learning Centre on Tuesday 24 October 2023, chaired by Oli McCall, Senior Curator at Compton Verney Art Gallery & Park. We are looking forward to welcoming network members back […]