By Professor Jane Henderson ACR, FIIC, SFHEA, FRHistS Secretary General International Institute of Conservation Some still view conservation as a purely technical discipline, where decisions are made with mathematical precision, guided solely by data. A small group of conservators still insists that science holds all the answers. But in today’s heritage landscape, the idea that
A new PhD studentship will focus on the V&A East Storehouse, on the Olympic Park, due to open in May. The closing date for applications is 20th May. A Q&A session is being held online on 15th April for any queries. Find out all details (including how to register for the Q&A) at this link: https://www.kcl.ac.uk/study-legacy/funding/ahrc-collaborative-doctoral-partnership-cdp-studentship-va-east-storehouse
Time has flown since we shared our end of project report in January, so we thought we would give a quick update on our activities. Excitingly, the report has been gaining sector interest. The Museums Association featured it in one of their Museums Journal news articles (14 February 2025). Later this year we have an
As of 1 February 2025, we met a major milestone with the completion of our Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) supported workshop grant. We are extremely thankful for the support of RSE, and additionally from King’s College London and the University of Stirling, which made it possible to design and host two workshops exploring emotions
Anna speaks at the Creative Health: Museums, History, Heritage and Wellbeing conference in Amsterdam
Blog written by Dr Anna Woodham, 11.11.24 A few weeks ago, I was very pleased to speak at the Creative Health: Museums, History, Heritage and Wellbeing conference in Amsterdam. The event was part of the PULSE Network for Medical and Health Humanities (UvA/VU Amsterdam). The two-day event included two key-note speakers (including one by Nuala
As the Summer draws to a close (where did it go?!), and we are now creeping just past the half-way point of our RSE funded workshop grant, we have our sights and planning set firmly on the final 6 months of our emotions in museum work collaboration. This is an exciting time with our second
By David Hingley ‘it was an important reminder of the impression our work can leave on us’ Earlier this year I was lucky to be invited to take part in the first Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), University of Stirling (UoS), and King’s College London (KCL) supported ‘emotions in museum work’ workshop on the topic
By Alina Botezatu On the first day of May this year I had the joy to join the workshop Emotions in museum work, organised by Dr Jennie Morgan and Dr Anna Woodham, part of their project New futures of care: Investigating emotionally laden work in museums. Funding offered by Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), University
By Tom Hughes Over the past few years, I’ve experienced the widest range of emotions in my museum career as I’ve tried to connect with non-traditional audiences for our museums service and create opportunities for people to participate and tell their stories. Sometimes, this has been met by resistance from colleagues who feel we should
On 1 May 2024 we hosted our first Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE), University of Stirling (UoS), and King’s College London (KCL) supported ‘emotions in museum work’ event. We will be reporting later on its emerging themes (including at this conference). For now, we have been pondering an unexpected response to the event. This was