Anna Woodham and Tamsin Russell (Museums Association) shared findings from our pilot project at the Glam Cares Conference on 18th June. Thank you to everyone who took part in the pilot! GLAM Cares is a UK-wide support network for people working with communities across the galleries, libraries, archives, museums and heritage sectors. Its regular conference
As we move from Winter into Spring we (Anna Woodham and Jennie Morgan) have been invited to give talks on emotions in museum and cultural heritage work. Drawing together findings from the Royal Society of Edinburgh funded ‘New Futures of Care’ project (report here), and a more recent pilot study (with King’s College London and
A small-scale pilot study on emotions experienced by museum and heritage workers has recently been completed by King’s College London, University of Stirling and the Museums Association. The pilot study included a baseline survey (103 participants) and an emotion diary study (completed over one week, 33 participants), with the report sharing high level insights from
On Wednesday 12th November, 5-6.30pm, we will be giving a talk on ‘Working with feelings: workforce emotions in cultural heritage institutions’ at the University of Manchester. This is part of their Research Seminar Series in the Department of Art History and Cultural Practices. Full details and a link to register attendance at this event (in
You are invited to take part in a pilot research project exploring workforce emotions which is being run as a collaboration between King’s College London, the University of Stirling and the Museums Association. This is an opportunity to help shape research in this area. We are asking for your help in testing the methods so we can
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