Accessing and implementing research is often problematic for museum practitioners. In this two-day workshop, participants will:
- learn techniques to help them read academic research more quickly and easily
- hear how academics, museum evaluators and exhibition designers are attempting to integrate research and practice
- take part in a question and answer session with exhibition designers to find out what informs their practice and what evaluators should ask when working with them
- hear how the Science Museum and King's College, London have worked together on a collaborative research project and see how you could use their science capital framework in their own organisation.
This workshop is organised by the Ecsite thematic group dedicated to stimulating and helping facilitate research and evaluation in science centres and museums across Europe, the REV Group. A detailed programme is available here.
Facilitator
Senior Manager for Audience Research and Insight
The Victoria and Albert Museum
London
United Kingdom
Session speakers
Senior Manager for Audience Research and Insight
The Victoria and Albert Museum
London
United Kingdom
Research Associate, King's College London
London
United Kingdom
The academic researcher's perspective.
In this session, I am going to share insights from my experience of collaborating with museum practitioners in a research-to-practice project. I will talk about the translation work needed for a theoretical concept, in this case 'science capital', to resonate with and become relevant to museum practice, as well as the challenges such work entails.
Associate Director Exhibit Content Development
San Francisco
United States
