Presentation from Young (science) apprentice at the 2013 Science Communication Conference organised by the British Science Association - slides by Kenny Webster
Jump Start Your Teaching and Research in Special CollectionsKelli Hansen
Overview of the Special Collections and Rare Book department at the University of Missouri and strategies for using the collections in teaching and research.
Responses collated from 'Hints and Tips for New Professionals' event, organised by CILIP UC&R Yorks and Humber, 8th June 2010, National Centre for Early Music, York.
Jump Start Your Teaching and Research in Special CollectionsKelli Hansen
Overview of the Special Collections and Rare Book department at the University of Missouri and strategies for using the collections in teaching and research.
Responses collated from 'Hints and Tips for New Professionals' event, organised by CILIP UC&R Yorks and Humber, 8th June 2010, National Centre for Early Music, York.
Terry MacKenzie, South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture
Justin Parkes, Culture NL
Chantal Knowles, National Museums Scotland
Presentation from the Museums Galleries Scotland 'Fortune Favours the Brave' conference, September 2013.
Museums Galleries Scotland has teamed up with Daydream Believers to create Marseum, an out-of-this-world learning resource for schools, museums, and galleries. Delegates will be introduced to this exciting project and discover how their organisations can get involved.
Marseum was developed as part of the MGS Workforce for the Future programme, a Scotland-wide youth employability project delivered in partnership with Developing the Young Workforce. Through Workforce for the Future, Pupils from lower Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) areas work with their local museum or gallery to co-create an exhibition, learn about roles in the sector and develop their employability skills.
Lighting the cauldron - Young people and cultural organisationsArts Council England
Presentation slides from our 'Lighting the cauldron - Young people and cultural organisations' conference at the Museum of London, Thursday 25 October 2012.
As part of the Cultural Olympiad, Arts Council England's Stories of the World programme transformed the opportunities open to young participants and challenged museums to make lasting change to how they operate by embedding young people at the heart of their decision-making.
The conference brought together project partners, key thinkers and influencers from across the cultural sector to explore what has changed and how to take forward youth engagement and co-production. The conference explored what museums can learn from Stories of the world and how this learning can be applied to the wider cultural sector.
The Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre (TAEC) is an independent, non-profit museum dedicated to promoting the appreciation and preservation of cultural diversity in Lao PDR. Like most museums, TAEC maintains a collection of artefacts, curates exhibitions, and promotes scholarship and learning through research and outreach activities. However, TAEC is also a museum representing living cultures in a developing country context, and as such faces a unique set of challenges for which it has developed specific approaches.
In a country with low education levels and a lack of museum and non-traditional learning opportunities, simply drawing in Lao visitors and creating a meaningful experience for them requires creativity and active visitor management. TAEC has developed a range of activities for children visiting the museum and also conducts sessions in schools to broaden its reach. Attracting adults has remained more elusive. To facilitate the building of further cultural heritage resources in Laos, TAEC conducts capacity-building activities for government staff of museums, NGO workers, and tourism professionals.
TAEC’s most challenging but meaningful objective is to promote cultural pride and revitalisation within ethnic minority communities themselves. TAEC has explored approaches including an ethnic minority intern programme, collaborative exhibition development with villages, and an ethnic cultural festival. Recognising that rural ethnic communities are amongst Laos’ poorest populations, TAEC also runs a handicrafts development programme, generating income for over 600 artisans in 11 provinces of the country.
TAEC views all these approaches (and others) as part of its education and advocacy programmes, and crucial to the sustainability of the organisation, its mission, and cultural heritage management itself. The challenge is how to progress from simply educating local populations to understand and value the idea of cultural diversity, to adopting the task of fostering cultural diversity, and finally, to taking leadership in their own communities to tackle their specific cultural heritage issues through home-grown approaches.
Changing Perceptions: Reconceptualizing Museums’ Training Programs for Season...West Muse
Museum educators have a variety of roles and duties, and may fill volunteer, part-time, full-time, seasonal, or permanent positions. These educators often come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, including teacher education, museum studies, the museum's content specialty, and the performing arts. With all the different background educators come from, museums must develop training that helps these educators offer engaging, entertaining, and high-quality programming. To meet this end, museum educators require training in the museum's content and pedagogical and educational practices to facilitate learning and enjoyment for the wide variety of visitors that come to museums. The literature on training museum educators is limited, but research on seasonal museum educators is particularly sparse. This study aimed to address this gap.
Terry MacKenzie, South Lanarkshire Leisure and Culture
Justin Parkes, Culture NL
Chantal Knowles, National Museums Scotland
Presentation from the Museums Galleries Scotland 'Fortune Favours the Brave' conference, September 2013.
Museums Galleries Scotland has teamed up with Daydream Believers to create Marseum, an out-of-this-world learning resource for schools, museums, and galleries. Delegates will be introduced to this exciting project and discover how their organisations can get involved.
Marseum was developed as part of the MGS Workforce for the Future programme, a Scotland-wide youth employability project delivered in partnership with Developing the Young Workforce. Through Workforce for the Future, Pupils from lower Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation (SIMD) areas work with their local museum or gallery to co-create an exhibition, learn about roles in the sector and develop their employability skills.
Lighting the cauldron - Young people and cultural organisationsArts Council England
Presentation slides from our 'Lighting the cauldron - Young people and cultural organisations' conference at the Museum of London, Thursday 25 October 2012.
As part of the Cultural Olympiad, Arts Council England's Stories of the World programme transformed the opportunities open to young participants and challenged museums to make lasting change to how they operate by embedding young people at the heart of their decision-making.
The conference brought together project partners, key thinkers and influencers from across the cultural sector to explore what has changed and how to take forward youth engagement and co-production. The conference explored what museums can learn from Stories of the world and how this learning can be applied to the wider cultural sector.
The Traditional Arts and Ethnology Centre (TAEC) is an independent, non-profit museum dedicated to promoting the appreciation and preservation of cultural diversity in Lao PDR. Like most museums, TAEC maintains a collection of artefacts, curates exhibitions, and promotes scholarship and learning through research and outreach activities. However, TAEC is also a museum representing living cultures in a developing country context, and as such faces a unique set of challenges for which it has developed specific approaches.
In a country with low education levels and a lack of museum and non-traditional learning opportunities, simply drawing in Lao visitors and creating a meaningful experience for them requires creativity and active visitor management. TAEC has developed a range of activities for children visiting the museum and also conducts sessions in schools to broaden its reach. Attracting adults has remained more elusive. To facilitate the building of further cultural heritage resources in Laos, TAEC conducts capacity-building activities for government staff of museums, NGO workers, and tourism professionals.
TAEC’s most challenging but meaningful objective is to promote cultural pride and revitalisation within ethnic minority communities themselves. TAEC has explored approaches including an ethnic minority intern programme, collaborative exhibition development with villages, and an ethnic cultural festival. Recognising that rural ethnic communities are amongst Laos’ poorest populations, TAEC also runs a handicrafts development programme, generating income for over 600 artisans in 11 provinces of the country.
TAEC views all these approaches (and others) as part of its education and advocacy programmes, and crucial to the sustainability of the organisation, its mission, and cultural heritage management itself. The challenge is how to progress from simply educating local populations to understand and value the idea of cultural diversity, to adopting the task of fostering cultural diversity, and finally, to taking leadership in their own communities to tackle their specific cultural heritage issues through home-grown approaches.
Changing Perceptions: Reconceptualizing Museums’ Training Programs for Season...West Muse
Museum educators have a variety of roles and duties, and may fill volunteer, part-time, full-time, seasonal, or permanent positions. These educators often come from a variety of backgrounds and experiences, including teacher education, museum studies, the museum's content specialty, and the performing arts. With all the different background educators come from, museums must develop training that helps these educators offer engaging, entertaining, and high-quality programming. To meet this end, museum educators require training in the museum's content and pedagogical and educational practices to facilitate learning and enjoyment for the wide variety of visitors that come to museums. The literature on training museum educators is limited, but research on seasonal museum educators is particularly sparse. This study aimed to address this gap.
Katey Boal, National Trust for Scotland
Lorna Cruickshank, Highland Council
Presentation from the Museums Galleries Scotland 'Fortune Favours the Brave' conference, September 2013.
Flow India works at the intersection of Culture, Education and Technology with a people and planet-centred design focus. Our work emphasises on how to make the real-world and cultural capital accessible and relevant to educators and learners of all age groups and we have worked extensively on-the-ground and across the country.
LISTENING TO NEW VOICES, EMBRACING CHANGE and BANISHING SACRED COWS-
What can we learn from tomorrow’s leaders about how museums of the future should look? This session was presented to academics and museum professionals at the 2011 Ohio Museums Assn. Conference on the campus of Walsh University. I led a panel of Museum Studies students who shared their perspectives on the future of museums in the 21st century. Topics included innovative programming approaches, visitor interactions, social media, and confronting dominant paradigms to engage new and existing audiences.
Moderator: Jennifer Souers Chevraux, Adjunct Professor, Walsh University Museum Studies Program, Principal at Illumine Creative Solutions, and Publisher at MuseoBlogger
Supporting non-traditional students at the University of East LondonALISS
Supporting non-traditional students at the University of East London – Simone Ngozi Okolo- Academic Services and Skills Manager and Robin Stinson- Subject Librarian, Social Sciences
Data Visualisation and Information Design are increasingly employed in print, broadcast and web media to convey complex ideas or bring simple ones to life. The tools for maps, infographics and visualisations are becoming cheaper and easier to use, and the range of approaches is diversifying. At the same time, data of all kinds is becoming more accessible, whether on research funding (through the Gateways to Research platform), Open Government Data, or the results of individual research projects – as Open Access initiatives to make sharing scientific data a key element of journal publications. We will cover basic ideas and examples of visualisation for newcomers, how visualisation exists as part of wider engagement goals and include a more critical discussion about what visualisation needs to do in order to be a meaningful mechanism for engagement and participation.
Speakers: Andrew Steele (Cancer Research UK), Artemis Skarlatidou (UCL), Damien George, (University of Cambridge), Martin Austwick (UCL)
What is wellbeing and what does it mean for science communication? – H Room, Austin Pearce Building
DISCUSS IT strand
Can engaging minority audiences in science help improve wellbeing? How should we be doing it?
As of April 2011 the UK‟s Annual Population Survey has included questions on wellbeing. Some of the groups considered “hard to reach” such as people with disabilities, from specific ethnic groups (Black, Arab, Pakistani, and Indian) and unemployed, have lower scores in wellbeing. We will debate if and how the work done by the science communication community can impact the wellbeing of these groups.
Speakers: Saalam Abdallah (New Economic Foundation), John Haworth (University of Bolton), Chair: Amy Sanders (Wellcome Trust)
The intention of this session is to discuss the potential of design, as distinct from art, when engaging audiences with science. The tools used to engage the public with science continue to evolve, yet design is often overlooked. Designers have expertise that enables us to communicate more effectively across the complex variety of communication media now available. Design is an umbrella term that is as broad as science; it encompasses graphic design, product design, digital design, fashion design, games design and many other disciplines. Through collaboration with designers and/or integration of design from the outset of research projects, there is potential to better tackle the challenges of communicating science, leading to greater engagement. For designers and the science communication community to work together it is vital to create opportunities for the exchange of perspectives, knowledge and ideas in order to establish fertile ground for creative collaboration.
Speakers: Lizzie Crouch (DesignScience), Ellen Dowell (Imperial College, University of Surrey, Freelance), Andrew Friend (Designer), Anne Odling-Smee (DesignScience)
He aha te mea nui o te ao
What is the most important thing in the world?
He tangata, he tangata, he tangata
It is the people, it is the people, it is the people
This Maori proverb emphasises that people are the most important thing in the world: a concept we will explore in this session serving as a reminder of the importance of tailoring engagement towards your audience’s needs. We will present findings from research commissioned by the Wellcome Trust, which looked at reaching young people from low socio-economic backgrounds, alongside research commissioned by the British Science Association exploring how to include under-represented audiences in National Science and Engineering Week. Comparisons with other cultures will be presented by the University of the West of England, with a case study of engagement with Maori in a New Zealand science festival.
Speakers: Mat Hickman (Wellcome Trust), Hema Teji (British Science Association), Laura Fogg Rogers (University of the West of England), Chair: Karen Folkes (BIS)
Wikipedia, open access journals and social media have all transformed the way we look at copyright, and have brought the concept of open licences (such as Creative Commons) into the mainstream.
This movement offers great opportunities for science communicators, by opening up new avenues for communicating work and providing a wide range of high quality content at no cost.
This session will look at the practicalities of open licensing of science communication materials, for content producers (academics, press officers), custodians (museums, libraries, archives) and users (science shows, blogs and publications).
The session will give some case studies of good practice in this field, but the majority of the hour will be given over to practical exercises covering how, why and when to use open licences. This will be followed by a group discussion in which session participants and the panellists can share experiences and ask questions about the issues raised.
Speakers: Robert Kiley (Wellcome Trust), Rosie Coates (science made simple), Oli Usher (UCL)
Scientific research is a journey into the unknown, so teaching science with tried and tested practicals does not prepare students for the excitement and uncertainty of scientific discovery. Undertaking actual scientific research provides considerable learning opportunities for pupils and provides researchers with the opportunity to engage young people with their work in a rich and rewarding manner. Partnerships between researchers and young scientists can contribute to scientific breakthroughs and provide real insights and skills for aspiring young scientists. However, such approaches are not without their challenges. You will be presented with cases studies from space science and plant pathology research followed by the chance to engage in round table discussions with teachers, researchers, funders and science communicators involved in these projects. This will provide you the opportunity to discuss how you can involve schools and young people in research or support them to carry out their own scientific investigations.
Speakers: Becky Parker (Simon Langton Grammar School for Boys), Paul Nicholson (John Innes Centre), Sarah Calne (Wymondham High Academy), Chair: Tristan Maclean (BBSRC Inspiring Young Scientists)
Brief session for delegates new to the science communicator sector to find out what the big issues are, who the main players are and to meet other new people. This is only offered to people who are new to this Conference.
Delivered by Monica Lobo (British Science Association)
Despite considerable agreement that engaging science communication can stimulate interest in formal STEM study and careers; only relatively few providers report these outcomes. Given that insufficient young people are choosing to study STEM subjects and that the profile of those who do pursue STEM careers is too narrow, we are challenging three very different providers of informal science communication to measure the impact of their work. To do this our speakers will consider how science communicators can build sustainable business models that successfully balance impact and values against the need for funding and we will question if the sector is hampered by a perception that the only credible communicators of science are active researchers.
Facilitator: Tim Slingsby (British Council) Speakers: Wendy Sadler (science made simple), Jonathan Longfellow (Mad Science East Midlands), Eduardo Sáenz de Cabezón (The Big Van Theory)
Discover how, or if, public opinion influences science policy. What roles do learned societies and institutions take in raising the profile of certain issues, and when and where should they impact on science policy? This session will explore the inner workings of scientific public policy in the UK, especially in regards to the ways it affects allocation of resources.
Speakers: Jack Stilgoe (UCL), Becky Purvis (Royal Society), Chris Tyler (Parliamentary Office of Science and Technology) Chair: Roland Jackson (Sciencewise)
Public Attitudes to Science 2014 (PAS 2014) is the fifth in the series of studies looking at the UK public’s attitudes to science, scientists and science policy. PAS 2014 mixed survey research with a range of qualitative research strands, one of which was our “Day of Discovery” workshop. The Day of Discovery aimed to get the public themselves to tell us the best ways to engage people with science, and to generate new ideas for scientists, science communicators and policymakers to connect with the public. Based on this event, we have created a toolkit giving tips on how to use the findings from the PAS 2014 survey to start debates about better engagement with science. This session will present the toolkit, and explore how it can be used effectively with different audiences.
Speakers: Kerry Seelhoff (BIS), Sarah Pope (Ipsos MORI), Ben Johnson (Graphic Science), Chair: Katherine Mathieson (British Science Association)
Novel approaches to engagement activities that use narrative and immersive environments to create cohesive experiences.
In this session we will share our insights, experiences and learning from some of the unique festival experiences created in 2013 by the Contemporary Science team at the Science Museum. These festivals ranged from narrative driven games to researchers embedded in immersive environments all creating cohesive and memorable experiences. Specific engagement examples will highlight collaborations with research groups, theatre companies and artists. This session is relevant to any organisation, centre or individual looking to engage their audiences through interactive, immersive and theatrical experiences.
Speakers: Nicola Burghall (Science Museum), Daniel Richardson (UCL), John Hunter (non zero one), Chair: Jenny Jopson (Francis Crick Institute)
"Purposes of public engagement" diagram from the Science for All report. Used in the Introduction to Science Communication session at the 2013 Science Communication Conference
Presentation from "What's the true cost of free?" at the 2013 Science Communication Conference organised by the British Science Association - slides by Savita Custead, Jamie Gallagher and Debbie Syrop
Presentation from "Developing sustainable science communication enterprises" at the 2013 Science Communication Conference organised by the British Science Association - slides by Phil Smith
Presentation from "Developing sustainable science communication enterprises" at the 2013 Science Communication Conference organised by the British Science Association - slides by Kay Yeoman
Presentation from "Developing sustainable science communication enterprises" at the 2013 Science Communication Conference organised by the British Science Association - slides by Heather Rea
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Presentation from "Evaluating online engagement: Practical and critical" at the 2013 Science Communication Conference organised by the British Science Association - slides by Shane McCracken and Rosie Schultz
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Exploring Career Paths in Cybersecurity for Technical CommunicatorsBen Woelk, CISSP, CPTC
Brief overview of career options in cybersecurity for technical communicators. Includes discussion of my career path, certification options, NICE and NIST resources.
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SCC2013 - Young (science) apprentice - Kenny Webster
1. Young People in an
adventure with Scientists
Dr Kenny Webster
Learning and Operations Manager
Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum
@kennywebster
2.
3. Thinktank SHCL - Vision
• Local community
– create paid opportunities and develop transferable skills for local young
people
• Science/ learning
– raise awareness of and encourage young people to follow careers in
science/ heritage
• Thinktank
– staff become more representative of local communities and being
advocates for the museum
• Museum sector
– trained individuals armed with the skills necessary to carry out entry-level
museum jobs
4. The Career Ladder Model
• Hierarchy of paid experiences in the museum
• New York Hall of Science have been running a
career ladder for over 25 years
• Programme recruits, trains and pays students to
work as Explainers
• 150 people in their program
5. SHCL
• Who is our audience?
– Young people
– Living or studying locally
– Still in education
– People with available time
• College students over the
Summer Holiday
6. SHCL
• Who is confident but not too confident
• Who can understand the concept of enabling
• Who can follow instructions
• Who shows enthusiasm for the role
7. 2008 - 2012
• Recruited through local colleges
• Careers events, careers advisors
• 31 Traineeships
• 12 Volunteers
• 8 permanent staff
• An army of casual staff!
8. What do they learn?
• Customer Service
• Practical ‘Enabling’ - communicating
• Disability and Diversity awareness
• Care of Collections
• Career advice and assistance
• Transferable skills
• Cultural skills
9. The future?
• ACE funding to extend to other Birmingham Museum sites
• Cultural Career Ladders
• Absorbed the work experience programme into the SHCL
• Ignite - Thinktank Young People’s Forum
• Creating a clearer engagement journey for young people
10. Young People in an
adventure with Scientists
Dr Kenny Webster
Learning and Operations Manager
Thinktank Birmingham Science Museum
@kennywebster