Doctoral studies related to museums

Comment by Tanja Schubert-McArthur on April 27, 2009 at 11:24am

Great idea, Mariana! I look forward to meeting other PhD candidates here and discuss various topics and issues.

Comment by Claire Baddeley on April 27, 2009 at 12:00pm

It is great that a discussion group has been established on Doctoral studies realted to museums. Are there any statistics available in Australia on how many people are undertaking doctorates (or Masters degrees) related to museums? (I suspect it is not that many ). Also, what are the doctoral studies focussing on? Many seems to be about current fashionable topics such as museums & technology and museums & audiences, but there must be other interesting and more diverse topics out there?

Comment by Manigandan on April 27, 2009 at 5:50pm

Thanks for organising such aforum. I am working for more than a decade for Science Centres in India. I have completed my master degree(MS) in Scienec Communication from BITS, Pilani. My interest is to study the various aspects that promote the engagement of visitors in a museum especially Science Museum environment. Also my interest is on the mass populrisation of science. I am very eager to research on the above areas.

Comment by Ellie Miles on April 27, 2009 at 6:09pm

Hi there,

What a great idea! Thanks for starting this forum, it will be great to be in touch with other researchers in the field.

My PhD is (provisionally) called 'Curating the Global City'. I work with the Museum of London an I'm looking at the museum's redisplay of its galleries about London post-1666.

Ellie

Comment by Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp on April 27, 2009 at 10:17pm

Hi Guys!

This is definately a top idea. Thanks!!

I have just started a PhD looking at the the potential role of the web and digital heritage projects in fostering relationships and reciprocal exchanged of knowledge between museums and source communities.

I am presently compiling a survey of digital heritage/ access initiatives that use the web. I'd be most grateful to know of any you guys may be aware of/ working on?

Thanks, Johanna

Comment by Amelia Wong on April 28, 2009 at 12:57am

Hi! Thanks for organizing this group. I'm in the American Studies department at the University of Maryland & my dissertation is about museums, social media and their converging rhetorics of community.

@Johanna, regarding your question about digital heritage/access via the web between museums and source communities, I know that the National Museum of American Indian had plans to launch a website that would feature all of their objects with iffy provenance in order to collect information about them. I just looked at their website to see if that project has been launched, but I don't see a mention of it--although that doesn't mean it hasn't started. Perhaps you already know about this? If so and know the URL for the site, please share it as I'd love to check it out. Thanks.

Comment by Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp on April 28, 2009 at 2:29am

Hi Amelia,

I have found a collections website for the NMAI, though it does not contain a comments feature thus far: http://www.nmai.si.edu/searchcollections/home.aspx

The Smithsonian did however launch a project with the NMAI and the Arctic Studies centre concerning the indigenous heritage of Alaksa, this might be what you had heard about: http://alaska.si.edu/.

Your dissertation sounds really interesting - I'd love to hear more.

Johanna

Comment by Manigandan on April 28, 2009 at 5:18pm

I am interested to do Doctoral studies in assesing the pulling factor to any museum especially in a Science Centre. Earlier i had taken Eucation and entertainment in Indian Science Centres and analysed for my MS from BITS dissertation. How can I get any scholarship for the research? Any member is having information on how to approach for financial help? Which country is best for this study? Which university is offering scope for such study?
R. Manigandan

Comment by Lynda Kelly on April 29, 2009 at 8:08am

My thesis was called The Interrelationships Between Adult Museum Visitors' Learning Identities and Their Musuuem Experiences. A couple of chapters can be found here.

Comment by michela clari on April 29, 2009 at 7:32pm

Hi! Thanks to Mariana for creating this opportunities for sharing ideas and comparing notes. I am based in Scotland and I started last October a collaborative doctoral study with Edinburgh University and RCAHMS (Royal Commission for Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland). The title is 'In the hands of the user: changing patterns of partecipation and learning through the digital collections of RCAHMS'. I am looking at the way in which so called Web 2.0 applications and online social networking environments are changing the way in which people interact with museums, cultural artefacts and each other and implications for all concerned. I am looking at the activities of RCAHMS but also at different models of digital content sharing all over the world (or rather cyberspace :)).

My backround is not in this area, as for many years my career has been in lexicography and language reference publishing. I welcomed very much the opportunity to tackle from an academic perspective urgent questions on how digital innovations are transforming user's expectations and experience, and what that means for content providers.
Angelina, you might recall we met in Edinburgh last October with Brian and Sotiria. I had just started, and I'm happy to report that I'm still hugely interested in this area and delighted to have a chance to spend some time investigating it. So much to learn!

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