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MA Art Galleries and Museums Studies alumna, Freya Jewitt, was recently featured in an article in education section of The Guardian

Programme Director for the MA Art Gallery and Museum Studies, Dr Abigail Harrison Moore, is to adjudicate one of the local heats of this year’s ARTiculation Prize.

Call for applicants.
 
The UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS and UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON are recruiting two PhD students to join an AHRC funded, Open University led project ‘Developing a co-produced, digital, and living archive of learning disability history: An exploration of ethics, ownership and new connectivities’. Start date 31 March 2014.

This conference at the Bowes Museum aims to consider the Period Room from a wide variety of perspectives in order to address some key questions about Period Rooms and the history of Period Rooms display in Museums.

We’re currently calling for speakers prepared to rise to the challenge of sharing their current work in three minutes at our next Heritage Show + Tell event in March.

A new project based in the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries & Heritage has been awarded Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as part of the student-led strand of its Collaborative Skills Development scheme.

The Science Museum is searching for people who know and care about science and music linked to the AHRC ‘How should decisions about heritage be made?’ project, co-ordinated from the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage.

'Antique Dealers: the British Antiques Trade in the 20th Century (a cultural geography)' has recently been awarded funding by the Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), one of the leading funding bodies in the UK.

Rebecca Wade, a Visiting Lecturer in the School of Fine Art, History of Art & Cultural Studies, reflects on her research on the work of Brucciani, which she recently delivered as a paper at a 'Connecting with Collections' symposium in Cambridge.

We’re currently calling for speakers prepared to rise to the challenge of sharing their current work in three minutes at our next Heritage Show + Tell event this October.