Always pleased to come to the Museum of London at the start of October for the annual Museum Ideas conference, which always manages to get some of the best speakers, sharing new work, often repeated at other conferences across the next twelve months (or longer). This year proved no exception. Creative Disruption from the Inside […]
On 22nd July 2015 we welcomed over 100 delegates from across the UK to the Museum of Natural History in Oxford for a one day conference dedicated to in-gallery engagement techniques which I programmed as part of my role at Oxford University Museums. With the increasing focus on mobile apps and digital interactives, we wanted […]
The tail end of last week was committed to knowledge exchange and looking at how digital can be harnessed to enhance museum learning experiences. #DLNET On Thursday I trouped off to the V&A for a Digital Learning Network conference. This was my first contact with this particular group, I was drawn to their conference as […]
This year I have been pleased to become involved with the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School, both sitting on the committee that helps run and steer the event, and giving a short presentation. The summer school is a week long event that offers training courses to anyone with an interest in Digital Humanities, from […]
This year I was fortunate enough to be able to attend the Museums and the Web conference for the second year running – my penance and reward was to present a paper: Mobile Bouleversement (yes I googled this word to have an interesting title and have no idea how to pronounce it – I managed […]
Last year I was fortunate to be selected to be part of the first cohort of the Museum Association’s Transformers programme. A workforce development programme aimed at mid-career professionals, the aim of the programme was to challenge us to think in new ways, embrace the ideas of innovation and radical change, and take that back […]
Last year I was lucky enough to attend Museums and the Web in Baltimore – it was a fantastic conference in terms of the diverse and relevant nature of the content, networking with colleagues from both sides of the Atlantic, and having some time out of the office and away from the day to day […]
On Friday 8th November I attended the annual Museums Computer Group Conference, this year’s theme, Museums Beyond the Web. Held in the Natural History Museum in London, this was a fitting location as the museum is currently embarking on a digital transformation, introducing public Wi-Fi, developing significant mobile content, and digitising a large portion of […]
On the first Friday of September, 45 delegates descended on the Ashmolean Museum for a discussion of how museums can better understand their audiences. The aim of the day was to explore how organisations can gain insights into their audiences, actual and potential, physical and virtual, and how this understanding can be applied to engage […]
Last Friday, 45 delegates descended on the Ashmolean Museum for a one day conference on Understanding Audiences. I’ll post a full round up of the event shortly, but this time I presented, sharing our experience at the Oxford University Museums of starting from scratch with a new audience evaluation system. Where we were pre-2012 Previously, […]
