Education and the Arts

2007-2008 The view of the child in museum and gallery design

Project status: 
Active
Project description: 

A series of workshops that bring together researchers and museum and gallery professionals to consider the design of museum and gallery spaces in relation to the points of view of children and young people. One element of the project is an action research project with children as they consider the redesign of the Bridewell Museum in Norwich. The coordinator of the project is Dr Catherine Burke (Leeds)

http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/research/cchre/projects.php?project=90&page=1

Awarding agency: 
AHRC

2007-2008 The view of the child and young person in museum and gallery design

Project status: 
Active
Project description: 

A series of workshops that bring together researchers and museum and gallery professionals to consider the design of museum and gallery spaces in relation to the points of view of children and young people. One element of the project is an action research project with children as they consider the redesign of the Bridewell Museum in Norwich. The coordinator of the project is Dr Catherine Burke (Leeds)

http://www.education.leeds.ac.uk/research/cchre/projects.php?project=90&page=1

Awarding agency: 
AHRC

Is There Anyone There? What does it mean to teach in the new media

Project status: 
Completed
Project description: 
Is There Anyone There? What does it mean to teach in the new media (authoring a chapter)
Dates: 
31 Aug 2001 - 30 Jun 2002
Awarding agency: 
Western Illinois University
Award value: 
£1,176
Internal Collaborators: 
External collaborators: 
Western Illinois University

Evaluation of JISC Artworld Project

Project status: 
Completed
Dates: 
1 Mar 2001 - 31 Oct 2003
Awarding agency: 
JISC
Internal Collaborators: 
External collaborators: 
Veronica Sekules - Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts

Effective Transitions - An Excellence in Cities Project

Project status: 
Completed
Dates: 
1 Jan 2006 - 31 Jul 2006
Awarding agency: 
Earlham Early Years Centre
Award value: 
£25,109
Internal Collaborators: 

European Common Principles for the Accreditation of non-formal and informal learning in Lifelong Learning (EPANIL)

Project status: 
Completed
Dates: 
1 Oct 2004 - 30 Sep 2006
Awarding agency: 
EU Leonardo Da Vinci Community Vocational Training Programme Phase 2
Award value: 
£13,858
Internal Collaborators: 
External collaborators: 
John Konrad and EU partners

An Evaluation of the Drake Music Project

Project status: 
Completed
Dates: 
1 May 2003 - 31 May 2004
Awarding agency: 
Esmee Fairbairn Foundation
Award value: 
£8,455
Internal Collaborators: 

Creative Partnerships Norfolk

Project status: 
Completed
Project description: 
Creative Partnerships schools project (Terry Haydn, Roy Barton, Ann Browne, Sue Cox and Ann Oliver)
Dates: 
23 Jun 2003 - 31 Jul 2004
Awarding agency: 
Arts Council of England
Award value: 
£37,500
Internal Collaborators: 

Visual Dialogues

Project status: 
Completed
Project description: 
Visual Dialogues  is a project initiated and managed by Tate Interpretation and Education Departments in partnership with a range of museums around England. The aim is to work with young people in order to produce dynamic interpretive tools to accompany exhibits from the Tate Collections, which will help visitors engage actively with modern and contemporary art, enjoy viewing it, and be stimulated to connect in new ways with ideas around it.

Institutions involved in developing the project, which runs until 2008, are: Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Tate Britain, London.
Dates: 
1 Feb 2005 - 31 Mar 2006
Awarding agency: 
Trustees of the Tate
Award value: 
£20,000

Visual Dialogues (continuation)

Project status: 
Active
Project description: 

Continuation of Visual Dialogues project.

Visual Dialogues is a project initiated and managed by Tate Interpretation and Education Departments in partnership with a range of museums around England. The aim is to work with young people in order to produce dynamic interpretive tools to accompany exhibits from the Tate Collections, which will help visitors engage actively with modern and contemporary art, enjoy viewing it, and be stimulated to connect in new ways with ideas around it.

Institutions involved in developing the project, which runs until 2008, are: Sheffield Museums and Galleries Trust, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Manchester Art Gallery, the Laing Art Gallery, Newcastle, Tate Britain, London.

Dates: 
1 Apr 2006 - 31 Mar 2008
Awarding agency: 
Trustees of the Tate
Award value: 
£20,000
Internal Collaborators: