Beyond the lecture theatre …
University of Aberdeen 26-27 January 2017
Thursday 26 January 2017
WELCOME: 11:00-11:30
Siobhan Convery, Convener, Scottish Universities Special Collections and Archives Group
Jeremy Kilburn, Senior Vice-Principal, University of Aberdeen
Neil Curtis, Convener, University Museums in Scotland
SESSION 1: 11:30- 12:30
USING COLLECTIONS IN TEACHING
Chair: Matthew Jarron
Giovanna Vitelli, Ashmolean Museum of
Art & Archaeology
Cabinet: Integrating Text and Object in
University Teaching
Anna McNally, University of Westminster
Engaging the archive: research skills for
theory students
Frances Osis, University of Glasgow MUSE
guide and Leverhulme PhD Scholar
Collections as Catalyst for Crossdisciplinary study
LUNCH & POSTERS: 12:30-13:30
SESSION 2: 13:30-14:30
NEW WAYS OF ENGAGING
Chair: Moira Rankin
Bart Jaski, Utrecht University
The Utrecht Psalter: a medieval
manuscript as modern comic book
Leonie Sedman, University of Liverpool
Plague Tales - pus, pits and powders!
Odin Essers, Maastricht University
Two girls on Expedition in China: how to
open up library closed stack collections to
university students
COFFEE/TEA: 14:30-15:00
SESSION 3: 15:00-16:30
WIDENING ACCESS THROUGH ENGAGING WITH STUDENTS
Chair: Caroline Brown
Maria Castrillo, Senate House Library,
University of London
'Hope and Fear in London': building up
public engagement programmes for nonacademic audiences at Senate House
Library
Jen Ridding, Barber Institute of Fine Arts,
University of Birmingham
Student engagement: ‘Sharing Art and
Lightning Talks’
Sarah Lloyd, Museum of Natural History,
University of Oxford
Working Together to Enhance Youth
Programming: Oxford University Museums
and Collections
Helen Taylor, Heriot Watt University
A Passion for Paisley
Zoe Hendon & Peter Thomas, Middlesex
University
Using magazine collections
SESSION 4: 16:30-17:30
‘PechaKucha’
Chair: Helen Rawson
Conference dinner and ceilidh with ‘Danse McCabre’: 19:00-22:30
Venue: to be confirmed
Friday 27 January 2017
SESSION 5: 9.30-10.30
‘NIGHTS AT THE MUSEUM’ AND ‘MUSEUM LATES’ PANEL
DISCUSSION
Chair: TBC
Ruth Fletcher
The Hunterian, University of Glasgow
Moira Rankin
Archives & Special Collections, University
of Glasgow
Neil Curtis
University of Aberdeen Museums
Sarah Chapman
Special Collections Centre, University of
Aberdeen
COFFEE/TEA: 10:30-11:00
SESSION 6: 11:00-12:00
CO-PRODUCTION AND SKILLS DEVELOPMENT
Discussant: Jude Henderson
Jenny Downes and Christina Muir,
University of Aberdeen Museums
Co-curation – student exhibitions as a
professional and learning collaboration
Sarah Bromage, University of Stirling
Developing Employability Skills at the
University of Stirling
Jack Ashby, Grant Museum of Zoology,
University College London
Working with Students as Exhibition CoCurators – a mix of models
CONFERENCE ROUND-UP: 12:00-12:30
LUNCH: 12:30-13.30
VISITS: 14:00-16:00