by Amy Solomons, PhD Candidate at the University of Liverpool. In September 2022, I joined the Heritage Made Digital team at the British Library for a three-month placement with the aim of making more of the Library’s digitised content freely available online. At the...
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My experience documenting the low brass-wind collection at the Grassi Museum – by Jack Adler-McKean
Music instrument museums operate a difficult balancing act. Like any other historical collection, they have a responsibility to preserve the past in a manner that is relevant for the present, and also able to inform the future. However, what is contained within are...
Queering Plas Newydd historic house through textile art – by Sarah-Joy Ford
For my Researcher-Led placement project, I partnered with Plas Newydd Historic House and Gardens to undertake an artist residency, where I would produce new artworks for a site-specific installation. The exhibition was the first of its kind to take place inside the...
My placement experience at an independent publishing house – by Rory Cook
I recently completed a six-month part time placement through the NWCDTP Researcher-Led Placement Scheme, working at Prototype Publishing, an independent publishing house working with fiction and poetry through an interdisciplinary approach. This was an excellent...
A new podcast project to showcase NWCDTP research
NWCDTP Alumna Dr Nia Davies explores the insights and questions raised by a collaborative project with the British School at Rome as part of the 2021 Collaboration Labs programme that has made a fine arts archive digitally accessible to the public for the first time....
Antony Hall’s art residency at Gallery Oldham
NWCDTP-funded researcher Tony Hall talks about his artistic residency at Gallery Oldham, where he explored the secret life of moss to raise awareness of the unseen nature in the local environment and to discuss climate change. During my three month placement...
Can we research Rome and art history without setting foot in the city or touching the contents of the archive?
NWCDTP Alumna Dr Nia Davies explores the insights and questions raised by a collaborative project with the British School at Rome as part of the 2021 Collaboration Labs programme that has made a fine arts archive digitally accessible to the public for the first time....
NWCDTP Researcher on the team launching digital exhibition at the British School at Rome
New digital exhibition illuminating the undiscovered work and stories of influential Twentieth Century artists is launched at the British School at Rome, partner of the Collaboration Labs programme, recently completed, which saw the participation of several NWCDTP...
Application now open for Collaborative Doctoral Awards
We welcome applications to our 2022-23 Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme. CDAs offer academics and non-HEI organisations from the private, public or third sectors the opportunity to develop a bespoke, three-year PhD project with funding awarded to the host...
Collaboration Labs Project Excellence Award winner announced
A research project supporting the personal and professional development of neurodiverse young people wins Collaboration Labs Project Excellence Award 2021. A team of Postgraduate researchers have created a first of a kind, neurodiverse-friendly tool, in partnership...
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