Event Details

A Methods Exchange session in collaboration with the University of Manchester, focusing on Materiality and Knowledge Production.

You are cordially invited to the second MethodsX meeting of 2019 for the stream, ‘Archives, Collections and Documents of Life’. This meeting is hosted by the University of Manchester research network ‘Knowing Things: Materiality and Knowledge Production’ which encourages inter-disciplinary and collaborative research. It will focus on the methodologies and approaches used by a number of academic disciplines and practitioners (including curators and artists) when working with formal archives and collections, or when working with diverse ‘documents of life’, such as personal texts, photographs, artefacts and objects, or other forms of material culture and visual culture. This meeting will particularly encourage participants to draw on methodologies from across academic disciplines and in doing so encourage other ways of engaging with source materials.

Event Programme

10.30: Refreshments and Introductions

11.00: Welcome and Introductory Talk – Dr Emma Martin (Lecturer in Museology & Lead forKnowing Things research network, UoM).

11.15: A Methodology Market Place – A chance for students to informally discuss methodological approaches to archives,collections and documents of life with a range of researchers and practitioners including, Dr Kate Dorney (Theatre & Performance), Professor Sasha Handley (History), Dr Anthony Hesketh (Business Management), Dr Emma Martin (Museology), Dr Sophie Woodward (Sociology).

12.15: Guest Speakers – Dr Kate Dorney; Dr Anthony Hesketh; (one other tbc.) (3 x 20 mins).

1.15: Lunch (provided)

2.15 Student presentations followed by round table discussions

3.30: Finish