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University challenged

Christopher Whitby, Science Museum Richard Pering, Science Museum Dr Emily Dawson, Kings College London. University challenged The benefits and challenges of collaborations between museums and academic institutions. Museums and academics: a match made in data heaven?

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University challenged

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  1. Christopher Whitby, Science MuseumRichard Pering, Science MuseumDr Emily Dawson, Kings College London University challenged The benefits and challenges of collaborations between museums and academic institutions.

  2. Museums and academics: a match made in data heaven? What does each part of this partnership gain from their involvement? What are the challenges of these processes? How is the information collected used between the teams? This session

  3. Increased capacity for data collection and analysis

  4. Availability of new techniques and approaches

  5. Challenge of institutional working time frames

  6. Challenges in implementation

  7. ‘Building Bridges’ Students should come away with… New ideas about why science is important to everyone, and how it’s important in their lives. The ability to communicate these and other ideas clearly and in a way that will inspire people. An increased enthusiasm for science, leading to an active pursuit of this interest in the following years.

  8. Key hypotheses Single node v Multi node Does informal in and out of school engagement with science help to maintain student interest in the subject? Investigating the importance of parental involvement

  9. New ideas and direction Should be beneficial to teachers Could help to extend the life of the project Evidence for/against our ways of working Communication: keeping up to date and on the same page How to achieve teacher buy-in? Who presents the findings, and how? Time lag: can results inform current programme? Benefits Challenges

  10. Greater objectivity How closely should we/the funders manage the research team? Benefits Challenges

  11. Why? Practice based research New perspectives (theory etc) Passive vs. active project roles New knowledge & papers

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  13. Thank you = questions?

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