Doctoral Training Programme: What’s Not There? Absences in Collections
Covering everything from how to navigate collections to how to teach with them, this programme of in-person and virtual events introduces PhD students from any institution to collections-based research.
About this event
Explore techniques to research ‘against the grain’ and uncover marginalised stories.
Museum, art, archival and book collections reflect the values of those in power at a specific time in history. Hence, they tend to marginalise the lived experiences of those who were denied power. In this session academic researchers and collections professionals will explore recent projects and techniques for researching ‘against the grain’ to uncover marginalised and minoritised stories.
Doctoral Training Programme: collections-based research
This event is part of our Doctoral Training Programme: collections-based research series. Attend as few or as many sessions as you like.
- 22 Oct 2025: Navigating collections (at The MERL)
- 26 Nov 2025: Reading objects, images and documents (at The MERL)
- 03 Dec 2025: Collections-based research, theories and methods (online)
- 14 Jan 2026: What’s not there? Absences in collections (online)
- 04 Feb 2026: Teaching with collections (at The MERL)
- 04 Mar 2026: Digital research with collections (online)
- 15 Apr 2026: Research engagement and impact with collections – skills for PER (at The MERL).
Date & Time
Wednesday 14 January 2026, 11:00 – 16:00
Audience
Public