PhD-course programme

INTENSIVE, INTERNATIONAL PHD-COURSE
Roskilde University, Roskilde, Denmark, 22 May 2012

The course will give PhD-students and young scholars in-depth insight into key theoretical and methodological approaches to studying evolving and transmuting museum practices, be they onsite or online, user-centred or organisational in nature.

Course program

08.30 am-09.30 am      Registration, Building 43, Room 43.3.29

09.30 am-09.45 am      Welcome and tour de table, Building 43, Room 43.2.29

09.45 am-10.45 am      Two oral essays and short discussion, Building 43, Room 43.2.29

Kevin Crowley, University of Pittsburgh, USA
Museum research: a personal note on key steps ahead

Angela McFarlane, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, UK
Researching mobile learning in a museum context: what theoretical frameworks might we use?

10.45 am-11.15 am  Coffee break

11.15 am-12.15 am  Presentation and discussion of ph.d. projects

Track 1
Room 43.3.29
Chair: Kim Schrøder
Track 2
Room 43.3.29b
Chair: Erik Kristiansen
Track 3
Room 42.3.37
Chair: Oluf Danielsen
Track 4 (NordLAC)
Room 42.3.39
Chair: Ola Erstad
Krista Lepik
Cultural participation of audiences in Estonian Public Knowledge Institution

Discussant: Elisa Mandelli

Mentor: Lynda Kelly

Lasse Gram-Hansen
Persuasive design and digital mediation of cultural heritage

Discussant: Line Knudsen

Mentor: Erik Kristiansen

Maj Klindt
Framing the museum/museum frames

Discussant: Gertrud L. Knudsen

Mentor: Angela McFarlane

Kristin Aadland
Storytelling, oral skills and learning identity in school – a study on storytelling situations as a learning context in multicultural schools

Discussant: Emma Peterson

Mentor: Kristiina Kumpalainen

Varpu Tissari
Understanding situated dynamics of interaction and intertextuality across school and museum settings

Discusant: Rakel Petursdottir

Mentor: Kim Schrøder

Christian Mortensen
Radio as intangible heritage

Discussant: Rolf Steier

Mentor: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt

Linda Lotina
Resource attraction as participatory activity in the museums in Latvia

Discussant: Nuala Morse

Mentor: Oluf Danielsen

Antti Rajala 
Students’ interpretation of a learning task: an activity-theoretical analysis

Discussant: Solveig Roth

Mentor: Roger Säljö

 

12.15 am-01.30 pm  Lunch  in the Foyer next to the Campus Canteen, between Buildings 00 and 01

01.30 pm-02.30 pm  Two oral essays and short discussion, Building 43, Room 43.2.29

Ross Parry, University of Leicester
Museum research: a personal note on key steps ahead

Lynda Kelly, the Australian Museum, Sydney
Museum research: a personal note on key steps ahead

02.30 pm-03.30 pm  Presentation and discussion of ph.d. projects

Track 1
Room 43.3.29
Track 2
Room 43.3.29b
Track 3
Room 42.3.37
Track 4 (NordLAC)
Room 42.3.39
Rakel Petursdottir
Credibility and fictions

Discussant: Varpu Tissari

Mentor: Ross Parry

Rolf Steier
Exploring digital methods for understanding visitor interactions in an art museum

Discussant: Christian Mortensen

Mentor: Lynda Kelly

Gertrud L. Knudsen
Strategic stakeholder communication in a dynamic perspective: expectations to the local city museum

Discussant: Maj Klindt

Mentor: Oluf Danielsen

Solveig Roth
Exploring funds of knowledge: How young Norwegian-tamil girls develop a learning identity

Discussant: Antti Rajala

Mentor: Thomas Hillman

Raquel B. Pinto
Storytelling as a process of artistic and cultural appropriation

Discussant: Rikke H. Baggesen

Mentor: Pille Pruulmann-Vengerfeldt

Ines Ferreira
Museums in the twenty-first century: the importance of critical and creative thinking

Discussant: Taavi Tatsi

Mentor: Kevin Crowley

Nuala Morse
Youth led exhibitions making: intentions, rhetoric and reality

Discussant: Linda Lotina

Mentor: Angela McFarlane

Emma Peterson
Making the invisible visible: how students make use of Carbon Footprint Calculator inenvironmental science

Discussant: Kristin Aadland

Mentor: Lasse Lipponen

Skulina Kjartansdottir short update of project (no paper)

 

03.30 pm-04.00 pm  Coffee break

04.00 pm-05.00 pm  Presentation and discussion of ph.d. projects

Track 1
Room 43.3.29
Track 2
Room 43.3.29b
Track 3
Room 42.3.37
Track 4 (NordLAC)
Room 42.3.39
Elisa Mandelli
Understanding the transformative museum: a look at the past

Discussant: Krista Lepik

Mentor: Ross Parry

Taavi Tatsi
Transformations of museum-embedded cultural expertise

Discussant: Ines Ferreira

Mentor: Erik Kristiansen

Track 3 participants join another track Track 4 participants join another track
Rikke H. Baggesen
Mobile mediation of fashion by museums

Discussant: Raquel B. Pinto

Mentor: Kim Schrøder

Line Knudsen
The map of Danish rock history. User involvement in early stage development of a digital museum project


Discussant: Lasse Gram-Hansen

Mentor: Kevin Crowley

Track 3 participants join another track Track 4 participants join another track

 

05.30 pm-06.00 pm  Goodbye and course evaluation, Building 43, Room 43.2.29