Research archive

Information about all past RCMG research projects and events can be found here, they are organised by end date, starting with the most recent. Related publications are available to download for free in PDF format (and other formats where appropriate). You can also visit our current research projects and events.

2023

Trans-Inclusive Culture: Guidance on advancing trans inclusion for museums, galleries, archives and heritage organisations (PDF, 1.3MB) [RCMG], September 2023 (Guidance)
Trans-Inclusive Culture, May - September 2023
Everywhere and Nowhere: Guidance for ethically researching and interpreting disability histories (PDF, 3.5MB) [RCMG/National Trust], March 2023 (Guidance)

2021

Everywhere and Nowhere, October 2021 - ongoing
Permissible Beauty, August 2021 - ongoing
An ethical framework for collaborating with communities (PDF 1.79MB) [RCMG/Kettle's Yard], July 2021 (Report)
Open House: The difference made through working together (PDF 4.70MB) [RCMG/Kettle's Yard], July 2021 (Report)
Birmingham Museums Trust Vision, May 2021 - ongoing
Open House: The difference made through working together, December 2020 - November 2021
The Museum as a Space of Social Care, July 2021 (Event)

2020

Isolation and loneliness – opening up new stories and interpretive experiences at Calke Abbey, Stage 2 [RCMG for Calke Abbey], March 2020 (Report)
An ethical approach to interpreting disability and difference [RCMG/Wellcome Collection], January 2020 (Publication)
Engaging the City, February - October 2020

2019

Unlocking Stories of Loneliness and Isolation: The Ethics of Interpretation, May 2019 (Event)
Exploring the role cultural organisations can play in encouraging us to think about loneliness, challenge stigma, and act to end it, March 2019 (Event)
Port Sunlight Film, The Cinematic Musée Imaginaire of spatial cultural differences [CineMuseSpace], September 2019
Disorder, dissent and disruption, June 2018 - December 2019
Museums and the Transgender Tipping Point, February 2019 (Event)

2018

Isolation and loneliness – opening up new stories and interpretive experiences at Calke Abbey (PDF, 5.14MB) [RCMG for Calke Abbey 2018] (Report)
Encountering the Unexpected, April 2016 - March 2018

2017

Humankind, October 2017 - September 2020

2016

Building dynamic, inclusive and socially purposeful museums and archives, 17-21 October 2016 (Event)
Museu do Samba, Brazil, April 2016 - March 2017
Exceptional & Extraordinary, December 2014 - December 2016
Museums and an Ageing Population, March 2016 (Event)

2015

Museum 2015: The Agile Museum Conference, January 2015 (Event)
The Cultural Value of Engaging with Museums and Galleries, February 2015 (Event)

2014

Talking Statues, November 2013 - October 2014
The Generic Learning Outcomes - Measuring Learning Impact in Museums (University of Leicester Intrepid Researcher Series), July 2014 (Event)
Cabinet of Curiosities, 2013 - 2014
Museums, Health and Wellbeing in the East Midlands, October 2012 - June 2014
The Cultural Value of Engaging with Museums and Galleries, February – June 2014
Imperial War Museum North (IWMN), February - April 2014
Participatory, collaborative and co-creative practices at the Science Museum, February – May 2014
Stories of a Different Kind, July 2012 - February 2014

2013

Cultural activity in Historic Houses in the East Midlands, April - June 2013
Prisoners, Punishment and Torture: Developing new approaches to interpretation at the Tower of London, October 2012 - April 2013
New Walk Museum Vision, October 2012-April 2013
Developing a Research Network to Advance 21st-Century Museum Ethics in Theory and Practice, August 2011 - 2013
The Mindful Museum, February 2013 (Event)
EuNaMus - European national museums: Identity politics, the uses of the past and the European citizen, 2010 - 2013
Evidencing the Impact of the Generic Learning Outcomes, 2013

2012

Evaluation of Mapping the Change Phase 2, Hackney Museum, May 2011 - December 2012
Growing the Social Role of Botanic Gardens: Communities in Nature, January 2012-November 2012