Research case studies

The Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) at the University of Leicester considers the question - as the world population ages, how can museums nurture living and ageing well?

Girl. Boy. Child. took shape during a period when we’ve seen a bright spotlight on queer histories, unprecedented in scale.

The project emerged as part of the Calke team’s desire to develop interpretation and programmes around the contemporary issue of social isolation and loneliness.

As the plethora of books, films, television series and digital games which draw on our medieval past demonstrates, the medieval world continues to hold an enormous popular fascination.

The project explores the ways in which the ‘situatedness’ or the social/spatial context of participation is an important factor in understanding the socio-political dynamics of cultural participation.

Prejudice and Pride is a collaborative research project that explores and reveals LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer) connections across the Trust’s properties and experiments with new ways of engaging audiences around these largely untold and hidden histories.