Diaspora Representation in UK Gardens, Libraries, Archives and Museums: Exploring Community-Led Collections-Based Research (DiaGLAM)

AHRC资助的“散居英国花园、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆：探索社区主导的藏品研究”项目将于2021年9月开始，由苏格兰国家博物馆的John Giblin博士和国家海事博物馆的Robert Blyth博士领导。该项目将与一系列社区团体和花园、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆(GLAMS)一起研究以收藏为基础的参与性研究方法，以宣传最佳做法并增加英国部门的电子数据交换。在这一试点阶段，该项目将与散居海外的南亚、非洲和非洲加勒比社区团体合作，与GLAMS合作。侨民社区团体将使用相关的历史和当代藏品，包括作为大英帝国活动一部分收集的藏品，指导研究、设计、实施和创作创造性成果。个别项目将探索和表现英国帝国、移民和生活的多样性经历，这样做将挑战和加强现有的代表性。通过这项工作，该项目还将探索世界历史收藏和博物馆活动与散居社区的相关性。该项目将遵循中心辐射模式。苏格兰国家博物馆(NMS)和国家海事博物馆(NMM)将作为中心收集和评估证据，提供博物馆专家指导，并持有一项中央基金，该基金将分配给GLAM Talk合作伙伴的散居侨民主导的项目。该项目将促进更大的跨部门合作，建设能力，并共同产生一系列创造性成果。它将优先收集和分享关于共同创造和共同参与遗产和文化研究的最佳实践的证据，特别是通过展示来自不同社区的复调声音和不同的叙事，并支持GLAM组织与他们接触，以实现互利。这将通过一份面向公众的遗产文件和一次部门知识共享活动分享的纵向评估工作来实现，该活动将为更微妙的公共和部门辩论提供共同创造和共同参与的知识。

The AHRC-funded project 'Diaspora Representation in UK Gardens, Libraries, Archives and Museums: Exploring Community-Led Collections-Based Research' will commence in September 2021, led by Dr John Giblin (National Museums Scotland) and Dr Robert Blyth (National Maritime Museum). This project will study collections-based participatory research methods with a range of community groups and Gardens, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAMs) to inform best practice and increase EDI in the UK sector. For this pilot phase, the project will work with South Asian, African and African Caribbean Diaspora community groups in partnership with GLAMs. Diaspora community groups will direct research design, implementation and production of creative outputs using relevant historic and contemporary collections, including those collected as part of British imperial activity. Individual projects will explore and represent the multiplicity of experiences of empire, migration and life in Britain and in so doing will challenge and enhance established representations. Through this work, the project will also explore the relevance of world history collections and museum engagements for Diaspora communities.The project will follow a Hub and Spoke model. National Museums Scotland (NMS) and the National Maritime Museum (NMM) will act as the Hub gathering and evaluating evidence, providing museum expert guidance, and holding a central fund that will be distributed to GLAM Spoke partners' Diaspora-led projects. The project will foster greater cross-sector collaboration, build capacity, and co-produce a range of creative outputs. It will prioritise gathering and sharing evidence on best practice in co-creation and co-participation in heritage and culture research, specifically through surfacing polyphonic voices and diverse narratives from across communities and supporting GLAM organisations to engage with them for mutual benefit. This will be achieved through the longitudinal evaluation work shared through a public facing legacy document and through a sector knowledge-sharing event, which will present knowledge from co-creation and co-participation for more nuanced public and sector debate.