"Where are the Women of Colour?"

这一博士学位将有助于解决博物馆面临的挑战，这些博物馆希望从他们继承的藏品中讲述更具包容性的故事。这些藏品通常反映了过去策展人的收藏政策，通常优先考虑白人(主要是英国)男性科学家和发明家的成就。然而，我们现在从玛格特·李·谢特利的《隐藏的数字》一书(2016)和随后的电影(2018)中了解到，非裔美国女性数学家在美国冷战的太空竞赛中发挥了关键作用。利兹大学的国际女性电动化项目探索了推动20世纪中期现代性基础设施建设的技术专家的多样性。在我们的博物馆和美术馆里，还有哪些关于女性技术角色的故事可以讲述？你可以在科学和工业博物馆(曼彻斯特)的藏品以及国家科学和媒体博物馆(布拉德福德)的《每日先驱报》档案中获得加勒比海散居工人的证据，并将它们与布拉德福德工业博物馆的亚洲散居工人在纺织制造业的藏品进行比较。更好地了解这类妇女的作品及其在其他地方系统性的代表性不足，将使博物馆能够重新考虑其收藏和展览中相对缺乏妇女故事的问题。因此，该项目可以找出科学博物馆集团藏品中的相关空白和沉默，并利用内部和外部来源，特别是口述历史方法，找到新的方法来纠正它们，以加强有色人种妇女的证据记录。该项目将得到一个包容性咨询小组的支持，该小组由学术人员、博物馆馆长、行业从业人员和来自不同背景的研究生组成；详情可根据要求提供。

This PhD will help to address the challenge facing museums wanting to tell more inclusive stories from their inherited collections. These collections typically reflect past curators' collecting policies, often prioritising the accomplishments of white (mostly British) male scientists and inventors. Yet we now know from Margot Lee Shetterly's Hidden Figures book (2016) and its subsequent film (2018) how female African-American mathematicians played a crucial role in the US Cold War 'Space Race'. And the Electrifying Women International project at the University of Leeds has explored how diverse were the technical experts who facilitated the infrastructures of mid-20th century modernity. What further stories of women's technical roles can be told in our museums and galleries? You will have access to evidence of Caribbean diasporic workers in the collections of the Science and Industry Museum (Manchester), and in the Daily Herald archive at the National Science and Media Museum (Bradford), comparing them with the Bradford Industrial Museum's collections of Asian diasporic workers in textiles manufacture. A better understanding of such women's work and its systematic under-representation elsewhere, will enable museums to reconsider the relative absence of women's stories in both their collections and exhibitions. The project can thus identify relevant gaps and silences in the Science Museum Group's collections and find fresh ways to redress them using internal and external sources, especially oral history methods, to enhance the evidential record of women of colour. The project will be supported by an inclusivity advisory group constituted of academic staff, museum curators, industry practitioners and postgraduate students from diverse backgrounds; details available on request.