"Where are the Women of Colour?"

“有色人种女性在哪里？”

• 批准号: 2886785
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Leeds
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2023
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2023 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2886785
• 关键词: Where; Women; Colour

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.

这个博士学位将有助于解决博物馆面临的挑战，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，通常优先考虑白色（主要是英国）男性科学家和发明家的成就。然而，我们现在从Margot Lee Shetterly的《Hidden Figures》一书（2016年）及其随后的电影（2018年）中了解到，非裔美国女性数学家如何在美国冷战的“太空竞赛”中发挥了至关重要的作用。利兹大学的“电气化妇女国际”项目探讨了促进20世纪世纪中期现代化基础设施的技术专家的多样性。在我们的博物馆和美术馆中，还能讲述哪些关于女性技术角色的故事？您将有机会在科学和工业博物馆（曼彻斯特）的收藏品中获得加勒比移民工人的证据，并在国家科学和媒体博物馆（布拉德福德）的每日先驱报档案中，将其与布拉德福德工业博物馆的亚洲移民工人纺织品制造收藏品进行比较。更好地了解这些妇女的工作及其在其他地方的系统性代表性不足，将使博物馆能够重新考虑在其收藏和展览中相对缺乏妇女故事的问题。因此，该项目可以确定科学博物馆集团藏品中的相关空白和沉默，并找到新的方法来弥补这些空白和沉默，使用内部和外部资源，特别是口述历史方法，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，该小组由来自不同背景的学术人员、博物馆馆长、行业从业人员和研究生组成;详细信息可应要求提供。