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

ahrc资助的项目“英国花园、图书馆、档案馆和博物馆的侨民代表：探索社区主导的基于收藏的研究”将于2021年9月开始，由John Giblin博士（苏格兰国家博物馆）和Robert Blyth博士（国家海事博物馆）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）一起研究基于收藏的参与式研究方法，以告知最佳实践并增加英国部门的EDI。在这一试点阶段，该项目将与南亚、非洲和加勒比非洲裔侨民社区团体合作，与全球移民服务中心合作。侨民社区团体将指导研究设计、实施和创造性产出的生产，使用相关的历史和当代收藏品，包括作为大英帝国活动一部分收集的收藏品。个别项目将探索和表现帝国、移民和英国生活的多样性，这样做将挑战和加强既定的表现。通过这项工作，该项目还将探索世界历史收藏和博物馆与散居社区的关系。该项目将遵循枢纽和辐条模式。苏格兰国家博物馆（NMS）和国家海事博物馆（NMM）将作为收集和评估证据的中心，提供博物馆专家指导，并持有中央基金，该基金将分配给GLAM Spoke合作伙伴的侨民主导的项目。该项目将促进跨部门合作，加强能力建设，共同生产一系列创意产品。它将优先收集和分享共同创造和共同参与遗产和文化研究的最佳实践证据，特别是通过展示来自各个社区的复音声音和不同的叙述，并支持GLAM组织与他们进行互利合作。这将通过面向公众的遗留文件和部门知识共享活动共享纵向评估工作来实现，该活动将展示共同创造和共同参与的知识，以进行更细致的公共和部门辩论。

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.