"Where are the Women of Colour?"

这个博士学位将有助于解决博物馆面临的挑战，即希望从其继承的收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，往往优先考虑白人（主要是英国人）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《隐藏人物》一书（2016年）和随后的电影（2018年）中了解到，非裔美国女性数学家在美国冷战“太空竞赛”中发挥了至关重要的作用。利兹大学（University of Leeds）的“电气化妇女国际”（Electrifying Women International）项目探索了促进20世纪中期现代化基础设施建设的技术专家有多么多样化。在我们的博物馆和画廊里，还可以讲述更多关于女性技术角色的故事吗？您将有机会在科学与工业博物馆（曼彻斯特）和国家科学与媒体博物馆（布拉德福德）的每日先驱报档案中看到加勒比移民工人的证据，并将它们与布拉德福德工业博物馆收藏的亚洲移民工人的纺织品制造进行比较。更好地了解这些女性作品及其在其他地方的系统性代表性不足，将使博物馆重新考虑其藏品和展览中相对缺乏女性故事的问题。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，并通过内部和外部资源，特别是口述历史方法，找到新的方法来纠正它们，以加强有色人种女性的证据记录。项目将由来自不同背景的学术人员、博物馆馆长、行业从业者和研究生组成的包容性咨询小组提供支持；详情可索取。

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.