Here you can find a list of all of our project outputs, including reports, conference presentations, public media, and academic article, with our latest outputs available at the top of the page.
Pandemic and Beyond Podcast
Museums, Crisis and Covid-19 has contributed to and been supported by the Pandemic and Beyond network through the course of the project. Pandemic and Beyond is a network of researchers across the UK working on Covid-19 rapid response projects.
Professor Elizabeth Crooke, our project PI, and Roisin Doherty from the Tower Museum recently spoke to Dr Pascale Aebischer for the Pandemic and Beyond podcast. Have a listen below, or find out more about the full series of podcasts.
Project Reports
Following eighteen months of in-depth research, the Museums, Crisis and Covid-19 project are happy to release a series of final project reports. These reports cover three themes: Museums and the Pandemic; Museums and Digital Media; and Museums and Community Wellbeing.
The release of these reports will be followed by a consultation event on Thursday 15 September. Find full details and register for the event here.
Read and download the project reports:
The Museums, Crisis and Covid-19 project team are indebted to the Northern Ireland museums community, so many of whom gave their time to participate in interviews, focus groups, surveys, workshops and the writing of blog posts throughout the course of our project. Particular thanks go to our project partners at the Tower Museum, Museums Association, Northern Ireland Museum Council, and National Lottery Heritage Fund.
Museums Journal Article
The work of the Museums, Crisis and Covid-19 team has also featured in an article in the July/August 2022 Museums Journal.
For more information on the Museums Journal and the work of the Museums Association visit their website.
Members of the Museum
Outputs
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Journal Articles & Academic Publications
- Elizabeth Crooke, 'Communities, Change and the COVID-19 Crisis' in Museum and Society, 18 (3), 2020
- David Farrell-Banks & Rea Currie, L. 'Exhibiting Pandemics During COVID-19: The value of co-production
and co-creation in community engagement.' Museum Ireland, 28, 2022, pp. 36-41. - Breda Friel and Jonathan Beavis ‘The unfolding narrative from Covid-19. Emerging themes and skills in practice.’ Irish
Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, 22(2), 2022, pp. 15-20. - Stephanie Harper, 'Museums, Crisis and COVID-19: Initial Tracking of Museum Responses in Northern Ireland', Museum Ireland, 27, 2021, pp. 38-41.
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Project Reports and Briefings
Final Project Reports
Following eighteen months of in-depth research, the Museums, Crisis and Covid-19 project are happy to release a series of final project reports. These reports cover three themes: Museums and the Pandemic; Museums and Digital Media; and Museums and Community Wellbeing.
Read and download the project reports:
Work-in-Progress Briefings
At the mid-point of the project, we released a series of work-in-progress briefings detailing key findings from our work so far.
These briefings cover: Finance and Furlough, and Museums and Community Wellbeing, and Museums, Covid and Digital Media.
Open or download these briefing documents here:
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Media Engagement
'Museum project considers implications of pandemic' in The Irish Times, 1 April 2021
Professor Elizabeth Crooke & Roisin Doherty of the Tower Museum, in conversation with Dr Pascale Aebischer for the Pandemic and Beyond podcast series:
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Conference Presentations
Latest Presentations
Prof Elizabeth Crooke - Northern Ireland Museum Council AGM and Learning Forum
In September 2022 Elizabeth Crooke, our PI, was invited to present project findings to the NIMC AGM and Learning Forum. Elizabeth presented key findings from the project, including feedback from our Museum Futures Northern Ireland event which took place earlier in September. The slides from the presentation can be downloaded by clicking the link above.
Dr David Farrell-Banks & Prof Elizabeth Crook - Northern Ireland Museums Council Forum
David Farrell-Banks and Elizabeth Crooke presented a set of thoughts on the role of museums in Northern Ireland to the NIMC forum in March 2022. The presentation is built on project findings, and the slides can be downloaded here.
Prof Elizabeth Crooke - Museums Association Conference, 2021: Drawing on the conference theme Brave New World, Elizabeth Crooke's panel asked the question 'when cars are burning on your street, what use of museums'. It's starting point was the rioting in Northern Ireland Spring 2021, which was blamed on the “perfect storm” of Brexit, Covid19 and boredom.
The question was explored by three Local Authority Councillors, each from different political parties in the region, with clear perspectives on museum purpose. Museums were explored as places with both a responsibility and duty to tackle the ongoing challenges of our histories.
Previous Presentations
Prof Elizabeth Crooke, 'When cars are burning on your street, what use of museums' - Panel discussion on the role of Northern Ireland museums at a time of crisis - Museums Association Conference 2021
Prof Elizabeth Crooke, 'Collecting Covid-19' - Covid Conversation: NHS Voices of Covid-19, 26 October 2021
(Conference video)Dr Tom Maguire, '"Caressez-moi!" touch in the post-COVID museum' - Museums Association Northern Ireland Members' Meeting. 22 June 2021.
Dr Philip McDermott and Roisin Doherty, 'Museums as places of community healing post-Covid19' - Museums Association Northern Ireland Members' Meeting. 22 June 2021.
Prof. Elizabeth Crooke, 'Thoughts on "What's next?" for the blended museum' - IMA/NIMC Education & Outreach Forum 2021. 21 May 2021.
Roisin Doherty, Tower Museum Curator, 'Let's Talk - Collecting the Contemporary - COVID-19: Challenges & Opportunities'. 6 July 2020.
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Digital Workshops
Watch the Museums, Crisis and Covid19 presentations to the Museums Association Members' meeting on 22 June 2021.
Prof Elizabeth Crooke introduces the project and its methods (0-5:50 mins). This is followed by presentations from:
- Dr Tom Maguire on audience experiences in museums (05:52-15:00 mins)
- Dr Alan Hook, sharing new digital interventions with museums (15:15-29:00 mins)
- Dr Philip McDermott and Roisin Doherty exploring the idea of the healing museum (29:16-00:41 mins)