"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.

该博士学位将有助于解决博物馆面临的挑战，希望从其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《隐藏人物》一书（2016 年）及其后续电影（2018 年）中了解到，非洲裔美国女性数学家如何在美国冷战“太空竞赛”中发挥了至关重要的作用。利兹大学的“电气化女性国际”项目探索了促进 20 世纪中叶现代化基础设施建设的技术专家的多样性。我们的博物馆和画廊还可以讲述哪些关于女性技术角色的更多故事？您将可以在科学与工业博物馆（曼彻斯特）的藏品以及国家科学与媒体博物馆（布拉德福德）的《每日先驱报》档案中找到加勒比侨民工人的证据，并将它们与布拉德福德工业博物馆的亚洲人藏品进行比较纺织制造业的侨民工人。更好地了解此类女性作品及其在其他地方的系统性代表性不足，将使博物馆能够重新考虑其藏品和展览中女性故事的相对缺失。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这些空白和沉默，以增强有色人种女性的证据记录。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、行业从业者和研究生组成；详细信息可根据要求提供。