"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.

该博士将有助于解决博物馆面临的挑战，这些博物馆想从他们的继承收藏中讲出更多的包容性故事。这些收藏通常反映了过去策展人的收集政策，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·塞姆利（Margot Lee Shetterly）的《隐藏人物书》（2016年）和随后的电影（2018年）中知道，女性非裔美国人数学家如何在美国冷战的“太空竞赛”中发挥着至关重要的作用。利兹大学的激动人心的女性国际项目探索了促进20世纪中叶现代基础设施的技术专家的多样化。在我们的博物馆和画廊中可以讲述女性技术角色的进一步故事？您将可以在科学和工业博物馆（曼彻斯特）的收藏中获得加勒比海流散工人的证据，以及在国家科学和媒体博物馆（布拉德福德）的《每日先驱档案》中，将他们与布拉德福德工业博物馆的纺织品亚洲透水疾病工人的收藏品进行了比较。更好地了解此类妇女的工作及其在其他地方的系统性不足，将使博物馆能够重新考虑在其藏品和展览中相对缺乏妇女的故事。因此，该项目可以在科学博物馆集团的收藏中确定相关的差距和沉默，并使用内部和外部来源（尤其是口述历史方法）找到新的方法来纠正它们，以增强有色女性的证据记录。该项目将得到由学术人员，博物馆策展人，行业从业人员和来自不同背景的研究生组成的包容性咨询小组的支持；可根据要求提供详细信息。