1. Workshop Collaborative Research in Museums:
Kayte McSweeney
Julia Ankenbrand
Workshop
Collaborative Research in Museums:
Making Space for the Community Participation you do

2. Other platforms than display and collections database
Internal structures, preconceptions of each other’s’ roles
Feeling marginalised in your own organisations
Time scales and expectations
Support network
We are complicit in the condition we feel, how can we not be the centre?
The importance of writing and dissemination

3. Connect yourself, your work
Focus on process, not outcomes
Build in time for reflection
Don’t lose sight of purpose
Funding related actions
Roles to play as staff
Structures and processes
Risks
The concept of space

4. Collaborative and action research principles
Speak for yourself – everybody is a researcher
Knowledge and learning are social, produced in conversation – needs different perspectives involved
Power is not a monolith, power/structures made up through small everyday interactions
Knowledge is a process, not a fixed product, learning and change are ongoing
Working with different ways of knowing
Knowledge and change are interconnected – knowledge is more powerful if everybody involved in an issue is involved
Focus on connections, not linear cause and effect
Inquiry approach – notice how what you do has impact

5. Open space
Ways of Knowing Community Engagement as Research

6. Action planning
What practical steps can you think of you could try out to address some of the challenges you just spoke about? What small first action could you take? How could you maybe use collaborative research to address this issue? Who would be involved?

7. Stay in touch
Making Space for Participative Practice Facebook group