The Hidden Constellation explores the future of work in museums, presenting a leading STEM museum service thinking about the value and impact of technology in the work that it does, and the work it will do. By spending time with volunteers, staff and trustees at the Science Museum Group in England, this podcast presents an alternative constellation of museum work - a map of digital labour that is disrupting traditional hierarchies of museum expertise, heralding radical forms of science parti ...
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People. Change. Museums. explores the complex relationship between museums and technology in this time of intersecting crises. Presented by Dr Sophie Frost, researcher on the 'One by One' initiative in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester (UK), this podcast pulls together perspectives from the international museum world to take the temperature of the current moment. Part spoken essay, part interview and part call to arms, Sophie asks: what is the role of the museum in ...
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A podcast made by staff and volunteers of this museum service in Brighton & Hove on the south coast of England. Dr Sophie Frost meets some of the people who keep these civic museums relevant for the 21st century, and discovers more about the work that goes on behind the scenes -- from the sublime to the ridiculously mundane. Presented by Dr Sophie Frost and edited by Lo-Fi Arts, this podcast is supported by the One by One Research Project, The Keep, and Arts Council England.
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Pippa Evans collects stories from people about the first six months of parenthood. For anyone in the middle of, about to go into or reminiscing about those wild times.
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The First Six Months - Cathrine Frost Bonus
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Whilst at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Pippa went to see Good Luck, Cathrine Frost - a brilliant show about pregnancy, miscarriage and motherhood which somehow manages to talk about all these things with a lightness and a seriousness, whilst spanking Socrates on the bottom. Pippa leapt at the chance to interview Cathrine about her First Six Month…
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The First Six Months- Gemma
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TW: Miscarriage In this episode, Pippa talks to Gemma about having a baby in a different country, sleep deprivation and the fear that comes when you have experienced multiple losses; how it can feel impossible to believe this pregnancy is going to make it. They also discuss, at length, piles and what to do about them.…
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The First Six Months - Sophie
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Content Warning: Difficult birth Pippa talks to Sophie about a tricky birth, body autonomy and uncovering health issues later in life that may have impacted those first six months.Door Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Carrie Carlisle
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CONTENT WARNING: Attempted suicide In this episode, Pippa is talking to Carrie Carlisle about her First Six Months. Carrie’s husband tried to take his own life when she was six months pregnant, which meant her first six months was dominated by trying to get her husband well. She talks about the amazing care she received, the loneliness of people no…
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The First Six Months - Michelle
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Michelle talks to Pippa about her relatively easy pregnancy and birth experience (amazing what we count as easy, that's all I'll say), having a Lockdown Baby and many tales of trying to express milk. #mum #newmum #firstsixmonths #matrescence #express #lockdownbaby #SpritzForBitsDoor Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Clare Bourne
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Pippa talks to Clare Bourne (@clarebournephysio), a pelvic health specialist and full time mum. She loved her first six months but her second six months was disrupted by covid, meaning her husband couldn’t come home as a GP in the NHS. Clare talks about navigating loneliness and anxiety but ultimately finding her way through. Being a Pelvic Health …
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The First Six Months - Prachi
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"If you've waited so long for this, are you allowed not to enjoy it sometimes?" In this episode, Pippa speaks with Prachi, a mother and sexual health doctor based in Edinburgh about her experiences of the first six months. After a difficult time with IVF, Prachi was determined to make the best of her first and (most likely) only six months. There i…
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The First Six Months - Cariad
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Two weeks late, double mastitis and a 27 hour labour. Anything else you want to throw at me? Pippa talks to the delightful Cariad Lloyd about her first Six Months and how she managed to navigate the unbelievable number of challenges sent her way. We had to label this episode 'explicit' because of Cariad's potty mouth. #hipdysplacia #mastitsis #csec…
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The First Six Months - Roddie
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Pippa talks to the delightful Roddie about becoming a dad for the first time and how he navigated supporting his partner, Natalie, through a difficult birth, in Covid conditions. Content Warning: We discuss the fear of cot death quite a lot, as something that played on our minds hugely for the first six months.…
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The First Six Months - Mum
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Being a mum in the 80s. Has anything really changed? I got the unusual privilege of interviewing my own mother, Trish Evans, about her four (yes, four) births. It was really lovely to talk about that experience with her and I had no idea of what a struggle it had been for her at times. Great episode if you have multiple children, are feeling blue o…
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The First Six Months - Athena
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Last episode in this series. Athena talks to Pippa about suspected PTSD, moving in with her mum and how Capitalism is telling us we need things we don't. Had to mark this one EXPLICIT but only for a couple of swears.Door Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Lara
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Lara talks to Pippa about becoming a mother at 20, buying everything the books tell you to and then regretting it and how hard it can be to maintain friendships when you are the first one of your group to have a baby.Door Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Jen
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Jen talks to Pippa about being a solo IVF mum, horrific mastitis and an obsession with Bourbon biscuits.Door Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Victoria
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Pippa talks to Victoria about the joys of losing all bodily autonomy, the impact of her child arriving prematurely, particularly on her mental health and now looking back longingly at the excuse to simply enjoy the sofa and watch all those box sets.Door Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Siva
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Pippa talks to Siva about her memories of the first six months which include drinking garlic milk, an obsession with breastfeeding and perhaps the best way to look at unsolicited advice ever proffered.Door Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Sarah
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Sarah talks about adopting her daughter and the joys of juggling bureaucracy with all the usual first six months. And there's another vote for Tommy Tippee's formula maker.Door Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Lucy
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Lucy talks to Pippa about the loneliness she felt during her first six months and the frustrations of trying to pump in a disabled toilet.Door Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Tess and Maria
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Tess and Maria talk about their comparative experiences during the first six months and what is is like to navigate the world of new motherhood as a same sex couple.Door Pippa Evans
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The First Six Months - Jo
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Pippa talks to Jo about having a generally rosy memory of her first six months and what it's like for your contractions to start during a lovely pub roast.Door Pippa Evans
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Episode 6: COLLECTIVE
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Digital labour doesn’t involve just one person sitting in front of a screen, but rather a collaborative effort undertaken by people acting as a group – with multiple individuals, machines, and processes all working in tandem. In the final episode of this series, hear how collective digital labour at Science Museum Group has drawn a through-line bet…
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Traces of past digital labour are to be found everywhere at Science Museum Group. In the penultimate episode of The Hidden Constellation, hear some of the organisation’s longest-standing employees describe the impact of new computing technology when it was initially introduced in the Group’s museums. Learn how, in the 1980s and 90s through to the 2…
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Episode 4 Part 2: DISTRIBUTED
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In this, the second of two episodes focused on the distinctive nature of different forms of digital labour across Science Museum Group, we look to the experimental digital labour of the Group’s Northern museums. Hear how anarchic (but relatively low budget) digital experiments have reached new or previously disenfranchised communities, cultivating …
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Episode 4 Part 1: DISTRIBUTED
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For decades, digital activity has been inconsistent across the cultural and heritage sectors. The following two episodes explore the distinctive and context-specific nature of digital work at Science Museum Group, focusing on why digital labour can be variable depending not only on which museum you visit, but on which museum department you find you…
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Episode 3 Part 2: HIDDEN
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This episode delves even deeper into the idea of “hidden” digital labour, shifting our attention to the gnarly work of museum documentation and collections management. As with other practices of digital labour in the museum, there is a high degree of emotional labour and care involved in this work. We start to build a picture of how some digital ac…
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Episode 3 Part 1: HIDDEN
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From cataloguing to archiving, conservation to collections management, “hidden” labour has long existed in cultural and heritage work. However, due to our reliance on digital technology, the nature of this “hidden” museum labour has irrevocably changed. Across the following two episodes, we’ll chart the uniquely “hidden” aspects of digital activity…
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New digital labour is disrupting, reorganising, and progressing the Science Museum Group’s core priority to promote science capital. Digital projects discussed in this episode include a meme collecting project at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and Heritage Connector, a research project that used data analysis approaches to build …
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Episode 1: INTRODUCING 'The Hidden Constellation'
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In the first episode of The Hidden Constellation, hear a preview of what's to come in this series. Sophie provides a snapshot of the different kinds of digital labour – new, hidden, distributed, legacy and collective – to be reflected on within each of episode. Voices you’ll hear in this episode include Hope Miyoba – Wikimedian-in-Residence (Scienc…
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In the final episode of People. Change. Museums., we take ‘empathy’ as our keyword. Last century psychologists determined that there are three variations of empathy: ‘somatic empathy’ – the physical reaction to someone else’s pain and suffering; ‘cognitive empathy – the capacity to understand another, to put yourself in their place; and ‘affective …
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5: CULTURAL IDENTITY
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This penultimate episode of People. Change. Museums. presents the term 'Cultural Identity' as its keyword. The notion of belonging has taken on a new set of meanings during the time of pandemic, with those identified as belonging to certain ethnically diverse cultural communities – and typically those characterised as experiencing higher rates of p…
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The term 'agency' has long been considered a term of empowerment, linked to the ability to transgress, to be insurrectionary, political and subversive. But how has the meaning of the term shifted in 2020? This episode takes 'agency' as its keyword and considers how, in museums and other cultural spaces at least, it has come to mean the ability to h…
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3: EMOTIONAL LABOUR
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The term ‘emotional labour’ is our keyword in this episode. 'Emotional Labour' is a concept that has gained more and more recognition since the start of the pandemic, and even before that it had become synonymous with a wide range of employment rights issues – from its close relationship to typically female experiences of juggling a career alongsid…
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'Courage' is the keyword of the second episode of People. Change. Museums. This year, many of us have needed to be more courageous than before in our use of digital applications and tools, both to stay connected personally and to continue to work professionally. Similarly, previous fears and trepidations about technology have had to be overcome in …
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'Precarity' refers to the condition of being precarious - of being flexible, insecure, dependent, vulnerable and exposed. In 2020, the word 'precarity' couldn’t be more pertinent as we find ourselves and our museums in a variety of insecure, dependent, vulnerable and exposed states. At the same time, our world feels rife with precarity - we are in …
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People. Change. Museums. is a new podcast series exploring the relationship between museums and technology in this moment of intersecting crises. The series is presented by Dr Sophie Frost, researcher on the 'One by One' initiative in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.…
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In the final episode of Voices of the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Sophie interviews Nicola Adams, Digital Marketing Officer and Tasha Brown, Museum Futures Trainee - two individuals who perhaps typify the future of our museums - about their hopes and dreams for the future of the organisation. This episode meditates on how, more than ever, the stories…
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15. People First, Technology Second
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This penultimate episode explores the ever-increasing role of digital technology in our cultural organisations by talking to Kevin Bacon, Digital Manager at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Kevin takes us on a whistle-stop tour of his own experiences of working with technology at the museum over the past 20 years and provides an insight into how it has tr…
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In 2019, over 120 items of furniture and decorative objects from the Royal Collection Trust were loaned to their original home at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton after 170 years away. Dr Alexandra Loske, Curator at the Royal Pavilion, talks to Sophie about their homecoming, and explains the prescience of the Prince Regent’s infamous collection for B…
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13. The Art of Conservation
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In the first episode of the final series, Sophie speaks to Amy Junker-Heslip and Carola Del Mese, two members of the conservation team at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Amy and Carola share stories about some of delicate, painstaking and surprisingly creative work they have undertaken to help ‘make things last forever’ at this museum service.…
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12. Rummaging Through Boxes
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In the final episode of the series, Sophie goes behind the scenes with Dan Robertson, Curator of Local History and Archeology at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Dan’s seemingly infinite descriptions of Victorian Egyptologists, holy water sprinklers, German mausers, grid irons, Sussex loops and the deepest hand-dug well in the world capture the unique and…
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In this episode, Sophie is joined by Robert White and Kelly Boddington, two early participants of the workforce development programme at Royal Pavilion & Museums, who spearheaded LGBTQ+ interpretation in its current form across the organisation. Kelly, who works by day as Assistant Buyer in the Retail team and Rob, a Marketing Support Officer and B…
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10. Frogs & Formaldehyde
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The Booth Museum of Natural History is a museum of Victorian taxidermy (notably of British birds), but also insects, fossils, bones and skeletons. On TripAdvisor it has been described as “a place of wonder, with a bit of terror thrown in.” In this episode Sophie is joined by Lee Ismail, Curator of Natural Sciences at the Booth, who introduces the m…
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9. Disrupting South Coast Colonialism
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In this episode, Sophie is joined by Rachel Heminway-Hurst, Curator of World Art, and Edith Ojo, freelance Arts Consultant and advisor on the Fashioning Africa project. Rachel and Edith explain the history and culture behind Yoruba Aso-oke textiles from West Africa, helping us to understand the symbolic importance of a British coastal museum collec…
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8. Life on the Frontline
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Sophie meets some of the ‘walking encyclopaedias’ who work on the frontline at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Marcus Bagshaw, Sue Winkett, Clare Hartfield and Zak Flannery all work in the Visitor Services team across the organisation’s five sites. They provide a rollicking, unpredictable and alternative tour of Brighton’s museum service in this episode …
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7. Workforce Development
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In the first episode of Season 2, Sophie speaks to Nick Kay, Workforce Development Officer at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Launched in 2012, Royal Pavilion & Museums’ innovative workforce development programme is a unique example of an on-the-job museum training scheme. Nick talks about the ethos behind the scheme, what has made the initiative so succ…
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Voices of the Royal Pavilion & Museums is a podcast series that tells the rich and varied stories of the museum people who keep Brighton’s historic buildings and collections relevant, vibrant and accessible for the world we are living in. The series is presented by Dr Sophie Frost, who was embedded as an action researcher at Royal Pavilion & Museum…
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6. Reframing South Coast Colonialism
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In this episode, Sophie is joined by Dr Helen Mears, Keeper of World Art and Sarah Lee, Consultant and Advisor to RPM as well as Co-Founder of Brighton and Hove Black History. Helen and Sarah discuss how RPM’s recent Black and Minority Ethnic cultural heritage projects have adopted ground-breaking practices of co-production and collaboration by wor…
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Robert Hill-Snook is Head Gardener of the Royal Pavilion gardens in the heart of Brighton, having been in post for almost 25 years. Sophie takes a stroll with Robert as he reflects on his working life in this Regency garden, ruminating on how the garden – and nature more generally – continues to be a tonic for many of life’s ills.…
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4. The Ghosts of Preston Manor
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Preston Manor is reputed to be one of the most haunted houses in Britain. In this episode Sophie talks to Chris Drake (Development and Operations Manager at Preston Manor), Paula Wrightson (Venue Officer), Lavender Jones (long-standing volunteer) and David Beevers (former Keeper of Preston Manor), who help us to understand the cast of characters (g…
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During the First World War, the Royal Pavilion was converted into a hospital for Indian soldiers, wounded on the battlefields of the Western Front. Jody East, Creative Programme Manager at Royal Pavilion & Museums, joins Sophie to discuss how RPM has commemorated this significant story and how focusing on emotional connections and people rather tha…
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