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SDoyle Presentation
- 1. Registered on PhD Programme School of Creative Arts 1st March 2016 Supervisors: Tim Stott & Niamh Ann Kelly Siobhán Doyle
- 2. Research Question(s): How do national cultural institutions develop and support understandings of significant moments in Ireland’s political history through visual methodologies in commemorative exhibitions? What are the issues/pressures of visualizing historic political events at a national level and how can national cultural institutions present history through commemorative exhibitions in a measured and reflective manner which must satisfy the education and expectation of different types of audiences?
- 3. Area of Research National Cultural Institutions Commemorative Exhibitions Visual Culture
- 4. Research Methods: Literature Review Interviews Archive research Exhibition analysis
- 5. Research Design & Methodology Gillian Rose’ Analytical Framework in Rose, Gillian (ed) (2001) Visual Methodologies: An Introduction to the Interpretation of Visual Materials. Sage, London. Stuart Hall’s theory of representation in Hall, Stuart (ed) (1997) Representation: Cultural Representations and Signifying Practices. Sage, London.
- 6. Progress since 1st March 2016: Refined research to national cultural institutions Selected exhibitions for case studies Attended events and conferences Reading of key texts Started writing literature review Introduced my research project to industry practitioners and academics
- 7. PhD Timeline May 2016 - April 2017:
- 8. Memberships & Affiliations to Date: GradCAM Researcher Member of Irish Museums Association (IMA) Member of the Irish branch of the International Council of Museums (ICOM) Office of Public Works (OPW) Heritage Card Holder Member of Historical Dialogues, Justice & Memory Network Museum Assistant in The GAA Museum, Croke Park Stadium
- 9. Conferences & Events Attended to Date: GAA Museum Spring Lecture Series (GAA Museum, February/March 2016) Reflecting the Rising lectures at National Museum of Ireland & Royal Hibernian Academy (RTE/Ireland 2016, March 2016) Decade of Commemorations Conference (All Island Commemoration Network, NUI Maynooth, April 2016) Curator’s Tour of ‘James Stephens, the NGI & 1916’ (National Gallery of Ireland, April 2016) Researching the Rising Workshop (National Library of Ireland, May 2016) New Approaches to Public History (Queens University Belfast, May 2016) NMI Curatorial Team in Conversation with Dermot Bolger (National
- 10. Conference Paper Proposal: Confronting Violent Pasts and Historical (In)Justice International Conference NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust, and Genocide Studies, Amsterdam 1st-3rd December 2016 Sixth Annual Conference of the Historical Dialogues, Justice and Memory Network Title of my proposed paper is ‘1916 Rising and the Challenges of Visualizing Commemorations’
- 11. Modules to be taken September 2016: Communication Skills Research Methods Curatorial History Research Culture and Philosophy Workshop Network Cultures Interview Skills
Editor's Notes
- #3: In Progress.
- #6: Gillian Rose: Theme of the publication: importance of the visual in contemporary Western societies, sets out analytical framework for understanding how images become meaningful and offers criteria for a critical approach to visual materials
- #9: GradCAM: Ideal platform to introduce my topic to peer led discourse for review thereby establishing peer reviewed credibility for the project before presenting to a wider audience. Through network events orgainized by GradCAM I will gain access to a valuable network of relevant researchers which will substantially support and strengthen my research project. IMA: Organization that promotes and encourages the improvement of museums and museum practice nationwide. ICOM: I am a member of the local branch of the International Council of Museums, which is based in Paris. ICOM is a network of more than 28,000 museum professionals of all disciplines, working in 137 countries all over the world. GAA Museum: I continue to work a few hours in The GAA Museum in order to maintain an affiliation with a museum organisation, continue working in a museum environment and apply theories and frameworks to exhibitions and research that are outside of my case studies.
- #10: I am lucky in that my research topic has alot of relevant events and conferences at the moment- many of which are local (in Dublin) and free of charge. Obviously I will be attending conferences outside of Ireland (University of Cardiff in June and University of Leicester in July). *EVENTS CALENDAR*
- #11: I presented at the network’s annual conference in 2015 at Columbia University, New York. There are two more CFP that have been brought to my attention in the past week so I will work on proposals also.