Doctoral Training Programme: Teaching with Collections

Name: Doctoral Training Programme: Teaching with Collections
Start: 2026-02-04T11:00:00+00:00
End: 2026-02-04T16:00:00+00:00
Location: The Museum of English Rural Life

Schedule

Wed Feb 04 2026 at 11:00 am to 04:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

The Museum of English Rural Life | Reading, EN

Learn how to design effective collections-based teaching for HE
About this Event

Senior Fellow of Advance HE, University Teaching Fellow and Director of Academic Learning and Engagement for Museums & Collections Dr Rhi Smith shares her experience from 20 years of teaching with collections at HE level.

After learning how to design effective HE collections sessions, you will put this into practice by designing a workshop linked to your own research area.

Doctoral Training Programme: collections-based research

This event is part of our Doctoral Training Programme: collections-based research series. Attend as few or as many sessions as you like.

22 Oct 2025: Navigating collections (at The MERL)

26 Nov 2025: Reading objects, images and documents (at The MERL)

03 Dec 2025: Collections-based research, theories and methods (online)

14 Jan 2026: What's not there? Absences in collections (online)

04 Feb 2026: Teaching with collections (at The MERL)

04 Mar 2026: Digital research with collections (online)

15 Apr 2026: Research engagement and impact with collections - skills for PER (at The MERL).