Research: Affecting Space
An interdisciplinary ethnography at Manchester Art Gallery.
Project summary
Research summary
- 2018 to 2022
This research is funded by a White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership collaborative doctoral award, working with Manchester Art Gallery, and babies and families living near Manchester City Centre. The work is sustained by a series of interdisciplinary conversations with local early years provision partners.
By paying attention to babies’ interactions with spaces, movements, and materials, the research aims to discover ways that this new knowledge can inform multi-professional work attending to young children’s wellbeing in art galleries.
In the current context of lockdown, the research has turned its attention to the new babies born into a pandemic, asking what families need to live well and how the multi-professional team and the space of the art gallery can bring families together yet still, for now, apart.
Photo credit: Naomi Kendrick and Andrew Brookes
Research outputs
Academic papers
- McCall, K. Boycott-Garnett, R. (2020) ‘Manchester Art Gallery: Co-designing a space for young children and services’, Journal for Education in Museums, 40, pp. 8-15
- Boycott-Garnett, R. (2019) ‘Qualitative Method: An imaginary entanglement of research in a gallery space’, Entanglements, 2(2), pp. 80-100
Research team
Research team
Lead researcher
Co-researchers
Funding
Project partner
This project is being carried out in partnership with Manchester Art Gallery.
With funding from
UK Economic and Social Research Council.
Contact
Contact us
For general enquiries about the Education and Social Research Institute children and childhood group, you can contact research group lead Prof Rachel Holmes.
