Graduate Studies in Museum Studies: Year Three.

During year three (full-time status) I have attended, will complete and/or have completed the following training:
Title of Training Completed	Notes/Comments	Date Completed
Commencement of 2013-2014 Departmental Responsibilities: Student Administration Representative for Blackboard, Coordinator for Research Week 2014.		1 August 2013-1 August 2014
Connecting with Collections Symposium in Cambridge.		27 September 2013
Supervision with Dr. Sandra Dudley.	Preparation for Panel Review.	23 September
Co-lead Tutorial in the Use of Blackboard for Museum Studies with Dr. Ceri Jones.		2 October 2013
Support for Alex Woodall’s Think Tank Session.		10 October 2013
Creative Evaluations Workshop.		11 October 2013
Yorkshire Sculpture Park; Supervision of MA Field Trip and Co-leader for Review Seminar.		14-15 October 2013
Museum Metamorphosis Conference Planning Committee.	Timetabling and planning.	30 October 2013
Panel Review with Dr. Ross Parry and Dr. Lisanne Gibson.	Successfully passed! Acquired very helpful insights from reviewers about the proposed outline for my thesis.	30 October 2013; 10:00
Study Day at National Space Centre		31 October 2013; 9-13:00
Museum Metamorphosis Conference; Attendee and Panel Chair		5-6 November 2013
History of the Royal Anthropological Institute –London.	This was a tea/symposium meeting of longstanding members of the RAI that are putting together a collective history of the RAI and its contributions to British Scholarship.	8 November 2013
Interview at British Museum with curator of The Americas, Dr. Jago Cooper	This marked the last ‘official’ fieldwork research interview for the thesis.	8 November 2013
Brown Bag with Elaine Gurian	Reviewed BB Recording.	8 November 2013
Supervision with Dr. Sandra Dudley	Discussed outline for thesis.	27 November 2013
Brown Bag with Nick Pool	Reviewed BB Recording.	4 December 2013
Winter Holidays	During the break, I organised partner’s mother’s 60th birthday celebration and accompanied my mother on bereavement visit to Germany. Conducted informal research at Munich's Deutsches Museum taking its 'Inter-planetary Walk' tour and also visited Berlin's 'Museum Island'.	14 December 2013-8 January 2014
Research Day London Highgate Cemetery.	Research for paper on contested narratives; memorial sites as open air museums and galleries.	21 February 2014
School of Museum Studies Research Committee Meeting 9:30am	One of two PhD student representatives to attend.	26 February 2014
Supervision with Dr. Sandra Dudley 12 noon	Discussed outline for History of Display chapters for British Museum and Pitt Rivers Museum.	26 February 2014 2-3pm
SSCC meeting 4pm		26 February 2014
Research Day National Media Museum in Bradford	Research for paper on use of photographic media in museum practice; descriptive, prescriptive and ancillary media-in-display.	28 February 2014
*Dental emergency and subsequent surgery	Dental emergency 9:45am Briarmead Dental practice; subsequent work 6:45pm 25 March	3-25 March 2014
Supervision with Dr. Sandra Dudley 4pm	Discussed outline for research findings chapter for thesis.	26 March 2014
Coordinator for Research Week 2014 (RW2014)	January-July 2014.	July 2013-July 2014
RW2014 Research	Discussion with previous coordinators for this event (what worked, what didn’t), acquisition of useful information, survey of PhD student needs and interests towards content for Research Week 2014.	*October Orientation Week for Museum Studies 2013-2014.
RW2014 Planning	10am Planning Session with Prof. Richard Sandell 24 January 2014; sharing of the survey results and construction of initial timetable.	*24 January
RW2014 Confirmation	Confirmed number of Pre-APG presentations.	*2 February
RW2014 Planning	9am Planning Session with Prof. Richard Sandell 19 February; also confirmed with academics about presentation times and titles.	*19 February
RW2014 Invitations and informational sessions	Invitations to speakers; met with speakers.	* 26 February
RW2014 Planning, confirmation of seating, lunch arrangements	Meeting about who will speak when, luncheon options etc.	*1-31 May
RW2014 Registration and Abstracts	Nametag and Registration forms construction, gathering abstracts, putting together booklet that accompanies Research Week including timetable and abstracts.	*20-31 May; 1-14 June
RW2014 Logistics and Confirmations	Reminders and emergency contacts, arranging for social events and walking tours. Delegation of Celebration Dinner planning to Ryan Nutting.	*1-23 June
RW2014 Research Week Itself	Oversaw event, registered guests and speakers, timed all presentation, recording academic sessions, social media micro blogging, photos taken as requested, chaired session one.	*23-28 June 2014
RW2014 Research Visit Day to Wales	National Museum Wales and Story of Cardiff Museum.	*27 June 2014
RW2014 *Post Research Week	Sound files edited and finally post to UoL Blackboard.	*1-9 July 2014
RW2014 Evaluation and Report	Evaluations and ideas.	*4-14 July 2014