2013 Monday 21 January: TA for Janet Berry; MA Workshops in Handling Objects

2013 22 Tuesday January: Updates of journals, drafting research proposals to British Museum and to Pitt Rivers Museum about fieldwork. Application to British Museum for Workshop in Visitor Research Methods.

2013 23 Wednesday January: Proposal to Pitt Rivers Museum completed and sent. Moved to Monday: Supervision with Sandra about proposals, Discussion of Blackboard course/calendar with Ceri, SSCC meeting--apologies sent. Museum Studios Report from 14 November 2012 written and posted.

2013 24 Thursday January: Revisions to proposals and submission of proposals. Drafting paper. Supervision with Sandra moved to Wednesday.

2013 25 Friday January: Preparation report for next supervision, response to emails, updating memberships, organising unread backlog of recent postings to ‘Consdistlist’, reviewing possible journals and symposiums to submit papers to for publication and/or presentation.

2013 Weekend 26-27 January: Out of Office. Updates of journals.

14 January through 20 January

14 January 2013 Monday: Emails and Arrangements for Followup Interview with Virginia Beavert

15 January 2013 Tuesday: Worked on research essay, answered emails

16 January 2013 Wednesday: Followup Interview with Virginia Beavert 

17 January 2013 Thursday: Field trip to Birmingham Museum Collections Centre with Janet Berry and Museum Studies MA Programme 2012-2013. (Snow storms on the way home.)

18 January 2013 Friday: Readings and Research, Notes review for Monday TA with Janet Berry for MA Program Workshop in Objects Handling. (Snow Storms in Leicester.)

19 & 20 January 2013 Weekend: Out of office.

Friday, 11 January 2013:

Last term, my research did not progress as well as I should have liked, primarily due to a number of health complaints (broken nose, biking accident, respiratory ailments) and basic personal life priorities (moving house). I managed to accomplish the following: successful completion of the ethical clearance process, preliminary field research, departmental responsibilities (Brown Bag Seminar scheduling, Collections Room restructuring and rehousing of the handling collection, November conference committee, seminar leadership, TA support for YSP MA fieldwork), a number of interviews, readings pertaining to research, basic film editing and production practice. 

I am currently working on a paper concerning the responsive role of collections management in ongoing development of heritage and tradition (as practiced in daily life). 

It is my intention to maintain my weekly reports again, starting from Monday, 7 January 2013:

7 January 2013 Monday: Merry Christmas to those in observance of the Julian Calendar and Happy Birthday to me. 

8 January 2013 Tuesday: Worked on current research essay.

9 January 2013 Wednesday: Exhibitions Committee Meeting (attended and took the minutes). Readings. Worked on current research essay.

10 January 2013 Thursday: Wrote up minutes from meeting. Emails to Sandra about yesterday’s meeting and current progress in research, to Janet about TA next Thursday, Friday, Monday and to Burt at BM, Storrie at Horniman, Peers at Pitt Rivers. Readings and essay drafting. 

11 January 2013 Friday: Out of office until next Tuesday.

12 & 13 January 2013 Weekend: Out of office.