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The museum boom: A bird’s eye view

New overview article in Cultural Trends from the Mapping Museums project. 🏛️📈🔎📊 Abstract. During the late-twentieth century there was a significant increase in the number of museums in the UK. Apart from the polemic heritage debates of the 1980s and 1990s, the boom in museums was not much investigated. Our project “Mapping Museums” collected and … Continue reading The museum boom: A bird’s eye view →

Of museums, Covid, and social media

New open-access article from the Museums in the pandemic project 🏛️🌎💻 🦠 Abstract. This paper examines social media activity by UK museums during the COVID-19 pandemic. There is a general perception that as museums closed their doors for extended periods, their digital presence increased to maintain connections with their audiences. However, much of the research conducted … Continue reading Of museums, Covid, and social media →

[job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London

📢 Come to work with us on museum analytics! 💡📊🏛️ URL: https://cis7.bbk.ac.uk/vacancy/postdoctoral-research-assistant-531235.html This is a full time, fixed term appointment until 30 September 2024 at Birkbeck, University of London. Please note, the successful candidate will be employed at Birkbeck for Year 1 and KCL for Year 2.  Are you a recent PhD graduate or a … Continue reading [job] 2-year postdoc on cultural analytics/DH @Birkbeck/King’s College London →

New AHRC project on museum analytics

Museum Closure in the UK (2000-2025) We are pleased to announce that the Mapping Museums Lab has been awarded £1M Arts and Humanities Research Council funding for their project ‘Museum Closure in the UK 2000-2025’.  Museums are defined as permanent institutions and are intended to preserve collections for posterity. Yet their closure is common. Our previous … Continue reading New AHRC project on museum analytics →

Museums and their geodemographic context

Here's our new short paper to be presented at GISRUK 2023 in Glasgow! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏛️🌎 [PDF] "The geography of the cultural sector concerns the location of producers, consumers, and venues of the Cultural and Creative Industries (CCIs) to answer questions about their development and dynamics. Considering the case of the UK museums, we use national data … Continue reading Museums and their geodemographic context →

Classifying outdoor walking with Ordnance Survey data

This new open-access article on leisure walking in Britain stems from a collaboration with the Ordnance Survey [see pdf]. Title: "The context of outdoor walking: A classification of user-generated routes" Authors: Andrea Ballatore, Stefano Cavazzi, Jeremy Morley Publication: The Geographical Journal Abstract. Leisure walking has known benefits to public health, from both physical and psychological … Continue reading Classifying outdoor walking with Ordnance Survey data →

Online food delivery in the pandemic: What changed?

Here's a new journal article in Health & Place led by our excellent student Alexandra Kalbus, co-supervised at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [open access article] [PDF version] 📄📊🍔😷 Title: "Associations between area deprivation and changes in the digital food environment during the COVID-19 pandemic: Longitudinal analysis of three online food delivery … Continue reading Online food delivery in the pandemic: What changed? →

Associations between the food environment and purchasing • BMC Public Health

Here's a new journal article in BMC Public Health led by our student Alexandra Kalbus, co-supervised at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. [open access article] [PDF version] Title: "Associations between the food environment and food and drink purchasing using large-scale commercial purchasing data: a cross-sectional study" Authors: Alexandra Kalbus, Laura Cornelsen, Andrea … Continue reading Associations between the food environment and purchasing • BMC Public Health →

Charting the geographies of heritage with data science • UCL • 26 Jan 2023

I will give the next online research talk at University College London 🏛️ in a series of events organised by the UCL Institute for Sustainable Heritage. Title: "Cultural Geo-Analytics: Charting the geographies of heritage with data science" ⏱️ When: 26 January 2023, 5:30 pm–6:30 pm 🌐 URL: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/heritage/events/2023/jan/cultural-geo-analytics-charting-geographies-heritage-data-science