Robert Mackinnon Email & Phone Number

United Kingdom

(0.2, rolling contract) Initially Assistant Director (director cover) with added curatorial responsibilities, from Oct 24 rolling Curator contract, providing curatorial support.

(0.33) IPM implementation and visitor focused ‘collections care in action’ with targeted collections. Media production focused on collections care and events for media outreach and the museum’s socials. Engagement with walk-in and telephone donation enquiries and decisions with Director on acquisition (June 24 - present, overlap with Curator position)..

Digital engagement lead, including production of ‘Stories from the collection’ blog posts (Nov 21 – present), online exhibitions (March 24 – present) and diverse and intensive social media content (Nov 23 – Dec 24: 330 FB posts, incl.110 reels), engaging audiences with the collection, displays, the museum’s work and events and with pickup by local and.

(0.5) County Museum Service contemporary collecting project involving principally the design, conduction and cataloguing of pandemic oral history. Also pandemic material culture collecting (following up particular offers of donations to Staffordshire Archive and Heritage’s ‘Lockdown Memories’ project).

Condition recording, emergency salvage (textiles), implementing housekeeping plans and undertaking routine collections care at Benthall Hall (Nov 21 - Oct 23) and Dudmaston Hall (Jan 23 - Aug 23). Improvement of Benthall's 'Bits box' through documenting, photographing, re-packing and restorage of items.

Primary and secondary research for ‘The Daily Grind: The industrial workers of the Ironbridge Gorge’ exhibition. Large archive donation pre-accession scoping (theming).

Cataloguing, conservation, research, interpretation and display of Coalbrookdale Company orders archive as part of Senior Curator Georgina Grant's Headley Fellowship with Art Fund (2021-22). Interpretation and display on own developed research ('Draughtsmen’s drawings from Coalbrookdale: Artistry, delight and the ‘working drawing’') as part of project.

Exhibition primary and secondary research, producing interpretive materials for FOH staff on Coalbrookdale sites, catalogue work (Sir Arthur Elton Collection) and archival transcription.

Proposal, design, implementation and dissemination of an Aberystwyth University funded material culture research project (including stipend): 'Affective geographies of models and modelling'.

Developing, planning, delivering and assessing learning for first-year undergraduate tutorials.

Pgcert, Museum Studies, Distinction

School of Museum Studies Distance Learning Prize

Pgce, Distinction

Phd, Cultural And Historical Geography ('Affective Geographies Of Models And Modelling')

Activities and Societies: Academic Tutor in Geography (11-15); Widening Participation Tutor (12-13); and others.Material culture research.

Msc, Urban And Regional Planning, Distinction

Ba, Human Geography, First

Undergraduate Dissertation Prize, Historical Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG). Gregynog and James.