The University of Warwick, and Oxford University Museum of Natural History, are pleased to announce the availability of a doctoral grant under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership Scheme. The project seeks to leverage user experience methods from industry to explore the use of tangible 3D printed replicas within museums. The main aims of the project are to understand how such replicas affect the museum experience and how they influence both the interpretation and behaviour of visitors. This project will be jointly supervised by researchers in WMG at the University of Warwick and Oxford University Museum of Natural History and the doctoral researcher will be expected to spend time in both institutions, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP-funded doctoral students across the UK. The studentship will focus on the impact of tangible 3D printed replicas, models produced via the process of additive manufacturing, on the museum experience of visitors. The primary purpose of this is to investigate the feasibility of employing such replicas in museums and how visitors interact with and learn from such objects. The student will employ a range of rigorous methodologies, including Content Analysis, Factor Analysis and other statistical methodologies, whilst ensuring that the methods employed are suitable for the task, reliable and valid. A range of statistical approaches will be combined with well-documented qualitative research approaches to provide a holistic view of how visitors interact with, and learn from, tangible 3D printed replicas. This will use and build on previous research efforts within the WMG–OUMNH group to attempt to answer this research problem.
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