Bruce Davenport
@bushofears.bsky.social
Lecturer in Museum Studies at Newcastle University. Interested in cultural gerontology, volunteering & volunteer management.
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New job Creative Producer: Community and Youth @nhm-london.bsky.social #London
Apply by 23rd December 2025
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#GEMJobs #LondonJobs #MuseumLearningJobs #MuseumJobs #HeritageJobs #YouthJobs
Apply by 23rd December 2025
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Creative Producer: Community and Youth - GEM
About Us We are a world-class visitor attraction and leading science research centre. We use the Museum’s unique collections and our unrivalled expertise to tackle the biggest challenges facing the […...
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December 10, 2025 at 3:30 PM
New job Creative Producer: Community and Youth @nhm-london.bsky.social #London
Apply by 23rd December 2025
Full details here: gem.org.uk/jobs/creativ...
#GEMJobs #LondonJobs #MuseumLearningJobs #MuseumJobs #HeritageJobs #YouthJobs
Apply by 23rd December 2025
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I'm running a survey of volunteer managers from all UK volunteer-involving sectors about their experiences of managing older volunteers.
The survey is short (honest) & it runs until Nov 14.
Please complete or share.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/newcastle/...
#volunteering #VolMgmt #gerontology
The survey is short (honest) & it runs until Nov 14.
Please complete or share.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/newcastle/...
#volunteering #VolMgmt #gerontology
Cessation of Volunteering Survey
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October 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
I'm running a survey of volunteer managers from all UK volunteer-involving sectors about their experiences of managing older volunteers.
The survey is short (honest) & it runs until Nov 14.
Please complete or share.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/newcastle/...
#volunteering #VolMgmt #gerontology
The survey is short (honest) & it runs until Nov 14.
Please complete or share.
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/newcastle/...
#volunteering #VolMgmt #gerontology
There's currently a project attempting to map #arts & #dementia activities across the UK. They're asking people involved in this area to complete an online survey. Further info here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/kateyw...
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IMAGINED Survey | Katey Warran
Are you a UK-based organisation or individual involved with participatory arts & dementia work?
We are looking for people to complete an online survey to support us with mapping arts and dementia act...
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September 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
There's currently a project attempting to map #arts & #dementia activities across the UK. They're asking people involved in this area to complete an online survey. Further info here:
www.linkedin.com/posts/kateyw...
www.linkedin.com/posts/kateyw...
Recently read: Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England: Years in the Making by Catherine Degnen
One of those deeply humane pieces of ethnography that reveals the nuance at work in everyday lives.
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
#Yorkshire #gerontology
One of those deeply humane pieces of ethnography that reveals the nuance at work in everyday lives.
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
#Yorkshire #gerontology
August 31, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Recently read: Ageing Selves and Everyday Life in the North of England: Years in the Making by Catherine Degnen
One of those deeply humane pieces of ethnography that reveals the nuance at work in everyday lives.
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
#Yorkshire #gerontology
One of those deeply humane pieces of ethnography that reveals the nuance at work in everyday lives.
doi.org/10.2307/j.ct...
#Yorkshire #gerontology
Not an easy read, this one, but an interesting one. Carefully worked out arguments for a moderately extended cognition & maps as cognitive tools. I loved the bit about designing a better maps for pedestrians in Venice.
#maps #cognition
#maps #cognition
August 30, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Not an easy read, this one, but an interesting one. Carefully worked out arguments for a moderately extended cognition & maps as cognitive tools. I loved the bit about designing a better maps for pedestrians in Venice.
#maps #cognition
#maps #cognition
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💼 JOB: Volunteer and Community Coordinator Gydlynydd Gwirfoddolwyr a Chymuned. Remote, £30k, full or part-time, temporary. Closes 3/9
📝 Apply at www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/ftww-fa...
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August 30, 2025 at 9:01 AM
💼 JOB: Volunteer and Community Coordinator Gydlynydd Gwirfoddolwyr a Chymuned. Remote, £30k, full or part-time, temporary. Closes 3/9
📝 Apply at www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/ftww-fa...
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📝 Apply at www.charityjob.co.uk/jobs/ftww-fa...
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Really enjoyed this book by Rouran Zhang. Careful analysis of interview data worked up into some thoughtful discussion.
Chinese Heritage Sites and their Audiences: The Power of the Past - 1s share.google/2CDC1kTNdIbq...
Chinese Heritage Sites and their Audiences: The Power of the Past - 1s share.google/2CDC1kTNdIbq...
Chinese Heritage Sites and their Audiences: The Power of the Past
Chinese Heritage Sites and their Audiences provides a Chinese perspective on tourists’ relationship to heritage. Contributing to ongoing debates within heritage and tourism studies, the book offers in...
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August 1, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Really enjoyed this book by Rouran Zhang. Careful analysis of interview data worked up into some thoughtful discussion.
Chinese Heritage Sites and their Audiences: The Power of the Past - 1s share.google/2CDC1kTNdIbq...
Chinese Heritage Sites and their Audiences: The Power of the Past - 1s share.google/2CDC1kTNdIbq...
The calm prose relates joy, terror & grief in a measured tone. It's a kind of anti-reminiscence - the story unfolds through the refusal to open the suitcase. In doing so, it highlights the uncertain boundary between memory & imagination.
July 9, 2025 at 8:42 AM
The calm prose relates joy, terror & grief in a measured tone. It's a kind of anti-reminiscence - the story unfolds through the refusal to open the suitcase. In doing so, it highlights the uncertain boundary between memory & imagination.
Finished reading this over the weekend. Good stuff: Balanced & thoughtful. Occasionally funny, often deeply saddening. Not sure where that thread of reading will go next.
June 30, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Finished reading this over the weekend. Good stuff: Balanced & thoughtful. Occasionally funny, often deeply saddening. Not sure where that thread of reading will go next.
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Join the Confucius Institute at Newcastle University for their next event - 'Bridging Seas and Centuries: The Beiyang Sailors Legacy Symposium' on 21 - 22 July.
Register for this free event by Monday 23 June >> bit.ly/43O5Ewq
Register for this free event by Monday 23 June >> bit.ly/43O5Ewq
Beiyang Sailors Legacy Symposium - Newcastle University Business School - Newcastle University
Join us 21 and 22 July 2025 for a free symposium exploring memory, heritage, and UK–China maritime history through the Beiyang Fleet Sailors Cemetery.
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June 19, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Join the Confucius Institute at Newcastle University for their next event - 'Bridging Seas and Centuries: The Beiyang Sailors Legacy Symposium' on 21 - 22 July.
Register for this free event by Monday 23 June >> bit.ly/43O5Ewq
Register for this free event by Monday 23 June >> bit.ly/43O5Ewq
I've started to delve into narrative #gerontology, beginning with Cathrine Degnen's 'Ageing selves & everyday lives in the north of England'. Other recommendations around this topic would be welcomed.
June 19, 2025 at 1:23 PM
I've started to delve into narrative #gerontology, beginning with Cathrine Degnen's 'Ageing selves & everyday lives in the north of England'. Other recommendations around this topic would be welcomed.
I've a new paper out. It was an enjoyable digression from my usual work on volunteering. The paper looks at the objects & messages that people are leaving beside 5 gravestones in Newcastle and what we can learn from them.
The paper is open access so free for all to read.
rdcu.be/eqfbO
The paper is open access so free for all to read.
rdcu.be/eqfbO
Chinese commemorative practices in an English graveyard – observations on the Elswick gravestones
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June 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
I've a new paper out. It was an enjoyable digression from my usual work on volunteering. The paper looks at the objects & messages that people are leaving beside 5 gravestones in Newcastle and what we can learn from them.
The paper is open access so free for all to read.
rdcu.be/eqfbO
The paper is open access so free for all to read.
rdcu.be/eqfbO
More holiday/travel reading. Really enjoyed this. Careful & insightful. The author is grounded in planning & art history, which leaves plenty of scope for more ethnographic work.
April 28, 2025 at 7:48 AM
More holiday/travel reading. Really enjoyed this. Careful & insightful. The author is grounded in planning & art history, which leaves plenty of scope for more ethnographic work.
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News | Friends of the Bowes Museum group to close after 75 years — charity says it is winding up in response to falling income and a lack of volunteers
Friends of the Bowes Museum group to close after 75 years - Museums Association
Charity says it is winding up in response to falling income and a lack of volunteers
www.museumsassociation.org
April 24, 2025 at 4:35 PM
News | Friends of the Bowes Museum group to close after 75 years — charity says it is winding up in response to falling income and a lack of volunteers
Currently in Antwerp to give a lecture on heritage volunteering but I gave time, this morning, to visit another museum.
April 23, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Currently in Antwerp to give a lecture on heritage volunteering but I gave time, this morning, to visit another museum.
Reviewing academic papers is an unpaid job and publishers, who couldn't function without us, struggle to find meaningful ways to recompense that labour. Here's one: Springer could let anyone who does a review for one of their journsls use their staff cafe when they're passing through London.
March 28, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Reviewing academic papers is an unpaid job and publishers, who couldn't function without us, struggle to find meaningful ways to recompense that labour. Here's one: Springer could let anyone who does a review for one of their journsls use their staff cafe when they're passing through London.
Another data gathering day (last one for a while). It is a privilege to be able to meet people & learn from their experiences. Photo taken along the way to the first interview.
March 26, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Another data gathering day (last one for a while). It is a privilege to be able to meet people & learn from their experiences. Photo taken along the way to the first interview.
Really enjoyed reading this. Thoroughly grounded in research but written in an engaging, accessible style. It is a little old now, so someone ought to pay the author to do an update.
March 22, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Really enjoyed reading this. Thoroughly grounded in research but written in an engaging, accessible style. It is a little old now, so someone ought to pay the author to do an update.
Beautifully written: gentle erudition balanced with a playful wit.
March 9, 2025 at 1:18 PM
Beautifully written: gentle erudition balanced with a playful wit.
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🚨 JOB: #VolunteerManager, Enable Leisure & Culture. London, £40k, full-time, 12m contact. Closes 14/3
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Volunteer Manager at Enable | Jobs at Enable
We are looking for an experienced and enthusiastic Volunteer Manager to join our team at Enable, responsible for delivering a comprehensive volunteer programme for the exciting London Borough of…
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March 9, 2025 at 10:30 AM
🚨 JOB: #VolunteerManager, Enable Leisure & Culture. London, £40k, full-time, 12m contact. Closes 14/3
📝 Apply at buff.ly/41fXV99
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Happily, my paper on the experiences of people leaving #volunteering has been accepted for this year's #gerontology conference, #BSG2025.
March 3, 2025 at 3:10 PM
Happily, my paper on the experiences of people leaving #volunteering has been accepted for this year's #gerontology conference, #BSG2025.
Just finished this book: erudite eloquent & thoughtful. It wasn't really work reading but it gave me a useful frame for thinking about what I'm trying to do in my research.
February 28, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Just finished this book: erudite eloquent & thoughtful. It wasn't really work reading but it gave me a useful frame for thinking about what I'm trying to do in my research.