Hi My name is Ada Brungot, and I am completing my final dissertation for the degree MA Preventive Conservation at Northumbria University. The purpose of the research is to investigate the advantages and potential challenges in the use of digital imaging, considering how it can contribute to the preventive conservation of human remains in museums and collections. Questions will include the use of digital imaging for documentation, research and display, and any ethical considerations related to human dignity and cultural preferences that may limit its use. Resource challenges will also be taken into account.
To investigate the extent of the current use of digital imaging of human remains, its benefits and challenges, I conduct an investigation aimed at professionals working with preservation, curatorial, collection management, or the like, with present or past work experience from collections containing human remains. By this, I wish to contribute to enhanced awareness within the sector on how digital images can contribute to preventive conservation of human remains, and where the limits should be set due to ethical considerations. In order to achieve this, I need your feedback to gather a wide range of experiences and views. The survey will take about 5-10 minutes to complete via SurveyMonkey. The deadline for responses is August 4th. In the first question, you are asked to provide contact details in order that I can gather more qualitative data from 3 or 4 surveys as case studies. All data will be anonymized in the research paper and no name will be mentioned. However, countries may be referred to in order to give a geographical overview of opinions if relevant. The data from the survey will be stored on a private computer and a secure server at Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne, that only I and the academic team at Northumbria will have access to. The data might contribute to a future journal article, but will be destroyed after three years. Thank you for taking the time to answer the survey! The link to the survey is here: https://no.surveymonkey.com/r/5PNQTNJ Many thanks Ada Brungot ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to consdistlist-le...@cool.conservation-us.org Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
