I am a student in my final year on the MPhil Textile Conservation course at the Centre for Textile Conservation, University of Glasgow, UK. As part of my final year dissertation I am investigating the feasibility of developing an adaptable template that can be used to make outer supports for storage of shoes in museums collections in a safe and time efficient way.
If you work in a heritage organisation with a shoe collection please could I ask if you would consider completing the attached questionnaire on the subject. The data collected will be used to gain an understanding of the range of methods currently used by museums and heritage collections for the storage of shoes. My aim is to develop an adaptable method of shoe storage by making a range of different storage devices and further developing them. To access the questionnaire, please copy and paste the following link into your browser: https://www.smartsurvey.co.uk/s/ZJB8Z/ The questionnaire has been designed to be user-friendly and should take around 15 minutes to complete. Your responses will be an extremely valuable contribution to the research. If you are not the appropriate person to complete the questionnaire, please can I ask if you would pass it onto the appropriate person. My deadline for this stage of the research is the 7th June 2019. Please can I ask that it is returned by this date. All participants returning the questionnaire who wish to receive a copy of the summary of responses by the beginning of July 2019, please include your email address within question 2. Thank you for your time. Yours sincerely, Charlotte Lolita Cameron Participant Information: Participation Your participation in this questionnaire is voluntary. It is up to you to decide whether or not to take part. If you decide to take part, you are still free to withdraw at any time and without giving a reason. You are free to decline to answer any particular question you do not wish to answer for any reason. If there is anything that is not clear, or you would like more information, please feel free to contact either me or my supervisor (contact details listed below). Confidentiality All participants in the questionnaire will be given the option to remain anonymous. A tick box is clearly provided within the consent form for participants to select to have their name and the name of their institution removed from the survey. It is intended that completed questionnaires will be included in the final appendix of this research. In the case of a participant wishing to remain anonymous their questionnaire will be labelled as ‘Anonymous Participant 1’ etc. The estimated completion day of the dissertation will be 15th August 2019, after which a physical copy and electronic copy will be held at the Centre for Textile Conservation. Contact for further information If you have any questions about this research study, please do not hesitate to contact me or my research supervisor. You can contact me via mail at [email protected] Or you may contact my research supervisor, Frances Lennard via email at [email protected]. If you have any concerns regarding the conduct of the research project you can contact the Ethics officer for the College of Arts, Dr James Simpson via email at [email protected]. By answering the questionnaire, you are giving consent for your answers to be used as described above. ****** Unsubscribe by sending a message to [email protected] Searchable archives: http://cool.conservation-us.org/byform/mailing-lists/cdl/
