[Nhcoll-l] Graduate Student Survey Regarding Paleontology Collections and Indigenous Community Involvement

[Elise LeCompte]

Hello Fellow SPNHC List serve members. I received the following email as
part of the AAM (American Alliance of Museums) community list serv. For
those of you who aren't AAM members and are interested in completing Ms.
Wynstra-Cope's survey, here is the message:

Hello, I am Nancy Wynstra-Cope, a student in the Master of Arts in
Museology department at the University of Washington with an interest in
collections care and making museum collections more accessible.

My master's thesis research is exploring the extent to which museum
professionals working in natural history museums with paleontology
collections are engaging with Indigenous communities, as well as the
barriers and factors that influence engagement. For this study, I am
interested in recruiting participants with a variety of perspectives
working within different domains of museum work, such as education,
exhibits, collections, programs, etc., to get a broad view of community
engagement in museums with paleontology collections and exhibits.

I am inviting museum professionals to participate in a 10-minute survey
<https://forms.gle/Wz4W9MZfJ94fdDrMA> about their professional experiences.
If you have any colleagues whose experiences are applicable for this study,
please forward this survey to them. The results of this study will be
published in the UW Museology Graduate Program Journal *MuseumsForward*.

Indigenous engagement in museum paleontology is currently understudied, and
through this research, I hope to provide information to the museum field
about what working with communities looks like. This survey is voluntary
and while names will be collected to ensure there are no repeat results,
the results will be anonymous. I hope you will choose to participate!

If you have any questions or concerns, please reach out to me at:
nancywc at uw.edu.

Link to survey: forms.gle/Wz4W9MZfJ94fdDrMA

Thank you for your time!

-Nancy Wynstra-Cope
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Elise V. LeCompte
Museum Consultant
14205 SE 161 Place
Hawthorne, FL 32640
TEL: 407-443-6419
Email: evlecompte2 at gmail.com
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