Best Sophie Frost Podcasts (2024)

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Episode 6: COLLECTIVE 1:02:26

1+ y ago1:02:26

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Digital labour doesn’t involve just one person sitting in front of a screen, but rather a collaborative effort undertaken by people acting as a group – with multiple individuals, machines, and processes all working in tandem. In the final episode of this series, hear how collective digital labour at Science Museum Group has drawn a through-line bet…

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Episode 5: LEGACY 1:04:28

1+ y ago1:04:28

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Traces of past digital labour are to be found everywhere at Science Museum Group. In the penultimate episode of The Hidden Constellation, hear some of the organisation’s longest-standing employees describe the impact of new computing technology when it was initially introduced in the Group’s museums. Learn how, in the 1980s and 90s through to the 2…

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Episode 4 Part 2: DISTRIBUTED 52:46

1+ y ago52:46

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In this, the second of two episodes focused on the distinctive nature of different forms of digital labour across Science Museum Group, we look to the experimental digital labour of the Group’s Northern museums. Hear how anarchic (but relatively low budget) digital experiments have reached new or previously disenfranchised communities, cultivating …

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Episode 4 Part 1: DISTRIBUTED 45:35

1+ y ago45:35

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For decades, digital activity has been inconsistent across the cultural and heritage sectors. The following two episodes explore the distinctive and context-specific nature of digital work at Science Museum Group, focusing on why digital labour can be variable depending not only on which museum you visit, but on which museum department you find you…

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Episode 3 Part 2: HIDDEN 47:23

1+ y ago47:23

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This episode delves even deeper into the idea of “hidden” digital labour, shifting our attention to the gnarly work of museum documentation and collections management. As with other practices of digital labour in the museum, there is a high degree of emotional labour and care involved in this work. We start to build a picture of how some digital ac…

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Episode 3 Part 1: HIDDEN 42:06

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From cataloguing to archiving, conservation to collections management, “hidden” labour has long existed in cultural and heritage work. However, due to our reliance on digital technology, the nature of this “hidden” museum labour has irrevocably changed. Across the following two episodes, we’ll chart the uniquely “hidden” aspects of digital activity…

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Episode 2: NEW 1:18:22

1+ y ago1:18:22

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New digital labour is disrupting, reorganising, and progressing the Science Museum Group’s core priority to promote science capital. Digital projects discussed in this episode include a meme collecting project at the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford and Heritage Connector, a research project that used data analysis approaches to build …

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Episode 1: INTRODUCING 'The Hidden Constellation' 47:21

1+ y ago47:21

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In the first episode of The Hidden Constellation, hear a preview of what's to come in this series. Sophie provides a snapshot of the different kinds of digital labour – new, hidden, distributed, legacy and collective – to be reflected on within each of episode. Voices you’ll hear in this episode include Hope Miyoba – Wikimedian-in-Residence (Scienc…

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Trailer 1:36

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6: EMPATHY 1:25:59

3y ago1:25:59

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In the final episode of People. Change. Museums., we take ‘empathy’ as our keyword. Last century psychologists determined that there are three variations of empathy: ‘somatic empathy’ – the physical reaction to someone else’s pain and suffering; ‘cognitive empathy – the capacity to understand another, to put yourself in their place; and ‘affective …

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5: CULTURAL IDENTITY 1:22:16

3+ y ago1:22:16

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This penultimate episode of People. Change. Museums. presents the term 'Cultural Identity' as its keyword. The notion of belonging has taken on a new set of meanings during the time of pandemic, with those identified as belonging to certain ethnically diverse cultural communities – and typically those characterised as experiencing higher rates of p…

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4: AGENCY 1:27:04

3+ y ago1:27:04

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The term 'agency' has long been considered a term of empowerment, linked to the ability to transgress, to be insurrectionary, political and subversive. But how has the meaning of the term shifted in 2020? This episode takes 'agency' as its keyword and considers how, in museums and other cultural spaces at least, it has come to mean the ability to h…

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3: EMOTIONAL LABOUR 1:29:28

3+ y ago1:29:28

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The term ‘emotional labour’ is our keyword in this episode. 'Emotional Labour' is a concept that has gained more and more recognition since the start of the pandemic, and even before that it had become synonymous with a wide range of employment rights issues – from its close relationship to typically female experiences of juggling a career alongsid…

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2: COURAGE 1:17:25

3+ y ago1:17:25

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'Courage' is the keyword of the second episode of People. Change. Museums. This year, many of us have needed to be more courageous than before in our use of digital applications and tools, both to stay connected personally and to continue to work professionally. Similarly, previous fears and trepidations about technology have had to be overcome in …

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1: PRECARITY 1:14:12

3+ y ago1:14:12

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'Precarity' refers to the condition of being precarious - of being flexible, insecure, dependent, vulnerable and exposed. In 2020, the word 'precarity' couldn’t be more pertinent as we find ourselves and our museums in a variety of insecure, dependent, vulnerable and exposed states. At the same time, our world feels rife with precarity - we are in …

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Trailer: People. Change. Museums. 0:38

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People. Change. Museums. is a new podcast series exploring the relationship between museums and technology in this moment of intersecting crises. The series is presented by Dr Sophie Frost, researcher on the 'One by One' initiative in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.…

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16. Finale! 38:41

3+ y ago38:41

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In the final episode of Voices of the Royal Pavilion & Museums, Sophie interviews Nicola Adams, Digital Marketing Officer and Tasha Brown, Museum Futures Trainee - two individuals who perhaps typify the future of our museums - about their hopes and dreams for the future of the organisation. This episode meditates on how, more than ever, the stories…

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15. People First, Technology Second 38:54

3+ y ago38:54

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This penultimate episode explores the ever-increasing role of digital technology in our cultural organisations by talking to Kevin Bacon, Digital Manager at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Kevin takes us on a whistle-stop tour of his own experiences of working with technology at the museum over the past 20 years and provides an insight into how it has tr…

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14. A Prince's Treasure 37:47

3+ y ago37:47

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In 2019, over 120 items of furniture and decorative objects from the Royal Collection Trust were loaned to their original home at the Royal Pavilion in Brighton after 170 years away. Dr Alexandra Loske, Curator at the Royal Pavilion, talks to Sophie about their homecoming, and explains the prescience of the Prince Regent’s infamous collection for B…

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13. The Art of Conservation 50:27

3+ y ago50:27

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In the first episode of the final series, Sophie speaks to Amy Junker-Heslip and Carola Del Mese, two members of the conservation team at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Amy and Carola share stories about some of delicate, painstaking and surprisingly creative work they have undertaken to help ‘make things last forever’ at this museum service.…

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12. Rummaging Through Boxes 35:48

4y ago35:48

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In the final episode of the series, Sophie goes behind the scenes with Dan Robertson, Curator of Local History and Archeology at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Dan’s seemingly infinite descriptions of Victorian Egyptologists, holy water sprinklers, German mausers, grid irons, Sussex loops and the deepest hand-dug well in the world capture the unique and…

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11. Queer Histories 47:42

4y ago47:42

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In this episode, Sophie is joined by Robert White and Kelly Boddington, two early participants of the workforce development programme at Royal Pavilion & Museums, who spearheaded LGBTQ+ interpretation in its current form across the organisation. Kelly, who works by day as Assistant Buyer in the Retail team and Rob, a Marketing Support Officer and B…

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10. Frogs & Formaldehyde 46:57

4y ago46:57

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The Booth Museum of Natural History is a museum of Victorian taxidermy (notably of British birds), but also insects, fossils, bones and skeletons. On TripAdvisor it has been described as “a place of wonder, with a bit of terror thrown in.” In this episode Sophie is joined by Lee Ismail, Curator of Natural Sciences at the Booth, who introduces the m…

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9. Disrupting South Coast Colonialism 48:46

4y ago48:46

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In this episode, Sophie is joined by Rachel Heminway-Hurst, Curator of World Art, and Edith Ojo, freelance Arts Consultant and advisor on the Fashioning Africa project. Rachel and Edith explain the history and culture behind Yoruba Aso-oke textiles from West Africa, helping us to understand the symbolic importance of a British coastal museum collec…

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8. Life on the Frontline 57:45

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Sophie meets some of the ‘walking encyclopaedias’ who work on the frontline at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Marcus Bagshaw, Sue Winkett, Clare Hartfield and Zak Flannery all work in the Visitor Services team across the organisation’s five sites. They provide a rollicking, unpredictable and alternative tour of Brighton’s museum service in this episode …

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7. Workforce Development 32:11

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In the first episode of Season 2, Sophie speaks to Nick Kay, Workforce Development Officer at Royal Pavilion & Museums. Launched in 2012, Royal Pavilion & Museums’ innovative workforce development programme is a unique example of an on-the-job museum training scheme. Nick talks about the ethos behind the scheme, what has made the initiative so succ…

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0. Voices of the Royal Pavilion & Museums Trailer 0:44

4+ y ago0:44

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Voices of the Royal Pavilion & Museums is a podcast series that tells the rich and varied stories of the museum people who keep Brighton’s historic buildings and collections relevant, vibrant and accessible for the world we are living in. The series is presented by Dr Sophie Frost, who was embedded as an action researcher at Royal Pavilion & Museum…

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6. Reframing South Coast Colonialism 46:04

4+ y ago46:04

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In this episode, Sophie is joined by Dr Helen Mears, Keeper of World Art and Sarah Lee, Consultant and Advisor to RPM as well as Co-Founder of Brighton and Hove Black History. Helen and Sarah discuss how RPM’s recent Black and Minority Ethnic cultural heritage projects have adopted ground-breaking practices of co-production and collaboration by wor…

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5. The Gardener 40:59

4+ y ago40:59

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Robert Hill-Snook is Head Gardener of the Royal Pavilion gardens in the heart of Brighton, having been in post for almost 25 years. Sophie takes a stroll with Robert as he reflects on his working life in this Regency garden, ruminating on how the garden – and nature more generally – continues to be a tonic for many of life’s ills.…

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4. The Ghosts of Preston Manor 57:20

4+ y ago57:20

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Preston Manor is reputed to be one of the most haunted houses in Britain. In this episode Sophie talks to Chris Drake (Development and Operations Manager at Preston Manor), Paula Wrightson (Venue Officer), Lavender Jones (long-standing volunteer) and David Beevers (former Keeper of Preston Manor), who help us to understand the cast of characters (g…

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3. War Stories 39:59

4+ y ago39:59

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During the First World War, the Royal Pavilion was converted into a hospital for Indian soldiers, wounded on the battlefields of the Western Front. Jody East, Creative Programme Manager at Royal Pavilion & Museums, joins Sophie to discuss how RPM has commemorated this significant story and how focusing on emotional connections and people rather tha…

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2. The Keeper and the Boss 31:42

4+ y ago31:42

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Janita Bagshawe, Head of Royal Pavilion & Museums, and David Beevers, Keeper of the Royal Pavilion, have between them over 70 years’ experience working for the museum service in Brighton and Hove. Sophie speaks to two members of the organisation’s old guard as they muse upon the waves of change to have occurred during their tenure, revealing how fl…

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1. A Tiger in a Suitcase 38:44

4+ y ago38:44

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In this first episode, Sophie joins Early Years Learning Officer Michael Olden and the skin of a Siberian Tiger named ‘Boris’ on an outing to Moulsecoomb Primary School, in the north east of Brighton. By following Michael on a day trip to one of the UK’s most socially deprived suburbs we explore how, even if children are unable to visit the museum …

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