Dr Pam Meecham

  • Qualifications and position:
  • Faculty:
    • Faculty of Children and Learning
  • Department:
    • Culture, Communications and Media
  • Summary:
    • Pam's research interests include contemporary art and museum history and education. She has lectured and published widely on visual culture, the history of art, the arts and regeneration and museum education. She has directed funded research projects on photography and young people and on the relationship between visual and written literacies..
  • Teaching:
    • Research Tutor Department of Arts & Humanities; Course Leader MA Museums & Galleries in Education;
      Research in Arts & Humanities and Research in Museums & Galleries for the Doctoral School.
  • Research Projects:
    • Under application:
      'Artists' technological interventions for the interpretation of historic works of art'
      'The potential of the art museum to elicit spiritual experiences'
      'The impact of digital technologies on changing representations of identity in battlefield dioramas'
  • Postgraduate Research:
    • Research interests include: looking at paintings and photographs, public art and old technologies of display.

      PhD students (first supervisor):
      Andy Ash: 'The teaching of sculpture in secondary art and design education'
      Jiwon Kim: 'The dilemma between universality and national identity in post-colonialism -through national history and war museums
      Sylvia Lahav: 'Interpreting Visual Images'
      Robert Lau: 'Learning design thinking online: studying students' learning experience in shared virtual reality'
      Mariruth Leftwich: 'Visitors to Gracelands: the Elvis Presley Experience'
      Claire Robins: 'How did the Reticent Object become so Obliging? Artists' Interventions as Interpretative Strategies.'
      Won-Joo Suh: 'Multiculturalism and Museum Education'

      PhD students (second supervisor):
      Tara Chittenden: 'Unwrapping the VR mummy: an investigation of the chronotopes underpinning the interpretation of a VR artefact'
      Panagiotis Dafiotis: 'Artist/Teacher: Art Practice as a form of research in Art Education'
      Wendy Earle: 'Technology, Museums and Young People'
      Yiannis Hayiannis: 'Painting and skill: an investigation of the role of skills-based learning and teaching in painting in art and design education in secondary schools'
      Haris Ladopoulos: 'What are the possibilities for sound installation for developing learning through
      making within the traditionally ocularcentric culture of mainstream A&D education for ages 8-14'

      EdD students:
      Helen Charman: 'To what extent are exhibitions at the Design Museum conceptualised and experienced as environments for learning? A case study of the 2009 Spring/Summer exhibition season.'
  • Professional Activities:
    • 2008 ongoing: External Examiner for MEd Heritage Education, Bishop Grosseteste College, University of Lincoln.
      2007 ongoing: External Examiner for the Foundation Degree in Fine Art, Liverpool Community College, Liverpool Hope University.
      2000 ongoing: member of the editorial board for Engage the national association for gallery education.
  • Conferences/presentations:
    • 2008:
      'Brokering sustainable learning communities in the museum', BNU-IOE 2nd International Education Conference, Beijing Normal University.

      2008:
      'Distance and Proximity: Representations of Cultural Narratives after the Digitization of the Diorama' with Dr Elena Stylianou, Digital Media and its Applications in Cultural Heritage: The Fourth International Conference of the Centre of the Study of Architecture in the Arab Region, University of Petra Amman, Jordan.

      2007: 'Reconfiguring the Shipping News: Maritime's hidden histories and the politics of gender display', Sex Education conference, Institute of Education, University of London.
  • Personal Country Knowledge:
    • Museum and gallery education in: Australia, Czech Republic, Hong Kong, Italy, Spain, United States of America.
 

Contact details

Contact details

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  • Address:
  • Culture, Communications and Media
    Institute of Education University of London
    20 Bedford Way
    London
    WC1H 0AL

  • Office Location:
  • Room 862
    20 Bedford Way, WC1H 0AL

Publications

  • Meecham, P. and Sheldon, J. (2008) Making American Art. London: Routledge.
  • Meecham, P. and Sheldon, J. (2004) Modern Art: A Critical Introduction. London: Routledge.
  • Meecham, P. (2008) 'Agency, Authenticity and Self-Identity in the Compulsory Photographic Self-Portrait', Engage 22, 50-56.
  • Meecham, P. (2008) 'Reconfiguring the shipping news: maritime's hidden histories and the politics of gender display', Sex Education: Sexuality, Society and Learning 8, 3, 371-380.
  • Meecham, P. (2004) 'On Kawara: "Reading One Million Years" in Trafalgar Square: conceptual art passed its use by date?', Engage, journal for the National Association for Gallery Education
  • Meecham, P. (2009) 'Culture at the Heart of Regeneration?' In B. Biggs and J. Sheldon (eds), Art in the City Revisited. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
  • Meecham, P. (2007) 'Rethinking Art & Technology' In N. Addison and L. Burgess (eds), Learning to Teach Art and Design in the Secondary School (2nd Edition). London: Routledge Falmer.
  • Meecham, P. (1996) 'Picasso and the Three Dancers' In L. Dawtrey, T. Jackson, M. Masterton, P. Meecham and P. Wood (eds), Investigating Modern Art.. New Haven and London: Yale University.
  • Meecham, P. (2005) 'Working with a Photographer: making a different kind of image a report of the photographer in residence project at Dartford Grammar School (Funded by the Arts Council and Photoworks)' Paper presented at Published on Photoworks website
  • Carnell, E. and Meecham, P. (2002) 'Visual Paths to Literacy: understanding the impact of the project on young people's learning' Paper presented at Research project run in association with the London Tate (Sponsored by Morgan Stanley) ('e' versions available on request.)