Research Groups: Institutes, Labs and Centers

GLAM Incubator

The GLAM Incubator is a research and support hub that connects galleries, libraries, archives, and museums with industry partners, researchers, and students to advance the development of seedling projects that benefit cultural institutions, industry, and the research and teaching goals of universities worldwide. The overarching goal of the Incubator is to provide support to experimental projects that benefit the GLAM industries and engage faculty and students. A collaboration between the Faculty of Information and the Knowledge Media Design Institute, the GLAM Incubator provides space, administrative assistance, research expertise, equipment, event facilitation, funding, and knowledge mobilization.

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Affiliated faculty members

Patrick Keilty

Associate Professor

Javed Mostafa portrait

Javed Mostafa

Professor

Matt Ratto

Professor

Recent News

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Jazz Journeys with Alan Stanbridge

For the vast majority of working jazz musicians, the metaphor of the journey has profoundly real implications. It is perhaps unsurprising then, writes Professor Alan Stanbridge in Jazzforschung/Jazz Research, that the theme of travelling has featured extensively in the history and discourses of jazz, in ways that often blur or conflate the real, the fictional and the metaphorical. These […]

MI students launch ‘Great Enablement’ podcast

ISD students Karl-Yann Assah and Kyle Thomas have launched a new five-episode podcast series as a way to share and discuss valuable knowledge and skills related to student success. “Whether you’re a student, young professional or aspiring entrepreneur, this first episode is packed with practical advice and inspiring stories to help you get one step closer to their goals,” […]

Museum Studies student's mini exhibit on display in Bissell Building

See students’ Curatorial Practice mini-exhibits

Stop by the fifth floor of the Bissell Building to six “personal mini exhibits” put together by Master of Museum Studies students taking the Curatorial Practice course (MSL2000H) taught by Assistant Professor Maggie Hutcheson.    The challenge of the personal mini exhibit is for students to communicate an aspect of their own history, identity, community or lived […]