ASDC Management masterclass: 'From perfection to progress'

The Association for Science and Discovery Centres (ASDC) brings together the nation's leading science and discovery centres, museums and science learning organisations from the Highlands of Scotland, Northern Ireland, England and Wales. ASDC encourages excellence and innovation in informal science learning by serving and linking our member centres, and advancing their common goal of inspiring, involving and engaging people of all ages and backgrounds with science.Every year, over 25 million people take part in activities and events run by UK science centres and museums.

Association for Science and Discovery Centres

A programme for rising leaders in science centres and museums.  Are you ready for the next step on your journey in leading science learning?

Important: the programme takes place on two separate dates and you must attend both dates to complete the programme. This course is limited to 20 places. Tuesday 18th April and Tuesday 2nd May, 10.00am to 3.30pm each dayThis two day programme, being delivered by Dr Nick Winterbotham, is for the rising leaders in science centres and museums – for those already contributing to strategic issues while being enthusiastic to take on the challenges that the post-Covid world is presenting. Are you ready for the next step in your journey in leading science learning?Part I. Developing ourselvesTuesday 18th AprilStarting with what our own contribution and awareness will comprise, this workshop will be partly reflective and partly self-auditing on the ways we can rethink strategy, fitness for purpose, focusing on what matters, pooling talents, language and communications.Part II. Facing outwardsTuesday 2nd MayGrounded in day to day experience and the dilemmas faced by the participants, this workshop will look at audiences, market segments, learning strategies and leadership tactics for when the going gets toughEach session comprises inputs, challenges, group work, action learning sets and learning consolidationDr Nick Winterbotham, FMA, FASDCCurrently Director of Winterbotham Associates, Nick also delivers a leadership development programme &#x27;Be The Change&#x27;. With a history of working at Tullie House Museum, Eureka! The National Childrens Museum, The National Railway Museum, The Arts and Heritage Service, Thinktank, Millenium Point, The Museum of East Anglian Life, The Roald Dahl Museum and the Network for Resilience in Wales, he has also worked as a consultant in a dozen heritage and science related projects. He started his professional career as a classics teacher in Norfolk and is dedicated to museums and cultural learning in all its forms. His doctorate focused on the relationship between schools and museums.He now supports science, heritage, arts and learning teams in a variety of different roles, particularly in Wales and East Anglia. He has chaired charity teams as diverse as the Association for Science and Discovery Centres, the Group for Education in Museums, the RNLI Heritage Committee and the Learning and Heritage teams at the National Holocaust Centre &amp; Museum.

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