Dr Alison Eardley

Dr Alison Eardley


Alison's sector partnerships have included: VocalEyes, Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery (US), Smithsonian's Anacostia Community Museum (US), Access Smithsonian (US), Smartify, Watts Gallery and Artist Village, Qatar Museums, Museum of London, Horniman Museum and Gardens, Imperial War Museums, Natural History Museum (London), Heurich House (Washington DC, US), Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis, US), Chelsea Physic Gardens, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford. 


The Sensational Museum: Radically rethinking the role of senses in the museum. International Museum Day Singapore 2024. Singapore

Stakeholder event and Panel / 16 May 2024

The Museum Accessibility Spectrum: Re-imagining Access and inclusion. Fireside chats: International Museum Day Singapore 2024. Singapore, May 2024

Stakeholder event and Workshop / 15 May 2024

W-ICAD training course run at Imperial War Museum, Duxford

Stakeholder event and Workshop / 09 May 2024

W-ICAD training course run at Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, USA

Stakeholder event and Workshop / 23 Apr 2024 - 24 Apr 2024

W-ICAD training course run at Heurich House Museum, Washington DC, USA

Workshop and Training course / 08 Apr 2024 - 09 Apr 2024

W-ICAD training course run at the Smithsonian Institution, April 2024

Workshop and Training Course / 03 Apr 2024

W-ICAD training course run at the Horniman Museum and Gardens,

Training course / 25 Mar 2024 - 18 Apr 2024

Ways of Experiencing: Thinking through the Inclusive Museum. Invited speaker at the Nobel Centre Talks series #7 Diversity. This internal series of talks is organised by the Nobel Centre, in collaboration with a local partner museum, to support the development of their new museum build project. Stockholm, Sweden

Workshop and Other / 07 Mar 2024

W-ICAD Training Workshop, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford

Workshop and Training workshop / 20 Feb 2024 - 21 Feb 2024

W-ICAD training workshop, Natural History Museum, London

Workshop and Training event / 24 Jan 2024

Museums Association Annual Conference, Newcastle, UK

Talk/presentation / 08 Nov 2023

Using Audio Description to contribute to the creation of inclusive anti-ableist museums. International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (ICOM CIMUSET) Annual conference, at the National Aviation Museum of Korea, Seoul, Korea

Talk/presentation / 24 Oct 2023

International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (ICOM CIMUSET) Annual conference, at the National Aviation Museum of Korea

Stakeholder event, Talk/presentation and Panel / 23 Oct 2023 - 27 Oct 2023

International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (ICOM CIMUSET) Pre-conference workshop at the Annual conference, Seoul, South Korea

Other / 22 Oct 2023

Broadening participation through co-created inclusive audio description: The Workshop for Inclusive Co-created Audio Description (W-ICAD). International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (ICOM CIMUSET) Annual conference, at the National Aviation Museum of Korea, Pre-conference workshop, Seoul, Korea

Other / 22 Oct 2023

The Sensational Museum project Online launch event

Workshop / 27 Jun 2023

W-ICAD online symposium

Workshop / 20 Jun 2023

Community College Preparatory Academy, Washington DC, USA

Other / 07 Jun 2023

W-ICAD symposium hosted by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, US

Stakeholder event and Talk/presentation / 28 Apr 2023

Touch-Space‘: The Tactile Imagination in Contemporary Sculptural Practice Conference, hosted by the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds

Stakeholder event and Workshop / 29 Mar 2023

W-ICAD Symposium hosted by the University of Westminster, UK

Stakeholder event and Workshop / 24 Mar 2023

Bayeux Tapestry Museum, Bayeux, France

Stakeholder event and Workshop / 16 Jan 2023

Beyond the Visual - Symposium at Wellcome Collection

Other / 21 Oct 2022 - 22 Oct 2022

Visitor Studies Conference, Omaha, USA

Stakeholder event and Workshop / 12 Jul 2022 - 14 Jul 2022

Beyond the Visual: Non-Sighted Modes of Engaging Art, Tate Modern

Stakeholder event and Other / 15 Feb 2022 - 16 Feb 2022

Across the Pond event, Zoom, hosted by UK-US Fulbright

Talk/presentation / 20 Jul 2021

In the Press