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 2024The Museum Accessibility Spectrum: Re-imagining Access and inclusion. Fireside chats: International Museum Day Singapore 2024. Singapore, May 2024
Stakeholder event and Workshop / 15 May 2024W-ICAD training course run at Imperial War Museum, Duxford
Stakeholder event and Workshop / 09 May 2024W-ICAD training course run at Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art, Indianapolis, USA
Stakeholder event and Workshop / 23 Apr 2024 - 24 Apr 2024W-ICAD training course run at Heurich House Museum, Washington DC, USA
Workshop and Training course / 08 Apr 2024 - 09 Apr 2024W-ICAD training course run at the Smithsonian Institution, April 2024
Workshop and Training Course / 03 Apr 2024W-ICAD training course run at the Horniman Museum and Gardens,
Training course / 25 Mar 2024 - 18 Apr 2024Ways 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 2024W-ICAD Training Workshop, National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Workshop and Training workshop / 20 Feb 2024 - 21 Feb 2024W-ICAD training workshop, Natural History Museum, London
Workshop and Training event / 24 Jan 2024Museums Association Annual Conference, Newcastle, UK
Talk/presentation / 08 Nov 2023Using 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 2023International 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 2023International Committee for Museums and Collections of Science and Technology (ICOM CIMUSET) Pre-conference workshop at the Annual conference, Seoul, South Korea
Other / 22 Oct 2023Broadening 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 2023The Sensational Museum project Online launch event
Workshop / 27 Jun 2023W-ICAD online symposium
Workshop / 20 Jun 2023Community College Preparatory Academy, Washington DC, USA
Other / 07 Jun 2023W-ICAD symposium hosted by the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC, US
Stakeholder event and Talk/presentation / 28 Apr 2023Touch-Space‘: The Tactile Imagination in Contemporary Sculptural Practice Conference, hosted by the Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
Stakeholder event and Workshop / 29 Mar 2023W-ICAD Symposium hosted by the University of Westminster, UK
Stakeholder event and Workshop / 24 Mar 2023Bayeux Tapestry Museum, Bayeux, France
Stakeholder event and Workshop / 16 Jan 2023Beyond the Visual - Symposium at Wellcome Collection
Other / 21 Oct 2022 - 22 Oct 2022Visitor Studies Conference, Omaha, USA
Stakeholder event and Workshop / 12 Jul 2022 - 14 Jul 2022Beyond the Visual: Non-Sighted Modes of Engaging Art, Tate Modern
Stakeholder event and Other / 15 Feb 2022 - 16 Feb 2022Across the Pond event, Zoom, hosted by UK-US Fulbright
Talk/presentation / 20 Jul 2021