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1 1The authors are grateful to the Arts and Humanities Research Council for its support of the research network. We thank our partner institutions, the Museums Association and IDEA CETL, University of Leeds, and the participants in the network. We also very much appreciate the helpful comments on this chapter from our colleague Simon Knell.

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Janet Marstine is Academic Director and Programme Director of Art Museum and Gallery Studies in the School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester. Her research focuses on museum ethics and on the ways that contemporary art advances ethics thinking. Among her publications are The Routledge Companion to Museum Ethics: Redefining Ethics for the Twenty-First Century Museum (editor, 2011), New Directions in Museum Ethics (co-editor, 2012), and a monograph on artists’ interventions as reconciliations between museums and communities ( Critical Practice: Artists, Museums, Ethics (forthcoming, 2015)).

Jocelyn Dodd is Director of the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG), School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester. She joined RCMG in 2000 after her extensive experience in the museum sector of museum education, community engagement, consultation, exhibition development, and museum management: she held a number of senior management roles including Manager of Nottingham City Museums and Galleries. Jocelyn was appointed Director of RCMG in 2006, and leads team-based, collaborative, funded research which explores the social role, agency, and impact of museums. She has project-managed and directed a number of large research projects with multiple partners. Jocelyn has disseminated research findings nationally and internationally. She was Co- investigator for the AHRC-funded Research Network to Advance 21st-Century Museum Ethics in Theory and Practice (2011–2013).

Ceri Jones joined the Research Centre for Museums and Galleries (RCMG) at the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester in September 2002. As a Research Assistant and Research Associate she has worked in collaboration with colleagues, researchers, and practitioners on a wide variety of research projects exploring the social role, agency, and impact of museums, galleries, and cultural organizations. She recently completed her doctoral research which looked at the impact of living history performances in museums and historic sites on the historical consciousness of young people in the UK.