Deadline to sign up is 17 December 2021
About the project
Museum Development England, in partnership with Manchester Museum and The Carbon Literacy Project, has developed a new online Museums’ Carbon Literacy Toolkit that will be free to access by all museums and rolled out by Museum Development zoom across England, with the support of a new Museum Carbon Literacy Officer.
The Toolkit and Course are part of the Roots and Branches project, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
Each regional Museum Development team will be delivering online Carbon Literacy Course sessions over the next 18 months.
The Carbon Literacy course will give you an understanding of what climate change is, the scale of its effects, and how museums fit into the global, national and local picture to address climate change. You will become Carbon Literate by making an individual pledge, and an organisational pledge to take back to your museum, of what you can do, and is in your power to achieve, to make a significant difference to your carbon impact.
In the words of a previous delegate, ‘Carbon Literacy is about understanding what I actually need to do, where I can get help to do it, actually doing it and seeing that I’ve done it.’
Who is this two-part Course aimed at?
This course is for volunteers and paid staff who work across all service areas from Accredited Museums or those working towards Accreditation in the South East of England. We advise that, where possible, two people from your organisation attend the Course for peer support when developing actions.
For the ‘Introduction to Carbon Literacy’ session, we will be conducting an activity that will require you to be in a pair – preferably one person who has management experience and another who has customer facing experience.
The Course will be delivered via an online platform for which you will need a computer or tablet to access and includes presentations, joint working exercises and discussion and video content. You will also need a good web connection for the virtual Course.
What does the two-part Course involve?
The Course will be delivered in modules. In order to become certified as Carbon Literate, you must complete the entire Course and submit your individual and organisational pledges as explained in the final session.
By booking on SEMD’s Carbon Literacy Course, you are committing to undertake 7 hours of Course, split over a series of two sessions:
Session 1
Live online session via Zoom
26th January 2022
10:00-12:30
This session will include a pre-recorded course introduction and the basic science of climate change. This introductory workshop will give an overview of the Carbon Literacy course and link delegates to watch a documentary that presents the science and facts about climate change. In the Introduction, you will be given some questions to consider when watching the documentary. There will also be a chance to hear about a museum case study as well as interactive learning opportunities. You will also be provided with some take away tools to help you make changes in your museums. We will be supplying a take-away practice scenario that we will encourage you to undertake in your museum to really embed your learning and allow you to practice in a meaningful context.
Session 2
Carbon Literacy Course
Live online Course via Zoom
3rd February 2022
10:00-11:45 (break) 13:00-14:45
This session will focus on the impacts of climate change, equity and vulnerability as well as the roles of museums in tackling the climate crisis and green recovery. You will be asked to reflect on the questions posed during the first part of this session. There will also be a focus on carbon budgets, the UK and International policy positions, and carbon footprints. The afternoon session is all about action planning and how we talk about climate change with others.
Please plan to attend both sessions. If you can’t make session 1 (Introduction to Carbon Literacy), we can provide a link to the documentary to watch ahead of attending session 2 (Carbon Literacy Course).
2. What is your museum’s Accreditation status?
3. What are your museum’s current strengths in terms of Environmental Sustainability (please note that no previous experience is necessary for this course)?
4. Which areas of Environmental Sustainability have you identified as needing improvement?
5. What do you hope to achieve?
6. Participants are expected to take part in each stage of the project. Please review the ‘About the project’ section to ensure you have the capacity to commit to the project in full.
7. Provide the name and email of the nominated member(s) of your team who will be directly involved with the project.
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10. Does your organisation have a training plan? *
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12. If you are a volunteer, how frequently do you volunteer?
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13. How long have you worked or volunteered in museums/ heritage sector? *
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14. How often do you undertake activity in your role that is related to this training topic? *
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15. On a scale of 1 to 5 what would you consider your current level of experience in this topic? *
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16. We would like to contact you in the future to support long-range evaluation of the South East Museum Development Programme. Are you happy for us to do this?
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