3 by 3: Modelling New Digital Leadership in Museums

FAIN: HC-278111-21

Southern University at New Orleans (New Orleans, LA 70126-0002)
Haitham Eid (Project Director: August 2020 to present)

A collaborative research project on digital adoption and transformation in museums that will also produce professional development resources on digital leadership for the cultural heritage field. The UK partner, University of Leicester, is requesting £199,938 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

‘3 by 3’ is an 18-month, multi-partner, transatlantic research collaboration, bringing together cultural institutions, academics and professional bodies to open new directions for leading empathetic and equitable digital change in museums at a time of institutional and individual precarity. The project asks what new models of ‘empathic leadership’ might be needed to enable the holistic institutional adoption of (and adaption to) digital, as well as which inequalities exist in the landscape of digital change in museums, and how can these be confronted. In doing so, ‘3 by 3’ attempts to initiate a retelling of what successful digital leadership in museums looks like – in human and not just business and technological terms.