I've enjoyed beautiful creative, supportive connections here since 2011. For every exhibition and up until now, my PhD 💛 Do drop by and say hello on Instagram @Hadleya10. I joined LinkedIn last month and Blue-sky today. I'd love to stay connected. Take great care, Andrea 💛

Love to everyone who doodled something extraordinary into existence @MuseumsAssoc conference today. So many of you 💛 120 packs down, I'll be back tomorrow with more. Embracing the imperfection of making with found materials. Moments of joy. #BehindTheClosedCellDoor #Museums2024

This funny little 'case with a face' is heading to #Museums2024 with me. Packed with materials to ignite moments of creativity and joy. I'll be sharing my emerging PhD research interventionally, so please find me. I'd love to hear your thoughts #BehindTheClosedCellDoor

🏆Prize announcement! #CFP #History We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading... #OlivetteOtelePrize (1)

My #PhD explores wellbeing and selfled creativity, encompassing found and foraged materials people living in prison use ingeniously to create with. This wooden creature resonated /2 #artefact #TakeNotice #PhDJourney #BehindTheClosedCellDoor @uolmuseumstudies #Midlands4Cities

A wooden gazelle wearing a wooden peg to replace its broken antler. Nestled on a window ledge in a special place. Today, it seems to symbolise creative energy, mischief, ingenuity, assemblage, impulse and connectivity /1 #BehindTheClosedCellDoor

Inspired by a museum collection crafted historically by people living in prison, with respect for the ingenuity, courage, and tenacity involved in their making. Thank you 💛 @Midlands4Citiesfor enabling this opportunity #PhDJourney #compassion #creativity #wellbeing #Museums

Carrying an invitation to doodle something into existence from a handful of 'bits and bobs'. Offering mindful moments to improvise an idea or construct a contraption to frame discussions on the well-being impacts of enabling self led creativity behind closed prison cell doors /2

Punching holes into compostable ice cream spoons? Yes, I am! 'The Joy of Museums' @MuseumsAssoc conference is coming up, and I'm delighted to be part of it. Sharing my PhD interventionally amongst the crowd, and in the pauses in-between /1 #BehindTheClosedCellDoor

A gift of a Saturday, became immersed in this new book as soon as it landed through the letterbox. It couldn't be more relevant to my PhD 💛 @Kir_Anderson @watersidepress #PhDJourney #NewBook #BehindTheClosedCellDoor

Really hard-hitting report by @JasonFarrellSky on prisoners who go out homeless on release. Far too many ex-prisoners see jail as a haven from the chaotic and dangerous lives they lead living on the streets.

Level 7 autumnal sun at the tip top of the car park. Light that surfaced the veins of the building. Energising moments #joy #noticing #TakeNotice #CarPark #BeautyInSmallThings #light #energy #appreciation #textures #concrete #creativity

I've committed to visit each research site to bring to life the text and answer questions before fieldwork begins. Along with incredible handcrafted belongings from a museum collection #PhDJourney #Ethics #Access #BehindTheClosedCellDoor

BUT WAIT. I left my home work for 3 seconds. Billy Boy or Woody Dog? Could've been either!! Drafting friendly words and images. To sit on top of consent form, participant information, privacy agreement and other ethically essential documents. #BehindTheClosedCellDoor #sabotage

Beautiful raggedy last of the garden flowers. #KitchenTable #LifeGravel #flowers #petals #decay #beauty #floral #bottles #cerise #pink #ColourPop

"We imprison women on minor charges to a far greater degree than men. Around 2/3 did not commit a violent crime. Yet they are sent into prisons that are desperate places." @ShabanaMahmood speaking today @UKLabour conference. Read more via @Independent https://t.co/VJsqpPoOII

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Tiny things curated by paving slabs. Leaf. Chewing gum circle. Leaf. Paper clip. Tiny blonde stick. Pinkness. Good to meet colleagues and new @@uolmuseumstudies PhD cohort today. A convivial occasion 💛 /1 #AccidentalArtGallery #PavementArt #TakeNotice #urban #mindful

Hopping across stepping stones 💛 Mild peril. Childlike joy. Also enjoyed #PaulaRego and #GraysonPerry exhibitions. #SteppingStones #lakeside #Walking #noticing #thinking #feeling #doing #NoticeNatureFeelJoy #Nottingham #LakesideArts

Something like medicine. Playing with materials, D.I.Y designing. Embracing imperfection. Project appropriate recruitment ideas #BehindTheClosedCellDoor #PhDJourney #flier #letters #cut #paste #invitation