Bruce Davenport

Bruce Davenport was the Assistant Learning Officer at the Shipley & Laing Art Galleries between 2003 and 2006. He now works as a Research Associate in the School of Arts & Cultures at Newcastle University. His research is largely about the impact of engaging with cultural heritage on older people, especially those with dementia. Inspired by many hours of leading object handling sessions at the Shipley, Bruce is also fascinated by what happens when you give someone an object to hold, which he has written a blog about and published an open-access paper on (if you’re interested please see https://objecthandling.wordpress.com/ and https://nsuworks.nova.edu/tqr/vol23/iss9/16/ ).