Case studies
We have conducted qualitative case studies at the Museu do Amanhã (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil), the Royal BC Museum (Victoria, Canada), the Museu Nacional de Historia Natural e da Ciência (Lisbon, Portugal), and Heureka The Finnish Science Centre (Vantaa, Finaland). On those institutions, our work has centred on the voices and lived experiences of 26 museum professionals and how the pandemic impacted their work, practice, priorities and (professional) values. You can learn more about each of these institutions through the links below and about the findings of our case studies in the subsections that follow the images.
Publications
Navas Iannini, A. M., & Pedretti. E. (2024). When science museums re-imagine their social roles: Responding to the Covid-19 pandemic. In Moura, C. (Org.). Science Education for post-pandemic worlds: Towards a socio-political turn. Contemporary Trends and Issues in Science Education. London: Springer.
Navas Iannini, A.M., & Pedretti, E. (2024). Science Museums and societal collapse: A call for action amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. (AERA Repository). American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting (AERA) April 11-14, Philadelphia. U.S.A.
Conference presentations
Navas Iannini, A.M & Moura, C. (2025). Care and public engagement: Reorienting and converging science education and science communication through new “attractors”. 16th Conference of The European Science Education Research Association (ESERA), Copenhagen August 25-29, 2025. https://esera2025.org/
Navas Iannini, A.M. & Pedretti, E. (2025). Broken worlds, science museums, and cultures of care: A qualitative case study amidst the pandemic. 17th international SIEF congress – International Society for Ethnology and Folklore, Aberdeen, Scotland: June 3–6
Navas Iannini, A.M., Fernandes, K., & Pedretti, E. (2025). Awareness, resilience and relationality: A science museum response to COVID-19. 2025 Conference – Canadian Society for the Study of Education (CSSE), May 31 – June 5, Toronto, Canada.
Navas Iannini, A.M. & Pedretti, E. (2024). When science museums re-imagined their communication and educational roles: Responses to the Covid-19 pandemic. 2024 NARST Annual International Conference, Denver, CO, U.S.A. March 17th – 20th.
https://narst.org/conferences/2024-annual-conference
Navas Iannini, A.M. & Pedretti, E. (2024). Science museums and societal collapse: A call for action amidst the Covid-19 pandemic. 2024 AERA Annual Meeting. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania April 11–14.
https://www.aera.net/Events-Meetings/Annual-Meeting/2024-Annual-Meeting
