John Fraser

Dados Biográficos

ID3591859
NOMEJohn Fraser
PRENOMESJohn
SOBRENOMEFraser
ASSINATURAFRASER J
AFILIAÇÕESKnology
ORCID0000-0001-8383-0699
VERIFICADOSim
TOTAL DE OBRAS80
TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES113
TOTAL COMO AUTOR79
TOTAL COMO EDITOR1
PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO1802
ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO2025
ÍNDICE H6

  • Passing the Baton

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2025

    With great enthusiasm, I am pleased to announce that Wiley has appointed two distinguished museum scholars as my successors in the role of Editors-in-Chief of this journal. Dr. Theano Moussouri of University College London and Dr. Laura-Edythe Coleman of Drexel University, both of whom have served as Associate Editors for many years, will be stepping into this role. Dr. Moussouri joined the journal as Books Editor in the early 2000s and has been …

  • Two‐eyed tinkering with museum practice

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2025

  • Critical consciousness, heritage, and the shape of museum practice

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2024

    As I approach my ninth and final year as the Editor of Curator: The Museum Journal, I reflect on the remarkable journey of the past decade. We've experienced extraordinary growth in readership and a shift in our editorial board to better represent our international readership. Initiatives like a multilingual translations program and updated ethics policies, especially recognizing community members involved in participatory action research as auth…

  • Listening, hearing, and taking authority

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2024

    This is not a special issue, yet nearly every paper in this issue touches on the prickly topic of paying attention to different thoughts, perspectives, and voices to change practice. Authors from around the world have delved into themes of community engagement, authority, inclusion, and adaptability as critical pedagogical challenges. Their work is calling on all museum practitioners to live up to new expectations in an evolving landscape of cult…

  • Zoos and Aquariums in the Public Mind

    Open AccessJohn Fraser, Joe E Heimlich et al.BOOKZoos and Aquariums in the Public…2023

  • Creating Accessible Digital Images for Vision Impaired Audiences and Researchers

    Open AccessRafie Cecilia, Theano Moussouri et al.ARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2023

    In 1992, the UN has designated December 3rd each year as the International Day of Persons with Disabilities, an effort that aims to promote the rights and well-being of people with disabilities in all aspects of life. Under the UN Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, the rights and wellbeing of people with disabilities should be universally accepted and protected. While a laudable goal, thirty years later, we find that these pro…

  • AltText

    Open AccessRafie Cecilia, Theano Moussouri et al.ARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2023

    Alternative Text (AltText) is widely recognized as a key principle of digital accessibility and accessible publishing (PAAG, 2023). It has also been discussed as a creative writing practice (Finnegan & Coklyat, n.d.), and as an access tool for museums and cultural institutions (Wilson, 2011). In the January 2023 issue of Curator: The Museum Journal (Cecilia et al., 2023), we considered the rather fragmented and decadal delays of the museum sector…

  • Accessible digital images

    Open AccessRafie Cecilia, Theano Moussouri et al.ARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2023

    With this issue, Curator: The Museum Journal has now implemented a policy requiring that all images contained in manuscripts published in our journal will require AltText descriptions in the main manuscript. The format for these descriptions should appear after figure location recommendations and figure captions in the main manuscript, indicated by capturing the beginning and end of the text with specific code for the typesetting team, and highli…

  • Notorious

    Open AccessJessica Landau, John FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2023

    Lion Attacking a Dromedary (LAD) is an extraordinarily controversial example of 19th century taxidermy and storytelling that brings into focus the challenges of museum operations as inclusive spaces in the 21st century. Recently commemorated in objects such as snow globes and coffee table books, this diorama has been on continuous display at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History in the USA since it was acquired at the turn of the 20th century. W…

  • Seeing the Forest, Not the Trees – Crowdsourced Data Collection Methods for Sector-Wide Research

    John Voiklis, Kate Flinner et al.ARTICLEVisitor Studies2023

    Research that involves a large and broad sample of museums can produce a representative picture of the entire museum sector and lead to global insights that may not be attainable through a more local lens. However, many museum research projects use a small sample of museums, meant to represent the entire field. We propose a research method that distributes data collection across a broad swath of museums to provide local detail that can be used to…

  • Uptake of slow‐release oral morphine as opioid agonist treatment among hospitalised patients with opioid use disorder

    Open AccessThomas D Brothers, John Foster Fraser et al.ARTICLEDrug and Alcohol Review2022

  • Museum Languages

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2022

    This issue marks a watershed moment in Curator’s commitment to accessibility and inclusion. We have a number of papers that add to our history of publishing innovations in tactile interpretive materials to support blind and low-vision museum users. We’ve published papers on policies and practices that support and encourage universal access in museums and remove barriers for people that need mobility accommodations such as wheelchair users. We hav…

  • Save the Ukrainian People First

    Open AccessLaura‐Edythe S Coleman, John Fraser et al.ARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2022

    As editors of an international journal of museum practice and culture, we condemn the actions of Russia, the Russian army, and all individuals in that country who are aware of the war but refuse to thwart the terrorist attacks on the Ukrainian people and their culture. We consider the 2022 Russian assault to be a war crime being conducted in the name of the Russian people. Silence is complicity. Silence will be remembered. At this writing, Ukrain…

  • History and Self‐determination

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2022

    This special issue of Curator: The Museum Journal, Guest Edited by Professors Shahid Vawda and Edward Denison, presents the Cape Town Document. A position paper and a series of explorations resulting from an online conference focused on the Modern Heritage of Africa [MoHoA]. This work proposes a global redefinition of the World Heritage Convention across the African continent and, by implication, everywhere that historical marginalization allowed…

  • Pride and Propaganda

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2022

    Now in its 65th year of publication, Curator: The Museum Journal continues to adapt to a changing professional landscape. Over the past sixty five years, we have seen anecdotal reporting and opinion give way to empirical research. Museology is now a recognized area of research in academia, and our global practice draws from across the social and physical sciences. We accept manuscripts from academics and museum professionals that draw on any esta…

  • Authorship, Ethics, and Community‐based Museum Research

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2022

  • Addressing social issues in informal STEM learning

    Kris Morrissey, John Fraser et al.ARTICLEMuseums & Social Issues2022

    This research synthesizes recent literature about the ways the informal learning field is engaging with social issues, with a specific focus on the position of STEM knowledge in those efforts. Through a systematic review of peer-reviewed articles, research reports, and graduate theses, we found many topics highly ranked in public surveys were being addressed with many notable exceptions. Much of the research examined presents social issues isolat…

  • Number Soup

    Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein, John Voiklis et al.ARTICLEJournalism Practice2022Referências: 21

    Numbers don’t speak for themselves – yet taking numbers for granted (numerism) is widespread. In fact, journalists often rely heavily on numbers precisely because they are widely considered objective. As a team of journalists and social scientists, we undertook a qualitative exploration of clauses and entire news reports that are particularly quantitatively dense. The dense clauses were often grammatically complex and assumed familiarity with sop…

  • Emergency medical services in rural and urban Saudi Arabia

    Open AccessAhmed Alanazy, Ahmed Ramdan M Alanazy et al.ARTICLEHealth & Social Care in the…2022Citada por: 1Referências: 2

    Individuals who experience a traumatic injury or an acute illness are often reliant on initial healthcare assessment and support from a pre-hospital emergency medical service (EMS). These community-based support models perform a vital role in the provision of life-saving support, but research indicates that the availability, accessibility and resources of EMS are not equivalent in rural and urban areas, and there has been little recognition of th…

  • Zoos and Aquariums in the Public Mind

    John Fraser, Joe E Heimlich et al.BOOKZoos and Aquariums in the Public…2022

  • Museums and Social Issues

    Open AccessKris Morrissey, John Fraser et al.ARTICLEMuseum and Society2022

    The field of informal learning has become increasingly adept at designing, measuring, and achieving learning goals for a range of audiences. However, addressing the critical social issues of our time may require new skill sets, areas of expertise, types of partnerships and assumptions about success. To explore how informal learning practices are addressing social issues, we reviewed more than 200 articles, research studies, and evaluation reports…

  • Steps Toward a More Diverse, Inclusive, and Equitable Museum Literature

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2021

    In summer 2021, Wiley, the publisher of this journal, issued a public statement on their commitment to diversity as a path to strengthen knowledge. At this journal, we have worked for the past five years to make representation on our editorial board a priority. As a member of the Committee on Publishing ethics, we have worked to ensure timely peer-review by global experts on museum practice, which includes recruiting reviews from the author’s cou…

  • Leadership Legitimacy

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2021

    A small group of people are heaping criticism on the leaders of the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as they pursue construction of a new building. I’ve received a great many emails from these critics’ publicist asking our journal to “cover the issue,” without understanding that this is a scholarly peer-reviewed journal that encourages debate over museum management and practice. They shared eleven opinion pieces written by one journal…

  • Literature Synthesis Research

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2021

    Our reviewers often note that contributing authors to this journal have a tendency to give short shrift to the background literature on which we build our field. Too frequently, we return papers to authors requesting revisions that highlight the central issues that have already been part of our publication record. And all too frequently, we receive research papers that create new scales for measuring constructs that already have reliable tools, v…

  • Uncertain Future

    Open AccessJohn FraserARTICLECurator The Museum Journal2021

    With this first issue of 2021, I can report that our journal is moving closer to representing the global readership that has made us the most widely circulated scholarly museum journal in the world. The ten papers and exhibition review demonstrate that new advances to practice are emerging on every continent. And, I am now proud to report that our efforts to build an editorial board that reflects the countries of where our readers live and work h…