Kate Noble

Senior Research Associate: Museum Learning, Fitzwilliam Museum


Kate is the strategic lead on research relating to learning and engagement practice at the Fitzwilliam Museum. She has a particular interest in action research and its’ potential to stimulate change and improve practice. Kate also leads a teacher training programme which encourages creative teaching and learning using objects and images and works with teachers and school groups to help them to make the most out of their visit to the museum.

2 small children stand beside a long wall-mounted cabinet and point at the coins it displays

It’s Our Museum Too!

by and | 18.03.22

In early 2020, a group of young children and staff from a local community playgroup spent four mornings ‘in residence’ at the Fitzwilliam Museum. This collaborative action research project built on the findings of the 2017 UCM Nursery in Residence aiming to explore young children’s encounters with objects, spaces and places. Educators from the museum and the playgroup worked together… Read full article

Look Think Do

by , and | 16.09.20

Look Think Do is a set of starter activities the Fitzwilliam Museum learning team have been creating since the start of lockdown. They are aimed primarily at schools to use as remote learning activities for students, but are also written with families in mind, given that we recognised the majority of children would be learning at home supported by family… Read full article

Inspire: a celebration of children’s art

by , and | 31.01.20

Over the past twelve months, thousands of local children and teachers have studied a Renaissance panel painting of Cupid and Psyche by Jacopo del Sellaio. A selection of their work is on display in the Inspire exhibition at the Fitzwilliam Museum from 10 December 2019 – 23 March 2020. “Going to the Fitzwilliam really inspired me that art isn’t just… Read full article