of the twenty-first century. In fact, the reliance on codes alone too often becomes a justification for museums to avoid difficult ethics conversations, particularly around values, principles, and social responsibility. The new museum ethics represents an opportunity for growth, rather than a burden of compliance.
Engaging in the new museum ethics is a twenty-first-century skill that museum and museum studies leaders must build among students, professionals, and communities. The new ethics is a powerful tool to effect organizational change and work toward social responsibility. It has the capacity to strengthen public trust by equipping museum practitioners to deal sensitively and fairly with the shifting ethical terrain, now and in the future. To develop a level of comfort with ethical decision-making based on a range of social concerns, is to accept the complexity and dynamism of ethics discourse that both reflects and shapes the real issues that museums encounter.
APPENDIX: LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS TO THE MUSEUM ETHICS NETWORK BY EACH WORKSHOP
| Workshop, date, and venue | List of contributors |
| AHRC Ethics Research Network Workshop 1: Social Engagement December 5, 2011 School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester | David Anderson Paul Basu James Dempsey Jocelyn Dodd David Fleming Graeme Gooday John Jackson Ceri Jones Janet Marstine Nick Merriman Eithne Nightingale Mark O’Neill Nick Poole Jette Sandahl Amanda Wallace |
| AHRC Ethics Research Network Workshop 2: Transparency March 1, 2012 Manchester Museum, Manchester | James Dempsey Jocelyn Dodd John Jackson Ceri Jones Rob Lawlor Janet Marstine Christopher Megone Eithne Nightingale Mike Pickering Nick Poole Jan Ramirez Jette Sandahl |
| AHRC Ethics Research Network Workshop 3: Shared Guardianship of Collections June 28, 2012 Natural History Museum, London | Paul Basu Maurice Davies James Dempsey Jocelyn Dodd Graeme Gooday Ceri Jones Janet Marstine Christopher Megone Nick Merriman Eithne Nightingale Nick Poole Jette Sandahl Paul Tapsell Janet Ulph Amanda Wallace |
| AHRC Ethics Research Network Workshop 4: Moving Beyond Canonicity October 18, 2012 Victoria and Albert Museum, London | David Anderson Paul Basu Patricia Cronin Jocelyn Dodd Jamie Dow John Jackson Ceri Jones Megan Kime Janet Marstine Christopher Megone Nick Merriman Eithne Nightingale Nick Poole Jette Sandahl Richard Sandell Matt Smith |
| AHRC Ethics Research Network Workshop 5: Sustainability February 21, 2013 National Museum of Wales, Cardiff | David Anderson Jocelyn Dodd Robert Janes Ceri Jones Tony Kendle Megan Kime Janice Lane Christopher Megone Eithne Nightingale Nick Poole Jette Sandahl |
Note
1 1 The authors are grateful to the Arts and Humanities Research Council for its support of the research network. We thank our partner institutions, the Museums Association and IDEA CETL, University of Leeds, and the participants in the network. We also very much appreciate the helpful comments on this chapter from our colleague Simon Knell.
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