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Discovering Hidden Collections: My Favourite Collections at the World Museum's Botany Collection
The World Museum's botany collection contains a vast number of botanical items that often go unnoticed by the public. It is estimated...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Aug 19, 20242 min read
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Research Visit: Royal Botanic Gardens Kew Tour
As part of my research, I booked a visit to the Herbarium and Economic Botany Collection at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew as well as a...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Aug 19, 20243 min read
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An Inspiring Visit: The Lord Mayor Explores 'The Speculative Herbarium'
What an incredible Private View as Suzanne Grace from Wild Art and I welcomed the Liverpool Lord Mayor ( Richard Kemp) to see our...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Aug 7, 20241 min read
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A New View: Curating a case display at World Museum
Art in Science master's students from Liverpool School of Art & Design have recently collaborated with World Museum Liverpool curators to...
Samantha Rose Cooper
May 27, 20243 min read
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Mindful Garden: Public Engagement with Botany as an Augment to School Encounters.
Over the last year I have been developing a STEAM-based botanical project called “Mindful Garden: Visualising the Unseen". As an...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Apr 6, 20247 min read
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Exploring Art-Science Transdisciplinary Practice through Botanical Art
This Masters project was developed in response to what it means to me to be an Art-Science Transdisciplinary Practitioner and how...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Jan 11, 20247 min read
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Protoplast Iolation Experiment: Enzymatic method
At LJMU Byrom Street lab, together, me and Dr Symonds looked at protoplast isolation, which is an experiment that breaks down the cell...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Jan 11, 20241 min read
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Bradford Science Festival 2023
Hattie reflects on a successful Bradford Science Festival, which this year had the theme of Vision: Seeing the Hidden World. Bradford...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Jan 10, 20242 min read
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"Meet the Scientist" at the Science+Media Museum
To engage with school drop-ins, I delivered a workshop for over 100 school children at Science + Media Museum. The aim of the workshop...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Dec 1, 20231 min read
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Green Careers Internship: Green Interviews
Alongside the project, I have been working as a green intern for Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU). I was set the task to conduct...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Dec 1, 20231 min read
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The John Rylands Library: Botany Special Collection
Looking at historical archives I booked a research visit to the Special Collection at the John Rylands library in Manchester. This visit...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Nov 30, 20232 min read
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The World Museum: Herbarium and Botany Collection
As part of an art-science interaction workshop, I booked myself a research visit to the World Museum in Liverpool to get some hands on...
Samantha Rose Cooper
Nov 30, 20232 min read
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How to research and build a network in the Green Sector
The green sector is a rapidly growing industry that focuses on sustainability and restoring the natural environment. If you're interested...
Samantha Rose Cooper
May 23, 20222 min read
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