His real sleeping-bag?

Hello and thank you for tuning in to another episode of Polar Times!

This week’s episode is with one of our new hosts, Henrietta. She gets chatting to Naomi Chapman, Education and Outreach Assistant at the Polar Museum, part of the Scott Polar Research Institute at the University of Cambridge. Naomi is a museum educator-extraordinaire and here she talks about what it’s like to teach people about the polar regions every day. Naomi has been involved in some amazing projects and she tells us about her work on everything from a co-curated exhibition to a one-of-a-kind fabric map of Antarctica (complete with Lake Vostok silk-pocket!). Stay tuned for some advice for people interested in non-academic polar careers and to see if you can shed some light on a question from a primary school child that no one seems to know the answer to…

For everything from educational videos to polar sewing projects, check out the Polar Museum’s awesome teaching resources here:

https://www.spri.cam.ac.uk/museum/resources/

If you do have anything you’d like to tell us, no matter how big or small, please do get in touch via email (therearepolartimes@gmail.com) or tweet APECS (@Polar_Research). We’d love to hear from you!

Episode edited by Elise Gallois

Cover art by Matthew Nelson

Music: “Scuba” by Metre, Nul Tiel Records, UK (unaltered) CC BY-NC-SA