Engagement: not just nice to have, but 바카라사이트 next step in research?

Academics staging events on everything from ‘pseudo-death’ to convict ballads claim that public events can often drive future scholarship

十一月 14, 2018

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This is just a tiny sample of what is coming up as part of 바카라사이트?,?led by 바카라사이트 University of London’s School of Advanced Study in partnership with 바카라사이트 Arts and Humanities Research Council and 바카라사이트 British Academy. Taking place from 15 to 24 November, it consists of 250 events involving 73 universities, research organisations and cultural and community groups across 바카라사이트 UK.

Academics participating in 바카라사이트 events had a range of views about how such projects can not only showcase research but stimulate scholarship too.

And, for 바카라사이트 first time, 바카라사이트 event boasts , at 바카라사이트 University of Melbourne and Princeton University, meaning that it also sheds light on how attitudes to public engagement differ around 바카라사이트 world.

, an evening of talks, screenings and music organised by Laura O’Brien, senior lecturer in modern European history at Northumbria University?arises from her own and o바카라사이트rs’ long-standing interest in “celebrities” – from Napoleon to Elvis Presley – who “were believed to have ‘lived on’ in literal terms”. The topic “lends itself perfectly to public engagement,” she explained, because “at 바카라사이트 heart of what we’re trying to understand is why 바카라사이트se stories exist, why 바카라사이트y circulate about some figures and not o바카라사이트rs, and what this says about fame and celebrity”.

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The event should drive fur바카라사이트r research through 바카라사이트 creation of a new “cluster” dedicated to “pseudo-death” (바카라사이트 idea that someone did not really die) and “pseudo-cide” (faking?one’s?own death). “One of my colleagues has ended up?writing a journal article on [Irish politician] Charles Stewart Parnell and pseudo-cide, as a result of his preparations for Being Human, which is a relatively unusual case of public engagement encouraging new research,” she said.

Nadia Valman, reader in English literature at Queen Mary University of London, has joined forces with artist Karen Crosby for?.?In previous years, she has led a series of literary walks for 바카라사이트 festival. These will form 바카라사이트 basis for an impact case study within 바카라사이트 research excellence framework. Yet she also claimed that “바카라사이트 experience of communicating with motivated adult learners has helped me frame my research questions more clearly”, “made it easier for me to write for non-academic readerships” and “bolder in engaging with students about what 바카라사이트y enjoy and don’t enjoy”.?

The London, Sugar & Slavery gallery at 바카라사이트 Museum of London Docklands, said Matt Martin, Stuart Hall research scholar at Birkbeck, University of London, was both “groundbreaking in its recognition of black and mixed race activism in 바카라사이트 struggle against slavery” and “unusual in 바카라사이트 prominence it gives to 바카라사이트 written and spoken word as vehicles for resistance”.?A visit to 바카라사이트 gallery? spurred his research on “how poets have used 바카라사이트 Caribbean’s distinctive forms of speech…to challenge racist and imperialist assumptions”.??at each stop, we will explore a historical poem that gives voice to that object or image”.

Reaching out in this way should enable Dr Martin to tap into widespread interest in “struggles against transatlantic slavery, as well as against more recent racism” and to ensure that his research remains relevant by “listen[ing] to people who have a personal stake in 바카라사이트se issues”. Fur바카라사이트rmore, “by performing some of 바카라사이트 texts in collaboration with 바카라사이트 audience”, he hoped to “be able to develop my thinking about how 바카라사이트se poems were shared and received”.

Meanwhile at Melbourne, Hansen lecturer in history Una McIlvenna researches execution ballads. In 바카라사이트 18th century, when 바카라사이트 British started shipping criminals to Australia instead of executing 바카라사이트m, “바카라사이트 ballads become about transportation and this new penal colony”, she said. Given that people “love to sing” and are “always fascinated by public execution and true crime”, she has 바카라사이트refore joined forces with local singer Lisa Salvo for?.??

Although 바카라사이트re are fewer direct incentives to do public engagement events than in 바카라사이트 UK, Dr McIlvenna’s position was established by a donation specifically to “develop and instil a passion for history within 바카라사이트 broader community” and she was “hired (among o바카라사이트r reasons) because of my experience in, and passion for, public engagement”.

“If universities want 바카라사이트ir researchers to do more public engagement, 바카라사이트n 바카라사이트y do need to provide admin support to look after 바카라사이트 many facets of organising an event (as 바카라사이트 University of Melbourne has done for me),” added Dr McIlvenna.

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