These slides, from the introductory workshop strand of the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School (DHOxSS), provides an introduction to the practice and practicalities of public engagement. It draws on the presenter's experience to explore means and methods of widening access to the humanities, to foster dialogue and participation.
Global Lehigh Strategic Initiatives (without descriptions)
2016: Beyond the Academy—engagement, education, and exchange
1. Beyond the Academy
engagement, education, and exchange
Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2016
Pip Willcox
Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Senior Researcher, University of Oxford e-Research Centre Bodleian Libraries
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Photograph: Pip Willcox
2. What is public engagement?
Public engagement describes the myriad of
ways in which the activity and benefits of
higher education and research can be shared
with the public. Engagement is by definition a
two-way process, involving interaction and
listening, with the goal of generating mutual
benefit.
National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement
http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/explore-it/what-public-engagement Bodleian Libraries
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3. Public engagement at DHOxSS
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/workshops.html#culturalconnections
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Cultural
Connections
Engage Embrace Enhance
Do you want to:
Engage with new audiences?
Embrace new ideas?
Enhance your research?
Come and learn the skills you’ll need from experts at Cultural Connections.
Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange are increasingly part of
academic life. This dynamic, participative workshop, a strand of the Digital
2013
4. Public engagement at DHOxSS
http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/workshops.html#culturalconnections
https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/cultural-connections-exchanging-knowledge-and-
widening-participation-humanities Bodleian Libraries
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Cultural
Connections
Engage Embrace Enhance
Do you want to:
Engage with new audiences?
Embrace new ideas?
Enhance your research?
Come and learn the skills you’ll need from experts at Cultural Connections.
Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange are increasingly part of
academic life. This dynamic, participative workshop, a strand of the Digital
2013
5. National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagement
http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/explore-it/what-public-engagement
Bodleian Libraries
UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
Public engagement at DHOxSS
Youtuber Book Covers and Brand Identity, by Alison Lutton:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/alisonlutton/youtuber-book-covers-and-brand-
identity-dhoxss
Medieval Illumination, by Elizabeth MacDonald:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/elliemac/medieval-illumination
Marginaliotate, by Emma Stanford:
https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/emmastanfordx/marginaliotate
From the workshop:
Social Humanities: Citizens at Scale in the Digital World
Social Media, Citizen Science, and Social Machines
2016
7. Why do we do it?
Knowledge Transfer
Knowledge Exchange
Knowledge creation
Citizenship
Moral duty and public good
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8. What’s in it for us?
Impact
CVs
Increased funding possibilities
Conversation, disruption, subversion
Love of our fields
Ludere Humanum Est
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9. What’s in it for us?
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https://twitter.com/pipwillcox/status/489709060443611136
10. What’s in it for us?
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“I’ll use a community if they’ll give me their time,
but I only care about making history research
better. I don’t want to tell stories or listen to what
non-experts think.”
https://twitter.com/pipwillcox/status/489709060443611136
Anonymized academic colleague.
11. Who are we doing it for?
There are 2 types of people
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12. Who are we doing it for?
There are 2 types of people
^
more than
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13. Who are we doing it for?
The crowd is us. We are the citizens.
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14. What is your project?
What is your community?
Over to you… #1
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17. Time and energy
Funding
Communication skills
Ethics
Reflection
Credit
…on top of your research
Practicalities
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19. What are you communicating?
To whom?
Why?
Over to you… #2
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20. As many as there are stories
Ways in, ways through
Let go: people are amazing
Message, means, method
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21. Revisiting Social Machines
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More people
Moremachines
e-infrastructure
Online R&D
(Science 2.0)
@dder
Big Data
Big Compute
Conventional
Computation
“Big Social”
Social Networks
Social
Machines
David De Roure
22. The Zooniverse
The Great War Archive
Sprint for Shakespeare
EEBO-TCP hackfest
https://www.zooniverse.org/
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa
http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/
http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2015/04/22/early-english-books-hackfest/
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Revisiting Social Machines
23. British Library on Flickr
1,000,000+ images
1 tweet, 1 blog post
170,000,000 hits in 6 months
Message, means, method
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
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24. British Library on Flickr
1,000,000+ images
1 tweet, 1 blog post
170,000,000 hits in 6 months
Message, means, method
https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/
http://illustrationarchive.cardiff.ac.uk/ Bodleian Libraries
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28. How will you reach your audiences?
How will you track success?
How will you sustain your engagement?
What will you do with the data?
Over to you... #3
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29. Expanding engagement: tracking success
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UCL
https://www.ucl.ac.uk/public-engagement/evaluation/toolkits/methods
NCCPE
http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/plan-it/evaluating-public-engagement
Public Engagement Cymru
http://www.assembly.wales/NAfW%20Documents/
public_engagement_toolkit_2014.pdf%20-%2007052014/
public_engagement_toolkit_2014-English.pdf
30. Visual and aural impairments
Dyslexia
Multilingualism
Types and degrees of literacy
Access to the Internet
Expanding engagement: open to all?
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31. Time and enthusiasm
Empathy and communication
Community curation
Funding
Sustaining engagement
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