Beyond the Academy: engagement, education, and exchange
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Beyond the Academy: engagement, education, and exchange This presentation introduces you to the practice and practicalities of public engagement. It draws on experience to explore means and methods of widening access to the humanities, to foster dialogue, participation, and new knowledge.
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Beyond the Academy: engagement, education, and exchange
- 1. Beyond the Academy engagement, education, and exchange Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2015 Pip Willcox Curator of Digital Special Collections Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 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 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 3. Public engagement at DHOxSS http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/workshops.html#culturalconnections Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 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 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 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 Behind Enemy Lines, by Allison Kay: https://www.zooniverse.org/?reload=0#/projects/Historicaljunky/behind-enemy-lines Our Country Lives, by Adam Koszary: https://www.zooniverse.org/#/projects/adamkoszary/our-country-lives Digging the Potomac, by Kenneth Cohen: https://www.zooniverse.org/#/projects/sportprof/digging-the-potomac Discover Denmark, by Mette Colding Dahl: https://www.zooniverse.org/#/projects/MeCoDa/discover-denmark Herbaria for Science, by Lisa Chupin: https://www.zooniverse.org/#/projects/Chupin/herbaria-for-science 2015 From the workshop: Crowdsourcing for Academic, Library and Museum Environments Citizen Science for the Digital Humanities
- 6. Today Politics, practice, practicalities Message, means, methods A case study Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 7. Why do we do it? Knowledge Transfer Knowledge Exchange Knowledge creation Citizenship Moral duty and public good Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 8. What’s in it for us? Impact CVs Increased funding possibilities Conversation, disruption, subversion Love of our fields Ludere Humanum Est Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 9. https://twitter.com/pipwillcox/status/489709060443611136 What’s in it for us? Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 10. https://twitter.com/pipwillcox/status/489709060443611136 Anonymized academic colleague. What’s in it for us? Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD “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.”
- 11. Who are we doing it for? There are 2 types of people ^ more than Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 12. Who are we doing it for? The crowd is us. We are the citizens. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc.165, f.217r http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/w303ir Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD BodleianLibraries
- 13. What is your project? What is your community? Over to you… #1 Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 14. Time and energy Funding Ethics Reflection Credit …on top of your research Practicalities Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 15. Walking on water Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD PipWillcox
- 16. What are you communicating? To whom? Why? Over to you… #2 Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 17. As many as there are stories Ways in, ways through Let go: people are amazing Message, means, method Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD PipWillcox
- 18. Revisiting Social Machines Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD 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
- 19. 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/ Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD Revisiting Social Machines
- 20. Message, means, method https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/ Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD British Library on Flickr 1,000,000+ images 1 tweet, 1 blog post 170,000,000 hits in 6 months
- 21. 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 UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 22. Museums Schools Communities Message, means, method http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/ Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD http://www.culturewhisper.com/event/view/id/2449
- 23. Museums Schools Communities Message, means, method http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/ http://www.edwardsboys.org/ Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD http://www.culturewhisper.com/event/view/id/2449
- 24. Museums Schools Communities Message, means, method http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/ http://www.edwardsboys.org/ https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/ Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD http://www.culturewhisper.com/event/view/id/2449
- 25. 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 Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 26. 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 Expanding engagement: help to track success Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 27. Visual and aural impairments Dyslexia Multilingualism Types and degrees of literacy Expanding engagement: open to all? Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 28. Time and enthusiasm Empathy and communication Community curation Funding Sustaining engagement Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 29. Iterate Communicate Let the crowd lead Reflective practice Sustaining engagement Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 30. Curate Co-create Enjoy In other words Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD
- 31. Your Public Needs You! Bodleian Libraries UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD PipWillcox