Converge: releasing the potential of the university
York St John University and the Leeds and York NHS Foundation Trust provide courses in the arts for people who use mental health services
Disposal? UCL Museums & Collections and the Consultative Exhibition
In October 2009, UCL Museums & Collections held an exhibition which asked the audience to contribute to discussions about one of the most controversial subjects in the museum world: what should we keep and what should we get rid of?
Students volunteer to experience and explore working in museums, archives and libraries at the Museum of English Rural Life (MERL). Volunteering is accredited through a link with Reading University Students' Union RED (Reading Experience and Development) Award.
A collaboration between the Victoria and Albert Museum and UWE to create a website containing interviews with people from British crafts, to offer alternative views on the museums 20 century ceramics collection.
Collecting and Curating Popular Music Histories
Academics at the University of Liverpool are working on an AHRC funded project in partnership with the UK museum sector to develop effective strategies for collecting, preserving, representing, and interpreting popular music.
UWE historians (Dresser and Fleming) were co-opted to advise on the contents of the MShed Museum scheduled to open in 2011
History, Heritage and Public Engagement
A unique public engagement project led by the School of History at University of East Anglia (UEA), benefitting students, the university, local heritage partners and the community.
Researcher Curator is an AHRC-funded project running in partnership between Nottingham University, Nottingham Trent University and the Galleries of Justice. It is targeted at researchers from non-museums backgrounds.
On October 11, 2010 the British Library Science, Technology, Medicine team hosted its first public facing event ‘Do you Hear What I Hear?’ in partnership with UCL Neuroscience at the British Library Conference Centre.
How MMU and people in Hulme and Moss Side came together to breath new life into film archive collections. In 2009 MMU's Northwest Film archive worked alongside a local cultural broadcaster on a public engagement fellowship project using archive footage as a platform to co-create a new short...
Using special events (e.g., Apple Day) to enable researchers and academics to engage with the wider public. It started as information about apples, apple tasting, access to archive materials and a talk. It has become a larger scale event including activities for all the family and the opportunity...
Future animals: Friend or Food?
‘Future animals’ was an integrated arts and science project that brought together teenagers, Cardiff University staff and students, Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales, and an artist to discuss how human manipulation of past animals produced animals of the present day, and to design animals for...
Collaborative oral history research project to create an animated film marking the 40th anniversary of the salvage and return of the ss Great Britain to Bristol
Techniquest ran a special weekend of interactive activities at its centre in Cardiff in November 2010 about the human body, with partners including Cardiff University and the University of Wales Institute Cardiff (UWIC) to give its visitors opportunities to find out more about themselves.
A collaborative one-day informal learning & community engagement event themed around aspects of medieval society to celebrate Adult Learners Week, held at Cosmeston, a reconstructed medieval village near Cardiff
Rising Stars: Cambridge University
Many senior academics are great communicators and ambassadors for their subjects. We wanted to help those who are just starting out in their careers to develop these essential skills.
Nottingham Trent University and the Galleries of Justice Museum are currently working together to deliver a vocational qualification called the Professional Certificate in Heritage Tourism to provide entry-level training. Thereby opening up a new way the sector to help diversify the workforce.
Quality Streets - Participatory research in Stoke’s UniQ
Quality Streets is a participatory consultation in the neighbourhood of the University. The project involved local residents and workers, and students as a community research team to find out what people think about the area.
Real World Science – Engaging with the Experts
The collaboration between The University of Manchester research scientists and museum educators to design and host a programme of ‘Engage with the Experts’ A-Level Study days entitled ‘Genes to Phenotype’ and ‘The Hard Cell’ Stem Cell Debate day.
At the centre of Staging the Henrician Court research project was a full-scale public production of John Heywood's The Play of the Weather in the Great Hall at Hampton Court Palace. The project included other public engagement activities including public lectures and theatrical workshops.
