By NENC
Cultivating Community? A Case Study of Lord Armstrong and the Victorian North East
Applications are sought for an AHRC-funded public engagement training project
What is ‘public engagement’? What importance might public engagement projects have for the local community or the region? How can we create research with partners outside academia? How can we ensure that the knowledge generated is genuinely meaningful to the public we seek to reach out to? What can we do to ensure public engagement initiates two-way conversations that enhance our research as well as deepening public understanding and interest? This AHRC-funded project seeks to address these questions and more through offering postgraduate participants a comprehensive training programme and the opportunity to design, plan and run a public exhibition exploring local industrialist Lord Armstrong’s role as a philanthropist and civic figure in the North East.
Engaging with the wider community opens up exciting opportunities to acquire and share skills, and to create innovative new research. This training project will provide postgraduate students with a programme of workshops, field trips and practical experience, with the twin aims of encouraging participants to think about how to make public engagement as meaningful as possible for both researchers and the …read more
Source: http://www.northeast19thcentury.org/2013/04/cultivating-community-case-study-of.html