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
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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-
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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
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
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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11. Who are we doing it for?
There are 2 types of people
^
more than
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12. Who are we doing it for?
The crowd is us. We are the citizens.
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13. What is your project?
What is your community?
Over to you… #1
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16. What are you communicating?
To whom?
Why?
Over to you… #2
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17. As many as there are stories
Ways in, ways through
Let go: people are amazing
Message, means, method
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18. 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
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/
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Revisiting Social Machines
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
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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
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27. Visual and aural impairments
Dyslexia
Multilingualism
Types and degrees of literacy
Expanding engagement: open to all?
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28. Time and enthusiasm
Empathy and communication
Community curation
Funding
Sustaining engagement
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