To mark the launch of our first SAS/Senate House Library ‘Public Engagement Innovators Scheme’, we asked some staff from across the School about their experiences of public engagement and how it has influenced their research and professional practice. In this fourth post Jane Winters, professor of digital history at the Institute of Historical Research, answers our… Continue reading Engaging the Public with Digital History (Public Engagement Case Study – Professor Jane Winters)
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Communicating Law and Information Policy (Public Engagement Case Study – Judith Townend)
To mark the launch of our call for applications for the first SAS/Senate House Library Public Engagement Innovators Scheme, we asked some staff from across the School about their experiences of public engagement and how it has influenced their research and professional practice. In this third post Judith Townend, Director of the Centre for Law and… Continue reading Communicating Law and Information Policy (Public Engagement Case Study – Judith Townend)
Public Engagement & the School of Advanced Study
To mark the launch our new Public Engagement Innovators Scheme, which offers small grants to fund public engagement activities within the School and the Senate House Libraries – this post reflects on the importance of integrating public engagement into the School’s mission to ‘promote and support research in the humanities’. As we all know, the… Continue reading Public Engagement & the School of Advanced Study
Pleasures and perils of Public Engagement
An exhibition, co-curated by Dr Cynthia Johnston of the Institute of English Studies (IES), has been receiving a lot of attention. Here, Dr Johnston explains the reasons for showcasing the unusual treasures accumulated between 1850 and the First World War by some of Lancashire’s cotton magnates. The Cotton to Gold exhibition at Two Temple Place brings… Continue reading Pleasures and perils of Public Engagement
Punch and Judy’s Chocolate Cornucopia of Human Knowledge
Dr Barnaby Dicker (Visiting Tutor in Critical and Historical Studies) and Dr Marquard Smith (Research Leader and Head of Doctoral Studies) of School of Humanities, Royal College of Art, London write about their innovative Being Human festival project.