Exploring the British Diaspora: Histories, Lives and Identities of the British Abroad

知识交流建议直接来自首席研究员的英国学院小额赠款资助项目(与南安普顿大学Pauline Leonard博士合作)，该项目涉及当代南非的英国人，并将建立一个由其他领先的社会科学家组成的网络，这些科学家跨越政治学、社会学、地理学和人类学等学科，致力于英国移民到西班牙、法国、澳大利亚、香港、迪拜、北京和泰国等不同背景下的工作。与移民博物馆项目的伙伴关系将把这一多样化的研究机构聚集在一起，并向公众传播。MMPs的目标是创建一个国家移民博物馆，其成员和同事是博物馆、政策、媒体、政治和商业部门的关键人物。由于博物馆和遗产机构的大多数国内收藏品都集中在向内移民到英国的历史和当代动态上，英国博物馆博物馆在获取有关向外移民的材料方面面临着更大的挑战。同样重要的是，必须将移徙视为一个历史性的、持续的、动态的、向外和向内移徙的双重过程。因此，从社会科学学者向科学和技术研究中心传授关于这一主题的知识将解决和克服这一挑战。这一合作伙伴关系允许对研究产生最大的和持续的公共影响。因此，该计划将在学术界、博物馆馆长和教育工作者、学校、文化、政策和媒体界之间建立一种知识交流，这将使这一领域的学术研究能够对更广泛的公共讨论和关于移民的辩论产生影响。该计划的目标是在六个月的时间内有重点地实现这些成果。该项目将与社会科学家、现有的研究和专业博物馆馆长和文化遗产从业人员合作，提供以下成果：-一个学术/博物馆馆长讲习班，将允许社会科学家和博物馆馆长/文化遗产从业人员之间进行知识交流，并将重点放在如何最好地向更广泛的公众受众突出关于英国侨民和英国移民的研究。这还将围绕知识交流计划的主题创建一个学术/MBA网络。-策划一个吸引人的、引人入胜的在线展览和学习资源，重点是“英国侨民：英国人在海外的历史、生活和身份”。这将包括来自不同国家/地区的案例研究、图片、故事、播客以及指向进一步研究和资源的链接。在线展览和学习资源将直接来自现有的社会科学研究，并反映出学术网络的不同地理、学科和方法方法。-备受瞩目的在线展览和学习资源的公开发布会，由基质管理协会主办，在皇家英联邦学会举行(应其主任丹尼·斯里斯坎达拉博士的邀请-同时也是基质管理委员会成员)。这一知识交流计划将为公众、媒体、博物馆和文化遗产部门的成员提供一个持久、有创意和有吸引力的资源，以咨询和探索英国移民的历史、其对世界的影响以及英国移民和海外生活的持续动态。最终，它将为未来英国移民博物馆的任何展览和未来国家移民博物馆的一部分提供信息。

The knowledge exchange proposal draws directly from the Principal Investigator's British Academy Small Grant funded project (held in collaboration with Dr Pauline Leonard, University of Southampton) on the British in contemporary South Africa and will create a network of other leading social scientists, across disciplines such as Politics, Sociology, Geography and Anthropology, working on British emigration to diverse contexts such as Spain, France, Australia, Hong Kong, Dubai, Beijing and Thailand. The partnership with the Migration Museum Project (MMP) will bring together this diverse body of research and disseminate it to the general public. The MMP aims to create a national museum of migration and has members and associates who are key figures in the museum, policy, media, political and business sectors. The MMP faces a greater challenge in obtaining material about outward migration as most domestic collections at museums and heritage bodies focus on the history and contemporary dynamics of inward migration to the UK. It is also important to consider migration as a historical and ongoing dynamic and dual process of outward and inward migration. Knowledge transfer from social science academics to the MMP on this topic will therefore address and overcome this challenge. This partnership allows for maximum and ongoing public impact for the research. The programme would therefore create a knowledge exchange between academic communities and museum curators and educators, schools, cultural, policy and media communities and this will allow for academic research in this field to impact on wider public discourses and debates about migration. The objectives of the scheme are designed to achieve these outcomes in a focused way across a period of six months. Working with social scientists existing research and professional museum curators and cultural heritage practitioners, the project will deliver the following:-An academic/MMP workshop that will allow for knowledge exchange between social scientists and museum curators/cultural heritage practitioners and will be focused on how best to highlight research on the British diaspora and British emigration for a wider public audience. This will also create an academic/MMP network around the theme of the knowledge exchange programme.-The curation of an attractive and engaging online exhibition and learning resource focused on 'The British Diaspora: Histories, Lives and Identities of the British Abroad'. This will include case studies from different countries/regions, pictures, stories, podcasts and links to further research and resources. The online exhibition and learning resource will draw directly from existing social science research and reflects the different geographical, disciplinary and methodological approaches of the academic network.-A high profile public launch event of the online exhibition and learning resource, hosted by the MMP and held at the Royal Commonwealth Society (at the invitation of its director Dr Danny Sriskandarajah - who is also an MMP Board Member). This knowledge exchange scheme will form a lasting, creative and attractive resource for members of the public, media, museum and cultural heritage sector to consult and explore the history of British emigration, its impact on the world and the continuing dynamics of British emigration and lives abroad. Ultimately, it will inform any future MMP exhibitions on outward British migration and part of a future National Museum of Migration.