Partners in History: collaborations in regional heritage

这个应用程序创建了一支致力于社区参与的研究团队。他们之前的经验范围从学术出版到展示研究和与不同受众互动的创新方式。它们带来了实用的遗产体验，并提供了独特的跨学科混合：历史、艺术史、创意写作、数字媒体和旅游研究。作为该大学遗产中心网络的成员，研究人员将利用整个大学的智力资源，并在文化地理、教育和电影研究领域已经拥有强大的工作关系。通过这个项目，他们将相互分享专业知识，并与社区团体分享。除了历史学会和博物馆，合作还将包括一般活动和以前被边缘化的群体，以反映赫特福德郡的人口概况、大学的社会责任和遗产培养认同感和归属感的能力。通过赫特福德郡大学的遗产中心(HH)，该大学已经开始这些活动，目前正在寻找方法来扩大其影响和影响。因此，这个应用程序捕捉到了正是这种倡议所存在的动力。HH的个别成员提供了成功的伙伴关系项目(例如，由KEEP3、AHRC和HLF提供资金)，社区兴趣也因“纪念第一次世界大战”而激起。随着团体开始欣赏当地学术界存在的热情和支持，大学、HH和历史系也取得了进展。如果没有财政投资，现有的计划可能无法充分发挥潜力，而新的想法也可能不会出现。HH网络的形成是为了回应对外部参与的真实和迫切的需求。已经取得的成就表明了该大学内部锁定的巨大潜力，从数字讲故事到制定政策，了解当地历史和对旅游景点的分析，以及关注和满足社区群体需求的范围。外部集团往往缺乏能力或专业知识来最大限度地利用其资源，或探索合作伙伴关系的可能性，或进一步研究或营销。该项目将提供更多的支持、建议和网络，以及在研究活动、案例研究、口述历史和其他成果方面的切实成果。社区团体在遗产活动和专门研究方面有着令人印象深刻的记录。我们一直在以特别的方式与那些设法在大学找到适当专家的小组合作，但这个项目将使我们能够扩大这种活动，使之民主化和系统化。赫特福德郡大学的创业方式和不同寻常的外向视角，塑造了我们在外展、公众参与和合作工作方面开拓新事物的雄心。我们提出的三个合作项目--回忆第一次世界大战；低碳过去；低碳未来；以及即时口述历史--旨在提供一个灵活的框架，以举办学术和社区研究。通过开放大学并通过项目开放日将其带到社区，我们打算增进双方对关系的理解。这将加强对社区团体发起的项目的支持，并将这些项目带给研究人员，以寻求实际或历史上的建议。但它也将创造新的关系。这些人可能会探索该县各地的团体和组织持有的迄今未被研究的材料，并调查接触到学术和普通受众的创新方法。它们有潜力弥合学术研究及其大众传播之间的差距，创造可持续的合作，并丰富有关当地遗产的知识。

This application creates a team of researchers who are committed to community engagement. Their previous experience ranges from scholarly publication to innovative ways of presenting research and engaging with different audiences. They bring practical heritage experience and offer a distinctive interdisciplinary mixture: history, art history, creative writing, digital media and tourism studies. As members of the University's Heritage Hub network, the researchers will tap intellectual resources across the University and already have strong working relationships in the fields of cultural geography, education and film studies. Through this project they will share expertise with one another and with community groups. As well as history societies and museums, collaborations will include inter-general activities and previously marginalised groups to reflect Hertfordshire's demographic profile, the University's social responsibilities and the capacity of heritage to foster a sense of identity and belonging.Through the University of Hertfordshire's Heritage Hub (HH), the University has made a start on these engagements and is currently looking for methods to increase their impact and reach. This application therefore captures a momentum that exists for exactly this sort of initiative. Individual HH members have delivered successful partnership projects (funded by KEEP3, AHRC and HLF, for example) and community interest has been stirred by events around 'Remembering the First World War'. The University, HH and History Department are also gaining ground as groups begin to appreciate the enthusiasm and support that exists in their local academic community. Without financial investment, current initiatives could fail to reach full potential, while new ideas may not emerge.The HH network was formed in response to a real and urgent demand for outside engagement. What has been achieved already has demonstrated the enormous potential locked within the University, from digital storytelling to policy making, knowledge of local histories and analyses of tourist sites, and the scope to interest and address the needs of community groups. External groups often lack capacity or expertise to make the most of their resources or explore possibilities for partnership working or further research or marketing. The project would provide access to additional support, advice and networking as well as tangible results in terms of research activities, case studies, oral histories and other outputs.On their side, community groups have an impressive record of heritage activity and specialised research. We have been working in an ad hoc way with those groups that have managed to locate appropriate experts in the University, but this project would allow us to expand, democratize and systematise such activity. The University of Hertfordshire's entrepreneurial approach and unusually outward-looking perspective have shaped our ambition to carve out something new in terms of outreach, public engagement and partnership working. Three of our proposed collaborative projects - Remembering the First World War; Low Carbon Pasts; Low Carbon Futures; and Instant Oral Histories -- are designed to provide a flexible framework to hold both academic and community research.By opening the University and taking it out into the community through project open days we intend to forge greater understanding on both sides of the relationship. This will strengthen support for projects that are initiated by community groups and brought to the researchers for practical or historical advice. But it will also create new relationships. These might explore hitherto unstudied material held by groups and organisations around the county and investigate innovative methods of reaching both academic and general audiences. They have the potential to bridge a gap between academic research and its popular dissemination, create sustainable collaborations and enrich knowledge of local heritage.