An Oral History of the Modern Commonwealth

目前的项目旨在传播英联邦研究所的澳大利亚人权委员会资助的英联邦口述历史项目的调查结果。后续补助金将资助一名早期职业学者全职担任项目官员9个月。他们将与PI密切合作，负责组织传播活动的日常工作，并与研究所在英国和马耳他的伙伴机构进行联络。他们还将制作相关的教育材料，报告，并将合作制作公众参与纪录片的脚本。该项目官员还将与SAS通信办公室合作，积极主动地与记者联络，将COHP的材料与英联邦的当前发展或重大事件的周年纪念联系起来，以确保这些材料能够用于新闻报道。我们将在2015年10月的Bloomsbury Festival上介绍该项目。在活动期间，我们将要求当地布卢姆斯伯里居民和来自英联邦国家的工人在视频上记录英联邦的历史联系如何塑造他们自己的生活。我们打算在公众参与纪录片中使用其中的一些镜头，这将是后续项目的一部分。一个关键事件将是11月底英联邦政府首脑会议（CHOGM）期间在马耳他举行的启动研讨会。将邀请出席会议的所有国家代表团和民间社会组织以及全球媒体派代表出席。这次活动将由马耳他大学主办，将寻求从COHP访谈中为当代决策者找出可能的教训。该活动将被拍摄下来，并作为播客放在COHP网站上。后续项目得到了英联邦议会协会英国分支的热情支持。COHP团队的成员已被邀请在11月于伦敦举行的CPA“威斯敏斯特研讨会”上就该网站发表演讲。CPA将来自英联邦各地的高级议员联系起来，包括议员、议长和议会官员。威斯敏斯特讲习班为向真正的全球决策者传播该项目的研究结果提供了另一个重要机会。历史研究所为在职历史教师举办一次培训研讨会，GCSE中等和高等教育水平，以展示COHP网站如何用作教育资源。2016年1月，研究所将为英联邦秘书处的工作人员举办一个下午的培训研讨会，介绍口述历史项目的主要成果。同一个月，它将与英联邦秘书处的通讯部合作，在马尔伯勒大厦为来自英联邦和非英联邦国家的伦敦外交界举办一次研讨会，项目官员将与外交和联邦事务部历史部和英联邦部的工作人员联络，编写一份简短的报告，说明英联邦外交政策委员会的调查结果与当代英国外交政策的相关性。这份报告将在外交部历史学家已经同意主办的一个特别研讨会上提交给官员和部长们。该项目官员还将负责开发一个基于互联网的90分钟公众参与纪录片视频的脚本（与影响媒体专家有限公司合作）。这将包括对主要研究者、传播者和COHP首席研究员的采访，并将包括COHP录音和其他历史材料的摘录，以及在一些传播活动中拍摄的镜头。

The current project seeks to disseminate the findings of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies' AHRC-funded Commonwealth Oral History Project. The follow-on grant will fund an early-career academic to act as Project Officer on a full-time basis for 9 months. Working in close collaboration with the PI, they will have day-to-day responsibility for the organization of dissemination events and liaison with the Institute's partner bodies in the UK and in Malta. They will also produce the associated educational materials, reports, and will collaborate in producing the script for the public-engagement documentary. The project officer will also take a proactive role, in conjunction with the SAS Communications office, in liaising with journalists to link material from the COHP to current developments in the Commonwealth or anniversaries of major events in order to ensure that it feeds into news reporting.Engaging a broader non-academic audience with the 'high-level' interviews of the COHP, we will introduce the project at the Bloomsbury Festival in October 2015. During the event we will ask local Bloomsbury residents and workers from Commonwealth countries to record on video how the Commonwealth's historical links have shaped their own lives. We intend to use some of this footage in the public-engagement documentary which will be part of the follow-on project.A key event will be a launch seminar in Malta towards the end of November at the time of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM). All national delegations and civil society organizations attending the meeting will be invited to send representatives, as will the global media. The event, which will be hosted by the University of Malta, will seek to identify possible lessons from the COHP interviews for contemporary policy-makers. The event will be filmed and included as a podcast on the COHP website.The follow-on project has the enthusiastic support of the UK branch of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association. Members of the COHP team have been invited to offer a presentation on the website at the CPA's 'Westminster Workshop' in London in November. The CPA connects senior parliamentarians from across the Commonwealth including MPs speakers and parliamentary officials. The Westminster Workshop provides another important opportunity to disseminate the findings of the project to a genuinely global audience of policy-makers.The project will draw upon the networks of the ICwS's sister institution, the Institute of Historical Research to organize a training seminar for teachers of History at post-GCSE secondary and tertiary level to demonstrate how the COHP website can be used as an educational resource.In January 2016, the Institute will host an afternoon training seminar for staff at the Commonwealth Secretariat drawing out the key findings of the oral history project. The same month it will organize a seminar at Marlborough House, in collaboration with the communications department of the Commonwealth Secretariat, aimed at the London diplomatic community from both Commonwealth and non-Commonwealth countries.The project officer will liaise with staff from the FCO's Historical department and Commonwealth department to produce a short report on the relevance of the COHP findings for contemporary British foreign policy. This will be presented to officials and ministers at a special seminar at the FCO, which the Foreign Office Historians have already agreed to host.The project officer will also be responsible for developing the script for an internet-based 90-minute public-engagement documentary video (in partnership with Impact Media Specialists Ltd). This will feature interviews with the PI, CI and principal researcher of the COHP and will include excerpts from the COHP recordings and other historical materials, as well as footage filmed at some of the dissemination events.