Citizen Scholarship in Nottingham: understanding the value of engaging users with heritage and culture

这个后续资助项目是与皇家剧院和诺丁汉联合国教科文组织文学之城合作开发的，它代表了一个重要的机会，可以与诺丁汉市的合作伙伴一起建立框架，既可以在地方一级参与文化和遗产活动，也可以从组织和个人的经验角度理解这种参与的价值。该项目利用遗产彩票资助的小型项目——“我们的诺丁汉皇家剧院：它的故事、人物和遗产”，由皇家剧院与诺丁汉大学合作，于2017年2月开始——作为一个案例研究，开发、测试和评估创新的、可转移的模式——“公民奖学金”。遗产彩票基金项目本身是由AHRC资助的研究项目“绘制表演文化：诺丁汉1857-1867”（2006-09）发展而来的，该项目促成了诺丁汉大学和皇家剧院之间的重要合作。根据皇家剧院HLF项目的经验，我们将与诺丁汉的试点组织合作，开发、测试和评估一种创新的、可转移的“公民奖学金”模式，以发展和支持档案和历史，使志愿者社区能够参与档案材料和口述历史的收集、管理和注释，同时通过支持的培训和活动培养基本的研究技能。通过观察志愿者档案会议、开展焦点小组、采访志愿者以及剧院和档案的其他用户，将评估志愿者参与这项活动在福利和文化丰富方面的价值。通过提供案例研究和有组织的活动，与诺丁汉的许多小型文化和遗产组织分享评估的知识和学习，该项目将提供一个重要的共享学习机会，并支持这些组织与他们的受众设计未来的参与和评估活动。作为这项研究的结果，一套最佳实践指南和公民奖学金参与和参与的“工具箱”，包括一个公共访问的数字平台，用于共同管理档案和历史，以及通过这种方法评估用户参与的框架。这些将在诺丁汉的组织中进行试验和测试；最终版本将通过遗产彩票基金（通过皇家剧院项目）在英国和欧洲范围内分享，并通过联合国教科文组织创意城市网络更广泛地分享。

This follow on funding project, developed in collaboration with the Theatre Royal and Nottingham UNESCO City of Literature, represents an important opportunity to work with partners across the city of Nottingham to establish frameworks both for enabling participation in cultural and heritage activities at a local level and for understanding the value of such participation in terms of the experience of the organisation and the individual. The project uses the small Heritage Lottery Funded project - 'Our Theatre Royal Nottingham: Its Stories, People & Heritage', led by the Theatre Royal in collaboration with the University of Nottingham and commencing in February 2017 - as a case study to develop, test and evaluate the innovative, transferable model, 'Citizen Scholarship'. The Heritage Lottery Fund project itself developed out of the AHRC funded research project 'Mapping Performance Culture: Nottingham 1857-1867' (2006-09) which led to a key collaboration between the University of Nottingham and the Theatre Royal. Building from the experience of the Theatre Royal HLF project, we will work with pilot organisations across Nottingham to develop, test and evaluate an innovative, transferable model of 'Citizen Scholarship' for development and support of archives and histories, enabling communities of volunteers to participate in collection, curation and annotation of archive material and oral histories while developing basic research skills through supported training and activity. The value of volunteer engagement with this activity in terms of wellbeing and cultural enrichment will be evaluated through observing volunteer archive sessions, conducting focus groups and interviewing volunteers and other users of the Theatre and archive. Through the provision of this case study and structured activities to share knowledge and learning from this evaluation with a wide range of smaller cultural and heritage organisations in Nottingham, the project will enable an important shared learning opportunity and support those organisations in designing future engagement and evaluation activities with their audiences. As an outcome of this research, a set of best practice guidelines and a 'toolbox' for Citizen Scholarship participation and engagement, including a publically accessible digital platform for co-curation of archives and histories and frameworks for the evaluation of user engagement through this methodology will be developed. These will be trialled and tested with organisations in Nottingham; the final version will be shared within the UK and Europe through the Heritage Lottery Fund (via the Theatre Royal project) and and more widely through the UNESCO Creative City Network.