Causing a Flap: using chicken-based research to transform education, poultry production and human well-being

媒体对我们项目的最初反应是严厉的：我们“引起了轰动”[1，2]。然而，我们在AHRC“人鸡互动的文化和科学观点”和AHRC-GCRF“去地方”项目上的工作表明，鸡对社会的各个阶层都是有意义和鼓舞人心的。通过整合这项研究的结果，我们的项目将揭示鸡在时间和空间中隐藏的社会和文化影响，并向一系列受众强调这一信息。这个新项目“引起轰动：利用鸡的研究来改变教育，为家禽业提供信息，提高人类福祉”将最大限度地发挥我们研究成果的遗产和影响：学术研究所产生的成果往往对社会的大部分人都有价值，但这些成果并不总是可以获得的。我们将把我们的发现转化为反映其意义的广度，并揭示鸡在人类的过去、现在和未来所扮演的令人惊讶的多样化角色。为了充分发挥我们先前研究结果的潜力，我们将：1.增加对人类和鸡饮食、健康和环境可持续性之间联系的了解。2.在英国和非洲，通过共同的媒介--鸡--加强跨课程的教育实践。我们的项目已经证明，人类和鸡的健康和福祉在饮食、人畜共患病和环境可持续性等领域密不可分。这些结果对行业和消费者有影响，我们将把我们的研究结果带到一个行业研讨会（英国家禽理事会，莫伊帕克），与他们合作，制定艺术和人文研究知情的政策，对鸡的可持续性。我们还展示了我们的跨学科的鸡为基础的研究如何可以转化为整个课程的教学和提高学龄儿童的学习经验。目前，这只应用于一个关键阶段3试点。通过与学校、学院、家庭教育和国际学习环境中的教育工作者合作，我们已经建立了这样一个计划的愿望（见上下文2）[3，4，5，6]。我们将与教育工作者合作，共同创建免费获取的资源，以适应不同的学习风格、能力和年龄。出乎意料的是，我们的研究发现，鸡改变了社会中一些最脆弱成员的生活，包括痴呆症患者和孤立的老年人，贫困和额外需求的学龄儿童和群体，埃塞俄比亚是最不发达国家之一，对他们来说，鸡的文化和社会意义是不被认可的。我们的合作伙伴Equal Arts、HenPower以及在埃塞俄比亚从事教育和博物馆工作的团体将通过我们的项目聚集在一起，通过教育和展览资源来增强这些意想不到的好处，并在纪录片中展示它们。鸡对世界各地的许多人来说都很有价值，通过我们的研究，这一点越来越明显。这个新项目将展示我们研究的价值，并确保其影响继续为尽可能广泛的人群带来利益。[1]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2425213/Outrage-academics-handed-2m-study-humans-interact-CHICKENS.html [2] http：//www.express.co.uk/news/uk/430507/Chicken-study-costing-1-9million-of-taxpayers-funds-causes-a-flap[3] https://www.nationalcollege.org.uk/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/level3-udeip-op-crossley.pdf [4] http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/zooarchpage1 [5] https://www.teachermagazine.com.au/article/implementing-a-cross-curricular-approach [6] https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/warwickcommission/futureculture/finalreport/warwick_commission_report_2015.pdf

The initial media reaction to our project was scathing: we "caused a flap"[1,2]. Yet our work on the AHRC 'Cultural and Scientific Perceptions of Human-Chicken Interactions' and AHRC-GCRF 'Going Places' projects has demonstrated that chickens are meaningful and inspirational for diverse segments of society. By integrating the results of this research our project will reveal the hidden social and cultural impact of chickens through time and space, highlighting this message for a range of audiences.This new project "Causing a Flap: using chicken-based research to transform education, inform the poultry industry and enhance human well-being" will maximise the legacy and impact of the results of our research: academic research produces results that are frequently of value to large proportions of society, but they are not always accessible. We will translate our findings in ways that will reflect the breadth of their significance and reveal the surprisingly diverse role of the chicken in humanity's past, present and future.To realise the full potential of the results of our previous study, this will:1. Increase understanding of the link between human and chicken diet, health and environmental sustainability.2. Enhance cross-curriculum educational practice through a common medium, the chicken, in the UK and Africa.3. Highlight the role of human-chicken interactions in transforming the lives of vulnerable people.Our projects have demonstrated that human and chicken health and well-being are inextricably linked in areas such as diet, zoonotic disease and environmental sustainability. These results have implications for industry and consumers and we will bring our findings to an industry workshop (British Poultry Council, Moy Park), working with them to develop arts and humanities research-informed policy on chicken sustainability.We have also shown how our interdisciplinary chicken-based research can be translated to teach across the curriculum and enhance learning experience for school-aged children. At present this has only been applied in one Key Stage 3 pilot. Through collaboration with educators in schools, academies, home-educating and international learning environments we have established there is a desire for a scheme like this (See Context 2)[3,4,5,6]. We will work with educators to co-create freely accessible resources targeted to suit different learning styles, abilities and ages.Unexpectedly, our research identified circumstances in which chickens have transformed the lives of some of the most vulnerable members of society, including dementia patients and isolated elderly individuals, underprivileged and additional-needs schoolchildren and groups in Ethiopia, one of the least developed countries, for whom the chicken is unrecognised for its cultural and social significance. Out partners Equal Arts, HenPower and groups working in education and museums in Ethiopia will be brought together by our project to enhance these unexpected benefits through educational and exhibition resources, and showcase them in a documentary film.Chickens are valuable to so many people around the world, and through our research this is becoming increasingly apparent. This new project will demonstrate the value of our research and ensure its impact continues to bring benefits for the widest possible groups of people.[1] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2425213/Outrage-academics-handed-2m-study-humans-interact-CHICKENS.html [2] http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/430507/Chicken-study-costing-1-9million-of-taxpayers-funds-causes-a-flap[3] https://www.nationalcollege.org.uk/sites/default/files/sites/default/files/level3-udeip-op-crossley.pdf [4] http://www.schoolscience.co.uk/zooarchpage1 [5] https://www.teachermagazine.com.au/article/implementing-a-cross-curricular-approach [6] https://www2.warwick.ac.uk/research/warwickcommission/futureculture/finalreport/warwick_commission_report_2015.pdf