Building networks for creative and cultural responses to historic pollution and climate change research

拟议的项目将改变诺丁汉大学(UON)古典文学和考古系的研究能力，支持我们与文化和创意合作伙伴的参与，翻译和交流研究成果，并促进文化遗产管理方面的重大发展，以应对过去、现在和未来气候变化和污染带来的挑战。威斯康星大学新的机构研究战略(2022-2027)是由我们的雄心塑造的，即成为一所“无国界的大学”；其一个关键宗旨是“建立共享的设施和基础设施平台”，以支持包容性和支持性的跨学科伙伴关系。为了与此保持一致，我们正在努力确保我们对古环境的艺术和人文研究是可见的、可持续的和长期可获得的。文学院已投资提供专门的技术支援，以监督六个实验室的日常运作和保养，并为有关教职员、学生和研究人员提供设备和技术使用方面的技术监督/培训。然而，仍然迫切需要更换和升级必要的研究设备和设施，以提高我们的跨学科网络对历史污染和气候变化研究作出创造性和文化反应的能力。新的设备和设施将用于突出过去环境变化的人类故事；社会在哪里以及如何在应对变化方面具有弹性，以及这些与目前人类驱动的气候变化的后果相比如何。我们与英国创意和文化部门的组织合作开展这项工作，共同努力让这些故事变得可见，这样它们就可以被理解，对我们的生活和社会有意义，从而影响我们需要的行为改变。我们还与文化资产的管理组织合作，保护文化资产免受气候变化的影响。为了确保我们的研究在未来继续具有意义，我们将建立数字档案来存储我们的古环境数据、我们的解释和创造性的成果，使它们能够被新的和不同的受众访问、查找和重复使用。通过将这些放在一起，我们将最大限度地发挥跨学科方法的力量，创造可以更广泛地交流和理解的研究成果。为了确保我们的网络继续从这项投资中受益，我们将培训我们网络中不同部门的合作伙伴使用新的设施、设备和档案。跨学科的合作将起到催化剂的作用，利用历史污染和气候变化研究，进一步制定应对当代挑战的不同对策。

The proposed project would transform the research capability of the Department of Classics and Archaeology at the University of Nottingham (UoN), supporting engagement with our cultural and creative partners to translate and communicate research and to enable significant developments in cultural heritage management in response to the challenges posed by past, present and future climate change and pollution. The new institutional research strategy at UoN (2022 - 2027) is shaped by our ambition to be a 'university without borders;' a key tenet of which is to 'build shared facility and infrastructure platforms' in order to support inclusive and supportive transdisciplinary partnerships. In keeping with this, we are seeking to ensure that our arts and humanities research on palaeoenvironments is visible, sustainable and accessible in the long term. The Faculty of Arts has already invested in specialist technical support to oversee the day-to-day running and upkeep of six laboratories and provide technical supervision/training in the use of equipment and techniques to relevant staff, students and researchers. However, there remains an urgent need to replace and upgrade essential research equipment and facilities that will improve our interdisciplinary network's capacity for creative and cultural responses to historic pollution and climate change research. The new equipment and facilities will be used to highlight the human stories of past environmental change; where and how societies have been resilient in their responses to changes and how these compare to the current consequences of human-driven climate change. We do this work in partnership with organisations from the UK's creative and cultural sectors, working together to make these stories visible so that they can be understood, made meaningful to our lives and society and thereby influence the behavioural changes we need. We also work to protect cultural assets from the effects of climate change in partnership with their managing organisations. To ensure that our research continues to have meaning into the future we will build digital archives to host our paleoenvironmental data, our interpretations and creative outputs, to make them accessible, findable and reusable to new and diverse audiences. By hosting these together, we will maximise the power of an interdisciplinary approach to create research outputs that can be more widely communicated and understood. To ensure that our network continues to benefit from this investment, we will train partners from across the different sectors of our network, to use the new facilities, equipment and archives. Working together across disciplines will act as a catalyst for further developing diverse responses to contemporary challenges using historic pollution and climate change research.