2016: Beyond the Academy—engagement, education, and exchange

Beyond the Academy

engagement, education, and exchange

Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School 2016

Pip Willcox

Head of the Centre for Digital ScholarshipBodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

Senior Researcher, University of Oxford e-Research Centre Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D

Photograph: Pip Willcox

What is public engagement?

Public engagement describes the myriad of ways in which the activity and benefits of higher education and research can be shared with the public. Engagement is by definition a two-way process, involving interaction and listening, with the goal of generating mutual benefit.

National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagementhttp://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/explore-it/what-public-engagement Bodleian Libraries

U N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D

http://livepage.apple.com/


Public engagement at DHOxSS

http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/workshops.html#culturalconnections

Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D

Cultural ConnectionsEngage �Embrace �Enhance

Do you want to:Q�Engage with new audiences?Q�Embrace new ideas?Q�Enhance your research?

Come and learn the skills you’ll need from experts at Cultural Connections.

Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange are increasingly part of academic life. This dynamic, participative workshop, a strand of the Digital Humanities @Oxford Summer School, will give you the knowledge and confidence to benefit from sharing your research with audiences beyond the academic.

8 – 12 July 2013, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/

2013

http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/workshops.html#



http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2013/workshops.html#culturalconnectionshttps://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/cultural-connections-exchanging-knowledge-and-

widening-participation-humanities Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D

Cultural ConnectionsEngage �Embrace �Enhance

Do you want to:Q�Engage with new audiences?Q�Embrace new ideas?Q�Enhance your research?

Come and learn the skills you’ll need from experts at Cultural Connections.

Public Engagement and Knowledge Exchange are increasingly part of academic life. This dynamic, participative workshop, a strand of the Digital Humanities @Oxford Summer School, will give you the knowledge and confidence to benefit from sharing your research with audiences beyond the academic.

8 – 12 July 2013, Wolfson College, University of Oxford

http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/

2013



https://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/series/cultural-connections-exchanging-knowledge-and-widening-participation-humanities




National Co-ordinating Centre for Public Engagementhttp://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/explore-it/what-public-engagement



Youtuber Book Covers and Brand Identity, by Alison Lutton:https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/alisonlutton/youtuber-book-covers-and-brand-identity-dhoxss

Medieval Illumination, by Elizabeth MacDonald: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/elliemac/medieval-illumination

Marginaliotate, by Emma Stanford:https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/emmastanfordx/marginaliotate

From the workshop:

Social Humanities: Citizens at Scale in the Digital WorldSocial Media, Citizen Science, and Social Machines

2016



http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2016/workshops/sochums

http://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/dhoxss/2016/workshops/sochums

Today

Politics, practice, practicalities

Message, means, methods

A case study


Why do we do it?

Knowledge Transfer

Knowledge Exchange

Knowledge creation

Citizenship

Moral duty and public good


What’s in it for us?

Impact

CVs

Increased funding possibilities

Conversation, disruption, subversion

Love of our fields

Ludere Humanum EstBodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D



https://twitter.com/pipwillcox/status/489709060443611136





“I’ll use a community if they’ll give me their time, but I only care about making history research better. I don’t want to tell stories or listen to what non-experts think.”

https://twitter.com/pipwillcox/status/489709060443611136Anonymized academic colleague.



Who are we doing it for?

There are 2 types of people


Who are we doing it for?

There are 2 types of people^

more than


Who are we doing it for?The crowd is us. We are the citizens.

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc.165, f.217r

http://bodley30.bodley.ox.ac.uk:8180/luna/servlet/s/w303irBodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D

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What is your project?

What is your community?

Over to you… #1


Time and energy

Funding

Practicalities


Time and energy

Funding

Communication skills

Ethics

Reflection

Credit

Practicalities


Time and energy

Funding

Communication skills

Ethics

Reflection

Credit

…on top of your research

Practicalities


Walking on water

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What are you communicating?

To whom?

Why?

Over to you… #2


As many as there are stories

Ways in, ways through

Let go: people are amazing

Message, means, method

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Revisiting Social Machines


More people

Mor

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e-infrastructure

Online R&D(Science 2.0)

@dder

Big DataBig Compute

Conventional Computation

“Big Social”Social Networks

Social Machines

David De Roure

The Zooniverse

The Great War Archive

Sprint for Shakespeare

EEBO-TCP hackfest

https://www.zooniverse.org/http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwahttp://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

http://blogs.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/digital/2015/04/22/early-english-books-hackfest/Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D

Revisiting Social Machines

https://www.zooniverse.org

https://www.zooniverse.org

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa

http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa

http://shakespeare.bodleian.ox.ac.uk




British Library on Flickr

1,000,000+ images

1 tweet, 1 blog post

170,000,000 hits in 6 months


https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D

https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/


British Library on Flickr

1,000,000+ images

1 tweet, 1 blog post

170,000,000 hits in 6 months


https://www.flickr.com/photos/britishlibrary/http://illustrationarchive.cardiff.ac.uk/ Bodleian Libraries

U N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D



http://illustrationarchive.cardiff.ac.uk

http://illustrationarchive.cardiff.ac.uk

Museums

Schools

Communities


http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/


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Museums

Schools

Communities


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Museums

Schools

Communities


http://www.geffrye-museum.org.uk/http://www.edwardsboys.org/

https://co-curate.ncl.ac.uk/ Bodleian LibrariesU N I V E R S I T Y O F OX F O R D

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How will you reach your audiences?

How will you track success?

How will you sustain your engagement?

What will you do with the data?

Over to you... #3


Expanding engagement: tracking success


UCL

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/public-engagement/evaluation/toolkits/methods

NCCPE

http://www.publicengagement.ac.uk/plan-it/evaluating-public-engagement

Public Engagement Cymru

http://www.assembly.wales/NAfW%20Documents/public_engagement_toolkit_2014.pdf%20-%2007052014/public_engagement_toolkit_2014-English.pdf











Visual and aural impairments

Dyslexia

Multilingualism

Types and degrees of literacy

Access to the Internet

Expanding engagement: open to all?


Time and enthusiasm

Empathy and communication

Community curation

Funding

Sustaining engagement


Iterate

Communicate

Let the crowd lead

Reflective practice

Sustaining engagement


Curate

Co-create

Enjoy

In other words


Curate

Co-create

Enjoy

In other words


People — Information — Tools

Your Public Needs You!


Photograph: Pip Willcox

2016: Beyond the Academy—engagement, education, and exchange

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