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'At Home in Scotland: Stories of Place' will address the urgent need for young researchers to communicate their research in an engaging manner to diverse audiences, both within and without the academy, and equip them with vital skills to enable them to pursue their own public engagement initiatives. The project aims to bring doctoral and early career researchers from assorted disciplines within the humanities and social sciences together for specialised training in storytelling skills at the Scottish Storytelling Centre. Within the context of the lead-up to the Scottish Independence referendum in 2014, this project offers a timely intervention for Edinburgh-based researchers to interrogate ideas of ‘home’, ‘nation’, ‘space’ and ‘place’ in their work in the academy, and to use those reflections as a springboard for public engagement.
The project will open with a Symposium at the University exploring the project's core ideas from a variety of perspectives, both academic and not, to provide a discursive framework for the project’s activities. This Symposium, hosted by the Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), will take place on the 9th May 2014.
This will be followed by a storytelling training workshop for approximately 20 PhDs/ECRs facilitated by the Scottish Storytelling Centre. The storytelling workshop attendees will then have the opportunity to put these new skills into action through community outreach workshops, devised and led by the researchers themselves, allowing them to gain valuable public engagement experience. The two different workshops will include local school children, hosted by the University’s Widening Participation Summer school projects, and the elderly, in conjunction with Contact the Elderly.
'At Home in Scotland' gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the University of Edinburgh's Researcher-Led Initiative Fund and School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures' Student-Led Initiative Fund, and the assistance of our collaborative partner, the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
The project will open with a Symposium at the University exploring the project's core ideas from a variety of perspectives, both academic and not, to provide a discursive framework for the project’s activities. This Symposium, hosted by the Institute for the Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH), will take place on the 9th May 2014.
This will be followed by a storytelling training workshop for approximately 20 PhDs/ECRs facilitated by the Scottish Storytelling Centre. The storytelling workshop attendees will then have the opportunity to put these new skills into action through community outreach workshops, devised and led by the researchers themselves, allowing them to gain valuable public engagement experience. The two different workshops will include local school children, hosted by the University’s Widening Participation Summer school projects, and the elderly, in conjunction with Contact the Elderly.
'At Home in Scotland' gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the University of Edinburgh's Researcher-Led Initiative Fund and School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures' Student-Led Initiative Fund, and the assistance of our collaborative partner, the Scottish Storytelling Centre.
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Logo design: Molly Wilson, The Agency
Splash page image credit: Remixed from Ad Meskens's work.
Splash page image credit: Remixed from Ad Meskens's work.
