We are delighted to announce that we have some funding available to support the travel costs of early career professionals and researchers who would like to attend the project’s Research and/as Engagement workshop in September.

As one of the overall aims of the project is to foster collaboration across the educational and cultural sectors, these bursaries are not restricted by sector/affiliation. However, we would like to direct funding to those coming from areas of the country that are remote from Edinburgh, to those early in their career, or to those who would otherwise find travel costs prohibitive. To request support please contact Dr Tara Thomson at Tara.Thomson@ed.ac.uk.

The workshop aims to consider the overlaps between digital research and public engagement: to what extent do digital humanities projects, often collaborative processes conducted on-line and in public, lend themselves to innovative forms of audience engagement? And what are the implications of this overlap for researchers and collections? It features invited speakers who have led successful cross-over research/engagement projects and explore specific ways in which projects can be designed to maximise and capitalise on public engagement. Full details are available on this site, along with details of previous events and participating institutions are also hosted there.

The programme for our September event is almost complete.

The final workshop will be a more practically focused event addressing our final research question and designed in response to the first two sessions. We will invite speakers that have led successful cross-over projects and together we will explore specific ways in which the kinds of research project ideas explored in sessions one and two might be usefully thought of in terms of public engagement and how this might affect their design.

Please get in touch with the team if you would like to be kept informed of developments with this project.

In September 2014, we will host a third and final event for this project on the topic ‘Research as Engagement.’ This event will be a more practically focused workshop designed in response to the first two sessions and focused on exploring specific ways in which digital research projects might be usefully thought of in terms of public engagement, and how this might affect their design. Further details will be posted here as the date draws nearer.