IMC 2010: Sessions
Session 1427: Impact to Society and Learning from the Past - A Round Table Discussion
Wednesday 14 July 2010, 19.30-20.30
| Sponsor: | Wellcome Trust |
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| Organiser: | Iona McCleery, Institute for Medieval Studies / School of History, University of Leeds |
| Moderator/Chair: | Axel E. W. Müller, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds |
| Abstract | Increasingly Research Councils are requesting that research funded through them shows evidence of impact to society. This round table discussion is based on a Wellcome-funded knowledge transfer project on medieval food and nutrition. It is intended to produce workshops, talks, exhibitions, and festival stalls. This project has raised a number of generic questions which would benefit discussion in a wider context, such as: • how to create a wide audience for research by developing contacts with schools and communities, going out onto the street at fairs and festivals, and promoting such projects in the media, • how to encourage public debate and personal reflection about present-day habits through exploration of the choices of the past, focusing on specific needs of different social and cultural groups, including children, • how to bring together archaeologists, heritage officers, historians, teachers and scientists to deliver talks, exhibitions, schools workshops and cooking demonstrations. Participants include Alex Bamji (University of Leeds), Julie Kerr (University of St Andrews), Paul Lay (History Today), David Musgrove (BBC History Magazine), Vicky Shearman (Wakefield Council), and Caroline S. Yeldham (Independent Scholar, Stevenage). |