***apologies for cross-posting***

 

 

DISCOVERING COLLECTIONS, DISCOVERING COMMUNITIES 2016: REGISTRATION REMINDER!

 

What: Collections, connections, collaborations: From potential to impact.

 

When: 10^th-12^th October 2016

 

Where: The Lowry, Pier 8, Salford Quays, Manchester, M50 3AZ

 

Cost: £50 full conference/£30 day-rate (please note booking fees apply).

 

Full programme: http://dcdcconference.com/dcdc16-programme/

 

Registration: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dcdc16-collections-connections-collaborations-from-potential-to-impact-tickets-25978450244

 

It is now less than two months before registration closes for Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities 2016 – Collections, connections, collaborations: From potential to impact. The National Archives and Research Libraries UK are delighted to once again be jointly holding this exciting collaborative conference at The Lowry, Salford Quays, to bring together professionals from across the archive, academic, cultural, and heritage sectors.

 

Conference video now available: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN7XbBQCmyU

 

In the last decade, notions of impact have risen to the forefront of discourse and debate within the heritage, research, and academic sectors. As budgets across the heritage sector have retracted, organisations of every size and shape have had to review their working practices, and look at qualifying and quantifying the impact of their collections and activities, and their relation to wider social, cultural and economic agendas.

 

Simultaneously, academics, research bodies, and universities are actively considering the social, cultural and economic impact of their research, and are exploring innovative ways through which this can be demonstrated, as a part of the Research Excellence Framework (REF). Heritage and cultural organisations have shown themselves as valuable partners in the achievement, dissemination, and demonstration of impact for academic research, not as passive “routes to market”, but as valuable co-creators.

 

This year’s conference will bring together more than 70 speakers to discuss these issues and explore the varied and innovative ways in which archives, museums, libraries, and academia can help realise the potential of collections and translate this into social, cultural, and economic impact. Keynote speakers include:

• Nicola Wright (Director of LSE Library Services)
• Professor Carenza Lewis (Professor for the Public Understanding of Research, University of Lincoln).
• Phil Lyons (CEO, National Holocaust Centre and Museum)

There will also be a pre-conference reception at The Lowry on the Monday evening and on Tuesday the conference dinner will be held in the spectacular surroundings of the Imperial War Museum North.

 

So please join us for what will be a fascinating two and a half-days of discussion, debate and networking.

 

For further details please contact [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]

 

 

Dr Laura Tompkins | Academic Engagement Manager | 

The National Archives, Kew, Richmond, Surrey TW9 4DU

Sign up for our research newsletter

 

Please don't print this e-mail unless you really need to.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------

 
National Archives Disclaimer
 
This email and any files transmitted with it are intended solely for the use of the 
individual(s) to whom they are addressed. If you are not the intended recipient and 
have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete the email. 
Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message and attachments that do 
not relate to the official business of The National Archives are neither given nor 
endorsed by it.


------------------------------------------------------------------------------------