Dear MCGers,
It's worth noting this job advertised by UKRI, not only because one of you
might be right for the role, but also because it provides some insight into
the ' five-year multimillion-pound research programme Towards a National
Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World'. From the job ad:
*Towards a National Collection: Opening UK Heritage to the World* will take
the first steps towards creating a unified virtual ‘national collection’.
This multimillion-pound five-year research programme, funded by UKRI and
led by AHRC, will support up to eight two-year foundational collaborative
projects and up to five large-scale discovery research projects (up to £3
million each over three and a half years), each of which will involve
collaborations between UK Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) and AHRC’s
Independent Research Organizations (IROs). The latter include some of the
world’s most celebrated galleries, libraries, archives and museums. The
programme aims to have a transformative impact on:
- Digital search and cataloguing tools for collections, and related
technologies and methodologies
- Research capability: through enhanced researcher access and new
cross-collection search tools, researchers will be able to exploit the
potential of the nation’s research assets in innovative ways, addressing
radically new research questions and thereby maintaining UK global
leadership in inter-disciplinary research
- Public access to and engagement with heritage: the programme will
generate research-driven public-facing outputs, including major new
exhibitions and immersive installations; extend public access beyond
collections’ physical location, nationally and internationally; and
facilitate wider and better-informed public engagement.
The Programme Director role closes on October 24:
https://ahrc.ukri.org/funding/apply-for-funding/current-opportunities/opportunity-for-a-programme-director-for-towards-a-national-collection-opening-uk-heritage-to-the-world/
Cheers,
Mia
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