by aseifert | Mar 27, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Bloomsbury Festival in a Box, Public Engagement
It’s the Bloomsbury fair, not the Bloomsbury Festival!’ Such was the reaction of one of my research participants upon our arriving at her flat with the Bloomsbury ‘Festival in a Box’ a couple of weeks ago. This participant is now in her late nineties and has lived in...
by aseifert | Mar 25, 2014 | Digital, Events, Graduate Study, Training and Research
For the last year the Institute of Historical Research has been working with the Humanities Research Institute (University of Sheffield) and the Department of History (University of Hull) to improve data management skills for History postgraduates and early career...
by aseifert | Mar 19, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Human Rights, Interviews, Training and Research
We recently joined Dr Damien Short, Director of the Human Rights Consortium (HRC) and a Senior Lecturer in Human Rights at the School of Advanced Study, to discuss the renowned MA in Understanding and Securing Human Rights. In a world facing the potential ‘perfect...
by aseifert | Mar 13, 2014 | Analysis & Comment, Libraries & Publications
In a major piece of research facilitation, IES Associate Fellow Dr Karen Attar is editing the third edition of the Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland for CILIP’s Rare Books and Special Collections Group. The...
by aseifert | Mar 11, 2014 | Digital, Events, The Social Scholar
In general, Museums have taken to social media with the ultimate goal to engage the public with their objects and collections. The purpose is foot-fall; the more people that walk through the doors of the museum the better. Social media helps to promote the...
