Engagement Officer (Dialect and Heritage project)
- Employer
- University of Leeds
- Location
- Leeds, United Kingdom
- Salary
- £23,067 to £26,715 p.a.
- Closing date
- Apr 19, 2021
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- Sector
- Science, Agriculture, Aquaculture and Food Science, Fisheries
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organization Type
- University and College
- Jobseeker Type
- Academic (e.g. 'Lecturer')
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Do you have a track record of engaging new audiences for a museum or heritage venue/project?
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, creative and flexible individual to work on a project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund that aims to engage new audiences with collections at the University of Leeds and at five partner museums across England. The partner museums are: Dales Countryside Museum, Ryedale Folk Museum, Weald & Downland Living Museum, Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, and the Museum of East Anglian Life.
You will be based at one of the five partner museums and develop audience engagement programmes and relationships with external organisations who can support you to access new, diverse audiences.
The project centres around the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture (LAVC). The LAVC is a unique and nationally important multi-media archive including the records of the Survey of English Dialects and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies. The collection is housed and accessible at the University of Leeds Special Collections:
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1500/special_collections
The project will digitise the LAVC and make it available, meaningful and relevant to public audiences. The project will marry LAVC resources with partner museums' complementary and contemporaneous artefact collections, putting the LAVC back into the communities from which it was originally collected and where it truly belongs, reuniting tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and breathing new life into museum displays, local heritage, and the LAVC. Public engagement activities with a lasting legacy will enable visitors (within museums, in the community and online) to uncover their own cultural heritage and that of others, to learn more about their dialect inheritance, and to share their stories, memories and linguistic heritage for the benefit of current and future generations.
You will be managed by the Project Manager who is based at the University of Leeds, School of English, but you will be a key part of your museum team, working closely with all your colleagues there as well as with your fellow Engagement Officers in the other four partner museums.
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
Dr Sarah Hughes, Project Manager
Email: S.L.Hughes@leeds.ac.uk
This is an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic, creative and flexible individual to work on a project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund that aims to engage new audiences with collections at the University of Leeds and at five partner museums across England. The partner museums are: Dales Countryside Museum, Ryedale Folk Museum, Weald & Downland Living Museum, Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, and the Museum of East Anglian Life.
You will be based at one of the five partner museums and develop audience engagement programmes and relationships with external organisations who can support you to access new, diverse audiences.
The project centres around the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture (LAVC). The LAVC is a unique and nationally important multi-media archive including the records of the Survey of English Dialects and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies. The collection is housed and accessible at the University of Leeds Special Collections:
https://library.leeds.ac.uk/info/1500/special_collections
The project will digitise the LAVC and make it available, meaningful and relevant to public audiences. The project will marry LAVC resources with partner museums' complementary and contemporaneous artefact collections, putting the LAVC back into the communities from which it was originally collected and where it truly belongs, reuniting tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and breathing new life into museum displays, local heritage, and the LAVC. Public engagement activities with a lasting legacy will enable visitors (within museums, in the community and online) to uncover their own cultural heritage and that of others, to learn more about their dialect inheritance, and to share their stories, memories and linguistic heritage for the benefit of current and future generations.
You will be managed by the Project Manager who is based at the University of Leeds, School of English, but you will be a key part of your museum team, working closely with all your colleagues there as well as with your fellow Engagement Officers in the other four partner museums.
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
Dr Sarah Hughes, Project Manager
Email: S.L.Hughes@leeds.ac.uk
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