Iron Age and Roman Heritage: exploring ancient identities in modern Britain (IA&RH)
Lead Research Organisation:
Durham University
Department Name: Archaeology
Abstract
We are proposing to conduct research and to exchange knowledge with stakeholders in order to understand how ideas and materials derived from the Iron Age and Roman past (c. 700 BC to AD 400) are drawn upon today in England, Scotland and Wales.
Powerful ideas about European cultural origin stemming from the writings of classical authors who drew a distinction between 'civilization' and 'barbarism' have been used to contrast native peoples with Roman invaders. In Britain concepts of civilization and barbarism have influenced how people understand the extent and character of the territories that make up the UK, the origins of their inhabitants and how they relate to people from overseas. The Iron Age and Roman periods are highly popular in present-day Britain as demonstrated, for example, by the frequency and interest with which important archaeological discoveries are communicated via newspapers, magazines, television, films (e.g. 'Centurion' and 'The Eagle') and novels. Community projects focusing on the Iron Age are addressing themes such as housing and sustainable ways of living, while the Roman past offers opportunities for considering military identity, concepts of civilisation and multicultural origins (see the visual evidence). Ancient monuments dating to these periods and the museums that display them are popular visitor attractions. Re-enacting, metal-detecting and taking part in archaeological projects are generating new and relevant forms of knowledge.
Academic research on the Iron Age and Roman past in the UK is widely recognised across Europe and America for its excellence, but, until now, the exploration of meaning in the past has often been distanced from the interests and concerns of the broader public (Hingley 2015). This project offers the new perspective of studying the living meaning of Iron Age and Roman materials and ideas by examining the creative and variable ways in which stakeholders incorporate the past into their researches, performances and actions. We will also unpick the values of heritage that are specific to the Iron Age and Roman pasts from those that are not. Our methodologies will allow access to significant new bodies of information both online and offline.
We will communicate our findings in order to challenge the divisions that currently separate the interests of stakeholders, including (but not limited to) academic archaeologists, heritage managers, re-enactors, visitors to ancient monuments and teachers. We intend to promote our work by developing existing contacts with researchers and practitioners in archaeology, heritage and museums nationally and internationally. Drawing upon the project team's connections, we will exchange knowledge of our results through digital means, conferences, and publications.
Powerful ideas about European cultural origin stemming from the writings of classical authors who drew a distinction between 'civilization' and 'barbarism' have been used to contrast native peoples with Roman invaders. In Britain concepts of civilization and barbarism have influenced how people understand the extent and character of the territories that make up the UK, the origins of their inhabitants and how they relate to people from overseas. The Iron Age and Roman periods are highly popular in present-day Britain as demonstrated, for example, by the frequency and interest with which important archaeological discoveries are communicated via newspapers, magazines, television, films (e.g. 'Centurion' and 'The Eagle') and novels. Community projects focusing on the Iron Age are addressing themes such as housing and sustainable ways of living, while the Roman past offers opportunities for considering military identity, concepts of civilisation and multicultural origins (see the visual evidence). Ancient monuments dating to these periods and the museums that display them are popular visitor attractions. Re-enacting, metal-detecting and taking part in archaeological projects are generating new and relevant forms of knowledge.
Academic research on the Iron Age and Roman past in the UK is widely recognised across Europe and America for its excellence, but, until now, the exploration of meaning in the past has often been distanced from the interests and concerns of the broader public (Hingley 2015). This project offers the new perspective of studying the living meaning of Iron Age and Roman materials and ideas by examining the creative and variable ways in which stakeholders incorporate the past into their researches, performances and actions. We will also unpick the values of heritage that are specific to the Iron Age and Roman pasts from those that are not. Our methodologies will allow access to significant new bodies of information both online and offline.
We will communicate our findings in order to challenge the divisions that currently separate the interests of stakeholders, including (but not limited to) academic archaeologists, heritage managers, re-enactors, visitors to ancient monuments and teachers. We intend to promote our work by developing existing contacts with researchers and practitioners in archaeology, heritage and museums nationally and internationally. Drawing upon the project team's connections, we will exchange knowledge of our results through digital means, conferences, and publications.
Planned Impact
The project will provide benefits for:
POLICY-MAKERS AND FUNDERS IN THE HERITAGE SECTOR (Historic England, Cadw, Historic Scotland, HLF, AHRC, etc.). Policy is gradually moving away from a narrow focus on conservation toward a greater appreciation of the importance of cultural heritage to individuals and communities (e.g. JPI 2014). Research has explored the cultural value of urban and industrial landscapes but approaches regarding ancient monuments generally remain focused on protection. This would seem to be a particularly timely opportunity to influence policy with the creation of English Heritage/Historic England. The perspectives and materials to be developed (Outputs 9, 11) will build upon PI's experience from the 'Tales of the Frontier' project (Hingley 2012), and on the work the present team have undertaken on digital heritage and ethnography.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND HERITAGE MANAGERS WORKING IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS. We will communicate a more coordinated and nuanced interpretation of IA&RH that can be drawn upon at monuments and museums. Only limited research has been undertaken to examine the ways that these places interpret the past, we intend to provide academic support for the development of future initiatives (Outputs 6, 9-10).
ARCHAEOLOGISTS WORKING IN LOCAL MUSEUMS, COUNCILS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL UNITS INVOLVED WITH COMMUNITY PROJECTS either in a managing role or as advisors. There is relatively little synthetic research that addresses the community initiatives funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund or other organizations including AHRC. A set of archaeological guidelines (HLF 2013) focuses on excavation and recording only. This study will provide a fuller assessment of the contributions made by community groups to archaeology which should help justify the resources and to communicate the important role of archaeologists (Output 10).
COMMUNITY GROUPS AND DIGITAL COMMUNITIES with an interest in IA&RH. A number of community projects draw upon archaeological research, (re)construction and living history and we will provide a more informed understanding of the range and character of such work (Output 10). This should help to support the growth of new and existing communities initiatives offline and online (Output 7).
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO VISIT IA&RH places (ancient monuments, open-air museums and museums). Output 9 will be freely available on the Internet that will itemize, communicate and interpret places in public ownership and the range of values that stakeholders attribute to these.
STORYTELLERS, RE-ENACTORS, DRUIDS AND PAGANS. Archaeologists are often critical of the heritage created by these groups, but by taking a more open approach we seek to communicate and promote a coordinated agenda that draws upon their activities and attitudes to create a broader range of concepts of heritage (Outputs 5-11).
TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS who teach the IA and Roman past can currently draw upon a range of digital sources, some of which are free of charge and others not. We will provide a synthesis of these data sets and will emphasize the importance of IA&RH in school education (archaeology currently remains fairly marginal to the curriculum). The potential to address issues of mobility and frontiers is clearly indicated by existing teaching packs and community projects and we aim to provide an academic context for the educational themes by exploring the potential of IA and Roman places (Output 8).
DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS working in the heritage and museum sectors. The digital technologies and online platforms that we seek to develop (Outputs 3, 7) aim to provide models for future research.
POLICY-MAKERS AND FUNDERS IN THE HERITAGE SECTOR (Historic England, Cadw, Historic Scotland, HLF, AHRC, etc.). Policy is gradually moving away from a narrow focus on conservation toward a greater appreciation of the importance of cultural heritage to individuals and communities (e.g. JPI 2014). Research has explored the cultural value of urban and industrial landscapes but approaches regarding ancient monuments generally remain focused on protection. This would seem to be a particularly timely opportunity to influence policy with the creation of English Heritage/Historic England. The perspectives and materials to be developed (Outputs 9, 11) will build upon PI's experience from the 'Tales of the Frontier' project (Hingley 2012), and on the work the present team have undertaken on digital heritage and ethnography.
ARCHAEOLOGISTS AND HERITAGE MANAGERS WORKING IN LOCAL AND NATIONAL MUSEUMS AND OPEN-AIR MUSEUMS. We will communicate a more coordinated and nuanced interpretation of IA&RH that can be drawn upon at monuments and museums. Only limited research has been undertaken to examine the ways that these places interpret the past, we intend to provide academic support for the development of future initiatives (Outputs 6, 9-10).
ARCHAEOLOGISTS WORKING IN LOCAL MUSEUMS, COUNCILS AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL UNITS INVOLVED WITH COMMUNITY PROJECTS either in a managing role or as advisors. There is relatively little synthetic research that addresses the community initiatives funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund or other organizations including AHRC. A set of archaeological guidelines (HLF 2013) focuses on excavation and recording only. This study will provide a fuller assessment of the contributions made by community groups to archaeology which should help justify the resources and to communicate the important role of archaeologists (Output 10).
COMMUNITY GROUPS AND DIGITAL COMMUNITIES with an interest in IA&RH. A number of community projects draw upon archaeological research, (re)construction and living history and we will provide a more informed understanding of the range and character of such work (Output 10). This should help to support the growth of new and existing communities initiatives offline and online (Output 7).
MEMBERS OF THE PUBLIC WHO VISIT IA&RH places (ancient monuments, open-air museums and museums). Output 9 will be freely available on the Internet that will itemize, communicate and interpret places in public ownership and the range of values that stakeholders attribute to these.
STORYTELLERS, RE-ENACTORS, DRUIDS AND PAGANS. Archaeologists are often critical of the heritage created by these groups, but by taking a more open approach we seek to communicate and promote a coordinated agenda that draws upon their activities and attitudes to create a broader range of concepts of heritage (Outputs 5-11).
TEACHERS IN SCHOOLS who teach the IA and Roman past can currently draw upon a range of digital sources, some of which are free of charge and others not. We will provide a synthesis of these data sets and will emphasize the importance of IA&RH in school education (archaeology currently remains fairly marginal to the curriculum). The potential to address issues of mobility and frontiers is clearly indicated by existing teaching packs and community projects and we aim to provide an academic context for the educational themes by exploring the potential of IA and Roman places (Output 8).
DIGITAL ENGAGEMENT PRACTITIONERS working in the heritage and museum sectors. The digital technologies and online platforms that we seek to develop (Outputs 3, 7) aim to provide models for future research.
Publications
Bonacchi C
(2021)
Heritage-based tribalism in Big Data ecologies: Deploying origin myths for antagonistic othering
in Big Data & Society
Bonacchi C
(2019)
Digital heritage research re-theorised: ontologies and epistemologies in a world of big data
in International Journal of Heritage Studies
Bonacchi C
(2018)
Public archaeology cannot just 'fly at dusk': the reality and complexities of generating public impact
in Antiquity
Bonacchi C
(2021)
Heritage transformations
in Big Data & Society
Bonacchi C
(2016)
Exploring Ancient Identities in Modern Britain
in Archaeology International
Bonacchi C
(2018)
The heritage of Brexit: Roles of the past in the construction of political identities through social media
in Journal of Social Archaeology
Bonacchi Chiara
(2022)
Heritage and Nationalism: Understanding Populism Through Big Data
Bonacchi, C
Heritage-based tribalism in big data ecologies: deploying origin myths for antagonistic othering (accepted)
in Big data & Society
| Title | Introductory article on Boudica for the programme for Tristan Bernays' play Boudica, performed at the Globe Theatre, London, in the Autumn of 2017 |
| Description | An introductory article to explain the role of Boudica in history, politics and art. This is one of two articles that form an introduction to the conference programme for the play on Boudica by Tristan Bernays, performed in the Globe Theatre, London, in October 2017 |
| Type Of Art | Artistic/Creative Exhibition |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Impact | Helping inform the audience to this popular play about the life and reception of Boudica, including her reception as part of Brexit. |
| Description | The funding for our project ran for 3 years and 3 months and commenced in July 2016, ending in November 2019. The CI working on digital heritage was appointed at the start (Chiara Bonacchi). The PDRA undertaking the ethnographic work was appointed in October 2016 (Dr Kate Sharpe). Bonacchi moved to a lecture in Archaeology in Stirling in 2018, but was still employed full time on the project until the completion of the contract. We organised a workshop at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference in March 2017 and sessions at the European Archaeological Association in September 2017 and September 2019. A third session for the European Archaeological Association Conference 2020 was accepted but cancelled as a result of Covid19. We have also presented at a variety of other venues, including in Rome, Como, Aarhus, Heidelberg and Dublin, and undertaken several pieces of ethnographic fieldwork, including at Vindolanda, the Scottish Crannog Centre, Butser Ancient Farm, Hengistbury Head, the Museum of the Iron Age, the Ancient Technology Centre and Castell Henllys. We have a number of articles already published (including significant outputs in the journals Britannia, Antiquity and Journal of Social Archaeology, with an additional article in press in Public Archaeology). Work on the final monographs and other outputs has progressing generally on target. Three monographs are undergoing referring and a fourth is well underway. The research has been deeply rewarding and also challenging. The digital heritage research indicates the fundamental role of certain images derived from Britain's Iron Age and Roman past (e.g. 'Boudica, Hadrian's Wall, the Average Romano-British family') in current political debate. The ethnographic fieldwork has provided insights into how public heritage venues are brought to life through living history and the disengagement of academic and professional archaeologists from these practices. In particular, it has highlighted the needs of school teachers and open-air museums for additional guidance on how to teach the Iron Age. We have a Follow-on Funding application under review to pursue further impact in this area. We have commented 'yes' below as we met most of our original objectives at the time of the completion of the award and because outputs in press will meet the additional objectives. |
| Exploitation Route | The digital aspect of the project on the website noted above is actively seeking input from anyone that wishes to contribute. We have desiged the research through discussion with heritage practitioners in national heritage agencies, museums and open-air museums, and with teachers and educatiors, to ensure that our results are of value and to arrange access to audiences. We have talked to educational practitioners to incorporate their perspectives into the project outputs and also additional outcomes. We organised a conference with Tullie House Museum in 2019 and also provided specialist input into the redevelopment of their Prehistory Gallery. Relevant information is included in outputs from the project. |
| Sectors | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections,Retail |
| URL | https://ancientidentities.stir.ac.uk |
| Description | We have gained interest from a large number of partner organisations that we are involving in this research, including Historic Environment Scotland, English Heritage, Historic England, Cadw, the British Museum, The National Museum of Scotland, the National Museum of Wales, Vindolanda Roman Museum, the Hadrian's Wall Management Plan Partnership Group, Butser Ancient Farm, Castell Henllys, The Museum of the Iron Age, Tullie House Museum, the Ancient Technology Centre and Utrecht University. We have also undertaken substantial international networking resulting into potential future extensions of research in countries including Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Serbia, Spain and Jordan. Some of these projects have also built upon the results of the earlier AHRC-funded project 'Tales of the Frontier'. We have been working to build upon and extend these contacts in our further work now the funding for the award has been completed. In particular, Hingley has a major input into the developing agenda for the English-Scottish borders that is being directed though the Hadrian's Wall World Heritage Management Plan Committee (with additional input to the Borderlands Initiative). We have now completed a highly-successful follow-on project running with AHRC funding (PI Dr Chiara Bonacchi) which has built directly upon the contacts made during the initial funded project and this is creating more substantial impact upon non-academic partners. |
| First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
| Sector | Creative Economy,Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software),Education,Leisure Activities, including Sports, Recreation and Tourism,Government, Democracy and Justice,Culture, Heritage, Museums and Collections |
| Impact Types | Cultural,Societal,Economic |
| Description | Desk review on Frontiers of the Roman Empire - The Lower German Limes, nominated for inscription on the 2021 World Heritage List. Request to Professor Richard Hingley from ICOMOS |
| Geographic Reach | Europe |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | Experts are selected to assess the documents produced as cases for World Heritage Site inscription and I was asked by ICOMOS to undertake this review because of my research interests in the Roman Frontiers and also as a result of my input into the management of Hadrian's Wall. These aspects of my academic portfolio were partly a result of the running of the Tales of the Frontier project that AHRC funded. I had previously undertaken a desk review for another section of the Roman Frontiers in central Europe (in 2019). |
| URL | https://www.icomos.org/en |
| Description | Dr Chiara Bonacchi participated in the expert workshop organized by the AHRC, Heritage Futures, the Alan Turing Institute and the British Library on 'Heritage Data', British Library, UK.Participation on the potential of big data for research in the GLAM sector. |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Policy Influence Type | Participation in a guidance/advisory committee |
| Impact | A number of points relating to crowdsourcing and social media data mining were raised and informed the conversation and report - these points derived from research undertaken as part of the MicroPasts and Ancient Identities Today projects. |
| Description | Richard Hingley has been asked to join the Bratislava Committee. The international committee of academic experts that advises on the Frontiers of the Roan Empire World Heritage Site. |
| Geographic Reach | Multiple continents/international |
| Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
| Impact | The Bratislava group has existed for several decades to advise on the Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site. Because of my involvement in Hadrian's Wall and the developing heritage related work arising from Ancient Identities (which also addresses Hadrian's Wall), I was asked in September 2018 to join this committee, which advises on World Heritage policy for this expanding site (across Europe and the Mediterranean) |
| URL | http://limescroatia.eu/the-bratislava-group/ |
| Description | AHRC CDP |
| Amount | £75,000 (GBP) |
| Funding ID | TBC with AHRC |
| Organisation | Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC) |
| Sector | Public |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 10/2021 |
| End | 09/2024 |
| Description | Narratives of Roman Scotland in the Digital Age |
| Amount | £7,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | Royal Society of Edinburgh (RSE) |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2021 |
| End | 12/2021 |
| Description | UCL Global Engagement Fund |
| Amount | £2,000 (GBP) |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Start | 01/2017 |
| End | 07/2017 |
| Title | Iron Age and Roman Community Projects funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund in England, Scotland and Wales |
| Description | Iron Age and Roman Community Projects funded by the National Heritage Lottery Fund in England, Scotland and Wales (up to March 2020), Ancient Identities Output [2020, version 2]. The document has been produced as part of the AHRC-funded project Ancient Identities in Modern Britain (2016-2019). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not clear yet, waiting for citation |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Iron_Age_and_Roman_Community_Projects_funded_by_the_National_Heritage_... |
| Title | Iron Age and Roman ancient monuments and open-air museums that are available to visit in England, Scotland and Wales, Ancient Identities Output [2019] |
| Description | This document provides information about the archaeological venues of Iron Age and Roman date that can be visited across the UK (with the exception of Northern Ireland which was not part of the Ancient Identities project). The document has been produced as part of the AHRC-funded project Ancient Identities in Modern Britain (2016-2019). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not clear yet, waiting for citations |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Iron_Age_and_Roman_ancient_monuments_and_open-air_museums_that_are_ava... |
| Title | Iron Age/Celtic re-enactment groups |
| Description | Iron Age/Celtic re-enactment groups: This information is derived from a search on the Internet using Google in May 2015 and July 2017 and was updated in March 2020. It has focused on groups of re-enactors rather than attempting to list the many individuals and groups who undertake living-history activities focusing on the Iron Age. The document has been produced as part of the AHRC-funded project Ancient Identities in Modern Britain (2016-2019). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not clear yet, waiting for citation |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Iron_Age_Celtic_re-enactment_groups/12807296 |
| Title | Roman re-enactment groups in Britain |
| Description | Roman reenactment groups in Britain: Information derived from list given by Historic UK (2017) and research on the Internet in August 2017 and March 2020. Groups that remain active are indicated in bold. The document has been produced as part of the AHRC-funded project Ancient Identities in Modern Britain (2016-2019). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not clear yet, waiting for citations |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Roman_re-enactment_groups_in_Britain/12807368/1 |
| Title | Selected web links for Key Stage 2 educational activities and resources for the Iron Age and Roman periods |
| Description | Selected web links for Key Stage 2 educational activities and resources for the Iron Age and Roman periods (As available, November 2018). The document has been produced as part of the AHRC-funded project Ancient Identities in Modern Britain (2016-2019). |
| Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
| Year Produced | 2020 |
| Provided To Others? | Yes |
| Impact | Not clear yet, waiting for citations |
| URL | https://figshare.com/articles/Selected_web_links_for_Key_Stage_2_educational_activities_and_resource... |
| Description | Academic input into the design of the new Prehistory Gallery at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle, 2019 |
| Organisation | Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Charity/Non Profit |
| PI Contribution | Kate Sharpe provided professional input into the contents of the material displayed in the new Prehistory Gallery at the Tullie House Museum in October 2019. She also organised a conference at Tullie House Museum which formed part of the advertising of the new Gallery (Northern Prehistory: connecting communities). |
| Collaborator Contribution | Input into the artefacts displayed in the Museum and advice on their interpretation. Organisation of a conference on the Prehistory of Cumbria which helped to scope and contextualise this initiative. |
| Impact | Input into the Prehistory Gallery when it opens |
| Start Year | 2019 |
| Description | Heritage Crowdsourcing |
| Organisation | British Museum |
| Department | Digital and Publishing |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Public |
| PI Contribution | Dr Chiara Bonacchi has been working with other members of the MicroPasts team (Daniel Pett, British Museum; Andy Bevan UCL Institute of Archaeology) and the crowdsourcing development company SciFabric on the creation of new crowdsourcing templates that will be used as part of the Ancient Identities Today project. MicroPasts is an AHRC-funded project that is still ongoing as a collaboration between the British Museum and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Dr Bonacchi enriched the MicroPasts crowdsourcing website with new kinds of heritage crowdsourcing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Daniel Pett, Andy Bevan and SciFabric supported Chiara Bonacchi in the technical development and review of the new heritage crowdsourcing templates. |
| Impact | As a result of this collaboration a number of new templates for heritage crowdsourcing were developed. These templates will be used for the Ancient Identities Today project. However, they have also been shared and made available for download and re-use via the project GitHub account: https://github.com/IARHeritages. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Heritage Crowdsourcing |
| Organisation | SciFabric |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Private |
| PI Contribution | Dr Chiara Bonacchi has been working with other members of the MicroPasts team (Daniel Pett, British Museum; Andy Bevan UCL Institute of Archaeology) and the crowdsourcing development company SciFabric on the creation of new crowdsourcing templates that will be used as part of the Ancient Identities Today project. MicroPasts is an AHRC-funded project that is still ongoing as a collaboration between the British Museum and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Dr Bonacchi enriched the MicroPasts crowdsourcing website with new kinds of heritage crowdsourcing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Daniel Pett, Andy Bevan and SciFabric supported Chiara Bonacchi in the technical development and review of the new heritage crowdsourcing templates. |
| Impact | As a result of this collaboration a number of new templates for heritage crowdsourcing were developed. These templates will be used for the Ancient Identities Today project. However, they have also been shared and made available for download and re-use via the project GitHub account: https://github.com/IARHeritages. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Heritage Crowdsourcing |
| Organisation | University College London |
| Department | Institute of Archaeology |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | Dr Chiara Bonacchi has been working with other members of the MicroPasts team (Daniel Pett, British Museum; Andy Bevan UCL Institute of Archaeology) and the crowdsourcing development company SciFabric on the creation of new crowdsourcing templates that will be used as part of the Ancient Identities Today project. MicroPasts is an AHRC-funded project that is still ongoing as a collaboration between the British Museum and the UCL Institute of Archaeology. Dr Bonacchi enriched the MicroPasts crowdsourcing website with new kinds of heritage crowdsourcing. |
| Collaborator Contribution | Daniel Pett, Andy Bevan and SciFabric supported Chiara Bonacchi in the technical development and review of the new heritage crowdsourcing templates. |
| Impact | As a result of this collaboration a number of new templates for heritage crowdsourcing were developed. These templates will be used for the Ancient Identities Today project. However, they have also been shared and made available for download and re-use via the project GitHub account: https://github.com/IARHeritages. |
| Start Year | 2016 |
| Description | Membership of the working group for a project investigating the legacy of the Roman Limes (Frontiers) in the Netherlands |
| Organisation | Utrecht University |
| Country | Netherlands |
| Sector | Academic/University |
| PI Contribution | The project director asked me to join the academic advisory group for this project as a result of my input into previous research on the Roman frontiers in Britain, research that I developed through the AHRC-funded projects Tales of the Frontier and Ancient Identities. |
| Collaborator Contribution | This project is run by my partners with a major research grant from the National Science Agenda. My involvement is advisory only. |
| Impact | None yet |
| Start Year | 2020 |
| Title | Crowdsourcing templates |
| Description | Crowdsourcing templates to support content analysis. These are available on the Ancient Identities Today GitHub account, together with other research software developed (i.e. scrapers). |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2016 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | NA Software has just been developed and impact will be reported in future. |
| URL | https://github.com/IARHeritages |
| Title | Software developed for the article: Bonacchi, C, Krzyzanska, M (2021) Heritage-based tribalism in Big Data Ecologies. Big Data & Society |
| Description | Software developed for the article: Bonacchi, C, Krzyzanska, M (2021) Heritage-based tribalism in Big Data Ecologies. Big Data & Society This repository is a supplement to the paper Human origins and antagonistic othering: a study of heritage-based tribalism on Twitter. It contains the codes used for data collection and analysis, carried out using Mongo Database, R and Python |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2021 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | This repository describes the workflow used in the paper, which consists of: Data collection and processing Summary statistics Links analysis Impact tweets extraction Topic modelling Boundary markers |
| URL | https://github.com/IARHeritages/HeritageTribalism_BigData |
| Title | Software for text extraction and analysis |
| Description | Software for text extraction and analysis, including workflows to handle big data sets extracted from social media |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2017 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Presenting workflows to handle big data sets, extracting them from social media and analysing them to examine public perceptions of the past. This kind of software was not available previously, although it builds on existing libraries and packages developed in R and Python. |
| URL | https://github.com/IARHeritages |
| Title | The Heritage of Brexit |
| Description | Bespoke research software developed to undertake research on the Heritage of Brexit. Programming languages: R, Python. |
| Type Of Technology | Software |
| Year Produced | 2018 |
| Open Source License? | Yes |
| Impact | Re-use for research about uses of the ancient past in social media political activism, drawning on big data. |
| Description | 'Archeologia e comunicazione' (Archaeology and Communication). Keynote given by Dr Chiara Bonacchi for the Workshop 'Archeologia e comunita': una stratigrafia di relezioni' (Archaeology and communities: a statigraphy of relations', given on 19/12/17 at IULM University, Milan, Italy. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | A lecture where both MicroPasts and the Ancient Identities Today projects featured prominently. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Data for Heritage', session at Mozilla Festival (Mozfest, Festival of the Free Internet), organised by Dr Chiara Bonacchi in London. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 'Data for Heritage', session at Mozilla Festival (Mozfest, Festival of the Free Internet), organised by Dr Chiara Bonacchi in London. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 'European Heritage and political identities in the age of digital post-truths', Seminar for the Cultural Heritage Europe Network given on 03/10/17 by Dr Chiara Bonacchi and Marta Krzyzanska, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | more than 50 between students, researchers and practitioners were reached. Learned about the first analysis of the role of the past in the Brexit vote and the first to use big data to analyse public perceptions about the past. Students particularly asked for guidance and help to support their work in digital heritage, having been inspired by the presentation. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Heritage, online political activism and the deconstruction of European identities', Research seminar given by Dr Chiara Bonacchi on 15/11/2017, for the Research Seminar Series, Archaeology Department, Durham University, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Reached about 50 people. Reported increased interest in Digital Heritage at Durham Archaeology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Public perceptions of the past, political identities and the impact of expert practices: From the Iron Age to Brexit'. Seminar given by Dr Chiara Bonacchi on 27/11/2017, for the Research Seminar Series, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Research seminar, attracted about 50 people and led to exchanges on the subject. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'Rome keeps on falling'. Lecture given on 13/12/17 by Dr Chiara Bonacchi, as Guest Speaker at Digging into the Dark Ages: The University of Chester Archaeology Student Conference, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Undergraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk that drew on research undertaken as part of the Ancient Identities Today project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 'The British past in Brexit debates on social media: Uses and meanings', presentation given by Dr Chiara Bonacchi on 05/05/17, for the workshop Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage: reflections and agendas, UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Reached 40-50 people talking about the role of the past and heritage experts in Brexit-related discussion. Steered reflection amongst practitioners on their social role. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | 01/12/2022 Heritage and Nationalism: Social heritage via social media big data, research seminar for the York Digital Archaeology and Heritage Lunch series, University of York (online). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | About 10 PG students learnt about the digital methods applied in the Ancient Identities and Tolerant Futures projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 03-04/03/2022 Digital materialities in heritage making: disruptions and interventions, invited talk for the conference on Disruptive Materials, University of Trømso. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | About 40 academics, PG students and practitioners engaged with the talk and reported change in knowledge and understanding. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 09/06/2022 Heritage and Nationalism: understanding populism through big data, invited lecture, Norwegian Institute for Cultural Heritage (NIKU), Oslo. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Norwegian and other international colleagues engaged with the talk "(about 30) and reported interest and learning, and the desire to explore future collaborations. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 09/11/18 talk: 'The Roman Past in Social Media Discourse about the UK-Mexican Border', Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies (London, UK). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 09/11/18 talk: 'The Roman Past in Social Media Discourse about the UK-Mexican Border', Institute of Classical Studies, School of Advanced Studies (London, UK). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 11/02/19 talk: 'Heritage, Nationalism and Online Political Activism', Digital Scholarship Centre, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 11/02/19 'Heritage, Nationalism and Online Political Activism', Digital Scholarship Centre, University of Edinburgh (Edinburgh, UK). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 15/01/19 'Re-thinking digital heritage research: practices, epistemologies and ethics', York Heritage Research Seminars, University of York, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 15/01/19 'Re-thinking digital heritage research: practices, epistemologies and ethics', York Heritage Research Seminars, University of York, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 18/04/2018 'Crossing borders: Heritage and Brexit in the North of England and Scotland, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | 18/04/2018 'Crossing borders: Heritage and Brexit in the North of England and Scotland, Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 18/06/2018 'Inclusive Heritages: Keynote', Inaugural Workshop of the Cultural Heritage Research Group, University of Edinburgh. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 18/06/2018 'Inclusive Heritages: Keynote', Inaugural Workshop of the Cultural Heritage Research Group, University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | 19/02/19 Talk: 'The role of the past in social media populism: from Brexit to Trumpism, Computational and Digital Archaeology Lab, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 19/02/19 'The role of the past in social media populism: from Brexit to Trumpism, Computational and Digital Archaeology Lab, University of Cambridge (Cambridge, UK). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | 2017, 'Digital Heritage 'Big' Data Hacking and Visualisation', International Workshop organised at the UCL Institute of Archaeology by Dr Chiara Bonacchi and Dan Pett (British Museum, UK). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This workshop will discuss expressive uses of 'big data' visualisations to engage citizens with the results of research into the human past and its contemporary legacies. It will bring together perspectives coming from the creative arts, design, software development, cultural heritage and museum studies. Speakers and discussants will reflect over the principles that could and should be driving the development of digital applications for the public interpretation and communication of heritage research that is based on the analysis of relatively large, varied and rapidly changing quantities of data extracted from web infrastructures. The workshop is linked to the Ancient Identities Today project, which is experimenting with approaches that combine the use of 'smaller' and 'bigger' data online and offline, to study and communicate the meanings and uses of ideas and materials from the Iron Age, Roman and Early Medieval pasts in contemporary Britain. Organisers: Chiara Bonacchi (UCL Institute of Archaeology) and Daniel Pett (British Museum) The event is funded by the UCL Global Engagement Fund, with additional sponsorship from the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and the UCL Institute of Archaeology Heritage Studies Section. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ancientidentities.org/digital-heritage-workshop/ |
| Description | 2022, 'Open science' in archaeology and heritage: challenges and future perspectives, session for the 28th EAA Conference, 31 August-3 September, Budapest, co-organised with Alessio Palmisano (University of Turin) and Marija Edinborough (University of Melbourne). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Advanced knowledge of 'Open science' in archaeology and heritage: challenges and future perspectives, through a session held at the 28th EAA Conference, 31 August-3 September, Budapest, co-organised with Alessio Palmisano (University of Turin) and Marija Edinborough (University of Melbourne). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 2022, Archaeology, Heritage and Social Activism, session for the 43rd Conference of the Theoretical Archaeology Group, 15-17 December, University of Edinburgh. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Advanced understanding of how social activism can be performed through archaeology and heritage. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 2022, Reconstructing the Limes: the social values of Iron Age and Roman heritages, session at LIMES Congress XXV, 21-27 August, Lindenberg, Nijmegen, co-organised with Richard Hingley (Durham Archaeology) and Saskia Stevens (Utrecht University). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Session at LIMES Congress XXV, 21-27 August, Lindenberg, Nijmegen, co-organised with Richard Hingley (Durham Archaeology) and Saskia Stevens (Utrecht University). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 2022, book launch for Heritage and Nationalism: understanding populism through big data, UCL Press (online). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Book launch for Heritage and Nationalism: understanding populism through big data, UCL Press (online). about 40 attendees. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | 28/05/2022 Tolerant Futures through Ancient Identities, invited lecture for the lecture series on Frontier Perspectives - The impact of Roman frontiers on people and places, Tullie House Museum, Carlisle. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | About 60 member of the public attended and learned about approaches to tolerance through non-divisive uses and communications of the past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| Description | A seminar presented in the Archaeology department, Edinburgh University in December 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A seminar presented to an audience of around 50+ in Edinburgh that outlined the aims and initial results of the 'Iron Age and Roman Heritages' project. This was useful as a way of developing contacts in Scotland. Seminar presented by Richard Hingley and attended by PDR, Kate Sharpe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://www.ed.ac.uk/history-classics-archaeology/archaeology/news-events/events/archaeology-seminars |
| Description | A talk by Richard Hingley on the Hadrian's Wall Research Framework for the Networking meeting in Hexham on 10th February 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk about the Hadrian's Wall Research Framework for members of the public at the Hadrian's Wall Networking meeting in Hexham. This is an annual event attended by many members of the public. I talked about the academic archaeological research framework and our plans to involve the public in producing this document. This raises out of both the 'Tales of the Frontier' and 'Ancient Identities' project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.eventbrite.com/e/hadrians-wall-networking-day-tickets-40905539570 |
| Description | A talk on Iron Age and Roman heritages at the Massachusetts Amherst Oxford Summer Seminar in July 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | A talk on the Iron Age and Roman past in Britain to an audience of postgraduate and postdoctoral students partaking in the Massachusetts Amherst Oxford Summer Seminar at Trinity College, Oxford University on 24 July 2018. This international body of students travels to Britain and visits various heritage attractions. I was invited as an international guest speaker as a result of my research, archaeological and literary interests. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | A workshop to discuss the thematic approach of the 'Iron Age and Roman Heritages' project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A workshop for academic colleagues in Durham and London to discuss the themes to be used by the developing 'Iron Age and Roman Heritages' project. This produced some useful results for the scoping of the digital and ethnographic research. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://ancientidentities.org |
| Description | Ancient Identities Today. Exploring Iron Age and Roman Heritage in Modern Britain - for the Research Seminar Series, Archaeology Department, Bournemouth University |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Presentation communicated the objective, aims and methodology of the project, focusing on ethnographic work, and reported some fieldwork undertaken in 2017. Audience challenged to consider their own perceptions of the Iron Age and Roman periods and to share them resulting in lively discussion about the role of archaeologists in shaping public ideas of the past. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Chair and contributor to the panel on Heritage values for the Workshop dedicated to discussing the Research Strategy for the Frontier of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, led by Historic Environment Scotland (online). |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Chair and contributor to the panel on Heritage values for the Workshop dedicated to discussing the Research Strategy for the Frontier of the Roman Empire World Heritage Site, led by Historic Environment Scotland (online). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Conference session co-organised by Dr Chiara Bonacchi and Professor Richard Hingley |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Life of the Frontier: Frontier Heritages and Living Histories, Session at EAA Annual meeting, Bern. Co-organised with Richard hingley (Durham University), Marta Lorenzon (University of Helsinki), Guido Vannini (University of Florence) and Luca Peyronel (University of Milan). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Conferences session-organised by Dr Chiara Bonacchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Archaeology and heritage in Populist Nationalist Constructions: projections and Justifications of Otherness: Session at the Theoretical Archaeology Group annual conference, London. Co-organised by Dr Bonacchi with Barbora Ziackova (University of Cambridge) and Ole Nordland (UCL). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Contribution to a Radio 4 (BBC) programme 'The Forum' on 'Boudica: Warrior Queen' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A broadcast e.g. TV/radio/film/podcast (other than news/press) |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | I was one of three experts in a BBC TV programme (as part of the series The Forum) that discussed Boudica as a historical and political figure. From the number of subsequent enquires I received, this evidently reached a wide audience. Boudica has been important to the research that we have been pursuing in Ancient Identities and I receive one or two enquiries a month about her final battle site, etc. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bdx20z |
| Description | Dr Chiara Bonacchi acted a discussant in a workshop |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Bonacchi acted as Discussion chair in the Workshop 'Engaging with Digital Cultural Heritage: A Strategy for Scotland', Engine Shed, Stirling, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dr Chiara Bonacchi acted as Academic Research Panel |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Dr Bonacchi acted as Academic Research Panellist, in the Archiving Social Media Workshop, British Library, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Dr Chiara Bonacchi acted as panel member for the Early Career Workshop, organised by the AHRC Heritage Priority Area, on 04/11/2017 at British Academy, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This talk reached about 80 early career researchers and changed their perceptions on the role they can have in AHRC applications. Participants gained awareness of the possibility of acting as CI and how to go about making that happen without holding a permanent research contract. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Dr Chiara Bonacchi participated in the expert workshop organized by the AHRC, Heritage Futures, the Alan Turing Institute and the British Library on 'Heritage Data', British Library, UK. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Participation on the potential of big data for research in the GLAM sector. A number of points relating to crowdsourcing and social media data mining were raised and informed the conversation and report - these points derived from research undertaken as part of the MicroPasts and Ancient Identities Today projects. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ethnographic fieldwork at The Scottish Crannog Centre, Perthshire. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Ethnographic field work including surveys of general public, and interviews and participant observation of tour guides, staff, and managers. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ethnographic fieldwork at Vindolanda Roman Fort and Museum, Northumberland |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Ethnography fieldwork including surveys of general public, semi-structured interviews, and participant observation with managers, staff, students, and volunteers over two week-long visits. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Ethnography fieldwork - educators |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interviews and discussion with various experts in History teaching at Primary level. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ethnography fieldwork at Butser Ancient Farm |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interviews with heritage team and volunteers, and surveys of visitors over a week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ethnography fieldwork at Castell Henllys |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interviews with Heritage Team and survey of visitors. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ethnography fieldwork at Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Curator |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ethnography fieldwork at The Ancient Technology Centre |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interviews with heritage team and volunteers over a week. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Ethnography fieldwork at The Museum of the Iron Age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Interview with Curator + guided explanation of museum |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | International conference organised by Dr Bonacchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Digital Heritage in a World of Big Data, international conference co-organised by Dr Bonacchi with Rodney Harrison (AHRC Heritage Leadership Fellow, UCL) and Daniel Pett (Fitzwilliam Museum, University of Cambridge). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Key note lecture at Steering Group (17/11/2021) meeting for the Constructing the Limes Project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Key note talk at the Netherlands School at Rome as part of steering group meeting for this major international project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
| Description | Keynote speech |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Keynote for the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference series (online) on: Contemporary populist nationalism and Roman myths. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Le Scienze (2018): http://www.lescienze.it/news/2018/09/29/news/effetti_brexit_ricerca_gran_bretagna-4130010/?refresh_ce. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A magazine, newsletter or online publication |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | • Le Scienze (2018): http://www.lescienze.it/news/2018/09/29/news/effetti_brexit_ricerca_gran_bretagna-4130010/?refresh_ce. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Lecture at 'Celtic Classical Conference' in Oxford in June 2016 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Talk on Hadrian's Wall at Celtic Classical Conference in Oxford on the inclusive and divisive uses of Hadrian's Wall in the past decade. This is research deriving from the 'Tales of the Frontier' project and the paper is being written up for the final conference proceedings. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016 |
| URL | http://torch.ox.ac.uk/celts-romans-britons-classical-and-celtic-influence-britain-55-bc---2016-ad |
| Description | Lecture by Kate Sharpe to Newcastle Explorer Group in their History programme of research on 20 June 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Kate contributes to this explorer (Life Long Learning) group several times a year and this particular lecture led to several discussions and 8 invitations to present further talks |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://irp-cdn.multiscreensite.com/24c5e989/files/uploaded/Explore%20Season%203%20programme%202018-... |
| Description | Lecture given by Dr Chiara Bonacchi and Marta Krzyzanska at the pre-conference workshop, Researching Digital Cultural Heritage, International Conference, Manchester University, UK, on 29/11/2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Dr Chiara Bonacchi and Marta Krzyzanska gave a lecture about the use of R programming for text analysis in heritage studies. In doing so, they presented in details the workflows developed for the Ancient Identities Today project, including the text mining and topic modelling techniques. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://ancientidentities.org/digital-methods-cultural-heritage-studies/ |
| Description | Lecture on 'Hadrian's Wall and Frontier Identities over time' in session on 'Location, Location, Location: Constructing Frontier Identities' at the Theoretical Archaeology Congress in Chester in December 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | This talk focused on the identities of people on the Wall in the Roman past and the relevance of this material for societies in Britain and Europe today. It was held at the major conference on theory in archaeology. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://tagdeva.wordpress.com/sessions/ |
| Description | Lecture on 'Iron Age Societies and Kinship Theory' in session on 'Constructing Social Theory for the 'Different' Iron Age at the European Archaeological Association in Maastricht (the Netherlands). This drew upon research for 'Ancient Identities' in exploring the creation of heritage related to the sustainable Iron Age |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Lecture at an academic conference to an audience including established academics and early career researchers. To communicate some of the results arising from the Ancient Identities project. A volume is going to be produced from this session and I have been invited to produce a paper for this. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Conferences/Past_EAA_Conferences/EAA/Navigation_conferences/Past_conferenc... |
| Description | Lectures by project members Hingley, Bonacchi and Sharpe and co-organised of a session 'Transnational Perspectives on the Legacy of the Ancient Past in Europe' at the European Archaeological Association Conference at Maastricht (the Netherlands) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | The 'Ancient Identities' project organised a successful session on 'Transnational Perspectives on the Legacy of the Ancient Past in Europe' at the European Archaeological Association conference in Maastricht on 31st August 2017. This included a range of papers, including three delivered by project members to higgling the initial results of the project and also additional papers by contributors from Spain, Serbia and Britain. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA/Conferences/Past_EAA_Conferences/EAA/Navigation_conferences/Past_conferenc... |
| Description | Observations of educational visit by primary schools to Prehistory Day at Palace Green Museum, Durham. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Schools |
| Results and Impact | Observations of a visit by 60 KS2 school children to Palace Green Archaeology Museum, Durham for a day learning about Prehistory. Interviews with staff, education officers and museum curator. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Organisation of a conference on 'Northern Prehistory: Connecting Communities' at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle on 12-13th October 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Kate Sharpe organised this conference to coincide with the redevelopment of Tullie House Museum's Prehistory Gallery. It was intended to review developing knowledge of the prehistoric archaeology of Cumbria and northern England. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://museumdevelopmentnorthwest.wordpress.com/category/archaelogical/ |
| Description | Paper by R. Hingley on Hadrian's Wall as a post-national border in session on Frontier Heritage at European Archaeological Association Conference in Bern on 5th September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Talk as part of a workshop |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2019/Programme.aspx?WebsiteKey=92bb0c7f-79c0-4998-9804-b5db83f9a8b9&hkey=48... |
| Description | Plenary lecture titled 'Chorographies of the Frontier: An archaeology of borders walls' presented by Richard Hingley at the 'Chorographies Symposium' in Lancaster in June 2017. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Plenary lecture on borders and walls at a two day symposium on Chorography organised in Lancaster. This outlined some of the results of the 'Ancient Identities' project on the topic of Hadrian's Wall and its international context. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://wp.lancs.ac.uk/lakesdeepmap/events/chorographies-symposium/ |
| Description | Presentation given by Dr Chiara Bonacchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Heritage Research, Bigger Data and Data-intensive Methods', given as part of the Big Data in Archaeology: Practicalities and Possibilities Conference, MacDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation in Workshop by Dr Chiara Bonacchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'A Practice-based Reflection on the Ethics of Heritage and Big Data', for the Ethics in Digital Heritage Conference, University of East Anglia, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Presentation in a Workshop by Dr Chiara Bonacchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Networked Individualism in the Digital Age', as part of the Rock Art and Social Value Research Workshop, Edinburgh University, UK. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Presentation in the EAA 2019 Conference by Dr Chiara Bonacchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Presentation on 'Frontier Symbolism in European and US Right-Wing Populism', given as part of the European Association of Archaeologists Conference, Bern. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Public talk for RESCUE-The British Archaeological Trust's |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | Talk: 'Co-producing knowledge and collections online',; public talk for RESCUE-The British Archaeological Trust's AGM and Public Lecture/Panel Discussion on Digging into the future of digitisation: what does this mean for archaeology? |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Regular blogging and social media engagement |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | We have set up a website to engage members of the public with the aims methods and progress of our research. We are blogging regularly about our research, tweeting and posting updates on the project's social media channels. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2016,2017 |
| URL | http://ancientidentities.org |
| Description | Research seminar by Dr Chiara Bonacchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Research seminar on 'The deep past in Italian populism: party narratives and grassroots activism', for the Centre for Environment, Heritage and Policy Seminar Series, University of Stirling. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Research seminar presentation by Dr Chiara Bonacchi |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 'Ancient Identities and Italian Populism: party narratives and grassroots activism' seminar given at the Archaeology Research Seminar Series, University of Edinburgh. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Richard Hingley was interviewed for Tom Holland's programme 'Making History: Hadrian's Wall' broadcast on 18th July 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
| Results and Impact | Interviewed as part of a 60 minute programme about Hadrian's Wall and its legacy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08y0wsl |
| Description | Seminar at UCL London in January 2019 on 'An Archaeology of Empire' in the series 'London Classics Archaeology Seminars' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Talk on a theme which has been emerging from Hingley research for Ancient Identities on the ways that concepts derived from classical Rome remain fundamental to later attempts to build imperial power. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://ics.sas.ac.uk/events/seminar-lecture-series |
| Description | Seminar in Dublin an World Heritage and Roman Britain on 7th March 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Seminar to staff and students at University College Dublin School of Archaeology about Roman World Heritage in the UK |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Short talk on Roman frontiers and heritage at international meeting 'Wall to Wall: the Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall of China Management Seminar |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | I attended and contributed to the seminar on Hadrian's Wall and the Great Wall of China that was organised by Historic England and the Chinese Academy for Culture Heritage in Newcastle (UK) on 19th to 21st March 2018. There was a quite open discussion about research on both walls including a debate about some of the ethnographic work that is occurring, which was deeply relevant to research arising in the Ancient Identities project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://research.ncl.ac.uk/heritage-newcastle/newsevents/walltowallseminar.html |
| Description | Skill development workshop delivered by Dr Chiara Bonacchi and Marta Krzyzanska using workflows developed for the project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | R for Heritage Studies Training Workshop for PhD students, University of Stirling. Using software developed for AI |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| Description | Talk at UCL Institute of Archaeology Research Seminar Series 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | This was a talk on the public perception and experience of ideas relating Iron Age, Roman, Early Medieval mobility in contemporary British society and especially in the context of Brexit. There was an audience including academics and members of the public. Outcomes included changes in colleagues' ideas about the topic and an invitation to present at an interdisciplinary workshop on Brexit, Archaeology and Heritage: Reflections and Agendas. The workshop will include both academics and other professionals e.g. working in public policy. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/2016-17-events/20170320 |
| Description | Talk at and participation in the International Limes (Roman Frontiers) Congress in Serbia, September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | I presented a talk on 'Roman Frontiers in the UK: assessing what visitors value about the Roman past' in a session entitled 'Presenting the Romans', organised by Nigel Mills and Christof Flugel. This addressed the results emerging from the ethnographic work emerging from Ancient Identities, particularly focusing on the topics of migration and bordering. This was a useful session and I made a range of additional contacts as a result of discussions during the Congress, which ran over 9 days and included field trips in addition to lectures. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | http://limes2018.org/?s=Hingley |
| Description | Talk at the Classics department, Durham, January 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A seminar delivered to the Classical Reception Centre at the University of Durham on 1st February that outlined the project, 'Iron Age and Roman heritages' and ran through some of our initial findings. This was well attended and created some new contacts. Seminar presented by Richard Hingley and attended by PDRA, Kate Sharpe. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/classical.tradition/ |
| Description | Talk at workshop on Brexit and the end of Roman Britain at the British School in Rome on 27th March 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk on Roman London and the legacy of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, linking into a debate about the end of the Roman empire. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.bsr.ac.uk/roman-britain-and-rome-in-late-antiquity |
| Description | Talk by Kate Sharpe on teaching prehistory at primary schools at the European Association of Archaeologists Conference in Bern on 5th September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Talk on materials deriving from the ethnographic research deriving from the project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2019/Programme.aspx?WebsiteKey=92bb0c7f-79c0-4998-9804-b5db83f9a8b9&hkey=48... |
| Description | Talk by Richard Hingley and Kate Sharpe on 'Understanding the Iron Age. Public Perceptions, Educational Engagement, and 'Expert' Interpretation at Open-Air Heritage Venues in Britain' in session on 'Britain has had enough of experts' at the Theoretical Archaeology Group at Chester in December 2018 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | This talk addressed directly some of the results coming out of the ethnographic research for the Ancient Identities project, exploring how people who work at open-air museums (venues with reconstructed Iron Age roundhouses) seek to interpret the Iron Age for visitors. Many of these people are not formally trained as archaeologists and it is interesting to see the degree to which they fell able to discuss the Iron Age past in an imaginative manner and the extent to which they may feel constrained by ideas stemming from authorised heritage discourse. This is one of the main themes emerging from the ethnographic research on our project. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| URL | https://tagdeva.wordpress.com/sessions/britain-has-had-enough-of-experts/ |
| Description | Talk by Richard Hingley at Heidelberg, Germany, 'Congress on Romanisation'. The lecture was entitled 'Romanisation and globalisation: conceptualising cultural change in the Roman Empire'. It drew upon some of the initial results from the 'Ancient Identities' project |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | A talk that outlined some of the initial results of the Ancient Identities project, addressing cultural change and identity in the Roman Empire |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | http://www.klassische-archaeologie.uni-hd.de/romanization17/index.html |
| Description | Talk by Richard Hingley on 'Valuing Iron Age and Roman Heritages in Britain" as part of session on the Politics of the Roman Past in the 21st century at European Association of Archaeologists Conference in Bern on 7th September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Talk on the Ancient Identities project at the European Archaeological Association conference |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2019/Programme.aspx?WebsiteKey=92bb0c7f-79c0-4998-9804-b5db83f9a8b9&hkey=48... |
| Description | Talk on Roman Britain and heritage at a conference on Romanisation and Globalisation at Lake Como, Italy on 6th November 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Talk on Romanisation and heritage at a round table haled at the Villa Vigoni on Lake Como |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.villavigoni.eu/event/imperium-romanum-romanization-between-colonization-and-globalizatio... |
| Description | Talk on World Heritage and Hadrian's Wall (5/3/2022) aa part of a series of talks at Tullie House Museum, Carlisle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | Talk as part of a series of lectures about Hadrian's Wall and World Heritage policy |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.tulliehouse.co.uk/events/frontier-perspectives-talks-hadrians-wall-and-unesco-values |
| Description | Talk on decolonizing classical is Oxford (30/9/2022) |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | I was invited as part of an expert panel to participate in a workshop about decolonizing classics at Oxford University. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://www.classics.ox.ac.uk/event/oxfords-antiquity-a-critical-reappraisal-of-the-study-of-classic... |
| Description | Talk on the history of reception of Hadrian's Wall (21/1/2022) at a conference in Newcastle |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | A talk on the reception of Hadrian's Wall as part of the Wallcap project |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
| URL | https://wallcap.ncl.ac.uk/mirrormirroronthewallconference/ |
| Description | Talk: 'Heritage and Nationalism: Using big(ger) data to deconstruct populist discourse' |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | 'Heritage and Nationalism: Using big(ger) data to deconstruct populist discourse', research seminar for the archaeology and anthropology research seminar series, Bournemouth University (online). |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | The Times (2018): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nigel-farage-is-boudica-to-europe-s-roman-emperors-say-cyberwarriors-jcl3xzm8l. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | National |
| Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
| Results and Impact | • The Times (2018): https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/nigel-farage-is-boudica-to-europe-s-roman-emperors-say-cyberwarriors-jcl3xzm8l. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | Themed session on 'Life of the Frontier: frontier heritage and living history' organised by R. Hingley and C. Bonacchi at European Association of Archaeology Conference in Bern, 5th September 2019 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | Session on frontiers at the European Archaeological Association organised by Bonacchi and Hingley with input from other international colleagues. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
| URL | https://www.e-a-a.org/EAA2019/Programme.aspx?WebsiteKey=92bb0c7f-79c0-4998-9804-b5db83f9a8b9&hkey=48... |
| Description | Training in text mining, delivered at the University of Cologne, by Marta Krzyzanska, based on software developed as part of AI. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
| Results and Impact | Training in text mining, delivered at the University of Cologne, by Marta Krzyzanska, based on software developed as part of AI. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
| Description | Visits to various museums and heritage centres to interview managers and staff |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Local |
| Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
| Results and Impact | Visits to The British Museum, The Museum of London, Hengistbury Head Visitor Centre, The Museum of the Iron Age, Butser Ancient Farm, and The Ancient Technology Centre. Visits included observations of displays plus semi-structured interviews with curators, heritage managers, education officers, and archaeologists at each venue. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| Description | Worship on Iron Age and Roman Heritages at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference March 2017 |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Study participants or study members |
| Results and Impact | This workshop is rot be held in March 2017 as part of the programme at the Theoretical Roman Archaeology conference in Durham. We will report back the results next year. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
| URL | https://www.dur.ac.uk/conference.booking/details/?id=626 |
| Description | • 2018, 'The pop-up museum', Exhibition session at Mozilla Festival (Mozfest), London. Co-organised with Dan Pett (Fitzwilliam Museum), Jennifer Wexler (British Museum), |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
| Results and Impact | • 2018, 'The pop-up museum', Exhibition session at Mozilla Festival (Mozfest), London. Co-organised with Dan Pett (Fitzwilliam Museum), Jennifer Wexler (British Museum), |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | • 2018, Social Heritages: Addressing Global Challenges in Contemporary Society. Culture and Heritage Session, delivered for Research Week, at University of Stirling, UK. Highlighting innovative research directions for the field. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | Regional |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | 2018, Social Heritages: Addressing Global Challenges in Contemporary Society. Culture and Heritage Session, delivered for Research Week, at University of Stirling, UK. Highlighting innovative research directions for the field. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
| Description | •AHRC Heritage Priority area blog (2018): https://heritage-research.org/case-studies/hadrians-wall-education-heritage-presented-us-security-policy/. |
| Form Of Engagement Activity | Engagement focused website, blog or social media channel |
| Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
| Geographic Reach | International |
| Primary Audience | Other audiences |
| Results and Impact | • AHRC Heritage Priority area blog (2018): https://heritage-research.org/case-studies/hadrians-wall-education-heritage-presented-us-security-policy/. |
| Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |