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Meet engaged researchers
Read about researchers and cultural heritage officers who have worked with non-academics to develop successful humanities projects.
Participatory engagement is increasingly being considered a key component in the design of digital humanities projects. As a concept and method, it has a wider reach than crowdsourcing and signals a more collaborative relationship between researchers, the research process, and the community it serves. I am constantly working on tools and case studies that will help other researchers to discover the value of engaged research for their own projects and to navigate the technical, ethical and legal challenges that may arise when working with non-academics.
"RETOPEA, our project on religious peace treaties, explores innovative teaching approaches to promote successful interreligious dialogue. In collaboration with non-academic partners, we use peace settlements of the past as learning resources for the present and encourage young people to consider different forms of religious cohabitation in nuanced and empathetic ways.
My first contact with engaged research was working for the Irish "Letters 1916-1923" project from October 2017 to December 2018. Collecting and transcribing so many letters would not have been possible without our interns and volunteers. All of them made a unique contribution that fostered new research.