Heritage 2020’s Discovery, Identification and Understanding working group has published a report on the nature and strength of collaboration between the heritage sector and higher education. Commissioned from Newcastle University, the research analyses one hundred impact case studies from the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2014, as well as gathering information from interviews with key stakeholders.
The report identifies areas of untapped potential in terms of collaborative interactions between the historic environment sector and higher education sector and highlights opportunities to encourage further collaboration. The working group is now looking to develop strategies to strengthen collaboration between the two sectors. As part of this, July’s Heritage Chat (follow @HeritageChat) is being used to collect the opinions and first-hand experiences of people working in both sectors to gain greater insight into what makes collaborations successful and which tools or support would increase opportunities for collaboration or increase its impact.
You can read the new report here.
If you aren’t able to take part in the #HeritageChat, we’ve also opened a survey currently to collect feedback on the report findings and its recommendations to strengthen work between the two sectors in the future. Survey on strengthening collaboration between the historic environment and heritage sectors. The survey is open until 16th August 2019.