Our Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage will be running its Take Your Research Public course, 30 May to 27 June. It will be most relevant for doctoral students in their final year, and potentially second years (or part-time equivalent) with serious career aspirations in this area. It would also be suitable for researchers who would like to develop this type of work, whatever their career stage. Previous participants have had several successes in securing magazine and podcast commissions as well as making the BBC New Generation Thinkers shortlist.
The course is aimed at advanced PhD students and academic researchers who’d like to develop skills in communicating research with a historical element (broadly defined) to wider publics and who are relatively new to that field. We have guests from History Today and You’re Dead To Me plus experts on social media, long-form writing and work with museums and archives. The course is free with four weekly sessions online plus a final in-person event in Manchester, for which we have some bursaries available for students travelling from a distance. Further details and a link to the registration form are here on our website. The deadline for applications is Thursday 30 March.
This year we’ve scheduled our final event on the day following the IHR’s History Lab Plus early career event at Manchester Central Library (26 June), which offers a complementary set of sessions dealing primarily with community-engaged history, plus an Open Mic night! Further details about that event are here.
Queries to Professor Catherine Fletcher: Catherine.Fletcher@mmu.ac.uk