Co-creating Dialect Research Outputs with Public Users

Project overview

Ensuring research outputs are understandable by, meaningful and empowering for public audiences is essential for impact, yet this is often assumed rather than tested. The Dialect and Heritage Project (DHP) has engaged with public audiences via involvement in the Great Big Dialect Hunt, oral histories, reminiscence sessions, training and volunteering opportunities and the media. Now it’s time to share the results and continue the collaboration! Four engagement workshops will co-design research outputs for schools, libraries, museums, different age groups and audiences, testing the effectiveness, appeal and reach of digital stories and interpretation vs. interactive data visualisations and self-guided exploratory discovery.

Project team

Professor Fiona Douglas (School of English)

Dr Kerri-Ann Butcher (School of English)

Kathleen McGrath (School of English)

The Dales Countryside Museum

Stanley Ellis and Tom Mason recording their conversation outside. They are stood in front of a house.