So excited to say that the
Great Box Project has won an inaugural University of Oxford Vice Chancellor's
Award for Public Engagement with Research! We won in the 'collaboration' category,
as the project linked Haida people in designing the project and its outcomes.
Part of the work that museum
anthropology does is linking collections and the communities that the
collections came from—and showing to the public, and to one’s own institution,
why such reconnections matter, how they benefit us all. It’s really nice to
have some recognition from the University of Oxford that this kind of work does
matter in a university context.
And it’s a jolly great
project!
Professor
Laura Peers wins Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement with Research
2016
The Pitt Rivers
Museum is delighted to announce that Professor Laura Peers has won a
Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Engagement with Research. These awards,
inaugurated in early 2016 and announced on 1 July 2016, recognise and reward
those who undertake high-quality public engagement with research and have
contributed to building capacity in this area. Professor Peers won an award in
the Project category with the outstanding Great Box project, a
partnership project with the Haida Gwaii Museum and artists Jaalen Edenshaw and
Gwaii Edenshaw. Further information about the award
