Project Manager (Dialect and Heritage project), University of Leeds
Deadline: Sun 15 Dec 2019
This is an exciting opportunity for a highly organised, creative and flexible individual to work on a project funded by the National Lottery Heritage Fund that aims to engage new audiences with collections at the University of Leeds and at five partner museums across England.
The partner museums are: Dales Countryside Museum, Ryedale Folk Museum, Weald & Downland Living Museum, Avoncroft Museum of Historic Buildings, and the Museum of East Anglian Life.
The Dialect and Heritage project centres on the Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture (LAVC), a unique and nationally important multimedia archive including the records of the Survey of English Dialects and the Institute of Dialect and Folk Life Studies. The collection is housed and accessible at the University of Leeds Special Collections:
The project will digitise the LAVC and make it available, meaningful and relevant to public audiences. The project will marry LAVC resources with partner museums’ complementary and contemporaneous artefact collections, putting the LAVC back into the communities from which it was originally collected and where it truly belongs, reuniting tangible and intangible cultural heritage, and breathing new life into museum displays, local heritage, and the LAVC.
You will be based at the University of Leeds’ School of English with regular visits to each of the five partner museums. You will report to the Project Lead, Dr Fiona Douglas, and to the Project Board.
Fixed term: February 2020 - November 2022. Reference: AHCEN1036
Full details on the University of Leeds website
Deadline: Sunday 15 December 2019
Additional Information:
Location: Leeds Region(s): Yorkshire
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