Humanities Engagement Showcase

Laura King (University of Leeds)
Hiding in the Pub to Cutting the Cord? Fatherhood and Childbirth in Britain, from the 1950s to the present

Laura’s public engagement project examined the causes of the shift in men's participation in childbirth from the 1950s, when any involvement in this event was thought 'unmanly', to the present day, where men are frequently considered to be uninterested husbands and fathers - and even 'unmanly' - if they fail to participate actively in pregnancy and birth.

Gabriella Giannacchi (Department of English, University of Exeter)
Art maps

Art Maps is an RCUK funded collaborative research project comprising staff from University of Exeter, Nottingham and Tate. Art Maps is a tool that allows for the crowdsourcing and annotation of Tate's entire collection in relation to place, space and environment. It is currently on show at Tate Britain.

Victoria Bates (Centre for Medical History, University of Exeter) and Helen Hanson (Department of English, University of Exeter)
Screen Talks - Sickness on the Screen

Victoria has recently won funding through the AHRC Cultural Engagement fund to run a series of film screenings at the Picturehouse in Exeter in collaboration with the Department of English.

Siobhán Garrigan (Department of Theology and Religion, University of Exeter)
Understanding Religious Difference through Ritual Studies

A study of how religious ritual shapes participants’ understanding of difference, and how it might also permit mutual understanding across the boundaries of difference