Global Leaders Experience- Gamifying Local Heritage
Local heritage for global students
About the Programme
11.4 of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals aims to strengthen efforts to safeguard and protect the world’s cultural and natural heritage. To achieve this, it is important to sensitize and involve the local communities. One way of doing this is through gamification.
In this Global Leaders Experience, Immersive Trails offers students the opportunity to not only study local heritage, but also create real-world, long-term outreach initiatives in the form of heritage scavenger hunts.
Open to Widening Participation and International students, this is a perfect opportunity to learn about local heritage andget involved in your community. You will get the chance to work with a global cohort online over a period of four working weeks. The cohort will be broken up into groups containing students from Exeter University’s Exeter and Cornwall campuses and from Kolkata, India, to explore themes that demonstrate the interconnectedness of global history.
Example schedule
Week one will consist of masterclasses on themes such as public history in the UK and India and the gamification of history for outreach. You will also have the opportunity to attend specialist lectures fromlocal historians and heritage businesses. Talks and sessions will take place online in the morning and early afternoon, to accommodate both time zones.
You will work collaboratively across global and interdisciplinary teams to produce research on one of the following themes: Colonialism, Women, World Wars, Diversity, Literature, or Religion. The programme will conclude with presentations and discussions on your projects.
When will the programme Take place?
This programme will run from 15th January 2024 for 4 weeks (ending Friday 9th February 2024).
This Global Leaders Programme will be hosted virtually by Immersive Trails. Please make sure that you have a working webcam, headphone and microphone.
About Immersive Trails
Immersive Trails is a social enterprise in Kolkata, India, that is dedicated to creating greater awareness of the city's heritage for locals and visitors alike by curating immersive experiences based on in-depth academic research. It was founded in 2017 by Tathagata Neogi, an Exeter PhD in Archaeology, and his wife Chelsea McGill, who has a background in Linguistic Anthropology. Immersive Trails team of experts offers experiences as varied as walking tours, family history trails, and community-focused capacity building workshops.
Eligibility Criteria
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Open to undergraduate and taught postgraduate international students
- Open to home undergraduates that meet the Widening Participation Criteria.
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Not currently on a placement year or study abroad.
Cost
There is no programme fee for successful applicants to this programme.
How do I apply?
Applications for this programme are now closed.
Further information
If you have any further questions, please feel free to email the team at global-leaders@exeter.ac.uk