Applied History and the Hull History Partnership

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Applied History and the Hull History Partnership

• Contextualising History
• paths to study and employment

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Hull History Centre

• Partnership and joint service University of
  Hull and Hull City Council
• Merged user services, separate custodianship of
  archives
• Single audience development programme, based on
  audiences
• HHC education programme - key part of vision and
  mission
• University staff - role in supporting learning
  teaching

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Hull History Centre
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Hull History Centre

• HLF-funded education programme
• from primary to FE
• Links with schools and individual teachers
• Creation and delivery of resources / sessions
• University core activities (not HLF funded)
• learning, teaching research support for UG and
  PG
• skills development and work experience

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Educational context in Hull

• Commitment to improve educational attainment at
  all levels and to widen participation in FE and
  HE
• High proportion of local undergraduates at
  University and Hull graduates staying in the
  region
• Environment of creativity and collaboration
• 99 schools with 36,000 pupils 5,000 visited HHC
• Hull Museum Education Model used to create
  Archive Education service

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Hull History Partnership - origins

• Formed in 2009 by Dr Amanda Capern, Department of
  History
• Initial funding from HEA for enhancing the
  learning and teaching of History in Hull and the
  region.
• Second year of funding from Ferens Educational
  Trust
• Funding provided admin support
• http//www2.hull.ac.uk/fass/history/hull-history-p
  artnership.aspx
• http//www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory
  /research/gwi/hull_history/

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Hull History Partnership
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HHC
History Department
Graduate Employability and shared teaching
opportunities
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History Department
School-HEI transition for Sixth Form students
and shared teaching experience
Schools, colleges, teachers
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HHC
Regional collaboration and employability of
History students
schools, colleges, teachers
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HHP 2010-11

• internships (with small stipend).
• Competitive application
• Sept 2010 June 2011 25-30 hours in total
• Cataloguing public history, outreach and
  education research assistance user services
  preservation/digitisation
• Pilot for internships within a module

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Interns
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HHP interns 2010-11

• Internships
• Cataloguing Martin Collins (civil rights
  campaigner) and Eric Lubbock/Lord Avebury
• Education session (cookery)
• Research project (archives of women)
• Education / outreach (Maister House)

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HHP 2010-11

• Round table meeting, January 2011. Discussed
• Transition from school to university
• Student placements
• Mentoring schemes for 6th formers
• Led to....

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HHP pre-UCAS day June 2011

• Whole day - 10.15am 4pm intensive/immersive
• What to expect at University
• sample lecture
• how historians work archives, sources, evidence
• university libraries,
• UCAS application hints tips
• Repeated June 2012

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HHP Applied History module 2011-12

• Application of discipline of history
• Process by which communities acquire popular
  memory
• Knowledge of archives as legacy evidence
• Transferable skills archive/heritage
  stewardship, teaching, research through
  assessed internships
• Career planning portfolio, mock interviews
• Personal reflection
• Knowledge of skills qualifications required.

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Applied History module 2011-12

• 18 2nd year students (oversubscribed)
• Internships in first semester
• Archives collections management cataloguing
• Teaching creating resources delivering session
  to school
• Research work with client brief

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HE students

• Ebridge screenshot(s)

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Teaching internships and placements 2010
3 students Learning Journey on Maister
House Victorian Cookery Session
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Teaching internships and placements 2011-12

• 2 worked on Learning Journeys
• 2 pairs worked on school sessions with local
  schools
• 1 assisted with our sessions

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HE students

• Ebridge screenshot(s)

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HE students

• Ebridge screenshot(s)

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HE students

• Ebridge screenshot(s)

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HHP Applied History 2012-13

• 12 students
• Teaching strand delivered via placements in 7
  schools organised through HHP administrator
• Fourth strand event planning contributing
  to...

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HHP 2012-13 Show case day

• Attended by university tutors, students from
  Applied History, history teachers, 6th formers,
  archivists, Education Officer
• Aims
• To allow college and university students to
  interact pass on and gain knowledge
• An enjoyable taster of history and Applied
  History
• Separate strands for pupils students and
  teachers lecturers to encourage free speaking

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HHP 2012-13 Show case day

• What we did
• historical hero stickers
• Groups accordingly
• Hull quiz
• Palaeography

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HHP 2012-13 Show case day

• my local history needs brushing up HE
• Uni students are really nice FE
• I liked the interaction between students
  HE/FE
• History not limiting, can work in lots of areas
  FE
• Think I might like to go into history FE

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Working with HE students

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Impact Students and pupils

• Students Provided PGCE, MA and GTP references
  students successfully gained places helped
  inform career choices and planning
• Pupils Thank you for yesterday.  My students
  found it very useful.  In fact they have asked me
  to organise some work experience for them
  delivering discrete history sessions to my
  younger GCSE students.  So it really made them
  think about employability Rachel Brown, Hull
  College

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Impact HHC

• Lesson plan resources on HHC website
• Six archive catalogues
• Enhanced reputation in HE sector
• BIS report on business-university collaboration
• https//www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploa
  ds/attachment_data/file/32399/12-903-following-up-
  wilson-business-university-collaboration-next-step
  s.pdf
• Interest from other universities, eg Leicester

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Lessons Learnt

• Collaboration within a framework to provide
  internships - more effective for students and
  more efficient use of resources for us
• Requires administrative support, for placements,
  events, etc
• Demand has outstripped capacity need to find
  ways to make similar opportunities on wider scale

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Lessons Learnt

• Cemented relationships with schools
• Combination of in-school and HHC placements may
  work well
• Improve confidence of students in safe
  environment
• Evidence and Evaluation

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HHP Future plans

• 2014
• Challenge creating sustainable education
  programme post HLF
• Applied History year off (research leave)
• Long thin extra-curricular internships for 2nd
  year students widening cohort offered
  opportunity

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HHP Future plans

• Other possibilities (ideas from 2008)
• Other curriculum-related workshops and talks
• Mentoring scheme / revision sessions for 6th form
  students
• History Prize awarded to a local school student
  each year