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Comments on: University presses, open access, and public engagement https://www.wordsend.org/2012/07/19/up-oa-public/ searching for the ineffable Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:39:21 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 By: vika https://www.wordsend.org/2012/07/19/up-oa-public/comment-page-1/#comment-8415 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 09:39:21 +0000 http://www.wordsend.org/?p=1142#comment-8415 That’s a great point, thanks, Kathleen. It was mentioned yesterday in the context of this presentation on a public-engagement project in a London museum. So, yeah, my excitement is a bit Polyanna, isn’t it? I hope engagement doesn’t end up being transformed in practice into marketability; but you’re right, it may well.

(On the other hand, at the very least it’ll be an exercise for humanities scholars in articulating their passions to the public, which is bound to produce more buzz than exists now. This, in turn, might garner more support for the humanities. Inveterate dreamer, me.)

]]> By: KF https://www.wordsend.org/2012/07/19/up-oa-public/comment-page-1/#comment-8414 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 08:46:43 +0000 http://www.wordsend.org/?p=1142#comment-8414 Hi, Vika. While I’m completely with you on the ways that scholarship might better engage the public (obviously), I want to be careful about endorsing the UK REF’s version of such engagement, until I see a bit more of how it plays out in practice. Some folks (sorry for not having links on me, but the Times Higher Education has been good on this) are concerned that the notion of “real-world impact” is being interpreted in the REF as the ease with which one’s research can be transformed into marketable products or public policy. I would love to see more scholars think about how their work might reach a broader public, absolutely, but I fear the results that might come from attempts to codify public engagement — and in particular, I worry about how the non-utilitarian humanities might suffer.

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