The Orkney Viking Heritage Project (website)
Title
The Orkney Viking Heritage Project (website)
Subject
Viking Heritage in Orkney
Description
Website showcasing work produced by PhDs on the AHRC-funded Orkney Viking Heritage Project.
The Orkney Viking Heritage Project was a training programme for PhD students and early career researchers in the field of Old Norse-Icelandic and Viking Studies (ONIVS), which aimed to extend academic research about the Viking diaspora and its tangible and non-tangible heritage in the British Isles. The Project addresses the evident skills gap in the Strategic Area of Heritage and engages with the Emerging Theme of Translating Cultures. It comprised a Preparatory Workshop in Oxford bringing together academics, young scholars and heritage professionals, and a Field School in Orkney providing hands-on experience of a heritage landscape, and enabled the translation of findings into accessible multi-media formats for public dissemination as exhibition resources.
The Orkney Viking Heritage Project was a collaborative initiative led by the following institutions:
The Faculty of English, University of Oxford
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
The School of English, University of Nottingham
The Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands
It was funded by a Collaborative Skills Development Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
The Orkney Viking Heritage Project was a training programme for PhD students and early career researchers in the field of Old Norse-Icelandic and Viking Studies (ONIVS), which aimed to extend academic research about the Viking diaspora and its tangible and non-tangible heritage in the British Isles. The Project addresses the evident skills gap in the Strategic Area of Heritage and engages with the Emerging Theme of Translating Cultures. It comprised a Preparatory Workshop in Oxford bringing together academics, young scholars and heritage professionals, and a Field School in Orkney providing hands-on experience of a heritage landscape, and enabled the translation of findings into accessible multi-media formats for public dissemination as exhibition resources.
The Orkney Viking Heritage Project was a collaborative initiative led by the following institutions:
The Faculty of English, University of Oxford
The Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
The School of English, University of Nottingham
The Centre for Nordic Studies, University of the Highlands and Islands
It was funded by a Collaborative Skills Development Grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Creator
University of Oxford
Publisher
University of Oxford
Date
2013
Contributor
Tom Birkett
Rights
Copyright Orkney Viking Heritage Project
Format
Website
Language
English
Type
website
Identifier
Orkney Project
Coverage
Orkney
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