1. Tuesday, April 08, 20141 The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector Working with University Development Teams Sally Bowden, Centre for Advanced Studies in the Arts and Social Sciences Image courtesy of the University of Nottingham

2. Tuesday, April 08, 2014 The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector 2 There are approx. 165,000 academics in the UK. How do you find the right person or team for your needs? Needle in a haystack?

3. Tuesday, April 08, 2014 The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector 3 Institutional Structures Vice Chancellor Pro-Vice Chancellor for Research & KE PVC for another portfolio Research Services including: ContractsResearch PolicyAwards Team Research Development Managers/ KE Executives (working at Faculty and/or School level) Arts and Humanities Social Sciences Engineering Medicine Sciences PVC for another portfolio

4. Tuesday, April 08, 2014 The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector 4 So you want a partnership…questions you need to think about first What are your institutional priorities and does your project fit with these priorities? Will you need money/resources for your plans? Do you have institutional support for the development of a collaboration? Image courtesy of the University of Nottingham

5. 4/8/2014 The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector 5 What do you need from a partnership? A key advantage to working with a University is that you can draw together expertise from a broad range of disciplines to suit your needs. Do you need a historian to help you with contextualising a collection? Do you need a computer scientist to help you develop a crowd sourcing tool to unlock thousands of hours of online volunteer time? Do you need a business expert to help identify new business models and a copyright expert to understand the implications of making data available? Images courtesy of the University of Nottingham

6. 4/8/2014The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector6 Being a Partner on a Funding Application The support of non-academic partners on University-led research bids is an important indicator of the value of a research proposal in terms of its relevance to the wider public and the potential impact of the proposed research. It is now the norm to have multiple non- academic partners involved in the process of research and/or as named beneficiaries of research. Universities are also increasingly asked to be partners on sector-led bids. Image courtesy of the University of Nottingham

7. 4/8/2014The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector7 Being a Partner on a Funding Application To support a University-led proposal the non-academic partner is required to write a letter of support that outlines why the project is of value to their organisation and what they can offer in support of the project in terms of in-kind (e.g. staff time, use of venue) or cash contributions. The costs associated with the non-academic partners contribution to a proposal (e.g. staff time to participate) can not be budgeted into a funding application unless the funding scheme specifically states that such costs are eligible. Independent Research Organisations (IROs) can include its staff costs on funding applications where the IRO is acting as an applicant institution.

8. 4/8/2014The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector8 Case Studies at Nottingham Southwell Workhouse Project (match funded) John Player Advertising Archive (partner-led funding bid) Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange Project: Archives, Assets and Audiences (University-led funding bid)

9. 4/8/2014The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector9 The Southwell Workhouse Project A collaboration between the National Trust and the University of Nottingham The National Trusts ambitions for the property include a reinterpretation of the site, new visitor facilities and the launch of an educational centre. Photo by Jacqueline Anderson

10. 4/8/2014The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector10 The Southwell Workhouse Project The initial stage of the project was sponsored through a match fund arrangement between the NT and the University to support a Research Associate to explore the archive holdings and draw out individual life stories of people who experienced the Workhouse. The second stage will focus on how these life stories and archive resources can be used to engage existing and new audiences with the Workhouse property, using new technologies. Image courtesy of the University of Nottingham

11. 4/8/2014The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector11 The John Player Advertising Archive A collaboration between Nottingham Museums and Galleries Service and the University of Nottingham. The John Player Advertising Archive was given to NMGS in the 1990s with a small dowry. The dowry wasnt quite big enough to cover the costs of cataloguing the collection and so the collection remained on pallets in a store. The ambition of the NMGS was to understand what was in the collection and to be able to use it for exhibitions, public engagement and educational purposes. Image courtesy of Nottingham Museums and Galleries Service

12. 4/8/2014Event Name and Venue12 Working with academics in the Department of History and the Business School, NMGS applied for a Technology Strategy Board Knowledge Transfer Partnership to fund a KT Associate to catalogue, mine and help commercialise the collection. The project helped achieve a copyright agreement and has led to two public exhibitions, an oral history project with ex-workers and educational resources. The project is now being continued through an AHRC collaborative doctoral award. The John Player Advertising Archive Image courtesy of Nottingham Museums and Galleries Service

13. 4/8/2014The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector13 The Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange Project (CEKE): Archive, Assets and Audiences A collaboration between the Universities of Nottingham, Nottingham Trent and Leicester working with a range of regional and national non-academic partners. The project aims to enable new exchanges between academic disciplines, and between partners, to explore how archives and collections can be used remotely to engage audiences with heritage sites and other venues. Image courtesy of the University of Nottingham

14. 4/8/2014The National Archives: Funding the Archives Sector14 The Creative Economy Knowledge Exchange Project (CEKE): Archive, Assets and Audiences This AHRC-funded project provides seed-corn funds for pilot projects and other forms of exchange (visiting fellowships and internships) and we will use the pilots to develop new collaborative projects for future funding opportunities. The Southwell Workhouse and the Nottingham Museums and Galleries Service are partners on the project and where possible we encourage these existing projects to develop pilot projects under the CEKE programme. Image courtesy of the University of Nottingham