Contextualising History paths to study and employment

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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-partnership.aspx
http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/heahistory/research/g wi/hull_history/

The History
Department - Hull
University
Schools and
Colleges - Teachers of History
Regional collaboration and employability of History students
The History Centre -
Archives

History
Department
HHC

Schools, colleges, teachers
History
Department

schools, colleges, teachers
Regional collaboration and employability of History students
HHC

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

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

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

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

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

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

• Ebridge screenshot(s)

3 students
Learning Journey on Maister House
Victorian Cookery Session

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

• Ebridge screenshot(s)

• Ebridge screenshot(s)

• Ebridge screenshot(s)

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

HHP 2012-13: Show case day
Attended by university tutors, students from Applied
History, history teachers, 6 th 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

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

• ‘[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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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

• 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/uploads/attachment_data/ file/32399/12-903-following-up-wilson-business-university-collaborationnext-steps.pdf
• Interest from other universities, eg Leicester

• 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

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

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

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