Creative Economy Engagement Fellowships

This project was generously funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) bringing together three key actors in the heritage ecosystem:

* the University of Cambridge
* the Fitzwilliam Museum
* two industrial collaborators - Museum in a Box and ThinkSee3D

When combined they provided three essential perspectives that enabled us to choose and drive forward four early career researcher (ECR) projects that lead to enhanced collaborations benefiting the creative economy. The University of Cambridge is home to a nucleus of world leading collections under the banner of University of Cambridge Museums (UCM) and this project enabled innovation across the group.

Project information

Principal Investigator: Daniel Pett
Project start date: 1 January 2019
Project end date: 31 December 2019
Project website: https://creative-economy.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk
Funding award value: £201,557

Outcomes of the project

The project provided significant digital humanities research skills across the four Fellows; one of them directly attributed her success in obtaining a lectureship in digital humanities to the skills she developed during this project. Through showing what can be achieved by postdoctoral researchers working in digital humanities, the Museum has been able to make a significant strategic goal around developing our work in immersive experiences. This work has been given significant impetus through the project, which was the first of its kind for the Museum. For the creative economy partners, the project has enabled them to develop new services (ThinkSee3D) and has provided significant data on the uses of their product in different settings, as well as potential routes to new business.