TY - JOUR

T1 - Assessing the impact of collections-based collaboration across archives and academia: the Penrhyn estate archive

AU - Evans, Shaun

AU - Simpson, Elen Wyn

PY - 2019

Y1 - 2019

N2 - This contribution focuses on collaborative practice and the mutual benefits which can derive from strategic partnerships between archives and academia. The study takes as its focus the establishment and early development of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates, which has operated as a joint initiative between the Archives and Special Collections and College of Arts and Humanities at Bangor University since 2013. This collaborative relationship mirrors broader trends and potentials in the collections-based research environment, which are seeing core sector-specific priorities such as cataloguing, conservation, collection advocacy and accessibility on the part of archives; and research, grant capture, teaching, public engagement and ‘impact’ on the part of academia, increasingly blurring into complementary and shared objectives. Here, we analyse how collaborative engagement with one archive in the Archives and Special Collections—the Penrhyn estate archive—is leading towards the delivery of strategic objectives across both sides of the partnership.

AB - This contribution focuses on collaborative practice and the mutual benefits which can derive from strategic partnerships between archives and academia. The study takes as its focus the establishment and early development of the Institute for the Study of Welsh Estates, which has operated as a joint initiative between the Archives and Special Collections and College of Arts and Humanities at Bangor University since 2013. This collaborative relationship mirrors broader trends and potentials in the collections-based research environment, which are seeing core sector-specific priorities such as cataloguing, conservation, collection advocacy and accessibility on the part of archives; and research, grant capture, teaching, public engagement and ‘impact’ on the part of academia, increasingly blurring into complementary and shared objectives. Here, we analyse how collaborative engagement with one archive in the Archives and Special Collections—the Penrhyn estate archive—is leading towards the delivery of strategic objectives across both sides of the partnership.

KW - Archives

KW - Wales

KW - collaboration

KW - estates

KW - impact

KW - research

U2 - 10.1080/23257962.2019.1567307

DO - 10.1080/23257962.2019.1567307

M3 - Article

VL - 40

SP - 37

EP - 54

JO - Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association

JF - Archives and Records: The Journal of the Archives and Records Association

SN - 2325-7962

IS - 1

ER -