Expert outreach/Jisc Ambassador

From July 2013 to March 2014, Jisc and Wikimedia UK are jointly supporting a project to create events, case studies and other documentation.

Martin Poulter is acting as an Ambassador between the two communities, with the support of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol as well as the two partner organisations. He will be employed part-time alongside his two other jobs at the University.

This project overlaps the cultural partnerships, expert outreach and education projects areas of Wikimedia UK's work. Among the many projects supported by Jisc are many collections of digital content, research in areas such as Digital Humanities and Virtual Research Environments and the UK Open Educational Resources programme. Jisc is also involved in influencing practice in Higher and Further Education through its work in innovation and change management.

Before this project, Wikimedia UK's work with Jisc has included the World War I editathon, the Digital Infrastructure team workshop and workshops at the Changing the Learning Landscape Strategy Implementation Programme event.

At the moment, the project is in an initial phase of planning and contact-building to see what activities to focus on out of the hundreds that are possible.

To send queries to Martin, it is best to use email at m.l.poulterbris.ac.uk , but Talk pages on the different Wikimedia projects will be watched.

Major project activities and outcomes will be announced here and on the affected Wikimedia projects. You can follow the project in greater detail on the dedicated user page, User:MartinPoulter_Jisc.

Media coverage

(latest at top)

• 30 June 2013 Wikipedia contributors 'should be proud' Times Higher Education
• University of Bristol announcement of the project
• Jisc announcement
• Wikimedia UK blog post

Archived material

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