All the undertakings indicated in the Grant Agreement Annex 1 (DoA) have proceeded as planned, along with substantial additional activities. The work performed by the project throughout its 5-year duration can be divided into three sections: publications, public engagement and education, and new writing.
Publications
The team has actively published a range of materials in a variety of formats over the project’s duration, including numerous individual and collaborative blogposts, teaching resources, reflection pieces, and television and radio programmes with national broadcasters. The peer reviewed publications that have emerged from project research include 2 collaborative essay collections (and 1 further forthcoming), 4 monographs (inc. 1 forthcoming), 2 PhD theses (one from doctoral researcher on project and second from researcher supported by additional leveraged funding from the host institution), 6 articles, and 5 book chapters.
Public Engagement
The questions posed by the project possess a unique urgency in the present climate, where debates about the rights and identities of displaced peoples, nations, and groups rage not only in Europe but across the world. TIDE's public engagement strategy worked with both local and national institutions, archival collections, and groups to impact the way transculturality and identity is taught and understood. It operated in three key areas:
• Education and Policy: We have worked with schoolteachers, researchers, and policy makers to influence the UK national curriculum and collaborate with think tanks on their reports and publications.
• Literature and Culture: This involved exciting new writing initiatives; collaborative theatrical workshops; local outreach through museum workshops and temporary exhibits; and larger networks of collaboration with national and international museums.
• Community and Society: TIDE liaised with local trusts, higher education widening participation schemes, and community groups and programmes to confront ongoing issues around transculturality and belonging.
• Academic Outreach: Alongside the project’s numerous publications, the team have fostered intellectual exchange by organising conferences, seminars, symposiums, invited talks, and workshops, and disseminated their research at events across Europe and North America.
New Writing
TIDE’s Visiting Writer programme was developed to provide an invaluable insight into how literature acts as a bridge across multiple cultural landscapes in a world where views of cultural identity, rights and affiliations lend themselves to strife, conflict and division. Each year, a different writer worked closely with the core research team to produce a thought-provoking and illuminating set of outputs and events, including poetry collections, published essays, museum displays, and interactive multimedia resources.
In addition, TIDE has led to a further successful bid for ERC Proof of Concept funding (TRACTION, GA 966795), which is supporting a further initiative developing out of our Education and Policy work, by developing a sustainable online platform of continuing professional development for high school teachers of English and History, on the topics of race, identity, and migration.
