Difference between revisions of "Volunteer research interests and goals"

Revision as of 14:28, October 26, 2021

This wiki page is for Marine Lives volunteers to tell us a little about their research interests, and what they would like to get out of the Marine Lives Ship Account Book project.

In the next few days we will be giving all volunteers editorial access to our wiki, and will be giving you a ten minute lesson in how to add wiki content, how to make simple edits, and how to add a new page of your own.

So when we get together for the first time on October 18th, 2021, for our one hour launch ZOOM meeting, we will started each of us to become familiar with using the main publication and collaboration platform for this project - the Marine Lives wiki.

Let me (Colin Greenstreet) kick this page off with some brief notes on a one to one ZOOM call with volunteer Dr Joshua Eckhardt on Monday, October 18th 2021. I'll leave it to Joshua to review this and change it as he sees fit. I have also added some notes on my own research interests and goals for this project

Joshua Eckhardt

Eckhardt at a transcribathon

BACKGROUND

• Professor, Virginia Commonwealth University, English Faculty
• Research/teaching focus: Early Modern English
• Editor of online scholarly editions British Virginia
• Faculty sponsor of the Superscripts

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Strong interest in handwritten manuscripts, as well as printed books in early modern bookshops and libraries

INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

• Supporting a current student who is doing research into an English mariner
• Discovering new manuscript material for future use with students

Colin Greenstreet

Colin Greenstreet and Bron

BACKGROUND

• Social sciences undergraduate; Masters in Business Administration
• Magement consultant, pharmaceutical R&D executive and entrepreneur
• Last ten years starting and supporting social ventures, including Marine Lives, Viae Regiae, and the Signs of Literacy initiative

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Strong interest in handwritten manuscripts
• Building a powerful set of metadata for English High Court of Admiralty depositions, 1574 to 1684
• Researching and publishing on Mariner literacy and Early Modern commercial record keeping
• Fostering collaboration between academic and public historians

INTEREST IN SHIP ACCOUNT BOOK PROJECT

• Strengthening the Marine Lives volunteer group in the Americas
• Exploring new ways of collaboration, which build on existing Marine Lives approaches to team building and collaborative research and publication