We are delighted to announce that the Gloucester Project has been shortlisted for the prestigious award of 'Research Project of the Year: Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences' at the Times Higher Education Awards 2024. The shortlisting recognises the quality of the University of East Anglia's research on the Gloucester and the collaboration with Norfolk Museums Service, Norfolk Historic Shipwrecks, and the Gloucester (1682) Charitable Trust.
These are the 20th annual THE Awards (widely known as the "Oscars of higher education"), recognising excellence across the UK and Irish sectors. The ceremony for the awards will take place on Thursday 28 November 2024 at the International Convention Centre (ICC) in Birmingham.
A summary of the project submission, also available on the Times Higher Education Awards 2024 website, is below:
'Since UEA’s worldwide launch of the discovery of a royal shipwreck off the Norfolk coast, a tidal wave of academic, engagement and civic activity has followed. The extent of public curiosity in our work on the Gloucester is as great as ever encountered in the University's 60-year history.
The innovative research at the heart of the project is transforming our understanding of 17th-century political and maritime history and has paved the way for a major heritage attraction in one of England’s most deprived areas. Funded by the Leverhulme Trust and AHRC, the researchers are producing a unique cradle-to-grave history of the warship, while revealing real lives lost when it ran aground in 1682.
As well as extensive global media coverage, the award-winning project has inspired an acclaimed exhibition at Norwich Castle visited by 70,000 people, an animated drama, a lecture at the Royal Institution and a major academic conference.'
Further information on the awards can be found here.
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