Anna’s role

Anna provides project management and administrative support for the Heritage Dot conference. This includes a wide range of tasks; dealing with day to day arrangements for the event, delegate liaison, enquiries, website management, keynote liaison, advertising, social media and logistics.

Anna is a heritage management specialist with key interests in the uses of heritage, digital innovation, public history/heritage/archaeology, and public engagement with the arts and heritage.

 

A bit of background

Anna’s subject specialism is heritage studies, with a PhD in History from the University of Lincoln, an MA in Archaeological Heritage Management from the University of York and an MA in Archaeology & Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Anna has postgraduate awards in Teaching and Learning in the Digital Age and is an Associate Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a member of the UK Chapter of the Association for Critical Heritage Studies.

Alongside her role at C4CC, Anna works as a freelance heritage consultant and Mayflower 400 Officer at West Lindsey District Council. Anna says:

“As a heritage consultant and public historian, I’m interested in how and why we use the past. I work cross sector managing projects within economic development, heritage tourism, history, culture and the arts, combining heritage practice with my background as a researcher.”

In 2018, Anna received a Community Award from the High Sheriff of Nottinghamshire for her work related to Pilgrims’ heritage in North Nottinghamshire.

Anna has worked at the University for several years in various roles, in the University Library, as a Research & Projects Assistant, and an Associate Lecturer in the School of History & Heritage. Anna also teaches as a Visiting Tutor in History and Heritage at Bishop Grosseteste University.

Research & Projects

• Repatriating the Pilgrims: Cultural Myth or Heritage Reality? – PhD, 2018
• Our Lincolnshire – Arts Council England funded, 2016
• Understanding Middlefield’s Utopias – AHRC funded, 2016
• Heritage Dot
• Pilgrim Roots
• Illuminate Retford & Gainsborough – Arts Council England funded, 2017 & 2018
• Pilgrim Roots Heritage Project – National Lottery Heritage Fund funded, 2018
• Bassetlaw Christian Heritage – Thoroton Society Geoffrey Bond Research Awards, 2017 & 2018
• Mayflower 400

Publications

• Lewis, C., Scott, A., Cruse, A., Symonds, D & Nicolson, R. (2019) Our Lincolnshire: Understanding Public Engagement with Heritage. Oxford: Archaeopress.
• Scott, A. (2018) ‘It’s a man’s world. Or is it? The ‘Pilgrim Fathers’, religion, patriarchy, nationalism, and tourism’. In: V. Grahn & R. Wilson Gender and Heritage: Performance, Place & Politics. London: Routledge.
• Scott, A. (2015) ‘Telling our story: the Mayflower Pilgrims in the East Midlands’, East Midlands History & Heritage Magazine, Issue 2 (Dec), pp.24-5.
• Scott, A. (2012) ‘Publics versus professionals: agency and engagement with RobinHood and the Pilgrim Fathers in Nottinghamshire’. In: The cultural moment in Tourism. Routledge Advances in Tourism. London: Routledge.

And finally…

See Anna’s work in action:

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