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The Humanities Research Network
Te Whatunga Rangahau Aronui
Linking minds and energies in the arts, culture and the humanities
The Humanities Research Network Te Whatunga Rangahau Aronui (HRN) is designed to encourage new ways of thinking about the overlapping domains of knowledge which are represented by the arts, humanities, social sciences, other related fields like law, and matauranga Māori, and new relationships among their practitioners.
Creating Cultural Knowledge
The HRN is intended to support the creation of cultural knowledge as a broadly based, multi-professional and multi-organisational practice. It will provide a representation of the humanities-aronui in all its dimensions, from cultural archive to cultural production in many different organisational and professional settings, and in a variety of languages and media. It will become bilingual because it must include Māori modes of knowledge creation.
A Virtual Infrastructure
The aim is to create a virtual infrastructure as a major step towards strengthening the humanities-aronui as a critical aspect of New Zealand's research and development capability. The network will provide a "one-stop shop" where those engaged in any aspect of the humanities-aronui in New Zealand, in any organisational or private location, can make themselves and their interests known to others and can access a comprehensive range of information about the sector in New Zealand and internationally.
The HRN will be dynamic, both in the interactivity between individuals and organisations which it will make possible, and in the account it will give of on-going evolution and development within its domain. It will provide information (or means of access to information) crucial for policy development, increases in research funding, and organisational development, and an on-line forum for the discussion of current issues and the formation of policy positions. It will permit better planning of conferences, visitors, and meetings because of the calendar of future activities nationally which it will provide.
The wider the participation in the HRN by those working in the sector, the more value it will have, especially as it will facilitate the identifying of shared interests and evolving domains of research.
Disclaimer
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Using the Humanities Research Network
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