History in the Public Sector

Date: 16 Jan 2025
Time: 4:15 – 5:15pm (UKT)
Venue: Research Space, Arts Complex, University of Bristol
Language: English

In-person only event. To attend, please register on Ticketpass.

On 16 January (Thursday) at 4:15-5:15, the Hong Kong History Centre will host a panel discussion on what history, and historians, can do in the public sector. Centre Research Director Professor Ray Yep, a public intellectual who has served on numerous government bodies in Hong Kong including the Central Policy Unit and civil society organisations, will be joined by two Bristol History PhD graduates, Dr. Chris Wemyss, now of Department for Science, Innovation & Technology, and Dr. Gemma O’Neill, of the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office. This panel will be chaired by Professor Josie McLellan, Co-Director of Research, Department of History. In the session, the panelists will discuss how their research background informs their work in and/or with the government, and what might history, and historians, do for policymaking and more widely the public sector.