Positive partnerships: developing effective collaboration between schools and universities

Sarah Longair launched a collaborative project between school history teachers and university historians in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. In this article, Longair and her teacher colleagues, Kerry Milligan and Emma McKenna, share how they used online collaboration to develop a flexible and practical approach to school–university collaboration, and reflect on its impact and the key factors behind its success. The project particularly focused on decolonisation in historical research and scholarship. Milligan and McKenna share examples of the work the project enabled them to carry out with their departmental colleagues and students, exploring decolonisation and marginalised or silenced histories...