Faye Sayer
Biographic Data
| ID | 562658 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Faye Sayer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Faye |
| FAMILY NAME | Sayer |
| SIGNATURE | SAYER F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Manchester Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9150-1665 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Mental Distress at Heritage Places
This paper demonstrates the value of Behavioural Science to heritage practice and policy relating to mental health and wellbeing. It tests the effectivity of behavioural science as a mechanism to strengthen the equality lens at paid for heritage places,, reducing potential mental distress caused to visitors and contributing to wider mental health policy. The Behaviour Change Wheel, widely applied in public health care settings to design policy-ba…
Public History and Wellbeing
Over the last two decades, there has been an emergence of research pertaining to the impact of in-person engagement with historical sites on visitor wellbeing. Yet, despite this increasingly prolific research into the impact of historic places on individual visitors’ or participants’ wellbeing, the impact of digital online engagement with historical places on user wellbeing has been largely overlooked. This research sought to investigate and comp…
Digital Engagement and Wellbeing
The global “COVID-19” pandemic resulted in national lockdowns and the closure of museums to visitors. The pandemic had considerable negative impact on individual, community, and society wellbeing and changed museum practice, specifically through increased online presence. This pilot research sought to start to understand the impact online museum provisions had on individual wellbeing during the pandemic. It applied and adapted public health accre…
Testing the potential therapeutic effects of an online creative arts-based intervention for people with anxiety
Whilst additional confirmatory and longitudinal research is needed, the results of this exploratory study tentatively indicate that creative arts-based "interventions" delivered through digital media may be effective in substantively reducing common symptoms of anxiety
Open Dialogues and Localized Approaches
This brief review of non-English public history textbooks provides an overview of key themes, emerging trends and contextual differences in the theories and practice of public history in Brazil, China, Japan, and Germany. These books reflect both the international growth in public history and the global recognition of its transformative impact on societies. The books highlight how public history is situated within national epistemological and cul…
Hard roads to travel
Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage has developed community archaeology projects with marginalized communities, and within areas where archaeology is often disregarded, socially, economically, and politically. These projects use approaches based on the co-production of historical and archaeological knowledge, and have ethical implications for academics and participants; projects actively engaging the public in archaeology often do s…
Localizing the Narrative
This paper explores the interpretation and presentation of the transatlantic slave trade in Nigerian museums. It focuses on two contrasting case studies, namely the government-funded Slave History Museum (Calabar) and the privately run Seriki Faremi Williams Abass Slave Museum (Badagry). To investigate the complex and conflicting national and local narrative frameworks by which the slave trade and enslavement are presented to the public, this stu…
Can digging make you happy? Archaeological excavations, happiness and heritage
Current government agendas for investigating the “Gross National Happiness” have spurred private and commercial organizations to consider whether their work has the potential to influence peoples' happiness and sense of well-being. The role of archaeological projects has yet to be considered, despite the body of research pertaining to their wider social values. Methods: By combining quantitative methodological well-being measures offered by posit…
Politics and the Development of Community Archaeology in the UK
In the UK, changes in central government agendas and policies can be seen to have influenced the practice of community archaeology. This paper examines the politics which have affected the development of community archaeology in the UK over the last two decades and aims to promote understanding of the character and extent of its impact. It will, through an analysis of period-specific case studies, provide evidence of this development and suggest …
Can digging make you happy? Archaeological excavations, happiness and heritage
Current government agendas for investigating the “Gross National Happiness” have spurred private and commercial organizations to consider whether their work has the potential to influence peoples' happiness and sense of well-being. The role of archaeological projects has yet to be considered, despite the body of research pertaining to their wider social values. Methods: By combining quantitative methodological well-being measures offered by posit…
Hard roads to travel
Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage has developed community archaeology projects with marginalized communities, and within areas where archaeology is often disregarded, socially, economically, and politically. These projects use approaches based on the co-production of historical and archaeological knowledge, and have ethical implications for academics and participants; projects actively engaging the public in archaeology often do s…
Politics and the Development of Community Archaeology in the UK
In the UK, changes in central government agendas and policies can be seen to have influenced the practice of community archaeology. This paper examines the politics which have affected the development of community archaeology in the UK over the last two decades and aims to promote understanding of the character and extent of its impact. It will, through an analysis of period-specific case studies, provide evidence of this development and suggest …
Can digging make you happy? Archaeological excavations, happiness and heritage
Current government agendas for investigating the “Gross National Happiness” have spurred private and commercial organizations to consider whether their work has the potential to influence peoples' happiness and sense of well-being. The role of archaeological projects has yet to be considered, despite the body of research pertaining to their wider social values. Methods: By combining quantitative methodological well-being measures offered by posit…
Localizing the Narrative
This paper explores the interpretation and presentation of the transatlantic slave trade in Nigerian museums. It focuses on two contrasting case studies, namely the government-funded Slave History Museum (Calabar) and the privately run Seriki Faremi Williams Abass Slave Museum (Badagry). To investigate the complex and conflicting national and local narrative frameworks by which the slave trade and enslavement are presented to the public, this stu…
Open Dialogues and Localized Approaches
This brief review of non-English public history textbooks provides an overview of key themes, emerging trends and contextual differences in the theories and practice of public history in Brazil, China, Japan, and Germany. These books reflect both the international growth in public history and the global recognition of its transformative impact on societies. The books highlight how public history is situated within national epistemological and cul…
Hard roads to travel
Manchester Centre for Public History and Heritage has developed community archaeology projects with marginalized communities, and within areas where archaeology is often disregarded, socially, economically, and politically. These projects use approaches based on the co-production of historical and archaeological knowledge, and have ethical implications for academics and participants; projects actively engaging the public in archaeology often do s…
Public History and Wellbeing
Over the last two decades, there has been an emergence of research pertaining to the impact of in-person engagement with historical sites on visitor wellbeing. Yet, despite this increasingly prolific research into the impact of historic places on individual visitors’ or participants’ wellbeing, the impact of digital online engagement with historical places on user wellbeing has been largely overlooked. This research sought to investigate and comp…
Digital Engagement and Wellbeing
The global “COVID-19” pandemic resulted in national lockdowns and the closure of museums to visitors. The pandemic had considerable negative impact on individual, community, and society wellbeing and changed museum practice, specifically through increased online presence. This pilot research sought to start to understand the impact online museum provisions had on individual wellbeing during the pandemic. It applied and adapted public health accre…
Testing the potential therapeutic effects of an online creative arts-based intervention for people with anxiety
Whilst additional confirmatory and longitudinal research is needed, the results of this exploratory study tentatively indicate that creative arts-based "interventions" delivered through digital media may be effective in substantively reducing common symptoms of anxiety
Mental Distress at Heritage Places
This paper demonstrates the value of Behavioural Science to heritage practice and policy relating to mental health and wellbeing. It tests the effectivity of behavioural science as a mechanism to strengthen the equality lens at paid for heritage places,, reducing potential mental distress caused to visitors and contributing to wider mental health policy. The Behaviour Change Wheel, widely applied in public health care settings to design policy-ba…
Sociology (6 works) · Political science (5 works) · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation (4 works) · History (4 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Archaeological Research and Protection (2 works) · Art (2 works)