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The impact was based on research on William Turner by Hamilton; its aim was to contribute to the cultural enrichment of audiences in Britain and Europe and to promote wider public understanding and knowledge of the work of Turner. It culminated in the Exhibition, Turner and Italy, staged at the Palazzo del Diamante, Ferrara, Italy (16 November 2008 to 22 February 2009); the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh (27 March to 7 June 2009); the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest (15 July to 25 October 2009). Through the significant numbers of paying visitors and purchase of exhibition catalogues the research also contributed to the local economy. It was the first exhibition on Turner in Hungary, ensuring creation of public awareness and knowledge of his work by a new international audience.
Turner and the Masters, organised in collaboration with Tate Britain, shown at Tate, the Grand Palais, Paris, and the Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid, in 2009-10, had extensive impact, as measured by audience figures, catalogue sales, press coverage, online survey participation, and attendance at public events and education programmes. Exhibition visitors, schoolchildren on tours, readers and viewers of media items gained insight into Turner's achievements; mechanisms of cultural transmission and the European context of British art. Immediate impact on curatorial and scholarly engagement with Turner shows in a `spin-off' exhibition (Turner in the Light of Claude) at the National Gallery, and a new book on Turner and history.
Prize-winning research by Dr David Turner at Swansea University has enriched public understanding of the history of disability. He has empowered disabled people by showing that they have a history and demonstrated the contemporary relevance of that history in showing that developments considered recent, such as the formation of disabled identities and public fears about the authenticity of disabled welfare claimants, are nothing new. Impact is achieved via the creation of a major cultural product, a BBC Radio 4 series `Disability: A New History' which reached a wide audience, and through targeted engagement with media, policymakers and campaigners on disability benefit reform.
Professor Stephen Farthing's research proposes a new framework for the structured study of the process and functions of drawing beyond the specialist art school curriculum. His work since 2004, in collaboration with Tate Britain and the Ashmolean Museum, has tested the possibilities of utilising museum collections as a resource for the teaching of drawing and has directly impacted on the development of a new drawing curriculum for schools and further education institutions and on the extension of new audiences for Ruskin's teaching collection.