ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book is designed to be equally helpful for two audiences: oral historians, and professionals in any discipline of the public or not-for-profit community sectors. It introduces the transdisciplinary practice and shows why it is so valued by policy-makers. The book focuses on how oral history for public policy relates to other types of oral history. It presents an exciting flyover of successful case studies from around the world in disciplines as diverse as medicine, agriculture and race relations. The book comprises the How To section, walking through every detail of doing the own project, big or small. It reviews all that is learned, seeing how best to apply it to advance both own career and chosen discipline, whether that's in oral history or in public policy.
