EDI Events

DIS Summer School Programme – UCL Black Heritage Students

UCL East Campus 16th - 18th July 2025. Led by Dr Daniel Onah

We are excited to announce a new summer school programme for UCL students from Black heritage background this July 2025 at UCL East Campus (Marshgate). The aim of the summer school programme is to bring together a community of black students across all course at UCL and introduce them to technical related disciplines. We will introduce students from Black minority groups to professional standard disciplines ranging from soft skill academic writing to technical dimensions.

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12th February 2025 - Film event in collaboration with DIS / CCARMS and National Student Pride

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ED&I Dissertation presentations

Wednesday 25th January 2023

This online event, organised in conjunction with the DIS Equality Diversity & Inclusion group (ED&I) celebrated ED&I in student research.

Several of our previous students, from across DIS degrees, gave short presentations on their ED&I focused dissertations. The presentations were followed by a Q&A session where they answered questions about their research and the dissertation process in general. The event was Chaired by Oliver Duke-Williams. A video of the event can be seen at: https://ucl.zoom.us/rec/share/OcAClPn02TEnl7R1f-sIaRZ7mYGWH5N5PLRp3n3R9l9D8J-urngNtqVMwng2y2sd.VZUpEQ5EIJ59miiE 
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UCLDH Seminar series

This seminar series is co-hosted by scholars living in three countries, nine time zones apart. Building upon the successful “Digital Humanities Longview” series (2021), it is a further bridging of trans-Atlantic digital humanities centres to promote a global conversation, and to foster rich international discussions from a diverse range of perspectives, with an emphasis on reflective practice.

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Widening Participation in Archives & Records Management Summer School

18-21 July 2022

The Archives and Records Management degree organised a Summer School targeted at prospective applicants who have struggled to gain pre-course work experience due to marginalization.

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Unlocking Narratives: The Roots of Decolonising Work in UK Libraries and Archives

8 June 2022

A free online event designed to interrogate the roots of decolonising work in our field.

A recording of the event is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wrvrinQ724s 

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Celebrating Students Achievement and Work on ED&I - online workshop

9 June 2022

This workshop discussed student work on ED&I that were motivated by inequality and social struggle and manifested in the form of digital collections and interactive narratives.

A recording of the event is available on our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW3Ey6SyVME

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Chapter 2022 conference

9 June 2022

Books in the Closet: Suppression, Censorship and the Book - a one-day postgraduate conference, organised by Bloomsbury CHAPTER (Communication, History of Authorship, Publishing, Textual Editing and Reading), in association with University College London’s Centre for Publishing and the Institute of English Studies, University of London. It was held online with a hybrid in-person/online keynote.  

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Equality Diversity and Inclusion in the Information sector

8 June 2021

This workshop, facilitated by Shirley Yearwood-Jackman (University of Liverpool (EDI Working Group, and BAME Lead); CILIP Trustee; Chair, CILIP BAME Network Committee) was open to all students and staff within the Department of Information Studies, to develop holistic knowledge of EDI issues across the piece and to learn about the perspectives and challenges across information professions.

A recording of the event can be found here (Moodle link, available to DIS staff and students only): https://moodle.ucl.ac.uk/mod/helixmedia/view.php?id=3747460