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Widening Participation in Archives & Records Management Summer School

18-21 July 2022

Application closing date: 15 June 2022

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We have recently secured funding through the UCL Arts & Humanities Faculty - the Dean’s Strategic Fund - to run a Summer School targeted at prospective applicants to our MA in Archives and Records Management course who have struggled to gain pre-course work experience due to marginalization.

We welcome applications from those who have struggled to enter the profession on the basis of their race, colour, religion or belief, national, socio-economic or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression.

The aim of the summer school is to increase the diversity of applicants to our programme, and provide exposure to the theory and practice underpinning the work of an Archivist and Records Manager to strengthen an application to our programme in lieu of pre-course experience.

This will be an in-person event, on UCL campus. Each participant will receive a £260 stipend for attending, intended to cover travel expenses and other costs such as child care.

The first two days of the summer school will encourage participants to think and question ideas around what records and archives are, to explore different perspectives and relationships to archives and records. The second two days will include talks, demos, exercises and visits to introduce students to the role of the archivist and records manager, the key principles, practices, and innovations underpinning recordkeeping work, the sector and its relationship with equality, diversity and inclusion. Pre-course materials will be provided and there is an expectation that you will complete some pre-course reading.

To apply please fill in the application form at the above link.

Provisional Summer School Timetable

18 July: What are records and archives?

Time 

Session 

10.00 

Welcome. Intro to Summer School. Participation Guidelines. 

10.15 

"What led us here" mixer: participants  and tutors getting to know each other  

11.00 

Lightening talk: what is a record? What is an archive? 

11.15 

Lightening talk: Introduction to critical recordkeeping perspectives  

11.30 

 Group discussion: key quotations 

13.00 

Lunch 

14.00 

Lightening talk: Activating the archive  

14.15 

Group exercises exploring archival activism through creative practice 

 19 July: Exploring key principles/processes/frameworks underpinning recordkeeping

Time 

Session 

10.00 

Principles, frameworks and processes underpinning recordkeeping practice  

10.15 

Talk & demo: introducing cataloguing practice  

10.30 

Workshop: inclusive cataloguing approaches/ethical challenges in cataloguing/ decolonial approaches 

12.30 

Lightening talk: Digital records & digital preservation 

13.00 

Lunch 

14.00 

Lightening talk: Emerging technologies in Archives and Records Management  

14.10 

Exercises & discussion on AI, Ethics & Accountability in ARM  

15.00 

Digitisation demo  (1.5 hours) 

20 July: The Role of the Archivist/Records Manager

Time 

Session 

10.00 

Meet the Archivist Site Visit

13.00 

Lunch 

14.00 

Lightening Talk: The recordkeeping sector and the recordkeeping professional  

14.15 

Talk and Discussion: worker experiences of marginalisation in the sector 

15.00 

Careers and professional networks: panel 

21 July: Hands-on archive session & introducing our course 

Time 

Session 

10.00 

Special Collections Handling Session 

13.00 

Lunch 

14.00 

Introduction to the course 

15.00 

Funding Your Studies (Bursaries available etc)

15.30  

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