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18-21 July 2022
Application closing date: 15 June 2022
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 | Feedback |