Category Archives: Inclusive Practices

[Extra postscript] Inclusive Practices: Faith History through Manuscript Studies and storytelling – A curation of video resources

I found myself collecting these videos, as something that I was interested in, alongside writing the faith blog. Manuscript studies is an adjacent profession to archives, there is some cross-over but it is not quite the same. However it does … Continue reading

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*Coda to reflective report

I observe that I am an over-thinker, which perhaps sometimes is not helpful in some aspects of this process in this Unit. I must regulate it a bit… but it is also who I am. I have an aversion to … Continue reading

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[Extra] More thoughts on Faith (Thanks, Renee!)

Dear Renee,  I found this moving and thought provoking, thank you.  I also thought about it as I was going around the Siena exhibition at the national gallery. The intricate “works of art” which were made as objects for contemplation … Continue reading

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Inclusive Practices – Reflective Report

1) Introduction – what is the report about and how does it intersect with your positionality? What do you want to change and why? How does it relate to your academic practice?  In this report I will reflect on limitations of in my initial attempt at an … Continue reading

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Inclusive Practices [Supplementary] – New Intervention, post feedback: Collaborative Collage-making, centering ADHD experience, to explore Archival Bias [with pedagogies of discomfort]

Content warning: This exercise engages with difficult themes including trauma, dislocation, silencing, state repression and racial, gender or sexual prejudice. Anyone who does not feel comfortable can step out and is welcome to return as and when they feel able. … Continue reading

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Inclusive Practices Blog 3: Race

The two readings “bookend” the educational experience of racialised students in the UK. The first, their entry into the education system when starting school. The second, the Phd and contemplating academia as a career. Both articles do so from a … Continue reading

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Inclusive Practices: Intervention: Second Draft!

Enhancing small group learning activities for students discussing archival bias: Using assigned roles, new prompts, pen, paper and a digital padlet. ‘The presences and absences embodied in sources or archives are neither neutral or natural. They are created […] Sources are … Continue reading

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Inclusive Practices: Intervention idea

In our work in the Archives and Special Collections Centre, we run a lot of one-off workshops, in liaison with tutors, for courses. These are often to introduce researching with archives, sharing the importance of considering archival bias, and may … Continue reading

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Inclusive Practices Blog 1: Disability

Discuss specific examples from the resources that illustrate the intersection of disability with other identity aspects; Evaluate how these intersections impact the lived experiences of the interviewees. In 2020 (around a highpoint in activism of the Black Lives Matter movement), … Continue reading

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