Lunch Hour Lecture: ‘Untangling myself from the file’: human-centred record-keeping

Date: Thursday 14 November 2019 Speakers: Dr Elizabeth Shepherd Professor of Archives and Records Management at Department of Information Studies at UCL Dr Victoria Hoyle Research Associate at Department of Information Studies at UCL About the lecture: Records and archives give families and individuals access to shared histories and values. Many people who grew up in care have gaps in their memories and questions about their own lives. In the absence of family records they make ‘subject access requests’ to local authorities and charities for answers. Organisational records contain their personal histories. MIRRA (Memory, Identity, Rights in Records, Access) research project is co-produced with care leavers, exploring information rights and responsibilities in social care records. This paper explores how care leavers' experiences might inform human-centred and participatory approaches to recordkeeping. Free to attend, live stream or watch online More info : http://events.ucl.ac.uk/lhl Join the conversation on Twitter at #UCLMinds