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Engaging with Archives and Heritage: Mapping the Student Experience at University of Birmingham

This project aims to enhance the student learning experience and contribute to the university's archive by developing multimedia and public engagement activities. It also works towards producing a cultural and social history of the university.

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Engaging with Archives and Heritage: Mapping the Student Experience at University of Birmingham

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  1. Engaging with Archives and Heritage: charting the student experience at the University of Birmingham Helen Fisher, Archivist, Cadbury Research Library: Special Collections

  2. Aims • To enhance the student learning experience • To add to the existing archive • To develop multimedia and public engagement activities • To work towards a long term aim of producing a cultural and social history of the University

  3. Initial steps… • Project with final year BA History students and MA West Midlands History students 2011-2012 • Funded by University of Birmingham Annual Giving Programme • Cadbury Research Library took part in the archive strand to run workshop using material from the university archives

  4. Student recruitment • PG students in the College of Arts and Law • October 2012-March 2013 • Initial workshop then regular follow up meetings • Student led activities with academic and archivist support

  5. Project activities • Archives skills – indexing and survey • Contemporary collecting – film making, gathering memories from alumni • Research • Day schools

  6. Evaluation • Research based on student life and experience • Archive skills development • Strengthening collaboration with individual students and staff • Aspects of contemporary collecting – need better planning with Alumni Office

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