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Registration and Travel Bursaries for ‘Digital Archives in Communities – Practice and Preservation’

Submitted on 21st May 2018

 Registration now open for ‘Digital Archives in Communities – Practice and Preservation’.

‘Identity, Representation and Preservation in Community Digital Archives and Collections' is a 12-month project funded by the British Academy and led by Dr Sharon Webb (Principal Investigator) under a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award. This project will explore three important areas; community archives, digital preservation and content representation through a series of workshops. 

The first workshop, ‘Digital Archives in Communities – Practice and Preservation’, will be held at the Sussex Humanities Lab 20-21st June and will feature a number of speakers and presentations by members of community archives as well as practitioners and researchers in archiving, digital preservation and arts practice. 

The workshop is open to volunteers who work in community archives, practitioners, researchers, activists, archivists, artists and anyone interested in community archives and digital preservation. The event is free, but registration is essential as places are limited. Lunch will be provided. 

There are a number of small travel bursaries (£100 each) available for PhD students, early career scholars and members of community led archives. These are sponsored by the British Academy, if you are interested please send an email to sharon.webb@sussex.ac.uk briefly explaining the relevance of your work to this event by 6th June 2018.

The event runs over 2 days, 20th June (9.30 – 5pm), 21st June (9.30 – 4pm). 

A full programme of events will be announced soon on www.preservingcommunityarchives.co.uk or contact the event organiser Dr Sharon Webb (sharon.webb@sussex.ac.uk) for more details. You can also follow @wsharon145 on Twitter for further announcements and news. Registration details can be found here.


DRI is funded by the Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS) via the Higher Education Authority (HEA) and the Irish Research Council (IRC).

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