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Session D2

Tracks
Track D (SS Great Britain): Next Generation - Rethinking Training, Outreach and Inclusivity
Wednesday, August 27, 2025
2:15 PM - 3:35 PM
SS Great Britain

Overview

Panel Session

Chair: Ruth MacLeod, Chair, Archives And Records Association

Innovation and Imagination in Contemporary Archives and Records Management Teaching and Research
Dr Elizabeth Mullins, University College Dublin; Dr Anna Sexton, University College London and Dr Alexandrina Buchanan, University of Liverpool


Speaker

Ms Ruth MacLeod
ARA Chair
Archives And Records Association

Chair: Session D2

Biography

Ruth is Chair of ARA. In her day job she is currently Head of Archive for the Guardian News and Media, and has previously worked in both HE and local government archives.
Dr Elizabeth Mullins
Lecturer In Archives And Records Management
University College Dublin

Innovation and Imagination in Contemporary Archives and Records Management Teaching and Research

2:15 PM - 3:35 PM

Abstract

This panel focuses on recent innovations in archival education and research in the UK and Ireland. It features speakers from a range of ARA accredited university programmes including University College Dublin, University College London, and the University of Liverpool. Two papers in the panel will focus on trauma-informed and person-centred approaches. Dr Anna Sexton , whose research has been central to the global development of trauma-informed discourse in archives, will discuss some of her own research into the layers of traumatic potentiality that exist in record-keeping contexts and the affective factors that heighten or lessen the likelihood of traumatic responses to encountering records and archives. She will describe how she teaches trauma-informed approaches to archives, records and cultural heritage students in the School of Information in UCL. Dr Elizabeth Mullins will explore how recent discourse about trauma-informed approaches in archives dovetails with contemporary thinking about university teaching and how this has impacted on the archival training curriculum in University College Dublin. She will also address the promotion of trauma-informed practice to the records profession in Ireland through online community building. Connected to ways of delivering archival education online, Dr Alexandrina Buchanan, the panel's final speaker, will reflect on the development of a hybrid model for the delivery of archival education and training in the University of Liverpool and the lessons learned from this.

Biography

Dr Elizabeth Mullins is the Director of the MA Archives and Records Management programme in the School of History at University College Dublin see https://people.ucd.ie/elizabeth.mullins
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Dr. Anna Sexton
Lecturer And Co-director, Ma In Archives And Records Management
University College London

Innovation and Imagination in Contemporary Archives and Records Management Teaching and Research

2:15 PM - 3:35 PM

Biography

Lecturer in Archives, Records Management and Information Governance and Co-Director of the MA in Archives and Records Management, Department of Information Studies, UCL
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Dr. Alexandrina Buchanan
Reader In Archive Studies
University of Liverpool

Innovation and Imagination in Contemporary Archives and Records Management Teaching and Research

2:15 PM - 3:35 PM

Biography

I am Programme Director of the Masters in Archives and Records Management at the University of Liverpool, where I've been since 2007. I'm a former President of the ARA and now serve on the Code of Ethics panel and the Environmental Sustainability Group.

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Chair

Ruth MacLeod
ARA Chair
Archives And Records Association

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