Dr Niamh Dillon joined the Oral History Collective @ Newcastle as an Associate Researcher in January 2023.
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Wendy Rickard appointed as an Associate Researcher in Oral History @ Newcastle
Dr Wendy Rickard joined the Oral History Collective @ Newcastle as an Associate Researcher in early 2023.
Continue readingFunded PhD opportunity: Oral History’s Design: A creative collaboration.
Sustaining visitor (re)use of oral histories on heritage sites: The National Trust’s Seaton Delaval Hall AS A case study.
Oral history’s popularity as an active collecting method and archiving tool have outstripped the level of reuse of oral histories in historical interpretation. And while oral history’s limited reuse of archived oral histories has attracted some interest, this is based mainly on proposed digital technical fixes. Significantly, there is relatively less research on the dissemination of oral histories and their reception by audiences. Oral history as an emerging discipline has yet to adequately integrate users and audiences into the processes of analysis and reuse.
Continue readingSue Bradley appointed as Research Associate in Oral History @ Newcastle
Sue Bradley joined Oral History @ Newcastle as our third Research Associate in February this year. Sue is an experienced oral historian and was instrumental in developing a network of like-minded researchers at the university before the Oral History Unit came along. Her first project has been to work with Special Collections at the Philip Robinson Library to develop shared processes for the collection and archiving of oral histories. Having worked in the Centre for Rural Economy for the past ten years, Sue brings a non-urban focus to the unit’s work.
In His Own Voice: Dr Julian Tudor Hart (9 March 1927- 1 July 2018)
In this blog post Graham Smith remembers the pioneering general practitioner Dr Julian Tudor Hart who died on the 1st of July. Graham interviewed him in June 1999.
Click HERE for a .mp3 audio extract from the interview and for a .pdf transcript of that extract: Tudor Hart in His Own Voice pt 1 extract 1
Alison Atkinson-Phillips appointed as Research Associate to Oral History @ Newcastle
Alison Atkinson-Phillips has joined Oral History @ Newcastle as our second Research Associate. Alison has come to oral history via public history, cultural studies, community development and a non-academic career in communications. Alison’s Twitter profile (@dralia_p) describes her as a ‘writer, researcher, renovator and procrastinator’. But with the renovations left behind in Bassendean (Western Australia) she is hoping she will have time for her other three favourite things.*
Andy Clark appointed as a Research Associate to Oral History @ Newcastle
We are pleased to announce that Andy Clark has been appointed as our first Rsearch Associate in Oral History.