{"id":1031,"date":"2023-05-19T17:01:30","date_gmt":"2023-05-19T16:01:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/?p=1031"},"modified":"2023-05-24T11:17:32","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T10:17:32","slug":"niamh-dillon-appointed-as-associate-researcher-in-oral-history-newcastle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/oral-history\/2023\/05\/19\/niamh-dillon-appointed-as-associate-researcher-in-oral-history-newcastle\/","title":{"rendered":"Niamh Dillon appointed as Associate Researcher in Oral History @ Newcastle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Dr Niamh Dillon joined the Oral History Collective @ Newcastle as an Associate Researcher in January 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Niamh is Project Director for National Life Stories<\/a> at the British Library. <\/a>She also leads a corporate oral history programme for the engineering firm of J Murphy & Sons.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her research is inspired by the long-form life-story methodology she has practised since 2004 at National Life Stories, where interviews are recorded over multiple sessions and archived in the core oral history collection as a permanent social history resource. After initially contributing to the pioneering Food: from Source to Salespoint<\/em>,<\/a> she went on to run Tesco: An Oral History<\/em>. <\/a>Today, she is director of Architects\u2019 Lives<\/a><\/em>, which is an oral history of architecture and the built environment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niamh is particularly interested in questions of migration, empire and identity. Her recent book, Homeward Bound: return migration from Ireland and India at the end of the British Empire<\/em><\/a> (NYU Press, 2022) is a comparative study which uses first-hand testimony to investigate individual and collective narratives of belonging in the late British Empire. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niamh works with institutions to promote the use of oral history including archival collections. She has given annual seminars at the Architectural Association<\/a> and the Royal College of Art. <\/a>She has also led seminars for Kingston University School of Art, <\/a>the Getty\u2019s \u2018Keeping it Modern<\/a>\u2019 series, and Leiden University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her interest in oral history was sparked while volunteering at the Haringey Irish Centre in London. She subsequently worked as a researcher at Croydon Clocktower (one of the first museums to integrate oral history into its exhibition galleries) and in television, on documentaries, including the Academy Award-winning Into the Arms of Strangers: stories of the Kindertransport. <\/em>Niamh completed an MA in Film Studies at UCL and a PhD in History at Goldsmiths.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Niamh chairs the monthly Oral History Collective Reading Group. This meets via zoom, to discuss reading on all aspects of oral history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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