Treasuring memories: Findings from ARCH

This one-day event is part of  The ARCH Project | Archiving Residential Children's Homes (University of Stirling) and is funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) and the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).

Join us for a day to explore the findings of the ARCH project. This cross-national project led by Professor Ruth Emond and Professor Florian Eßer, looked at how the everyday group care experiences of children and young people in residential care are captured and preserved, in Scotland and Germany.

During the day we will be presenting our findings from ARCH in relation to:

• Memory keeping vs record keeping. Professor Ruth Emond, University of Stirling
• Developing a group archive – the processes and challenges. Malte Heyen, Universität Osnabrück & Dr Siân Lucas, University of Stirling
• Responsibility and predicting future needs. Skye Foster, University of Stirling & Dr Andrew Burns, University of Stirling
• Remembering together & collective remembering. Karl Magee, University of Stirling
• ARCH findings from Germany. Professor Florian Eßer & Dr Maximilian Schäfer, Universität Osnabrück

Guest Speaker: Rosie Canning
Dr Rosie Canning, is a Researcher in and with the Care Experienced Community. She has a PhD from University of Southampton: Hiraeth (a novel): Representations of Care Experience in Literature. Rosie is also one half of Care Experience & Culture a digital archive collating literature, film, theatre, TV radio, blogs, websites, and academic material that features Care Experience. In 2022, she received a University of Southampton Doctoral College Director’s Award, Citizenship & Community. Helping to build and sustain the research community through an exceptional personal contribution.
Rosie recently collaborated on an exhibit with the Foundling Museum about Hannah Brown, an amazing foundling who wrote about Loss, Stigma and Shame long before it became fashionable to do so.

This is a free event open to anyone interested in memory and record keeping for children and young people in care.

This event will be held in the Iris Murdoch Building at the University of Stirling, starting at 9.30am on Tuesday 20th June. A schedule for the event will be available on the day. Please contact us s.e.lucas@stir.ac.uk if you have any queries about the event.

The campus is easily accessible by public transport and paid parking is also available. Please see Getting here for more information.

LOCATION

Iris Murdoch Building, University of Stirling, FK9 4LA