Neurodivergent Experiences of Archives: Call for Workshop Participants, deadline – 4 June 2025
Are you a (UK-based) neurodivergent researcher who has used archives in your work? Or an archive professional who would like to inform discussions on neurodivergent user access? Or a neurodivergent archive professional who can offer insights into accessibility?
As part of the EDI Caucus funded project ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’, we, a group of neurodivergent humanities academics, will be running a series of research and knowledge exchange workshops at archives around the UK, and online, in summer 2025. These workshops will bring together archive users and professionals to share archive experiences, identify potential barriers for neurodivergent users, and creatively ‘re-imagine’ archival spaces through zine-making.
The first workshop will be hosted by:
Imperial War Museums, Lambeth Road, London – 4 July 2025, 10am to 4:15pm.
We can fund limited travel expenses for participants, including support worker travel and overnight accommodation where necessary.
Please sign up here: ‘Divergent Minds in the Archive’ Workshop at Imperial War Museums, 4th July 2025.
Deadline for application is Wednesday 4 June at 5pm.
Future workshops will be held in Cardiff, Liverpool, and online – please sign up to our mailing list for more information in due course.
Please feel free to get in touch with further questions at divergentmindsarchive@gmail.com.
All the very best,
Ria, Lucie, and Ann-Marie
The project is led by Dr Ria Cheyne, Liverpool John Moores University; Dr Ann-Marie Foster, Robert Gordon University/Imperial War Museums; and Dr Lucinda Matthews-Jones, Liverpool John Moores University. Our partners are Glamorgan Archives, Gwent Archives, History UK, Imperial War Museums, Liverpool Record Office, Scottish Council on Archives, and Tyne and Wear Archives.
This project has received ethical approval from the Liverpool John Moores University Research Ethics Committee (reference number 25/HSS/001).
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