AHRC funded PhD Student with @I_W_M and @UniofNottingham: Vernacular photography, familial memory and oral history
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Joined May 2014
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Really excited to have a co-authored article with @MaikenUmbach published in Holocaust Studies journal entitled ‘Private photos and Holocaust testimony: A complex relationship’. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
A timely coincidence that I passed my viva today on #HMD2023 with my thesis exploring the photographs of four ordinary but extraordinary Holocaust survivors & their families. TY @TimCole_Bristol and Nick Baron for a supportive and challenging discussion & TY to my supervisors!
Thank you very much for having me @HolocaustUK - what a great group of people who wanted to engage with private collections of photographs
We were very excited to be joined by PhD student Alice Tofts from @I_W_M and Yiftach Meiri from @yadvashem to run sessions.
The Regional Ambassadors who attended our Study Visit to Yad Vashem earlier this year were also able to present their follow-up projects to their peers.
Ahead of the world cup, it's important to hear from those who suffered human rights abuses. Malcolm Bidali was kidnapped and arrested by the Quatari authorities for speaking about the abuse he suffered as a migrant worker. Read his piece in @MinorityRights
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THREAD: Energy Bill Support Grant. I have just been notified that I will get £67 a month off my energy bills under the govt scheme. For enormous numbers of people this support will be absolutely vital. But it won't be vital for everyone, and that includes me. (PLS RT) 1/
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An interesting sounding panel tomorrow from @_BIAHS_ on #Emotions and #HolocaustStudies tomorrow Wed 14 at 18:25 BST on the 'Emotions of Holocaust Studies.' Registration details below
Online workshop on Emotions and Holocaust Studies, September 13-14, 2022:
Register on Zoom: psu.zoom.us/meeting/register…
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Oil and gas companies say they’re going green. Yesterday I looked through some of their accounts to see if it’s true.
In the first half of this year, 4 companies made £74.4bn and reinvested £3.4bn in low carbon energy. On average, that’s equivalent to 5% of their profits.
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Nice view on the beach this morning in Brighton. Shame I can't see the wind turbines. Thanks @SouthernWater
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Thank you for a really inspiring and motivating writing workshop today from @YBattleFelton on storytelling for advocacy; I enjoyed the different writing activities which I am going to take into my practice.
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It was a pleasure interviewing @NicolaRollock for @MinorityRights #MinorityTrends on racial justice in #highered. See the interview here: trends.minorityrights.org/tr…
I was interviewed for @MinorityRights about race equality in #highered and my research on Black female professors.
See - trends.minorityrights.org/tr…
With thanks to @AliceTofts2
#blackintheivory @UKRI_News @RussellGroup @AdvanceHE @policyatkings @KingsCollegeLon
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#MinorityTrends is out now on the ways in which #minorities and #IndigenousPeoples face discrimination in #work. I contributed to three pieces on #construction and #educationandtraining. trends.minorityrights.org/
JUST OUT: Our annual #MinorityTrends report looks at the multiple ways in which #minorities and #IndigenousPeoples throughout the world face discrimination in their access and enjoyment of #work. Find out more online now 💡
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The personal implications of researching violent histories are rarely talked about but it’s helpful to hear Antony Beevor talking about suffering from post-traumatic stress after researching the Red Army’s crimes. thetimes.co.uk/article/anton…
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Never heard of the 'Malayan Emergency'? Does the term ring a bell but that's it? Then check out this @I_W_M podcast I made with @PhilNWang where we both learn things. He learns more about this complex, deeply relevant colonial war & I learn that he is a famous comedian 🙃
In the latest episode of the Conflict of Interest podcast, comedian @philnwang explores the origins, history and legacy of the Malayan Emergency with IWM expert Maria Creech and historian Karl Hack.
Listen now on your favourite podcast app: bit.ly/3fF7Sns
Doing a PhD on the subject of the Holocaust has been an extremely lonely and challenging experience. I am so glad to be part of developing @TraumaHistNet, building conversations and networks where themes like trauma, self-reflexivity and emotions can be explored.
Really pleased to be speaking this evening 5pm BST on Zoom at @TraumHistNet for their new personal stories series. I’ll be talking about my experience of interviewing Holocaust survivors. DM @TraumHistNet for details on how to join.
We're excited to launch our new
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which will be starting on Mon 11 April at 5pm GMT on Zoom
@AliceTofts2 will be talking about her experience of interviewing Holocaust survivors. DM us for details on how to join
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Join us next week for our new
-Personal Stories Series -
To hear from researchers of traumatic, violent and challenging histories
11 April at 5pm GMT on Zoom
@AliceTofts2 will be talking about her interviewing Holocaust survivors.
DM us for details on how to join
An exciting new exhibition made by the curator @MariaCreech10 using her family photographic archive
If you can get to Slough between 19 March - 19 April, come check out this exhibition I'm working on with @HOMESlough using photos I found in my late Uncle Rysiek's attic (he's the one sporting the dapper cap in the promo poster):
homeslough.org.uk/event/grov…
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An interesting sounding virtual conference from @ArchivalKismet in April exploring '“Feeling(s) in the Archive: Emotions, Expressions, Experience.”
archivalkismet.org/archival-…
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Marvellous and stylish new issue of the New Humanist out now - in which, among myriad other highlights, @KasiaTee takes on the IWM's new Second World War galleries, and @hautepop takes on the metaverse newhumanist.org.uk/articles/…
