The Steering Group consists of Director of LERI, Dr Iain MacRury and Chair of LERI, Professor Gavin Poynter, and Dr Mary Smith, ELL2012 Project Manager, Professor Andrew MacDonald, Director of LLS and Gurdish Sandhu, Ass. Director LLS, Kevin Sheridan and Professor Adrian Renton from IHHD
Start date: August 2008
Project funder: HEFCE's Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC) as part of the Enriching Digital Resources programme, a strand of the digitisation programme.
Background
East London Lives 2012 is a digital archive demonstrator project which aims to document some aspects of change in the lives of East Londoners towards the hosting of the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. This archive hosts content from research projects based at the University of East London and other contextualising material about London, some of which is historical. The UEL research team carrying out work specifically for the archive focused on five London boroughs: Greenwich, Hackney, Newham, Tower Hamlets and Waltham Forest with the objective of documenting the outcomes of two of the Olympic bid promises: social regeneration, and health and wellbeing. As time goes on, content will be added to this resource, making it a ‘living archive’. We hope it will become a valuable resource for students at UEL and for the wider community.
The Archive will contain filmed focus groups and recorded oral histories from people in the five Olympic boroughs, together with relevant documentary sources and key papers arising from the work of London East Research Institute and the Institute for Health and Development.
This project stems from work carried out by two research institutes based at UEL, the London East Research Institute and the Institute of Health and Human Development. It also meets with the Library and Learning Services expertise in digital archives projects and a joint interest in ‘living archives’ and the study of regeneration, health and wellbeing.
If you have ideas about developing the archive or would like to find out more about the project please visit www.uel.ac.uk/ell2012 or contact Dr Mary Smith, Project Manager for ELL2012 m.k.smith@uel.ac.uk or on 020 8223 2276 or Hazel Graham, Project Officer on 020 8223 6466 or ell2012@uel.ac.uk
For more information, visit the project's website at www.uel.ac.uk/ell2012 or http://eastlondonlives2012.net/
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