Welcome to the research web page for the Centre for Life History and Life Writing Research. Here you will find details of the research - in terms of both projects and conferences - and the community engagement that is being carried out by the Centre.
Research conferences
- Click here to find information about this experts workshop in September 2021: The Magic of Metadata and Ticklish Taxonomies for Oral History Experts
- Click here to find information about this conference in June 2018: Locating Women in 'The Folk' – An interdisciplinary conference. Perspectives on women’s contributions to folk song, folklore, and cultural traditions.
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View a list of the research conferences we have organised here.
Current and past projects
Please follow the links below to view projects in more detail:
- Sussex Retold: Sound, Sites, Stories. Rethinking regional arts, crafts, folklore and music through participation, partnership and performance (2024)
- Lives in Colour Circle:Pioneering women in colour history. Alexandra Loske (since 2020)
- Hope Wolf: A Tale of Mothers' Bones. Grace Pailthorpe, Reuben Mednikoff and the Birth of Psychorealism (De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill, 2018/19)
- The Business of Women's Words: Purpose and profit in feminist publishing (2018)
- Merchants and Miracles: Global circulations and the making of modern Bethlehem (2018)
- Sussex Traditions - Folklife and Folklore (2017)
- Rebels in the archives - Panel discussion. 7 March 2017 The British Library
- Sussex Art History at 50: The oral history of the department of Art History at Sussex (2017-20)
- GIDDY - A community heritage and oral history project, led by young people from Longhill High School, Brighton (2016/17)
- The 50th anniversary of SPRU - Science Policy Research Unit at Sussex University
- You can't move history - You can secure the future. Engaging youth in cultural heritage. An interdisciplinary AHRC funded project.
- 100 Voices that made the BBC-Elections (A collaboration with the University of Sussex) Professor David Hendy outlines the unique value of oral history, and its longstanding importance at the University of Sussex
- Curating Childhoods: Developing a Multimedia Archive of Children’s Everyday Lives
- New Pathways: A Psychogeographical Exploration of Lewes 2014/15
- True Tales from the Old Hill: Lewes Life Writing 2014/15
- Stanmer House Oral Histories 2014/15
- Public and Personal Archives: Creative Negotiations, University of Sussex, 4 April 2014
- Hearing her: Oral histories of women’s liberation in China and the United Kingdom
- Fifty Voices, Fifty Faces
- Sacred Communities: Connected Practices Across Place and Time
- Places for All? A Multi-Media Investigation into an English City
- Our Hospital, Our History: Voices from Brighton and Sussex University Hospitals
- Sisterhood and After: The Women's Liberation Oral History Project
- 'Deprived White Community'? Social Action in Three Norwich Estates.1930-2005
- Integrating history and ecology to sustain a living landscape
- Archiving and Reusing Qualitative Data
- The Committee of 100: An Oral History research project
- Biodigital Lives: making, consuming and archiving the lives of techno-science
- Ivy Benson and Her All Girls Band - Jenna Bailey Project
- Women and Work: Progression Through Learning
- Deaf Life Histories
- The Genome Incorporated: Constructing Biodigital Identity