Jennifer Douglas is the Principal Investigator (PI) on both the Conceptualizing Recordkeeping as Grief Work: Implications for Archival Theory and Practice and the ‘Getting to the Heart of the File’: Toward a Person-Centred Theory of Archival Care projects. Jennifer is an assistant professor at the School of Information at the University of British Columbia.
Project Research Assistants:
Alexandra Alisauskas
Elizabeth Bassett is a research assistant on the Conceptualizing Recordkeeping as Grief Work: Implications for Archival Theory and Practice project. For the project, Elizabeth has worked on transcribing research interviews, coding and analyzing interviews, and she also presented findings alongside the research team at the 2020 Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference. Elizabeth is a student in her final year of the University of British Columbia’s Dual Master of Library and Information Studies and Master of Archival Studies program.
Noah Duranseaud was a research assistant on the Conceptualizing Recordkeeping as Grief Work: Implications for Archival Theory and Practice project from June 2019 to September 2020. For the project, Noah transcribed research interviews, coded and analyzed interviews, co-wrote blog posts and they presented findings alongside the research team at the 2020 Association of Canadian Archivists Annual Conference. Noah completed a Masters in Archival Studies with the First Nations Curriculum Concentration at the University of British Columbia’s School of Information, and is now a Digital Systems Consultant at the Residential School History and Dialogue Centre.
Christina Mantey
Ted Lee is a PhD student at the School of Information researching the intersections of professionalization, precarious labour, and digital cultural heritage among archivists and archival workers.
Sadaf Ahmadbeigi
Mya Ballin is a research assistant on the “Getting to the heart of the file”: Toward a Person-Centred Theory of Archival Care project. The goal of the first stage of this project is to identify and assemble existing archival scholarship and methodologies that embody or reflect person-centred approaches in order to define a concept of person-centred care. Mya is in her second year at the University of British Columbia’s Dual Master of Library and Information Studies and Master of Archival Studies program. Her personal research interests centre on the experiences of transracial and transnational adoptees and how their interactions with (government) records and archives affect their conceptions of identity and belonging.