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Hannah James Louwerse

Hannah's project explores Oral History’s Design. Her PhD title is: A creative collaboration. Sustaining visitor (re)use of oral histories on heritage sites: The National Trust’s Seaton Delaval Hall case study.

Project Title

Oral History’s Design: A creative collaboration. Sustaining visitor (re)use of oral histories on heritage sites: The National Trust’s Seaton Delaval Hall case study.

Supervisors

  • Prof Graham Smith (Newcastle University)

  • Mark Bailey (Northumbria University)

    Additional Supervisors: Jo Moody and Emma Thomas (National Trust)

Project description

Oral history’s ‘deep dark secret’ is that its use as an active collection tool outstrips its use and reuse in historical interpretation. The project draws on new developments in oral history reuse theory and practice in combination with design thinking to explore how heritage site can better support visitors in becoming active curators and historians in reusing an existing oral history on-site archive. The PhD would generate, in partnership, new knowledge in understanding and addressing visitors’ active engagement in interpreting the past through reusing a National Trust oral history archive and the background work needed to support this.

Qualifications

  • MA Multidisciplinary Innovation, Northumbria University, 2019

  • BA (Hons) Fine Art, Goldsmiths University of London, 2017

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Conference Papers

James Louwerse, H. (2021) Oral history’s design: a creative collaboration. Presented at Digital Heritage Workshops. 19, 26, 31 March 2021. Lancaster University and IIT Indore

James Louwerse, H. (2021) Staying flexible: how to build an oral history archive. Presented at Newcastle University Postgraduate conference. 19 May 2021. Newcastle University

James Louwerse, H. (2021) Only Time Will Tell: the ethical dilemma of oral histories. Presented at New Approaches to the Contentious Politics of Class. 27 May 2021. Newcastle University and the Labour and Society Research Group

James Louwerse, H. (2021) … and then dada broke into the archive. Presented at Newcastle University First Years conference. 9 June 2021. Newcastle University

James Louwerse, H. (2021) Only Time Will Tell: the ethical dilemma of oral histories. Presented at Futures: Summer Research Festival. 14-16 June 2021. South, West & Wales Doctoral Training Partnership

James Louwerse, H. (2021) Connecting with history through our screen. Presented at ‘Common Ground’ Online Conference 2021. 28 June - 2 July 2021 Queen’s University Belfast