The Observing the 1980s OER has been used extensively in a course taught here at Sussex called; ‘1984: Thatcher’s Britain’. Brandon Perree, one of the students on the course, was inspired by the inforgraphics created as part of the Observing the 1980s project. So much so, that he has created … Read more
Fancy being a modern day Mass Observer?
The Mass Observation Archive has put out a call for electronic diaries written on the 12th May 2013. Anyone can take part! For more details visit: www.massobs.org.uk/12may
Who knows? You diary might end up part of an Observing the 2013 OER!
Picturing the 80s
As part of the project, we wanted to have some visual materials to counterpoint the other resources. We came up with the idea of producing a series of infographics to display selected data on relevant topics.
Friday, March 15th, 2013
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How digitised ‘special’ collections are boosting experiences of teaching and learning : JISC
Find out more about other OERs created in the same JISC-funded programme as Observing the 1980s. How digitised ‘special’ collections are boosting experiences of teaching and learning : JISC.
Tuesday, March 12th, 2013
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Feedback video
Find out what students and other users have said about the Observing the 1980s collection in our video.
Monday, February 25th, 2013
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Media coverage
See latest media coverage in The Guardian!
Giving Voices To Our Archives – Augmenting The 1980s with Scarlet+.
Since August 2013 I have been working with Dr. Lucy Robinson and the SCARLET team at Mimas to develop an Augmented Reality application (AR app) using material from the Mass Observation Project (MOP), to be used as part of Dr. Robinson’s course on Thatcher’s Britain.
It is now very nearly finished, and has been entitled … Read more
Snagging Santa
A last word before Christmas, from Dr Lucy Robinson!
We felt that the Christmas break was a natural deadline to get the OER finished and zipped up cosily. This did mean that the last few days have been a bit of a rush. Tidying up the OER meant fixing up a few grinchy glitches picked up … Read more
Poofters, Pop and Pandemics
On the 28th November Dr Lucy Robinson was invited to speak at the Lesbian and Gay Newsmedia Archive (LAGNA) event Poofters, Pop and Pandemics at Bishopsgate Institute. The evening began with an introduction to the LAGNA archive by Robert Thompson who demonstrated how useful the newsmedia archives could be in understanding gay experience and … Read more
Monday, November 19th, 2012
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New Frontiers – it’s longitudinal research, but not as we know it…
Dr Lucy Robinson picked up some great mentions for the project at the New Frontiers in Qualitative Longitudinal Research event at the University of Southampton last week (look out for ‘teabags’ – all about perforations in time!)
She gave a paper based on the Observing the 1980s material and some of the learning that … Read more