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33 | Institutional Heckling
Nov 10, 2022
British historian and disability scholar Lauren Pikó joins Yves and Clare to discuss exploring archives through a disability lens, digitizing archives, and accessibility in institutional research. They touch on the challenges of studying abroad, personal connections with landscapes, cultural histories of places, and barriers faced by disabled researchers in academia.
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- Archives can be viewed through a disability lens, highlighting presence and absence.
- Engaging with smaller archives can offer rich research experiences and challenge size superiority.
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Lauren Pico's Journey to Becoming a Researcher
Lauren Pico, a British historian based in Melbourne, shares her journey to becoming a researcher. She recalls her early interest in history, starting from a young age when she created books by copying sections of various reference texts. Her PhD research focused on Milton Keynes, a town near London known for being mocked, exploring cultural representations and the town's actual reality. Her outsider perspective as a disabled scholar provided unique insights into the social and cultural dynamics of the town.
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