Correcting Our Collecting: Trauma Informed Archiving

DTA & Synergi Project

Correcting Our Collecting: Trauma Informed Archiving is a collaboration between DTA and Synergi Project exploring working with archives in trauma-informed ways.

This abbreviated version of the course offers fully-funded free scholarships for participants and is aimed at African heritage and BIPOC communities with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress and/or trauma – in particular, those who are involved in grassroots organising at the intersection of racial justice and mental health.

The short course runs for one day a-week ONLINE and will include an additional 2 in-person sessions.

Applications are now open and the closing date is 23rd June 2025.

For more information, emailing: team@decolonisingthearchive.com

Previous Graduates of Correcting Our Collecting Courses

Trainee Archivists learning in the Black Cultural Archives

The course is necessary as the overwhelming majority of teaching and material concerning archival practice centre European perspectives on information studies. This is alienating for would-be ‘Black’ archivists and ignores the vital contribution African-centred ways of knowing and being make to archival science. 

This unique, in-person programme will be led by Archivist Dr Etienne Joseph and Memory Worker Connie Bell and more.  

Currently the best of our graduates are now part of our Community Archivist Outreach team and network, who we can confidently refer to work with the community and institutions in supporting the building of a  personal archive or offering advice on the matter.