Available onlineTime to Think
(page 3 of 3)Online exhibition theme created by Jenny Meegan, Philip O'Sullivan and Gabi Kent - members of the OU Time to Think Project team
| Jenny Meegan clip: | I saw a door saying OU Archive and I knocked on it |
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| Gabi Kent clip: | The power and the value of knowledge |
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In 2019, the year of its launch, the Time to Think collection includes images, artefacts and linked course material along with more than 130 interviews with Loyalist and Republican ex-prisoners, OU staff, OU tutors, prison education staff and others who studied in the prisons. The collection is part of the Open University Digital Archive and is managed by the University Archive Team and the Time to Think Project Team. The creation of the collection has been a long learning journey. In the first audio clip on this page Jenny Meegan describes how a chance meeting with OU Archivist Ruth Cammies was pivotal.
Over the years many OU staff from Belfast and Milton Keynes have been part of the project, including: Amanda Saladine, Ann Davies, Beverley Midwood, Claire O'Kane, Colette Hughes, David Sargent, Frances Morton, Gabi Kent, Karen Hagan, Katie Meade, James Alexander, Jenny Meegan, Joanna McMinn, Jodi Roberts, John Addy, John D'Arcy, John Rooney, Laura Dowie, Marie Lavery, Matthew Duncan, 'Naomi', Pat Jess, Philip O'Sullivan, Rita Brown, Ruth Cammies, Stephen Robinson and 'William'.
While an OU Ireland initiative, the Time to Think Project has been supported by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASS) throughout. It provides a rich resource for OU and FASS research, scholarship, teaching and knowledge exchange on higher education in conflict contexts. Gabi Kent, co-lead on the project since 2018, reflects on the role of knowledge and education in change processes in the second audio clip on this page.
The Time to Think Project Team will continue to develop this project, undertake research and explore how any learning may be applicable in other social or political conflict contexts, to address global challenges as well as local concerns. Colette Hughes, Time to Think Project Administrator, offered a young person's view on the value of this project to her generation.
Having grown up towards the tail end of the conflict, I think there can often be a sense of detachment from the very real and recent trauma of the Troubles for many my age. The chance to hear more varied perspectives and to better understand the history that still shapes the place I live in seemed a unique opportunity.
Colette Hughes, 2019
For further information on the Time to Think project, including scholarship, knowledge exchange and research, contact Ireland-time-to-think@open.ac.uk
