100 Years of Student Life
The 100 Years of Student Life project forms part of the 8 week MA Museum Studies work placement at the University of Leicester. The placement builds upon work completed as part of the MA’s Heritage Specialism module and is intended to compliment the University’s centenary preparations and the National Lottery Heritage Funded project titled ‘So that they may have life’.
Campus Walking Tour
One output of the 100 Years of Student Life project is the creation of a Campus Walking Tour, using the app Clio.
The app includes a map of the University campus in which users can undertake a self-guided tour. University buildings which feature on the app will include a brief overview of the building’s history and the opportunity to listen to embedded audio clips which provide a student experience of working or living in a specific building. The audio clips will act as anecdotes offering a variety of recollections of student life during up to and including 2020. All audio clips will be accompanied by a transcript accessible through the app.
Your Recording
The primary use of your recording will be contributing to the creation of the Campus Walking Tour, a vital asset which will enable users to gain a better understanding of University life, in particular the perspective of a student in the 21st century.
Your recording may be chosen by Archives & Special Collections to be accessioned into the University Archives for permanent preservation. This decision is at the discretion of the Archives & Special Collections staff.
If you would like your recording to be included in the project please ensure the following:
- The duration of the recording is a maximum of 1 minute.
- It has been recorded in a quiet environment
- It only includes your voice on the recording
- Where possible, it has been recorded as a .WAV (although MP3 will be accepted)
- You have not made reference to identifiable individuals in your recording or expressed opinion which may cause significant harm or distress to others*
- You have understand and signed the project consent form
*Please contact specialcollections@le.ac.uk if you are unsure about your recording’s content.
The recording will be managed in accordance with information legislation such as the Freedom of Information Act (2000), Data Protection Act (2018), and General Data Protection Regulation. This may involve anonymising sections of the interview or withholding public access to information supplied relating to identifiable living individuals.
For more information about the 100 Years of Student Life project please contact Dominic De Soissons at dgds1@student.le.ac.uk.