Workshop: Therapeutic Interventions: Emotions, Ethics and the Archive

A workshop reflecting on engaged research projects which have dealt with emotionally demanding subject matter and innovated ethical strategies in support of participant wellbeing.

What institutional support do we need from others? What self-support strategies could we put in place? How and why might engaged research projects elicit unexpected emotional experiences amongst participants?

The workshop explored these questions and more. Centred around three structured conversations between archive professionals, creative practitioners, and academic researchers, the workshop prompted discussions about the role of emotion in ethical research design and engagement practices.

This workshop was part of the Developing Healthy Engagement project, funded by Research England under the Enhancing Research Culture funding stream. Find out more on the project webpage.