Elizabeth Lomas
Biographic Data
| ID | 4419546 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elizabeth Lomas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lomas |
| SIGNATURE | LOMAS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5619-6725 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Record DNA
A major issue facing society is the extent to which the usability of the digital evidence base is at risk because, in the digital era, the concept of the record has been eroded. The nature and reality of a record are no longer agreed. Addressing the challenges that the digital presents for managing records and assuring their future usability is not one that records and archives scholars and professionals can tackle alone. This article argues that…
Working with care leavers and young people still in care
An important element of social research is the ethical treatment of research participants. This paper outlines the ethical issues pertaining to a study (MIRRA: Memory-Identity-Rights in Records-Access) that developed a ‘participatory recordkeeping system specification’ for young people in care. The research team worked with members of the cohort themselves (aged 13–17 years) and care-experienced adults. It discusses in general terms the various e…
Archives of Childhood
Les enfants et les jeunes vivant en dehors du foyer familial, par exemple en famille d’accueil, dans des foyers ou dans d’autres structures d’accueil, pris en charge par les autorités locales ou par des associations pour enfants, souffrent souvent, tout au long de leur vie, de répercussions sur leur bien-être, leur sentiment d’appartenance et d’identité et leur perception d’eux-mêmes. Les personnes ayant été dans cette situation peuvent être priv…
The Historical Manuscripts Commission
The creation of the Royal Historical Manuscripts Commission formed part of a wider movement of institutional renewal and reform in mid-Victorian Britain, including growing professionalisation of both public administration and the academic study of history, particularly from the 1850s. Two features of the commission’s work continued to influence its development and The National Archives’ engagement with the archives sector today: first, the need t…
Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping
In 2019, there were over 75,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in England and Wales. Recent estimates suggest that up to half a million British people were in state or voluntary care as children, around 1% of the adult population. While individual experiences vary enormously by time and place, care-experienced people share in common the intensive documentation of their lives by social workers, educators, health professionals and as…
Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people
In family settings stories, photographs and memory objects support narratives of identity and belonging. Such resources are often missing for people who were in care as children. As a result, they may be unable to fill gaps in their memories or answer simple questions about their early lives. In these circumstances, they turn to the records created about them by social workers and care providers to reconstruct personal histories. Research suggest…
Child Social-Care Recording and the Information Rights of Care-Experienced People
Recent reports by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) emphasised the critical importance of records throughout the lives of care-experienced people. Records not only contain information about what happened to a person in their past, but also have long-term effects on memory and identity. Research emerging in the context of analogous national inquiries into the systemic abuse and neglect of children in care—particularly the Roy…
Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping
In 2019, there were over 75,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in England and Wales. Recent estimates suggest that up to half a million British people were in state or voluntary care as children, around 1% of the adult population. While individual experiences vary enormously by time and place, care-experienced people share in common the intensive documentation of their lives by social workers, educators, health professionals and as…
Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people
In family settings stories, photographs and memory objects support narratives of identity and belonging. Such resources are often missing for people who were in care as children. As a result, they may be unable to fill gaps in their memories or answer simple questions about their early lives. In these circumstances, they turn to the records created about them by social workers and care providers to reconstruct personal histories. Research suggest…
Record DNA
A major issue facing society is the extent to which the usability of the digital evidence base is at risk because, in the digital era, the concept of the record has been eroded. The nature and reality of a record are no longer agreed. Addressing the challenges that the digital presents for managing records and assuring their future usability is not one that records and archives scholars and professionals can tackle alone. This article argues that…
Child Social-Care Recording and the Information Rights of Care-Experienced People
Recent reports by the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) emphasised the critical importance of records throughout the lives of care-experienced people. Records not only contain information about what happened to a person in their past, but also have long-term effects on memory and identity. Research emerging in the context of analogous national inquiries into the systemic abuse and neglect of children in care—particularly the Roy…
The Historical Manuscripts Commission
The creation of the Royal Historical Manuscripts Commission formed part of a wider movement of institutional renewal and reform in mid-Victorian Britain, including growing professionalisation of both public administration and the academic study of history, particularly from the 1850s. Two features of the commission’s work continued to influence its development and The National Archives’ engagement with the archives sector today: first, the need t…
Towards a human-centred participatory approach to child social care recordkeeping
In 2019, there were over 75,000 children and young people in out-of-home care in England and Wales. Recent estimates suggest that up to half a million British people were in state or voluntary care as children, around 1% of the adult population. While individual experiences vary enormously by time and place, care-experienced people share in common the intensive documentation of their lives by social workers, educators, health professionals and as…
Recordkeeping and the life‐long memory and identity needs of care‐experienced children and young people
In family settings stories, photographs and memory objects support narratives of identity and belonging. Such resources are often missing for people who were in care as children. As a result, they may be unable to fill gaps in their memories or answer simple questions about their early lives. In these circumstances, they turn to the records created about them by social workers and care providers to reconstruct personal histories. Research suggest…
Archives of Childhood
Les enfants et les jeunes vivant en dehors du foyer familial, par exemple en famille d’accueil, dans des foyers ou dans d’autres structures d’accueil, pris en charge par les autorités locales ou par des associations pour enfants, souffrent souvent, tout au long de leur vie, de répercussions sur leur bien-être, leur sentiment d’appartenance et d’identité et leur perception d’eux-mêmes. Les personnes ayant été dans cette situation peuvent être priv…
Record DNA
A major issue facing society is the extent to which the usability of the digital evidence base is at risk because, in the digital era, the concept of the record has been eroded. The nature and reality of a record are no longer agreed. Addressing the challenges that the digital presents for managing records and assuring their future usability is not one that records and archives scholars and professionals can tackle alone. This article argues that…
Working with care leavers and young people still in care
An important element of social research is the ethical treatment of research participants. This paper outlines the ethical issues pertaining to a study (MIRRA: Memory-Identity-Rights in Records-Access) that developed a ‘participatory recordkeeping system specification’ for young people in care. The research team worked with members of the cohort themselves (aged 13–17 years) and care-experienced adults. It discusses in general terms the various e…
Political science (5 works) · Public relations (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Data Analysis and Archiving (4 works) · Digital and Traditional Archives Management (4 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Nursing (3 works) · Participatory action research (3 works) · Psychology (3 works)