Andrew Flinn
Biography
Andrew Flinn is Reader in Archival Studies and Oral History and Vice Dean for Postgraduate Research in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, University College London, where he has been teaching archive studies and public history since 2002. He is Deputy Principal Investigator on the Sloane Lab Research. He is also a trustee of National Life Stories at the British Library, current chair of the UK and Ireland Community Archives and Heritage Group, and a member of the International Council on Archives’ (ICA) Section on Archival Education and Training (SAE) steering group. His research interests include community-based archives, archival activism and social justice, and digital oral history. Recent publications include (with Jeannette A. Bastian) Community Archives, Community Spaces: heritage, memory and identity (Facet, 2020) as well as articles in “Archival Science” and “Digital Scholarship in the Humanities”.