Developing a museum policy and practice for the curation of spontaneous memorials after terrorist attacks and their use for post-trauma recovery

Impact: Awareness and understanding, Health and wellbeing, Policy, Society and culture

Narrative

One of the public responses to the Manchester Arena terrorist attack on 22 May 2017 was the creation of large-scale spontaneous memorials. Before Arvanitis’ research project, there was little expertise in UK and European cultural and public sectors in collecting and digitising these kinds of memorials. In collaboration with cultural and public sector partners, Arvanitis developed a programme of research that produced impact in two main areas: 1) the research informed collection and documentation policy and practice in the UK and internationally, and developed new approaches to the digitisation of archives of spontaneous memorials; and 2) it enhanced understanding and application of the role of archives of spontaneous memorials in post-attack personal and community recovery.
Impact dateJun 2017 → Dec 2020
Category of impactAwareness and understanding, Health and wellbeing, Policy, Society and culture

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