It was really pleasing to see one of our regular archive users take 3rd place in the 3MT competition.  Marcus Coll is doing his PhD in Political Science, exploring the  formation and development of the Disarmament and Security Centre in Christchurch.  We received the archives of the DSC in 2019.  Since that time, we have had 3 PG researchers use the collection.  In an email to me, Marcus said, “doing the archiving work was definitely the springboard for me getting into the project in the first place”.   Watch Marcus talk about his research here.

Big thanks to Linda, who has been doing the arrangement and description on this collection. It should go live on Kā Kohika in the next couple of weeks.

It’s fantastic to see our unique collections being used in PG research at UC.  If you have any questions about accessing the archives, don’t hesitate to contact me.
Erin