Journey of East London Deaf community

Deaf people’s changing employment experiences (2000-2010). Reveal the unknown heritage of the impact of the DDA 2005 on deaf and hard of hearing people’s employment experience in East London.

  • 1.

    are you interested in learning about deaf and hard-of-hearing people’s employment experiences?

  • 2.

    do you want to be involved in researching and documenting the lives of deaf people?

  • 3.

    are you interested in sharing your findings and the stories with the wider community?

Ten community volunteers will participate and benefit from:

  • oral history training

  • video recording training training

  • archival research/archiving training

Volunteers will take part in:

  • research

  • video-interview of deaf people and their family members

  • employers/organizations supported deaf people in accessing employment

  • archiving digital research in local archives

The project will produce:

  • 30 video oral histories

  • a short video documentary on the project, with subtitles

  • an exhibition

  • an e-publication

Will you like to know more about the project?

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