Aylward, Bethany

Bethany Aylward

BA (UCL), MA (��«Ӱҵ), PhD (��«Ӱҵ)

Information School

University Teacher

b.aylward@sheffield.ac.uk

The Wave

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Bethany Aylward
Information School
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
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S10 2AH

Profile

I joined the Information School as a Librarianship (MA) student in 2017. In 2018 I was awarded a scholarship to research the web archiving needs of activist archivists as a response to the use of digital media platforms by contemporary social movements. I joined the staff as a University Teacher in 2023 and completed my PhD Capturing social movements: Web archiving needs of activist collections in the north (UK) in 2024.

I am on the organising group of the , an intersectional and inclusive community archiving project documenting histories centring experiences of womanhood. Our physical collections, including interviews from our Oral History Project can be accessed at .

I graduated from UCL with a BA in Russian and History in 2014 having spent my year abroad studying in St Petersburg. I am a trustee of the Society for Cooperation in Russian and Soviet Studies (), a library, archive, and cultural hub in South London.

Research interests

My main research interest is the intersection of alternative archival praxis and networked social movements.

More generally I have supervised, conducted, and presented research relating to critical archive studies, community web archiving, digital inclusion provision, bias in library classification, and decolonisation in public libraries.

Research group: I am a member of the Digital Societies Research Group

Teaching activities

I contribute to modules on MA Librarianship, MA/PG Cert/PG Dip Library and Information Services Management (Distance Learning), MSc Information Management, and MSc Information Systems

INF6103 - Information Organisation

INF6503 - Information Organisation (DL)

INF6350 - Information Literacy

INF6553 - Information Literacy (DL)

INF6400 – Information Systems and the Information Society

INF6501 - Personal and Professional Development Portfolio (DL)

INF6513 - Leadership, Strategy and Change (DL)

INF6840 - Archives and Record Management

Professional activities and memberships: I am a member of the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) and Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T).