COMMUNITY ARCHIVES AND IDENTITIES: DOCUMENTING AND SUSTAINING COMMUNITY HERITAGE AGENDA ITEM 4: ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT BOARD (PMB) Meetings 1. The PMB will meet three times during the course of project. The first meeting will advise on initial stages of the project including advising on the choice of case studies. The second meeting will review progress of the research at the half-way stage and make suggestions with regard to interviews and further areas of study for the second half of the research. The third meeting will review the progress made just before the final completion of the project and will advise upon possible dissemination activities and future research developments. 2. In between these meetings the project team will keep PMB members informed of research developments via a regular email (about every three months) and also via news on the project website. 3. As necessary and appropriate project team members will also contact and meet PMB members on an individual basis to explore issues of particular interest and expertise. Role 1. The primary role of the PMB is to oversee the working of the project team and to offer support and guidance to help ensure that the project is completed successfully and to identify areas of particular risk and to make suggestions to overcome that risk. Members of the board have been invited on the basis of their different areas of expertise and knowledge and the project team will seek to make the best possible use of this expertise and knowledge with regard to further research, interviewees, possible research outcomes and important channels of dissemination. 2. Secondly, members of the PMB are asked to help raise awareness of the project within their respective fields by drawing the attention of others to the existence of the project and in particular of the project website and by enabling wide circulation of research outputs. Andrew Flinn, 25 March 2008 Community Archives & Identity: documenting and sustaining community heritage UCL School of Library, Archive and Information Studies University College London Gower Street London WC1E 6BT Tel: +44 (0)20 7679 2481 Fax: +44 (0)20 7383 0557 a.flinn@ucl.ac.uk http://www.ucl.ac.uk/SLAIS/research/icarus/community-archives/