ARCH Journal articles
Burns, A., & Schäfer, M. (2025) Between plans and realities: Reflecting on experiences of participatory research in archiving residential Children’s homes in Scotland and Germany. Qualitative Social Work, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14733250251314467
Emond, R., Eßer, F., Schäfer, M., Buncombe, M., Burns, A., Lucas, S., & Magee, K. (2025) Finding traces of everyday life in unusual places: looking beyond case files in German and Scottish residential child care. European Journal of Social Work, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/13691457.2024.2411283
Emond, R., Burns, A., Hagan, H., & Magee, K. (2024). Everyday records or living archives? An analysis of record-keeping in residential children’s homes in Scotland. Archives and Records, 45(3), 288–305. https://doi.org/10.1080/23257962.2024.2381234
Lucas, S. E., Burns, A., Emond, R., & Reid, L. (2024) Digital group archives in residential childcare: an investigation into memory responsibility. Families, Relationships and Societies https://doi.org/10.1332/20467435Y2024D000000034
The below papers have been published by our colleagues in Germany:
Schäfer, M., Eßer, F. Digitale Gemeinschaftsarchive als Stützen des biografischen Erinnerns an Heimerziehung – Grundlagen und Befunde einer sozialpädagogischen Studie. Soz Passagen (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12592-025-00535-w Translated: Digital community archives as support for the biographical memories of residential care—Foundations and findings of a sociopedagogical study
Schäfer, Maximilian/Eßer, Florian (2023): Erinnerbare Kindheit und Jugend in Heimerziehung – Befunde zur kustodialen Archivierung des Heimalltags am Beispiel Freistatt. In: Neue Praxis, H. 2, S. 121 – 138. https://www.neue-praxis-shop.de/np-2/23-Erinnerbare-Kindheit-und-Jugend-in-Heimerziehung Translated: Memorable Childhood and Youth in Residential Care – Findings on the Custodial Archiving of Everyday Life in Care Homes using the Example of Freistatt)
Heyen, M., Schäfer, M., Eßer, F. & Thelen, T. (2023). Heimerziehung gemeinsam erinnern – Zwischenergebnisse zur Entwicklung digitaler Gemeinschaftsarchive für Wohngruppen. Forum Erziehungshilfen, 29(5), 305–309. https://doi.org/10.3262/FOE2305305 Translated: Remembering residential care together – interim results on the development of digital community archives for residential groups.
Schäfer, M., Eßer, F. Heimerziehung erinnern. Sozial Extra 47, 358–362 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12054-023-00640-1 Translated: Findings on Memory Aids on this Side and Beyond Institutional Archives
Publications
The poem ‘Who am I?’ created at the ARCH conference has been published:
Houston, C., Emond, R. (2025) A Story Untold: An Adolescents Journey of the Scottish Care System,
Journal of Adolescent Health A Story Untold: An Adolescents Journey of the Scottish Care System
The Scottish Council on Archives published its Scottish Archives and Records Year in Review in November 2023. It includes two articles the ARCH project’s work with the Aberlour Archive, including a piece on the findings of Phase 1 of the ARCH project. Click on the link below to access.
Scottish Archives: https://www.scottisharchives.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/SCA-Year-in-Review-2023.pdf