Ailsa Swarbrick
Details
Type of record: Archive
Title: Ailsa Swarbrick
Classmark: FAN/AS
Size and medium: 5 boxes
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/477089
Collection group(s): Feminist Archive North
Description
* Women in Science and Engineering:
OU tutor 1972, Arts Foundation courses in Bradford, education counsellor at York Summer Schools; met students on Science Foundation Course revealing poor representation of women on Technology Foundation Course. Finnestone Report highlighted hostile environment for women returners. Ailsa's questionnaire report set up Women in Technology Project (WIT). Technology staff included Ruth Carter and Lynette Willoughby. Most material in Boxes 1,2,3, some in all boxes. Dept of Employment Training Division funded WIT, including burseries 1979 onwards, for 14 years.
+Women Returners: involved in Adult Education in Manchester.
*Leeds Women Against Apartheid:
group member, curated Collection, used material for exhibitions, school talks, debates with Judy Maxwell and Frances Bernstein.
Biography or history
Born 1936, nee Heeson, Liverpool.
1955-58 Manchester University, English Language and Literature.
!964 to Tanganyika (Tanzania) for 4 years, with husband Jim Swarbrick and
3 children, university teaching.
1968 returned to Leeds.
Open University tutor: Cyprus, Arts Foundation Course; Enlightenment Course; assistant Senior Counsellor for region; developed WIT; also staff development courses and Race Equality Project. Member Equal Opportunities Development Committee - wrote 5 year plan.
Involved in Womens Liberation Movement; Leeds Women Against Apartheid; Cuba Solidarity Campaign.
Access and usage
Access
This material is open for consultation but we require at least 5 working days notice to retrieve from this collection.