Dr Andrew Flinn is the Programme Director and lecturer on the Archives and Records Management MA programme at UCL: SLAIS. He is also chair of the Forum for Archives and Records Management Education and Research (FARMER) and editor of the Journal of the Society of Archivists. He is the principal investigator on the AHRC funded 'Community archives and identities’ project which over the next two years will examine community archive and heritage initiatives amongst Black and Minority Ethnic groups. Amongst other professional positions Andrew was previously archivist of the Labour and Communist party archives held at the National Museum of Labour History in Manchester. As a social historian and archival educator, his research interests include documenting grassroots community organisation and activism, community and social memory, and the relationship between archives, heritage and identity.