Dr. Saskia Huc-Hepher has submitted an Impact Case Study for the REF 2021 (Modern Languages and Linguistics Unit of Assessment), entitled Preserving London-French Web Heritage. It is based on her web archiving project, the London French Special Collection, which provides a lasting digital record of the community’s online presence. Its impact has been manifold: it has stimulated community building through archival co-creation and the enhancement of the digital communication practice of the French Embassy; paved the way for further diasporic community collections within the UK Web Archive and expanded its user base; enhanced web archiving practice by directly informing the development of the Shine interface for the JISC UK Web Domain Dataset such that researchers are better able to navigate the data; provided a best-practice model adopted by others working in the field of community focused web curation; demonstrated how educators can use diasporic web archives to “decolonise” Digital Humanities and “reboot” Modern Languages.
She works with Social Enterprise UK and a number of its members in the UK on the topic of gender empowerment. They developed a gender empowerment guide for use by social enterprises interested in gender equality and empowerment. She has also led ten workshops with social enterprises on the topic of gender relations, theory of change, intersectionality and gender empowerment since 2021.