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INSIGHTS Public Lecture: First responder memories of the 1988 Lockerbie Disaster by Dr Andy Clark and Dr Colin Atkinson
Dr Andy Clark, Newcastle University and Dr Colin Atkinson, University of the West of Scotland
Date/Time: Thursday 7 December 2023, 5.30pm
Venue: Curtis Auditorium, Herschel Building, Newcastle University
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Chaired by Professor Rhona Smith, Professor of International Human Rights
The premeditated bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 in December 1988 is the worst mass murder in Scottish history. All 259 passengers and crew were killed, and 11 people died when the wreckage crashed in the town of Lockerbie. This lecture will discuss the oral history research project about the disaster, drawing on interviews with first responders, reconstructing the response to the atrocity, and interpreting the memories of those first on the scene.
Biographies
Dr Andy Clark is a researcher with the Oral History Unit at Newcastle University. He has led several oral history projects on work, deindustrialisation, and the 1988 Lockerbie Disaster. In 2021 he was awarded a prestigious New Investigator Award from the Economic and Social Research Council. His first book, Fighting Deindustrialisation, was published by Liverpool University Press in January 2023.
Dr Colin Atkinson is a senior lecturer in criminology and criminal justice at the University of the West of Scotland. Colin’s research interests focus mainly upon the intersection of crime, policing, intelligence and security, particularly as these issues relate to terrorism and organised crime. Colin has a professional background in intelligence analysis and counter-terrorism in Scotland, and worked alongside several police officers with first-hand experience of the response to the Lockerbie disaster.
