Recording and transcript of a Q and A between Rachel Thomson (original WRAP team member) and members of the University of Manchester's Women's Theatre Society. A blog post by Rachel Thomson reflecting on the session.

In 2019-2020 the ESRC funded 'Reanimating data: experiments with people, places and archives'. Part of the project involved staging a series of reanimations using data from interviews with young women from Manchester, conducted thirty years previously as part of the Women, Risk and AIDS Project (WRAP 1988-1990). Each reanimation involved a collaboration between young women, educators and researchers and used creative methods to explore the WRAP data and bring it to life in new ways. This item is an audio recording and transcript of a Q and A between Rachel Thomson (original WRAP team member) and members of the University of Manchester's Women's Theatre Society. The group interview discusses motivations for the original WRAP study, Rachel's time at university in Manchester in the 1980s and her experience of and some of the challenges of conducting interviews as part of the original research. It concludes with discussion on current issues around sexuality, gender and femininity and participant reflections on social change. Also included is a blog written by Rachel Thomson reflecting on this session and what she had learnt about social change, plus photos of the memorabilia she brought to share with the group.