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Management Board
The members of the ICARUS Management Board are:
Professor Karen Anderson is Professor of Archives and Information
Science at Mid-Sweden University. She was formerly a Senior Lecturer at
Edith Cowan University in Perth, Western Australia, where she developed
the archives and records programme from its inception in 1994. She is a
member of the editorial boards of Archival Science and the International Journal of Public Information Systems
and past President of the International Council on Archives’ Section
for Archival Education and Training (ICA-SAE). Her principal research
interest is in the design and delivery of authentic distance education
for archives and records professionals.
http://miun.academia.edu/KarenAnderson
Dr Andrew Flinn is Programme Director of the MA in Archives and
Records Management and the MA in Records and Archive Management
(International) at UCL. His areas of interest include cultural diversity
and widening access to cultural heritage; the identification of users
and non-users of archival services; the impact of information
legislation on access to records; the records of the Labour movement and
other community based organisations; and the records of migrants,
refugees and exiles.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/andrew-flinn/
Dr Jennifer Haynes is Archives & Manuscripts Manager in the
Wellcome Library where she has responsibility for developing and
managing all aspects of the Library's archival collections. She has a
research background in women's history and the social history of
medicine and has previously held archive posts at a range of
repositories including The National Archives, The Women's Library and
The Institute of Education.
http://library.wellcome.ac.uk/node49.html
Professor Ian Rowlands is a part-time Senior Lecturer and
Director of Research for the UCL Centre for Publishing. He has
particular interests in digital preservation and is currently working on
an AHRC-funded study, Digital Lives, with the British Library. This
project is looking at the curatorial challenges raised by personal
digital collections.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/ian-rowlands/
Dr Elizabeth Shepherd is a part-time Reader at UCL. From 1992 to
2002 she was Programme Director of the MA in Archives and Records
Management. Her research interests are in the management of digital
records and the development of the UK archive profession, which is the
subject of her PhD. She serves on the editorial boards of Archival Science and the Records Management Journal,
was a member of the Lord Chancellor’s Advisory Council on National
Records and Archives (2000-2006) and is on the RAE2008 sub-panel 37,
Library and Information Management.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/dis/people/elizabethshepherd
Dr Anne Thurston is the Director of the International Records
Management Trust. She has been a pioneer in defining international
solutions for the management of public sector records, particularly in
developing countries. She has also been a member of the UK Lord
Chancellor’s Advisory Council on Public Records and the UK Research
Assessment Exercise Panel. She was awarded an OBE for services to public
administration in Africa in 2000.
http://www.irmt.org/Images/documents/CVs/Thurston_cv.pdf
Dr Claire Warwick is a Senior Lecturer at UCL. She is the
programme director for the MA in Electronic Communcation and Publishing,
and the head of the CIRCAh research group. Her research, funded by
EPSRC, AHRC and JISC, is on the users of digital resources in the
humanities and the social impact of electronic publishing technologies.
She serves on the advisory boards of several research projects to create
digital resources for humanities users. She is a member of the
executive committee of the Association for Computing in the Humanities
and a member of AHRC's peer review panel on library, information and
museum studies.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/claire-warwick/
Caroline Williams is an independent archival consultant. She was
formerly Head of Research and Collections Development at the UK National
Archives (TNA) and, prior to that, Director of Liverpool University
Centre for Archive Studies. She is a member of the Arts and Humanities
Research Council Peer Review College and co-editor of the Journal of the Society of Archivists.
Her current areas of research interest and publication include the
history and diplomatic analysis of the record and the interface between
theory and practice. A recent publication is Managing Archives: Foundations, Principles and Practice (2006).
Geoffrey Yeo is a part-time Lecturer at UCL. From 2002 to 2005 he
was Programme Director of the MA in Archives and Records Management and
the MA in Records and Archives Management (International). He has acted
as co-ordinator of UCL's contribution to the e-TERM project in
electronic records management, and as consultant to the LEADERS project
which developed a generic toolkit using Encoded Archival Description.
His other research interests include the nature of records and
recordkeeping; records classification, arrangement and description;
relationships between records and the actions of individuals and
organisations; and digital and online systems for archives and records
management.
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/infostudies/geoffrey-yeo/
Associates
Associates both from within UCL and from academic and professional
fields worldwide come together under the ICARUS research umbrella. If
you are interested in becoming associated with ICARUS, please contact
us: e.shepherd@ucl.ac.uk
Neil Beagrie is an honorary research fellow at UCL:DIS. He was co-author of the study Preservation Management of Digital Materials: A Handbook
published by the British Library in 2001. He is internationally
recognised for his work on digital curation and digital preservation in
the library and data communities and he directed the development of a
Digital Preservation Coalition in the UK. He was previously Director and
Assistant Director of the Arts and Humanities Data Service.
Elizabeth Danbury is an honorary research fellow and a former
Director of International Projects and Research at UCL:DIS. She was
previously Lecturer in Palaeography and Diplomatic and director of the
postgraduate archives programme in the Department of History at the
University of Liverpool.
Terry Eastwood is Associate Professor of Archival Studies in the
School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of
British Columbia. He is the founding Chair of the School’s Master of
Archival Studies Program, a position he held from 1981 to 2000. Since
1994, he has been involved in research on the preservation of the
integrity of electronic records in the UBC project and the InterPARES 1
and 2 projects. His other research and writing interests are on
arrangement and description of archives, archival appraisal, archival
education, the history of archival institutions, and archives as agents
of democratic accountability.
Joanne Evans is a Research Fellow at the eScholarship Research
Centre at the University of Melbourne. Her PhD investigated
recordkeeping metadata interoperability as part of Monash University's
Clever Recordkeeping Metadata Project. A common theme across her
activities is working with groups who are in some way ‘in the minority’,
with lesser access to resources, skills and/or institutional support.
She has a keen desire to be part of collaborative research activities
that design and build sustainable information systems from a
recordkeeping perspective which utilize the capacities of digital and
networking technologies to meet needs, while also respecting values. She
is also interested in exploring issues around individual and community
construction of information systems in and through time and space. In
December 2010 she will take up a Lecturer appointment at Monash
University.
Helen Forde is an archivist with extensive experience in
preservation management issues both in the UK and abroad. She was head
of Preservation Services at The National Archives before retiring in
2001 and taught part time at UCL for nearly 20 years. She is the author
of Preserving Archives (London: Facet, 2007), a handbook for
archive staff faced with issues of preservation management. She
previously worked with the Heritage Lottery Fund as chair of the
Museums, Library and Archives Expert Panel and is currently on the Board
of the Museums, Library and Archives Council (MLA) in her capacity as
chair of the MLA East Midlands.
Segomotso Keakopa is a Lecturer in the Department of Library and
Information Studies at the University of Botswana, specialising in
archives and records management. She completed her doctoral thesis, on
'The management of electronic records in Botswana, Namibia and South
Africa: opportunities and challenges', at UCL in 2006.
Victoria Lemieux is an Assistant Professor in the School of
Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British
Columbia. She is a records management specialist with experience in a
variety of sectors and geographies. Her publications include Better Information Practices: Improving Records and Information Management in the Public Service (Commonwealth Secretariat, 1999), Management of Public Sector Records Series: Business Systems Analysis (International Records Management Trust, 2000), and Risk Management for Records and Information
(ARMA International, 2004). She wrote her doctoral thesis at UCL on the
information related causes of the Jamaican banking crisis.
David Luyombya is a Lecturer at Makerere University, Uganda,
where he has undertaken research and consultancy into policy issues and
strategies for records management. He holds a BA in Library and
Information Science (First Class) from Makerere University, Uganda; a MA
in Archives and Records from Monash University, Australia; and a PhD
from University College London.
Heather MacNeil is an Associate Professor in the Faculty of
Information at the University of Toronto where she teaches courses in
the areas of archival theory and practice and the history of record
keeping. Prior to that she taught in the School of Library, Archival
and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia and served
as Chair of the School’s Master of Archival Studies Program. Her
research and publications focus on privacy and archival ethics, the
theory and methods of arrangement and description and the
trustworthiness of records in analogue and digital environments. She is
the author of Without Consent (1992) and Trusting Records: Legal, Historical and Diplomatic Perspectives (2000).
Nancy McGovern became Digital Preservation Officer for the
Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research in
September 2006. She was previously Director of Research and Assessment
Services and Digital Preservation Officer at Cornell University Library,
where she was a co-developer of the Digital Preservation Management
workshop and tutorial. She was co-editor of RLG DigiNews
2001-2006, and is a member of the RLG/NARA Digital Archive Certification
Task Force. She has focused on digital preservation research and
practice since 1986, when she began a decade of service on the staff of
the Center for Electronic Records at the United States National
Archives.
Laura Millar is a Canadian consultant, writer and educator in the
fields of information and records management, publishing, and distance
education. She completed her doctoral thesis at UCL in 1996. She has led
seminars, training sessions, electronic discussions and video
conferences on electronic records management, human rights and
recordkeeping, and accountability and transparency in government. Her
research centres on the description of archives and the relationship
between information, knowledge, and personal and social memory.
Peter Sebina is a Lecturer in the Department of Library and
Information Studies at the University of Botswana, specialising in
archives and records management. He completed his doctoral thesis, on
'Records management and freedom of information: a learning curve for
Botswana', at UCL in 2006.
Justus Wamukoya has researched and published widely on issues
relating to records and information management. Previously Head of the
Department of Archives and Records Management in the Faculty of
Information Sciences at Moi University (Kenya), until July 2007 he was
Senior Lecturer in the Department of Library and Information Studies at
the University of Botswana. He chaired the development team for the
International Records Management Trust's Records Management Capacity Assessment System software tool, and is a member of the Trust's research team for its Building Integrity in Public Sector Information Systems project.
Research Students
Melissa Adams Impact and implications of truth and reconciliation commissions on archives
Jennifer Bunn Multiple narratives, multiple views: exploring the shift from paper to digital archival description
Alexandra Eveleigh Implications of user participation for archival theory and practice
Rachel Howse-Binnington Archival practice, legacy and indigenous communities
Elaine Penn Evidential, historical and cultural value of archives
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