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Dr Elizabeth Shepherd
DIS
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UK

Dr Elizabeth Shepherd qualified as an archivist and worked in archives and records management in local government before becoming a records management specialist at TFPL Ltd. In 1992 she was appointed in the Department of Information Studies at University College London (UCL), to update and revise the MA in Archives and Records Management of which she was programme director until 2002. In 2003 she was appointed a senior lecturer and in 2007, Reader. She currently teaches principles of archives and records management and management skills for archivists. Her research interests are in the development of the UK archive profession, which is the subject of her PhD, and links between records management and information policy compliance, on which she is running an AHRC-funded project (see details on the ICARUS webpages). 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 from 2000-2006, the AHRC Peer Review College and RAE2008 Panel 37. She has published numerous articles and (with Geoffrey Yeo) the best selling book Managing Records: a handbook of principles and practice (Facet Publishing, 2003) and is author of the monograph, Archives and archivists in 20th century England (Ashgate, 2009). For details of the book see Ashgate webpages
 

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