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Archives and Records Management PhD

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Full time | University of Liverpool | 2 years | Contact University

Study mode

Full time

Duration

2 years

Start date

Contact University

Key information
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Qualification type

PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

Subject areas

Information Management Libraries / Librarianship Historical Sources

Course type

Research

Course Summary

Our innovative, international and interdisciplinary approach has established us as a leading centre for archival education and research. With expertise in archival science, digital curation and information governance, the Liverpool University Centre for Archive Studies attracts researchers and students from diverse disciplines and places to tackle the problems of creating and preserving records and archives as evidence and sources for a range of endeavours, such as law, science, history and the arts.

Our research interests include:

Public sector information management (regulatory environments, systems and practices)

Access to information (cultures of secrecy and openness, Freedom of Information, open data, privacy, information activism)

Displaced archives and shared archival heritage

Postcolonial archives (postcolonial theory, imperial and Commonwealth administrative history)

Intellectual history of archival science (concepts connected with appraisal, classification, description, access, etc).

Tuition fees

UK fees
Course fees for UK students

For this course (per year)

£4,712

International fees
Course fees for EU and international students

For this course (per year)

£21,850

Entry requirements

Applications are welcome from well qualified graduates who wish to undertake research programmes leading to a PhD on either a full or part-time basis. For research we similarly expect candidates to normally hold a UK first degree in the first or 2:1 class in a relevant subject, and most successful candidates will also have an academic or professional master’s qualification.

Department profile

The School of Histories, Languages and Cultures offers a diverse and broad range of subjects, areas and disciplines. The School is comprised of five departments; Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology; History; Irish Studies; Languages, Cultures and Film and Politics. Through research and teaching the School looks at culture and society from the origins of humanity through to modern day politics. Postgraduate study in the School of Histories,...more