Archives and Records Management MPhil

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.

Overview

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).

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.