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).