Professor Julie McLeod
Julie McLeod is a Professor in Records Management. She is an active
member of the BSI and ISO Committees which developed ISO 15489, the
international records management standard, and author of BIP 0025:2 (2003) on
implementing it. Julie directed and participated in projects funded by the JISC
under their Supporting Institutional Records Management programme. She was
Principal Investigator for two Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
funded research projects on records management - one on the impact of the
standard in the UK, the other an evaluation of toolkits for assessing records
management capacity and/or compliance. In June 2006 she was awarded the largest
ever AHRC grant for records management research to conduct a 3-year project on
accelerating the pace of positive change in managing electronic records
(AC+erm). She
has worked on innovative work-based and distance learning training and
education initiatives with leading organisations including the BBC and The
National Archives and is Programme Leader for the MSc Records Management (Distance Learning)
and BSc (Hons) Information & Records Management (Distance Learning)
programmes, both the first distance learning programmes of their type in the UK
(http://northumbria.ac.uk/sd/academic/ceis/subs/).
Julie has published widely, including co-authoring and editing several text
books, is Editor of the Records Management Journal (www.emeraldinsight.com/rmj.htm), and holds
positions on the boards of other esteemed journals. From 2006-2008 she was a
member of the AHRC Peer Review Panel for Libraries, Museums and Archives and in
2007 was awarded a Personal Chair in Research at Northumbria
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