Rachel Hardiman – Senior Research Assistant

Rachel Hardiman is currently working on the AC+erm Project (Accelerating Positive Change in electronic records management).

She holds an MSc in Records Management from the University of Northumbria, and joined the AC+erm project team from the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. Prior to entering the records field, she worked in financial services and in the academic world, with roles including those of business analyst in a financial software development company and temporary lecturer in Classics in Trinity College Dublin.

Personal research interests focus on the broader social, business and technological imperatives and contexts for recordkeeping, with a strong emphasis on transdisciplinary approaches.

Publications

Hardiman, R. (2009) En mal d’archive: Postmodernist Theory and Recordkeeping, Journal of the Society of Archivist, 30(1) pp27–44

Hardiman, R., Childs, S., and McLeod, J. (2009). Transformation through research? The AC+erm Project and electronic records management, RMS Bulletin, 151 pp3–7

Hardiman, R. (2009) Review of Bailey, S. Managing the Crowd: Rethinking Records Management for the Web 2.0 World, Records Management Journal 19(1)

Conference Papers

Hardiman, R. (2009) The AC+erm project. Paper presented at the Society of Archivists Conference 2009, Bristol, 1–4 September 2009

Hardiman, R. (2009) Transformation Through Research? The AC+erm Project, Paper presented at the Records Management Society Conference, Brighton, 19–21 April 2009