The National Archives' Academic Strategy sets out our plans for supporting and liaising with its academic users, including researchers in the areas of both information management and the issues surrounding the born digital record. In this context "academic" is defined as a post-graduate or post-doctoral researcher or university teaching staff, although the wider research community will certainly benefit from the outcomes of the strategy too.

The Academic Strategy seeks to engage with new academic audiences and to promote our records to a wide range of historians and other disciplines such as social science, geography, archaeology, architecture and the physical sciences.

It paves the way for a programme of support to academic users with an emphasis on communicating and consulting to inform policy. We are hoping to consult widely with academic teaching staffs and postgraduate researchers and encourage their involvement in the development of services offered by The National Archives for both on-site and remote users; as well as in information management policies, and the selection, preservation and accessibility of born digital records.

We are also committed to enhancing our records and other staff expertise and utilising this in support of the user; in addition we specifically ask academics to share their expertise with us, to make a real two-way process.

If you would like to work with us or find out more about the Academic Strategy please contact either:

Vanessa Carr, Head of Academic Liaison
vanessa.carr@nationalarchives.gov.uk

or

Dan Gilfoyle, Academic Strategies Co-ordinator
danielgilfoyle@nationalarchives.gov.uk

Download The National Archives' Academic Strategy as a PDF document (39kb)