Patricia Whatley is a registered archivist. She has an honours degree in history from the University of Strathclyde and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Dundee. Her career to date includes Curator at the Scottish Record Office (now the National Archives of Scotland), Archivist to three Scottish New Towns and Surveying Officer to the Business Archives Council of Scotland. She also acts on a consultative basis to a number of bodies.
As the University Archivist and Head of Archive, Records Management and Museum Services since 1997 Pat is responsible for the development of policy and general management of the department. She is also Director of the Centre for Archive and Information Studies (CAIS). She is a member of the inter-disciplinary Women, Culture and Society Masters Programme teaching and research team and is responsible for the management and supervision of student dissertations for both CAIS and WCS.
She is currently guest editing (with Caroline Brown) a special volume of Archival Science which will contain selected papers from the 'Memory, Identity and the Archival Paradigm' conference, held in December 2010. A previous guest edited volume, based on the 'Philosophy of the Archive' conference, Vol 9, Nos 3-4, 2009, which featured selected papers from the conference, is available at http://springerlink.com/content/r757w761j6u7/. Those conferences were part of the Royal Society of Edinburgh funded 'Investigating the Archive project, which will continue with another international conference in September 2012. She is also co-editor (with Caroline Brown) of an International Council on Archives European Competencies Framework for Archives, which will be published during 2011.
She regularly writes and lectures on archives and related issues and serves on the committees of a number of professional bodies. She is a member of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College and Research Panels; is Secretary to the International Council on Archives (ICA) Section on University and Research Institutions (ICA/SUV) and is a member of the Section Bureau of the ICA Section for Archival Education (ICA/SAE). She is Vice-Chair of the Scottish Council on Archives, Chair of the Economic and Social History Society of Scotland and is a trustee of the Scottish Historical Trust. She served previously on the Society of Archivists, Scotland, the Archives Sub-Committee of the Follett Committee, a Higher Education Funding Council initiative to provide non-formula funding for Specialised Research Collections and was a member of both the Universities Scotland Freedom of Information working group and the Lifelong Learning UK Library, Archive and Information Skills National Occupational Standards working group.
Patricia Whatley is a registered archivist. She has an honours degree in history from the University of Strathclyde and is currently completing a PhD at the University of Dundee. Her career to date includes Curator at the Scottish Record Office (now the National Archives of Scotland), Archivist to three Scottish New Towns and Surveying Officer to the Business Archives Council of Scotland. She also acts on a consultative basis to a number of bodies.