Caroline Brown

Caroline Brown is University Archivist and Assistant Director in the Library Academic and Cultural Services with particular responsibility for Archives and Museums.

A history graduate who took her Diploma in Archival Studies at University College Dublin, Caroline has worked at the Business Archives Council in London, the Rhodes Trust in Oxford, Edinburgh University and at the National Archives of Scotland. Caroline also spent several years as Programme Leader for the University’s distance learning programmes in Archives and Records Management and Family History and is still active in areas of research and teaching. She is responsible for a number of publications on recordkeeping issues including two books by Facet Publishing Archives and recordkeeping: theory into practice (2014) and Archival Futures ( 2018). She was also previously responsible for Information Governance and was a Director of the University’s Centre for Freedom of Information.

Caroline has played an active role in several academic and professional organisations. She is currently a peer reviewer for AHRC, a Director of the Scottish Archive Network, a member of the Executive Board of the International Council on Archives and Chair of its Section on University and Research Institution Archives (ICA-SUV).