Graduate Scholarships Awarded

• Cherri Ann Beckles is currently pursuing a PhD in Archives and Information Studies at the University of Dundee, Scotland.  Her research topic examines international privacy/data protection regimes from a records and archives management perspective.  She is the Assistant Archivist at The University of the West Indies, Cave Hill Campus, Barbados.  Mrs. Beckles received a B.A.Degree with Honors from The University of the West Indies (UWI), a Master's Degree in Records and Archives Management (International) from the University College London and a Masters Degree from UWI in History. To review a sample of her current research, click International Perspectives on Data Protection and its Relationship to Records Management in the Post-Industrial Period 
• Jennifer Borland  is enrolled in the Joint Master of Archival Studies and Master of Library and Information Studies at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies at the University of British Columbia in Canada. She has served as the co-president of the Library and Archival Studies Students Association, is working as a Graduate Research Assistant on the InterPARES 3 Project, and is also working in a cooperative education position at British Columbia Hydro and Power Authority. Jennifer is interested the management and the long-term preservation of digital records, recordkeeping metadata, and she is particularly interested in the role of trust within the records profession. She will complete her degrees in April 2010. To review a sample of her research work, click Trust and the Records Professional 
• Matthew Grant, recipient of the first Mavis Eppes scholarship, is a Masters of Science in Information candidate in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. He is pursuing dual majors specializing in Archives and Records Management and Incentive-Centered Design and will receive his degree in December, 2010. He also is employed at the Rackham Graduate School as a Business Systems Analyst where he is working on an enterprise content management solution using Microsoft SharePoint. He is very interested in understanding how business processes and the resulting records can be managed and captured in an efficient system while providing end users with the proper incentives to effectively and ethically use those systems.  To review a sample of his research work, click "If You Aren't Cheating, You Aren't Trying": Building Environments for Accountability and Mitigating Manipulation of Information Asymmetires Through Effective Records-Keeping, An Enron Case-Study 

2008 Scholarship Awardees

2007 Scholarship Awardees

• Ineke Deserno is a PhD candidate at the Caulfield School of  Information Technology, Monash University, Victoria, Australia.  Her research and dissertation is focused on the nexus between corporate transparency and records management in multinational companies.   An overview of her research project was presented at the October 2007 ARMA International Conference in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.  Click The Nexus Between Transparency and Records Management to review an update to this study.
• Sherry Li Xie is a PhD candidate at the School of Library, Archival and Information Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada..  Her work is focused on electronic records management and the long-term preservaton of digital information including participation in the InterPARES (International Research on Permanent Authentic Records in Electronic Systems) project.  She recently presented a paper at the iPRES 2007 conference in Beijing, China.  To review her presentation, click Foundation for Developing Digital Preservation Policy: The InterPARES Policy Framework.  Her research includes a study of function based classifications systems.  Click Function-Based Records Classification System: A Comparative Study to review the study.

2006 Scholarship Awardees