Information Studies, Glasgow
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Information Studies is a research and teaching subject within the School of Humanities at the University of Glasgow, working on the creation, management and use of information and knowledge in the digital age. Its research is organised into three areas. Cultural Heritage combines the practices and collections of museums and galleries, archives and records, and libraries with the theory and practice of digital humanities, covering curatorial and educational practice, collections data, the provenance of born-digital assets and accountability in records appraisal. Digital Humanities centres on content, collection building and curation and the research infrastructures that enable them, including a praxis-based framework for co-producing knowledge with libraries, archives and museums. Information Management and Analysis covers memory and identity in digital cultures, the analysis of heterogeneous data from local, user and commercial sources, digital forensics, artificial intelligence, digital preservation, big-data visualisation, and digital palaeography combined with media archaeology. The subject describes itself as the only academic unit in the UK offering Masters level and accredited professional qualifications across the museum, archive and library fields, and it runs its own seminar series, an annual lecture and a named research prize.
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1 University Gardens
Glasgow
G12 8QQ
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University of Glasgow
Glasgow
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Edinburgh
The National Archives collect and secure the future of the government record, from Shakespeare’s will to tweets from Downing Street, to preserve it for generations to come, making it as accessib… read more about The National Archives
Richmond
The National Library of Scotland is Scotland's national legal deposit library, established by Act of Parliament in 1925 as the successor to the Advocates Library, and one of six legal deposit librarie… read more about National Library of Scotland
Edinburgh
Additional Partnerships
Glasgow Museums; The Hunterian; Royal Museums Greenwich; The Horniman; Grant Museum of Zoology; Captain Cook Memorial Museum; Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals; Tate; Somerset House; NEoN Digital Arts; Asia Research Center, Nankai University; National Archives of Malawi; Digital Curation Unit, Athena Research Institute
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2026-09-13 14:08:07