Rate My Professor Joanne Evans

Evans' research interests encompass archival systems, community archives, cultural informatics, participatory design, recordkeeping informatics, recordkeeping metadata, and records continuum. She received an ARC Future Fellowship from 2015 to 2018 for the project Connecting the Disconnected: Co-designing Integrated and Inclusive Recordkeeping and Archival Networks, through which she established the Recordkeeping and the Rights of the Child Research Program. This initiative develops participatory design and research strategies to create dynamic evidence and memory management frameworks supportive of rights in records, particularly for individuals from childhood out-of-home care. Key publications include "Self-determination and archival autonomy: advocating activism" (Evans, McKemmish, Daniels, McCarthy, 2015), "Recordkeeping Informatics for a Networked Age" (Upward, Reed, Oliver, Evans, 2018), "Create once, use many times: the clever use of recordkeeping metadata for multiple archival purposes" (Evans, McKemmish, Bhoday, 2005), "Recordkeeping informatics: re-figuring a discipline in crisis with a single minded approach" (Upward, Reed, Oliver, Evans, 2013), and "Participatory information governance: Transforming recordkeeping for childhood out-of-home care" (Evans, McKemmish, Rolan, 2019). Her contributions align with UN Sustainable Development Goals 3, 4, and 16. Evans is a member of the International Council on Archives, the Australian Society of Archivists, and the Australian Library and Information Association.