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Alistair Tough (right) with Paul Lihoma (Director of the National Archives of Malawi)
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde Archivist & Records Manager and
HATII Senior Research Fellow
University Archives & Business Records Centre
77-87 Dumbarton Road
Glasgow
G11 6PW
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 2992 or +44 (0)141 287 2883
Fax: +44 (0)141 330 4158
Email: A.Tough@archives.gla.ac.uk
Fulbright Fellow, Stanford, USA 1984
Snell Visitor, Balliol College, Oxford, 1996
Visiting Research Fellow, Michigan, USA, 1997
Visiting Fellow, University of Malawi, 2009
British Standards Institution sub committee on Records Management,
2000 - 2005
College of Assessors, Arts and Humanities Research Board, 2004
- 2009
Editorial Board, Records Management Journal 2004 - present
Teaching
Research
- Electronic record keeping systems
- Records Management Systems in developing countries, particularly
the integration of manual and electronic systems
- Impact of International Standard for Records
Management, particularly in Commonwealth countries
- Modelling of record keeping systems
- The Relationship between archives and orality
- History of HM Colonial / Overseas Civil Service
- African medical history
Publications
'Record keeping and accountability: Why the distinction between probity and responsibility matters', Archives & Social Studies, vol 1, number 1, October 2007, ISSN 1988-0626. Available at: http://socialstudies.cartagena.es/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=69&Itemid=33
'Records and the transition to the digital', in Tough, A and
Moss, M (eds) Record keeping in a hybird environment, Chandos
Publishing, 2006 (forthcoming).
'Records Management standards and the good governance agenda
in Commonwealth Africa', Archives and Manuscripts, Nov 2004.
'The post-custodial / pro-custodial debate from a records management
perspective', Journal of the Society of Archivists, April 2004.
'Metadata, controlled vocabulary and directories: electronic
document management and standards for records management', Records
Management Journal, Spring 2003 (with Michael Moss).
'The first 50 years of the NHS in Scotland. A less celebratory
view', in Nottingham, C (ed) The NHS in Scotland. The legacy of
the past and the prospect of the future, Ashgate, 2000.
Selecting clinical records for long-term preservation, Wellcome
Unit for History of Medicine, University of Glasgow, revised Second
Edition, 1999 (edited with Hamish Maxwell-Stewart).
African medical history, Bodleian Library, University
of Oxford, 1997. |
