Congratulations!

UCL Student Abigail Wharne with Alison North, Sunny Seregen and Katherine O’Keefe.

UCL DIS students are celebrating success in two prestigious competitions this year. Nicola Wood (Archives and Records Management) has been awarded a New Professionals Bursary by the International Council on Archives (ICA) to allow her to attend the 2016 ICA Congress in Seoul later this year and Abigail Wharne (also Archives and Records Management) has won the IRMS (Information and Records Management Society) Alison North New Professionals’ Award for her essay entitled ‘Big Decisions: Appraising Pupil Files in a Complex Climate’. Abigail’s work focused on the appraisal of pupil files in the light of data protection legislation, the IICSA’s Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (the Goddard Inquiry) and the impact of the case R (C) and Northumberland County Council, with The Information Commissioner as an interested party, and will be published soon in the IRMS Bulletin. Nicola entered a strong application to win recognition by ICA as a promising new entrant to the profession, willing and able to contribute the views of new professionals to the international ARM community. Many congratulations to them both and to Sunny Seregen (a UCL alumna) and Katherine O’Keefe who were runners up in the IRMS Alison North Award.