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At The National Archives we do a range of 
research which is underpinned by our role 
as Keeper of the national record and archives 
sector lead.

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And we have a range of research-active staff 
whose different specialisms range from history 
to conservation science to data and computing.

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And all of our research is underpinned by 
an interest in interpreting, preserving and 
providing access to archives.

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We have developed conceptual themes which 
act as our research priorities and these 
range from openness, access and use

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To risk, uncertainty and trust to citizen, 
law and state. And they're a way of capturing 
the range of different challenges that we 
have

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Both as an organisation that keeps archives 
ourselves and as archives sector lead.

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Under those headings we've developed statements 
of intent that draw out the key research 
questions that we want to tackle.

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The statements of intent and the research 
themes are designed to act as an internal 
compass for us.

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So that we know internally and we can articulate 
to all of our staff what our research should 
be orientated around.

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But importantly, they're also an indicator 
to academics that we want to partner with

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Some of whom will come from disciplines that 
we haven't engaged with much in the past, 
so we're looking to collaborate with

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Mathematicians, people from computing, data 
scientists who can help us unpick some of 
our core digital archiving challenges.

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The National Archives has been really keen 
to develop the infrastructure that we need 
to support our research activities going 
forward.

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One initiative has been to create a new Research 
Hub which is an internal space within our 
building.

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That space is open to all research-active 
staff across the organisation who can come 
to use it to collaborate together on interdisciplinary 
research projects.

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We also see it as a home for our long-term 
academic collaborators who are working with 
us on our research projects.

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And we also want it to be open to our doctoral 
students.

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The idea behind the Research Hub is to create 
a research community at The National Archives

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And its a way of developing our reputation 
as an excellent host for high quality interdisciplinary 
research.

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We run a number of academic programmes at 
The National Archives.

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We do quite a few things for doctoral students, 
we have doctoral students in-house through 
Collaborative Doctoral Partnerships and Collaborative 
Doctoral Awards.

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We also work with a number of Doctoral Training 
Partnership schemes, for example we run a 
very successful PAST training skills workshop.

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Which is about teaching academics essential 
archival skills.

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We also run a number of events for academics 
including our Big Ideas seminar series, digital 
experimentation workshops and an annual academic 
lecture series.

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These are really important in creating a 
platform at The National Archives for getting 
people together to showcase research that 
happens both around our collections and around 
our core recordkeeping challenges.

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The National Archives is really well-known 
for its historically-focussed research that 
it does around our collections.

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And that's one of our core strengths and 
we want to continue to champion that type 
of research.

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But we also want to engage much more strongly 
in research around our recordkeeping challenges, 
particularly coming out of our Digital Strategy

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So that we can work to create the disruptive 
archive, so that we can be leaders in the 
field, so that we can take the archives sector 
on a journey

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And give them the tools and technologies 
that they need to embrace the brave new world 
of digital records.