Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher

Lecturer
MA (Hons), MA (PG), MScEcon, PCTHE Photograph of Kirsten Ferguson-Boucher.

Contact

Email: knb@aber.ac.uk
Office: 238
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622069
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622190

Responsibilities

Module coordinator, Personal and Dissertation Tutor

Team Advisor for MSc Econ in International Archives, Records and Information Management and MScEcon in Information Governance and Assurance, including admissions and marketing. 

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Teaching

Records Management in an Electronic Age

Postgraduate Teaching

Module Coordinator for on and off campus post graduate courses in: Records Management in an Electronic Age; Records Management; Digital Records; Records and Information Governance, Workplace Case Study.


New Modules:   

  • Law, Compliance and Ethics; 
  • Information Assurance, in conjunction with the University of Washington
  • Digital Records and Asset Management



Research

Research Areas
Information Governance (accountability and compliance) and records and information management (CAAP model: classification, appraisal, access and preservation) across sectors; security, risk analysis and digital forensics in organisational contexts and modelling records and information practices and behaviour.
Current research activities
My research currently falls into four areas: digital/cloud forensics and information assurance, cloud computing and governance, accountability in the digital workplace and the role and purpose of conceptual modelling in describing organisational and individual behaviour.


Biography

I have been with the department since December 2007 and prior to that was Managing Director of an SME in the Scottish Borders manufacturing cashmere knitwear.

I was educated in England, Nigeria and America up to the age of 17 and went to Edinburgh, Heriot Watt and most recently Aberystwyth universities. I have worked in the public, private and voluntary sectors, as Assistant Director of a national disability charity in Scotland (where I also spent two years as Research and Information Manager) and had an early public sector career  in the Registers of Scotland.

I enjoy walking and rowing and am a member of the Borth Rowing Club, as well as spending time with family and friends, especially my nine year old daughter.

Additional Interests

Professional qualification/membership of professional bodies

Welsh Head of the Centre for Information Assurance and Cyber Security (based in University of Washington, Seattle)
Member of Information and Records Management Society
Member of Archives and Records Association   
Fellow of the Higher Education Academy


Staff Publications

Convery, N. and Ferguson-Boucher, K. (2011) “Storing Information in the Cloud – A Research Project”. Journal of the Society of Archivists; Vol. 32, No. 2, October 2011, 221–239.

Convery, N. and Ferguson-Boucher, K. (2011) “The Future of Content Management: a Social Media Revolution”. Public Sector Records and Information Management Conference, Manchester, UK.

Endicott-Popovsky, B. and Ferguson-Boucher, K. (2011). “Risk Assessment and Cloud Strategy Development”. Cloud Futures Workshop 2011. Microsoft Research, Redmund, USA.

Endicott-Popovsky, B. and Ferguson-Boucher, K. (2011) “Forensic Readiness and Information Governance in the Cloud”. "The Law of Unintended Consequences: The right to be forgotten, the duty to remember," SLAIS, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.

Ferguson-Boucher, K. (2011) “Privacy, Information Governance Assurance in the Cloud.” Ischool Conference, University of Washington, Seattle, USA.

Foster, A., Ferguson-Boucher, K. and Broady-Preston, J. (2010) “Unifying information behaviour and process: a balanced palette and the balanced scorecard”, Performance Measurement & Metrics: The International Journal for Library and Information Services, 11 (3), pp.280-288.

Foster, A E; Ferguson-Boucher, K & Broady-Preston, J. (2010) Unifying information behaviour and process: a balanced palette and the balanced scorecard, 2nd Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries International Conference, Chania, Crete, Greece.

Ferguson-Boucher, K. (2010) “Skills for a Digital Era” Digital Preservation Roadshow. National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth, Wales.

Ferguson-Boucher, K. (2009) “Digital Preservation: an overview. How the landscape has evolved and current challenges”. Society of Archivists AGM. Aberystwyth, Wales.

Ferguson-Boucher, K. (2009) “ESI: An episode on cross disciplinarity: legal admissibility, digital forensics and records and information management”. Information and Records Management Conference. Brighton, UK

Endicott-Popovsky, B. and Ferguson-Boucher, K. (2008) “Digital Forensics and Records Management: What We Can Learn from the Discipline of Archiving”. Security Compliance and Risk Management Institute Conference. Where Information Technology, Law and Risk Management Converge.  University of Washington, Seattle, USA.