Ballot Archive

12 Feb 2015

Candidate Details

Candidate Name

Valerie Johnson

Academic degrees, honours etc.

MA, PhD

Profession or occupation

Archivist

Grounds for election

Dr Valerie Johnson is Head of Research at The National Archives, Kew, a post she has held for nearly six years. In her current role, she leads the Research team, with responsibility for research strategy and policy; strategic research relationships; and research co-ordination. She also leads on academic engagement. She holds an MA with Distinction in Archive Administration, and was awarded the Alexander R Myers Memorial Prize for Archive Administration. She also has a PhD in History for her thesis, 'British Multinationals, Culture and Empire in the Early Twentieth Century' (2007), for which she won the 2008 Coleman Prize. She is a Registered Member of the Society of Archivists, a Trustee and member of the Executive Committee of the Business Archives Council, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She has worked as an archivist and a historian in the academic, corporate and public sectors.

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