Records Management and Information Rights

Overview

MSc Records Management and Information Rights from University of Dundee covers the fundamental principles and practice of records management and information rights. It provides you with the basic core competencies, knowledge and skills required to work professionally in records management and/or information rights.

Our focus is very much on a mix of the theoretical and the practical. You must be working or volunteering in an appropriate professional environment both prior to and throughout your studies so you can apply what you are learning.

The course will give you an understanding of records management and information rights practice and tradition. You'll also learn about the management of current and semi-current records and how the strict requirements of legislation can be applied to working environments nationally, internationally and within your own corporate environment. You'll gain a thorough understanding of the relationship between between information rights legislation and different classes of information and how this should be managed.

You’ll receive a lot of online content right from the start and benefit from our flexible teaching model that allows students to take semesters off and learn from subject experts.

Careers

When you graduate, you will be able to progress in a career within the record management and information rights sectors.

Our graduates could go on to work as:

• records managers
• information governance managers
• information architects
• compliance managers
• project managers
• business analysts
• business technologists
• process analysts
• data protection officers
• information request officers

Graduates have also gone on to undertake doctoral research and careers in academia.

Accreditation

All CAIS programmes are accredited by the UK Archives and Records Association and The Records and Information Management (RIM) Professionals Australasia