Sue McKemmish
Professor Sue McKemmish joined Frank Upward at Monash University in 1990 to develop cutting edge education curriculum for recordkeeping professionals at undergraduate and post-graduate levels. Sue most widely known in the Archival Science discipline for her seminal paper, Evidence of me, about personal recordkeeping and societal memory. She also played a significant role in the development of records continuum thinking which led to Frank Upward's Records Continuum Model and is a founding member of the Records Continuum Research Group.
Sue is a leader and trailblazer of continuum thinking, particularly related to societal memory linked to accountability and her name is synonymous with the Australian records continuum movement. She has published extensively on recordkeeping in society, records continuum theory, recordkeeping metadata, and archival systems, and is a Laureate of the Australian Society of Archivists.[1]
Sue has been at the forefront of a research and education agenda based in continuum thinking, which includes the development and leadership of international, multidisciplinary and collaborative research projects, as well as supervising multiple award-winning PhD students. She is engaged in major research and standards initiatives relating to the use of metadata in records and archival systems, information resource discovery and smart information portals, Australian Indigenous archives, and the development of more inclusive archival educational programs that meet the needs of diverse communities.
Sue has taken on senior leadership roles in the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash. She is the Chair of Archival Systems, Founder and Director of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics (COSI) and Associate Dean Graduate Research of the Faculty of Information Technology.[2]