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Who's Who at the Modern Records Centre

The Modern Records Centre is a department within the University Library and has fourteen full and part time members of staff.

Contact us for more information about the Modern Records Centre, our collections and services. Your enquiry will be responded to by the appropriate staff member from the list below.


Eren Delaney, Digital Preservation Specialist

Eren works on digital preservation at the Modern Records Centre. This involves accessioning, appraising, cataloguing, maintaining and making available digital archive collections held by the MRC.

Lizzy Goodger-Allin, Collections Engagement and Outreach Officer

Lizzy works on increasing the engagement with the archive collections through work with schools, community groups, colleagues across the University and other higher education institutes.

Sarah Hughes, Outreach and Education Co-ordinator (Mining the Past)

Sarah Hughes is working with the recently transferred archives of the National Union of Mineworkers, developing a range of resources and events based around the collection.

Carole Jones, Customer Services Archives Assistant

Carole Jones works in customer service both front of house and behind the scenes in document production and returns, provides a reprographics service for researchers and clerical and administrative support for the MRC team. She also assists with digitisation projects and with the processing and listing of incoming archives.

James King, Senior Archivist

James King is primarily concerned with the acquisition, accessioning, processing and cataloguing of archive collections, and also has particular interests in the researching and writing of administrative histories and the identification of genealogical data in the MRC collections.

Rachel MacGregor, Digital Preservation Officer

Rachel MacGregor leads on digital preservation especially in relation to accessioning, appraising, cataloguing and maintaining digital archive collections held by the MRC.

Lizzie Morrison, Archivist (University Archives)

Lizzie Morrison has responsibility for the day-to-day management of the University Archive.

Jamie Orton, Digitisation Assistant

Jamie works on digitising archives and Special Collections to make available to as wide an audience as possible.

Thomas Peart, Archives Assistant

Thomas is on hand to provide front-of-house and in-house assistance to the day-to-day running of services within the Modern Records Centre. His duties entail the production and return of archival material, the supervision and support of customers in the MRC reading room and provision of general and administrative support for the running of the wide-range of archive services the MRC provides.

Martin Sanders, Senior Archivist

Martin Sanders contributes to the acquisition, processing and provision of access to the Centre鈥檚 archive holdings through liaison with document owners, production of finding aids, advising users, answering enquiries, and contributing to outreach work. He has been particularly involved in the digitisation of our audio-visual holdings.

Naomi Shewan, Archives Assistant

Naomi Shewan is concerned with accessioning, processing and cataloguing collections. She answers enquiries, and supervises the searchroom. She creates content for social media posts and assists with exhibitions. She also helps with digitisation projects. She deals with document production and returns, provides a reprographics service for researchers and provides administrative support for the MRC team.

Liz Wood, Archivist

Liz Wood works on the acquisition, accessioning, processing and cataloguing of archive collections, and contributes towards outreach work, including exhibitions, talks and digitisation. She has recently spent three years as a Project Archivist, working with the archives of the National Union of Mineworkers.

Louisa Yates, MRC Manager & Head of Archives and Special Collections

Louisa manages the strategic and operational direction of the Modern Records Centre's collections, staff and user services, as part of 糖心TV's Library & Archives 'Discovery and Collections' section. A member of the Senior Management Team, Louisa works closely with Senior Leadership to ensure that the MRC's unique collections play a central role in informing and delivering the University's strategic commitments in education, research, and civic engagement.

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