Recordkeeping Principles Survey

An Australian Research Council Discovery Project investigating the design of systems to support the recordkeeping rights of people who experience childhood out-of-home Care.

The Rights in Records by Design project is investigating the design of participatory rights-based recordkeeping systems. We aim to develop a conceptual model of Lifelong Living Archives for Childhood Out-of-Home Care better able to meet lifelong identity, memory and accountability needs.

As part of this research, we are conducting a survey to capture the views of recordkeeping and other professionals in the out-of-home Care sector on capacities to implement

Recordkeeping Principles for Child Safety and Wellbeing (Recommendation 8.4) handed down by the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in December 2017, and
Records Access Principles and Guidelines developed in 2015 as part of the DSS’s Find & Connect Services and Projects.

We would like to understand how these principles are being applied throughout the sector, any barriers to their adoption, and other issues that surface in their implementation.

We also plan to repeat this survey on an annual basis to track views on how capacities to implement these principles improve over time.

We invite all those working with records and archives in any out-of-home Care context to take part.

Complete the Recordkeeping Principles Survey

Participation involves voluntarily completing an online survey, reflecting on the capacity in your context to implement these principles.

We are seeking thoughtful responses based on your individual experience as a recordkeeping or other professional working with records in any out-of-home Care context, rather than formal organisational responses, so the survey is anonymous.

The survey should take 30 minutes to 1 hour to complete.

Here is an overview of the survey to help you prepare for completing it.

You do not have to finish the survey in one go. You can pause and return at a later time (provided you are using the same browser and computer).

If you have any questions then please do not hesitate to get in contact:

Chief Investigator: Associate Professor Joanne Evans
Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics
Faculty of Information Technology
Phone: +61 3 9903 1277
Email: joanne.evans@monash.edu

Research Fellow: Dr Greg Rolan
Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics
Faculty of Information Technology
Phone: +61 3 9903 1943
Email: greg.rolan@monash.edu

Rights in Records by Design is funded through an Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant DP170100198. The Chief Investigators are Associate Professor Joanne Evans (Monash University), Associate Professor Jacqueline Wilson (Federation University), Professor Sue McKemmish (Monash University), Associate Professor Philip Mendes (Monash University), Professor Keir Reeves (Federation University), and Dr Jane Bone (Monash University).

Associate Professor Joanne Evans’s involvement is also funded through ARC Future Fellowship FT140100073 Connecting the Disconnected: Co-Designing Inclusive Archival and Recordkeeping Systems.