Michael Moss is research professor in archival studies. He is director of the Information Management and Preservation MSc programme and convenes the Institute’s research seminars. Prior to being appointed to HATII, he was archivist of the University from 1974 to 2003. He was educated at the University of Oxford and trained in the Bodleian Library. He is a non-executive director of the National Trust for Scotland, convenor of the Senior Historians Conference, and a member of the peer review college of the Arts and Humanities Research Council. He lives in Ayrshire where he is an enthusiastic gardener.
He researches and writes in the fields of history and the information sciences, which embraces archival and library science and the impact of the digital media. His recent publications include the prize-winning biography of Sir William Beatty, the surgeon on the Victory at Trafalgar, Advancing with the Army – a longitudinal study of a cohort of army doctors and their families during the French wars, an exploration of the family history phenomena from the perspective of his own family, and a consideration of what the evidence presented to the Hutton Inquiry revealed about United Kingdom government record keeping. He was director of TheGlasgowStory, an online history of the city funded by the New Opportunities Fund (now the Big Lottery Fund)