Qiuhui Xiao, Researcher

Qiuhui Xiao, female, from Yichang, Hubei, PhD in Management, is a Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Information Management, Wuhan University, a supervisor of professional Master's students in Library and Information Science, a member of the Basic Theory of Archival Science Committee of the Archives Society of China, and a researcher at the Electronic Records Management Center of Renmin University of China. In September 1991, she entered the Archival Science program of the School of Library and Information Science, Wuhan University. From September 1995 to July 1998, she studied for a Master's degree in Library Science at the School of Library and Information Science, Wuhan University. After receiving her Master's degree in 1998, she stayed at the school to teach in the Archival Science program. From September 2000 to July 2004, she studied part-time for a PhD in Information Science at Wuhan University and received a PhD in Management. She was promoted to Associate Professor in 2006. In 2008, she received funding from the General Program of the China Scholarship Council, and from October 2009 to October 2010, she was a visiting scholar at the Institute for History and Archives, Russian State University for the Humanities. She was promoted to Professor in 2014, became a Doctoral Supervisor in 2015, and was Head of the Department of Archives and Government Information from March 2017 to November 2020. In 2018, she was appointed one of the first National Archives Experts by the National Archives Administration of China, and in 2022, she was appointed a "National-Level Archives Expert" by the Central Archives and the National Archives Administration of China.

Research Interests: Electronic records management, history of archival education at the Boone Library School, comparative study of Chinese and foreign archival education, Russian archival science, declassification and opening of archives, etc.