Archivist at the 我要吃瓜 since 2003.
Over 25 years professional experience in a range of cultural institutions including the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin; the National Archives of Ireland; and the Mitchell Library, Glasgow.
Trustee / Director of the National Library of Scotland Foundation.
Chair of the Archives & Records Association, the leading professional body for archivists, records managers and archive conservators in the UK and Ireland (2018-2020).
Responsible for the care, management and promotion of collections held in the 我要吃瓜 Archives which include the NHS Forth Valley Archive, the Musicians' Union Archive and the Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive.
Current projects:
Archival curator of Hosts and Champions: Scotland in the Commonwealth Games, a touring exhibition which has visited twenty venues across Scotland since the Glasgow 2014 Commonwealth Games.
Project manager of Tales from the Ring: Celebrating Scotland's Boxing Heritage, a National Heritage Lottery Fund project collecting and preserving the history of Scottish boxing.
Advocacy and professional support for the wider archival sector through trustee role with the Archives and Records Association, the professional membership body for archivists, records managers and archive conservators in the UK and Ireland.
Living Archives in Residential Child Care: using the past to inform the future
PI: Professor Ruth Emond
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Scottish Cultural Memory Project
PI: Professor N Blain
Funded by: Creative Scotland
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The Cinema Authorship of Lindsay Anderson
PI: Professor John Izod
Funded by: Arts and Humanities Research Council
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Presentation / Talk
Magee K & Hagan H (2021) Everyday records or living archives? Creating a new standard for record-keeping in residential care homes in Scotland and Germany. International Council on Archives, Section on University and Research Institution Archives annual conference - Archives, Ethics and Society, Heidelberg, Germany, 26.07.2021-29.07.2021.
Book Chapter
Thinking outside the box: crowdfunding the Peter Mackay Archive
Magee K (2019) Thinking outside the box: crowdfunding the Peter Mackay Archive. In: Benoit, III E & Eveleigh A (eds.) Participatory Archives: Theory and Practice. London: Facet Publishing, pp. 149-155. http://www.facetpublishing.co.uk/title.php?id=303564#.XZtLakZKiUk
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Lost in the crowd: building and managing communities of interest
Magee K (2017) Lost in the crowd: building and managing communities of interest. DCDC 2017 The cultural value of collections and the creative economy, The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester, 27.11.2017-29.11.2017. https://dcdcconference.com/dcdc17-papers/
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Lost in the crowd: building and managing communities of interest
Magee K (2017) Lost in the crowd: building and managing communities of interest. DCDC 2017: The cultural value of collections and the creative economy, Manchester, Salford Quay, 27.11.2017-29.11.2017.
Book Chapter
Lindsay Anderson: Child of Empire
Magee K (2016) Lindsay Anderson: Child of Empire. In: Hedling E & Dupin C C (eds.) Lindsay Anderson Revisited: Unknown Aspects of a Film Director. London: Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 27-40. http://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9781137539427; https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-53943-4_3
Conference Paper (published)
Hosts and Champions: Taking the Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive on tour
Haynes R & Magee K (2015) Hosts and Champions: Taking the Commonwealth Games Scotland Archive on tour. In: volume L. ‘In a league of their own’: archives of the history of British sport and physical recreation, 2015 British Records Association conference, London, 26.11.2015-26.11.2015. London: British Records Association, pp. 37-46. http://www.britishrecordsassociation.org.uk/archives-abstract/archives-volume-l-2015-double-sports-issue-abstracts/
Article
Lindsay Anderson and the Legacy of Free Cinema
Izod J & Magee K (2014) Lindsay Anderson and the Legacy of Free Cinema. Journal of British Cinema and Television, 11 (2-3), pp. 351-369. https://doi.org/10.3366/jbctv.2014.0220
Conference Paper (unpublished)
Lindsay Anderson, Film, Theatre and In Celebration (Keynote Speech)
Izod J & Magee K (2013) Lindsay Anderson, Film, Theatre and In Celebration (Keynote Speech). 20th Annual Scottish Word and Image Group Conference, University of Dundee, 22.06.2013-23.06.2013. http://www.scottishwordimage.org/conferences/2013programme.html
Authored Book
Lindsay Anderson: Cinema Authorship
Izod J, Magee K, Hannan K & Gourdin-Sangouard I (2012) Lindsay Anderson: Cinema Authorship. Manchester: Manchester University Press. http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/cgi-bin/indexer?product=9780719083389
Article
Magee K (2012) 我要吃瓜 Archives. Scottish Archives, 18, pp. 108-118. http://www.scottishrecordsassociation.org/Scottish%20Archives%2018.web.10%20Magee.pdf
Article
Boycotts and Bailouts: the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council of Scotland
Magee K (2011) Boycotts and Bailouts: the archives of the Commonwealth Games Council of Scotland. African Research and Documentation, (116), pp. 25-34.
Article
Archives, Artists and Designers
Magee K & Waters S (2011) Archives, Artists and Designers. Journal of the Society of Archivists, 32 (2), pp. 273-285. https://doi.org/10.1080/00379816.2011.619707
Book Chapter
Music / Industry / Politics: Alan Price's Roles in O Lucky Man!
Izod J, Magee K, MacKenzie K & Gourdin-Sangouard I (2010) Music / Industry / Politics: Alan Price's Roles in O Lucky Man!. In: Forster L & Harper S (eds.) British Culture and Society in the 1970s: The Lost Decade. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 201-212. http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/British-Culture-and-Society-in-the-1970-s--The-Lost-Decade1-4438-1734-1.htm
Book Chapter
'"What is there to smile at?" Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man!'
Izod J, Magee K, MacKenzie K & Gourdin-Sangouard I (2010) '"What is there to smile at?" Lindsay Anderson’s O Lucky Man!'. In: Newland P (ed.) Don't Look Now: British Cinema in the 1970s. Chicago: Intellect, pp. 215-228. http://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/books/view-Book,id=4699/
Article
Come North: Glassert Game Books and Diaries
Durie A & Magee K (2008) Come North: Glassert Game Books and Diaries. Forth Naturalist and Historian, 31, pp. 117-119. http://www.fnh.stir.ac.uk/journal/back_issues/vol_31/75-120.pdf
Book Chapter
Hooray for Hollywood? The unmade films of Lindsay Anderson
Magee K (2008) Hooray for Hollywood? The unmade films of Lindsay Anderson. In: North D (ed.) Sights Unseen: Unfinished British Films. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 121-140. http://www.cambridgescholars.com/sights-unseen-18
Book Chapter
Private thoughts, public records? The publication of the Lindsay Anderson diaries
Magee K (2006) Private thoughts, public records? The publication of the Lindsay Anderson diaries. In: Holland A & Manning K (eds.) Archives and Archivists. Dublin: Four Courts Press, pp. 155-165. http://www.fourcourtspress.ie/books/archives/archives-and-archivists/