From August to October we were visited by Núria Ferran Ferrer, an academic in Information and Communication Science Studies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalunya). Núria has been involved in research projects related to cultural heritage (COINE), and open educational content (OLCOS). Her Ph.D. research is about the information behaviour of e-learning students in their academic, workplace and daily life contexts. Núria is pictured here with Sheila Webber (centre), Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, and (on the right) Phussadee Dokphrom, a doctoral student in the Department.
Thursday, 5 November 2009
Visiting scholar Nuria Ferran Ferrer
From August to October we were visited by Núria Ferran Ferrer, an academic in Information and Communication Science Studies, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (Open University of Catalunya). Núria has been involved in research projects related to cultural heritage (COINE), and open educational content (OLCOS). Her Ph.D. research is about the information behaviour of e-learning students in their academic, workplace and daily life contexts. Núria is pictured here with Sheila Webber (centre), Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, and (on the right) Phussadee Dokphrom, a doctoral student in the Department.
Saturday, 24 October 2009
Congratulations to Tom Wilson
Our ex head of department has just been awarded the ASIS&T SIG USE award for "outstanding contributions to information behavior". http://www.asis.org/SIG/SIGUSE/awards.php
Thursday, 22 October 2009
IS students and staff win awards at ISHIMR 2009
Congratulations to Haleh Ayatollahi, Liz Brewster and Barbara Sen for their awards at ISHIMR 2009.
Haleh Ayatollahi won the Best Student Paper award for her presentation entitled " Factors influencing the use of IT in the Emergency Department: a Qualitative Study" at ISHIMR 2009, the 14th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research, which was held in Kalmar, Sweden from 14th to 16th October 2009.
Liz Brewster and Barbara Sen won the Best Poster Award for their presentation entitled "An evaluation of Information Prescriptions." at ISHIMR 2009.
The awards were made on the basis of votes by delegates attending the ISHIMR 2009 conference.
Further details of the conference are available at: http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/ishimr09/
ISHIMR 2010 will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece. Please contact Peter Bath (p.a.bath@Shef.ac.uk) if you wish to receive details about the conference.
Haleh Ayatollahi won the Best Student Paper award for her presentation entitled " Factors influencing the use of IT in the Emergency Department: a Qualitative Study" at ISHIMR 2009, the 14th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research, which was held in Kalmar, Sweden from 14th to 16th October 2009.
Liz Brewster and Barbara Sen won the Best Poster Award for their presentation entitled "An evaluation of Information Prescriptions." at ISHIMR 2009.
The awards were made on the basis of votes by delegates attending the ISHIMR 2009 conference.
Further details of the conference are available at: http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/ishimr09/
ISHIMR 2010 will be held in Thessaloniki, Greece. Please contact Peter Bath (p.a.bath@Shef.ac.uk) if you wish to receive details about the conference.
Barbara Sen wins Individual 2009 Service Excellence Award
Congratulations to Barbara Sen on being one of only 6 staff in the whole University to win an Individual 2009 Service Excellence Award.
Barbara was nominated by last year's students for excellence in every aspect of managing and delivering the MA programme and for the outstanding quality of her help and support for the Librarianship students. The award was made on the strength of the students' comments.
Barbara was nominated by last year's students for excellence in every aspect of managing and delivering the MA programme and for the outstanding quality of her help and support for the Librarianship students. The award was made on the strength of the students' comments.
Wednesday, 21 October 2009
DIS - iSchool
The Department of Information Studies was recently invited to join iSchools, an association of schools of Information "interested in the relationship between information, people and technology". We are the only UK Department in the association at present. The website is at http://www.ischools.org/ Professor Mike Eisenberg has produced a video "What's an iSchool" http://www.youtube.com/user/ProjInfoLit#p/u/1/lkDSidUZtio
Monday, 12 October 2009
Staff and students at ISHIMR 2009 conference
Members of the Health Informatics Research Group and the Centre for Health Information Management Research (CHIMR) are attending the 14th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2009) in Kalmar, Sweden this week.
Haleh Ayatollahi is presenting a paper entitled "Factors influencing the use of IT in the Emergency Department: a Qualitative Study", co-authored with Peter Bath and Steve Goodacre (ScHARR).
Wen-Chin Hsu is presenting a poster entitled "Older people’s use of the NHS Direct telephone advice and information service", co-authored with Peter Bath and Shirley Large (NHS-Direct).
Reza Rabiei is presenting a poster entitled "User Satisfaction with the England Choose and Book Service: the Role of Training and Information Technology Support", co-authored with Peter Bath and Allen Hutchinson (ScHARR).
Liz Brewster is presenting a poster entitled "An evaluation of Information Prescriptions", co-authored with Barbara Sen.
Barbara Sen is organising the doctoral forum on Wednesday 16th September.
Peter Bath is Co-Chair of the Programme Committee, together with Professor Göran Petersson, Director, eHealth Institute, University of Kalmar.
Further details of the conference can be found at:
http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/ishimr09/
Haleh Ayatollahi is presenting a paper entitled "Factors influencing the use of IT in the Emergency Department: a Qualitative Study", co-authored with Peter Bath and Steve Goodacre (ScHARR).
Wen-Chin Hsu is presenting a poster entitled "Older people’s use of the NHS Direct telephone advice and information service", co-authored with Peter Bath and Shirley Large (NHS-Direct).
Reza Rabiei is presenting a poster entitled "User Satisfaction with the England Choose and Book Service: the Role of Training and Information Technology Support", co-authored with Peter Bath and Allen Hutchinson (ScHARR).
Liz Brewster is presenting a poster entitled "An evaluation of Information Prescriptions", co-authored with Barbara Sen.
Barbara Sen is organising the doctoral forum on Wednesday 16th September.
Peter Bath is Co-Chair of the Programme Committee, together with Professor Göran Petersson, Director, eHealth Institute, University of Kalmar.
Further details of the conference can be found at:
http://dagda.shef.ac.uk/ishimr09/
Friday, 2 October 2009
Spotlight paper at ISWC 2009
Daniela Petrelli's paper at the International Semantic Web Conference ISWC 2009 has been selected as Spotlight Paper: "papers designated by the program chairs and vice chairs [...] to be of special interest to all members of the ISWC community." The paper titled "Multi Visualisation and Dynamic Query for Effective Exploration of Semantic Data" will be presented in the section: 'User and the Social Semantic Web', just after a paper co-authored by Tim Berners-Lee considered by many the father of the Web and the Semantic Web.
Centre for Information Literacy Research
There is now a Ning website for the Centre for Information Literacy Research. Anyone interested in information literacy research can join the ning, and there is a blog, discussion boards, links and notices of upcoming events. Go to http://infolitresearch.ning.com/
Tuesday, 22 September 2009
Welcome to our new students!
A big welcome to all the new students joining us in the Department of Information Studies University of Sheffield this week on our undergraduate and postgraduate programmes!
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
Clough at GIS workshop
Paul Clough is speaking at a GIS workshop in York on The Cultural Heritage of Historic European Cities and Public Participatory GIS http://www.york.ac.uk/res/isthmus/ISTHMUS_Site/Public_Participatory_GIS.html
CILR series transcripts
Transcripts of the chat conversation from the last 5 discussion/presentation sessions held in Second Life (the virtual world) are available. This is the Centre for Information Literacy Research (CILR) series. There are links to material from all previous sessions (about 30) at http://infolitischool.pbworks.com/Past+eventsIf you have a Second Life avatar, you can also go inworld and find boards with links and notecards in the CILR on Infolit iSchool at
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Infolit%20iSchool/107/223/22/
The events, which took place in July and August 2009, were: Report on IL at the IFLA 2009 Conference; EDINA and SL (discussion); Information providers in a virtual world (research presentation); Intellectual Property (IP) and SL (discussion); Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) and the First Year Experience (FYE)(research presentation)
Monday, 14 September 2009
Sheffield lecturer to be PC Chair of ECIR 2011
Paul Clough is going to be PC co-chair of ECIR 2011. This conference is the best IR conference in Europe and ranks 3rd in all the IR conferences there are.
Monday, 7 September 2009
Social networks in learning research seminar
Speaker: Nashrawan Taha
A Study of the Evolution of Networks among International Students in Formal Learning Communities
Wednesday, 9th September, 13.00 RC204
Social network analysis (SNA) has been used to study the pattern of interaction among learners in different online and offline communities. However, there is still not much research that focuses on the study of the evolution of the social network in a face to face formal learning context. By combining the use of SNA and qualitative data, this research aims to study the social network evolution of international students and the factors that shaped these changes in a face to face formal learning context. Combining social network analysis and qualitative methods, helps to provide a fuller picture of the network and obtain better quality and more accurate data. This research also explores the role of Web 2.0 in general, and Social Bookmarking technology in particular, in studying the social network relations.
A Study of the Evolution of Networks among International Students in Formal Learning Communities
Wednesday, 9th September, 13.00 RC204
Social network analysis (SNA) has been used to study the pattern of interaction among learners in different online and offline communities. However, there is still not much research that focuses on the study of the evolution of the social network in a face to face formal learning context. By combining the use of SNA and qualitative data, this research aims to study the social network evolution of international students and the factors that shaped these changes in a face to face formal learning context. Combining social network analysis and qualitative methods, helps to provide a fuller picture of the network and obtain better quality and more accurate data. This research also explores the role of Web 2.0 in general, and Social Bookmarking technology in particular, in studying the social network relations.
Research seminar on risk management in IS Development
Risk Management in Information System Development Projects in the Thai Context
Speaker: Nipon Parinyavuttichai
Thursday, 10th September, 12.00 RC204
Information System (IS) companies have invested a large amount of effort and
resource in developing IS projects. However, many IS projects still
underperform, over run their budgets, or even end in failure. Hence, it is
important to identify risks behind the development of IS projects (ISD) and
implement appropriate risk management practices to the IS projects. Once these
IS risk management activities are put into action, IS projects trapped in a
failing course of action can be turned around to successful projects.
This research aims to 1) understand how an IS project evolves over a period of
development, 2) identify and analyse risks contributing to the outcome of an IS
project, and 3) examine how risks identified from the project are developed and
managed throughout the IS project. In order to achieve these objectives, case
study is chosen as the research method. The method is designed to thoroughly
investigate social phenomenon in which the researcher has little or no control.
Additionally, this method is commonly used in IS research to examine the
aspects of innovation (IS) and the people dealing with the IS. Semi-structured
interview and analysis of documentation are two approaches to be used in this
study to gather data from five Thai IS organisations and one IT department of a
university in Thailand where the ISD phenomenon takes place. The collected data
will then be interpreted through three stages of analysis depending on the
level of data. These three stages are 1) longitudinal analysis, 2) thematic
analysis, and 3) cross-case analysis.
Speaker: Nipon Parinyavuttichai
Thursday, 10th September, 12.00 RC204
Information System (IS) companies have invested a large amount of effort and
resource in developing IS projects. However, many IS projects still
underperform, over run their budgets, or even end in failure. Hence, it is
important to identify risks behind the development of IS projects (ISD) and
implement appropriate risk management practices to the IS projects. Once these
IS risk management activities are put into action, IS projects trapped in a
failing course of action can be turned around to successful projects.
This research aims to 1) understand how an IS project evolves over a period of
development, 2) identify and analyse risks contributing to the outcome of an IS
project, and 3) examine how risks identified from the project are developed and
managed throughout the IS project. In order to achieve these objectives, case
study is chosen as the research method. The method is designed to thoroughly
investigate social phenomenon in which the researcher has little or no control.
Additionally, this method is commonly used in IS research to examine the
aspects of innovation (IS) and the people dealing with the IS. Semi-structured
interview and analysis of documentation are two approaches to be used in this
study to gather data from five Thai IS organisations and one IT department of a
university in Thailand where the ISD phenomenon takes place. The collected data
will then be interpreted through three stages of analysis depending on the
level of data. These three stages are 1) longitudinal analysis, 2) thematic
analysis, and 3) cross-case analysis.
Wednesday, 2 September 2009
Factors Influencing Perceived Trust and Risks of e-Voting Solutions: A Study Within The Bahrain’s Elections
Research Seminar
Sayed Jalal Naser
Thursday September 3rd
(12.00, RC204)
Since it was declared as Kingdom in 2002, where municipal elections and parliamentary elections were held in the same year, Bahrain has taken a strategic decision to the application of ICT in boosting the democratic operations. Bahrain has partially applied e-Voting in 2002 parliamentary election, and has prepared for its full application in 2006 election. However a sudden decision was taken to put 2006 e-Voting programme on hold till 2010.
Within the above framework, studying the barriers and exploring the challenges facing applying e-Voting in Bahrain represent the area of the research described by this presentation. The research aimed in particularly at investigating what determines Bahrainis voters’ evaluation of the trustworthiness of an e-Voting solution.
The study follows a mixed research strategy for building and expanding the theory. The first stage which would be a qualitative one includes interviewing Members of the Parliament MPs as will as Bahraini’s election officials. This stage would be followed by a quantitative stage during which participants from the general public would be surveyed about their views regarding Trust on e-Voting.
Sayed Jalal Naser
Thursday September 3rd
(12.00, RC204)
Since it was declared as Kingdom in 2002, where municipal elections and parliamentary elections were held in the same year, Bahrain has taken a strategic decision to the application of ICT in boosting the democratic operations. Bahrain has partially applied e-Voting in 2002 parliamentary election, and has prepared for its full application in 2006 election. However a sudden decision was taken to put 2006 e-Voting programme on hold till 2010.
Within the above framework, studying the barriers and exploring the challenges facing applying e-Voting in Bahrain represent the area of the research described by this presentation. The research aimed in particularly at investigating what determines Bahrainis voters’ evaluation of the trustworthiness of an e-Voting solution.
The study follows a mixed research strategy for building and expanding the theory. The first stage which would be a qualitative one includes interviewing Members of the Parliament MPs as will as Bahraini’s election officials. This stage would be followed by a quantitative stage during which participants from the general public would be surveyed about their views regarding Trust on e-Voting.
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