Information School News

Congratulations to Information School PhD student Titima Thumbumrung who recently won a merit award for her paper at the 2016 European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM 2016). This is in addition to winning the best poster prize at the European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studie s ( ECRM 2016) in June 2016.

We would like to offer our warmest congratulations to our latest cohort of postgraduate students on their recent graduation.   On 15 January 2016 the School held a reception before the ceremony, where our P rize W inners were honoured for their outstanding achievements.    The West Riding Country Library/Annenberg Prize is given for outstanding performance in the field of public librarianship and was awarded to Anya Badock, MA Librarianship. Anya Badock and Dr Briony Birdi The Henry Heaney Memorial Prize is awarded for the best dissertation in the field of academic librarianship, and the winner this year was Lucy Woolhouse a student on the MA Librarianship programme.  Dr Briony Birdi and Lucy Woolhouse The Peak Indicators Prize aims to recognise the achievement of students for their Dissertation within the MSc Data Science programme and was awarded to Justine Nicholls. Andy Ball (Peak Indicators CEO), Justine Nicholls and Professor Peter Bat...

Congratulations to Izzy Savage, BSc Informatics with Employment Experience, who has been shortlisted for Best Student Placement Award in the 2016 National Undergraduate Employability Student Awards following a placement year as Technical Specialist at IBM in 2014/15. This is a fantastic achievement. "This Award celebrates the amazing contribution that students make to businesses across the UK and abroad. Our finalists have made a genuine, measurable impact to their business whilst on placement." Izzy was involved in a number of technical and client facing projects at IBM including: Demonstrating the capability of IBM’s Analytical tools to several clients including a leading UK supermarket Successfully developing and demonstrating ‘art of the possible’ applications to allow clients to easily understand how IBM can solve some of their industry pain points Creating an asset for client executives within the Banking and Insurance industry that aids in creating new discussions ...