Information School News

On Friday 31st August 2017, members of the Information School (Dr Ana Vasconcelos, Prof Paul Clough and Dr Simon Wakeling) and Professor David Ellis (Department of Information Studies, University of Aberystwyth) visited Bletchley Park  to meet with staff and discuss potential collaborative research activities. Following an initial discussion about the role of Bletchley Park in WWII – home of the top-secret codebreakers and what is now GCHQ – the visitors were provided with examples of archival materials held at Bletchley, such as the cataloguing system maintained with index cards, examples of intercepted coded messages and synthesised highlights created each day and sent to people such as Winston Churchill. They also toured the site at Bletchley Park, which is a major UK visitor attraction and film location for the Oscar-nominated film “The Imitation Game”.  Thanks go to Dr David Kenyon (research historian) and Peronel Craddock (Head of Collections and Exhi...

Dr Ana Vasconcelos and the School's Knowledge and Information Management Research Group   have been successful in securing funding to establish one of three inter-disciplinary doctoral networks across the University. The group's proposal involves three fully funded PhD projects under the theme of 'Building Economies and Resilient Societies' (BEARS), and is a collaboration between the Information School, the University departments of Architecture, English, Geography, the Management School, ScHARR, and Town and Regional Planning, along with Doncaster Metropolitan Borough Council.