Information School News

Dr Eva Hornung 's PhD was chosen, by the editor of Journal of Documentation , as a Highly Commended Award winner of the 2011 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Eva (shown (left) with her PhD viva examiners), who gained her doctorate from the Information School last year, was the only winner from a British university out of the three in the Information Science category. Her dissertation was on “The current state and perceptions of one-person librarians in Ireland of continuing professional development” and her supervisor was Sheila Webber. There is more information on the awards at http://www.emeraldinsight.com/research/awards/odra.htm

We are investing in a strategic appointment designed to enhance and expand our research and teaching in Information Management or Information Systems and related areas. Closing date: 16th January 2012 Please see www.shef.ac.uk/is/about/jobs for full details.

Prof Sheila Corrall and University Librarian Martin Lewis (a member of the iSchool's Advisory Panel) are attending the 7th International Digital Curation Conference in Bristol on 6-7 December, where they are jointly presenting a poster on Building Library Capacity for Managing Data. The poster depicts updated and new models that capture current thinking and emergent practice on roles and competencies in the changing digital landscape to help library and information professionals make sense of the challenges and opportunities in the present environment.

iSchool PhD student Simon Wakeling joined a librarian, publisher and academic in a panel debate on "Library Bypass: Rational Response or Road to Nowhere?" at the 2011 Online Information Conference in London today. Simon, who graduated from our MSc Electronic & Digital Library Management programme in 2010, was selected for the event through a competitive process. The panel session was sponsored by ProQuest.

Friday 4th November at 3:00, ICOSS Conference Room Information, Technology and Research: Adoption, Adaptation, and Innovation Across the Disciplines Dr. Eric Meyer Research Fellow, Oxford Internet Institute University of Oxford Oxford, UK Website: http://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/?id=120 Bio: Dr Eric T. Meyer is a Research Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford since 2007. His main area of research has been understanding, from a social informatics perspective, how e-research is enabling innovation in practices and in the kinds of research questions that can be pursued. Talk: Dr Meyer will discuss how technology is being adopted and adapted by different scholarly disciplines in both social sciences and sciences, and how research innovation and technology advances are inter-linked. The talk will demonstrate using empirical evidence that while disciplinary differences are important, not all the stereotypes of disciplines stand up to scrutiny. In addition, he...

Dr Paul Clough is attending the Enterprise Search Summit 2012 conference in London, where he is chairing and presenting.

Students from the Health Informatics Research Group are presenting their research at the 15th International Symposium on Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011) which takes place on the 8-9 September 2011, in Zurich, Switzerland. Liz Brewster is presenting a poster on her work entitled "Concepts of bibliotherapy: from initial definitions to patient empowerment" in collaboration with her supervisor, Barbara Sen. Robinah Namuleme is giving a paper on her research entitled "Information disconnects for people infected with, or affected by, HIV/AIDs" in collaboration with Nigel Ford and Peter Bath. Tom Poulter is presenting a poster on his research "Requirements for oncology EPRs – a mixed methods approach" in collaboration with Peter Bath. Tom is also presenting a paper on "An Analysis of Electronic Document Management in Oncology Care" in collaboration with Brian Gannon (Birkbeck College) and Peter Bath. Tomislav Dimitrovski is presen...