Information School News

Tom Poulter, a PhD student in the Health Informatics Research Group, is presenting work from his PhD at the Medical Informatics in Europe (MIE2012) conference this week in Pisa, Italy. He is giving a talk on his paper, entitled 'The Use and Usability of EPR systems in Oncology', co-authored with Peter Bath, and is also presenting their poster on 'Onco-Alerts to support Acute Oncology Services'. Further details on the conference can be found at: the MIE 2012 conference web-site.

Peter Bath is a keynote speaker at the 4 th International Conference “Well-being in the Information Society (WIS 2012), which is being held this week in Turku, Finland.  The theme for the conference is " Exploring the Abyss of Inequalities" and Peter's keynote talk is entitled " The Information Society and an Ageing Society: how information can support health and well-being in later life." Further details can be found at: WIS 2012 conference web-site  

iSchool alumnus Chris Rhodes (who works in the Statistical Resource Unit, House of Commons Library, London) is presenting at the IFLA World Library and Information Conference in Helsinki, Findland, today. Together with Maria Cotera and David Percival, he will be talking on: Inspiring future leaders: empowering New Professionals in the UK . Their paper on thieir exciting initiative is at http://conference.ifla.org/sites/default/files/files/papers/wlic2012/95-zubeldia-en.pdf His photo was taken yesterday by Sheila Webber , who is also attending the IFLA conference as a member of the IFLA Information Literacy Section committee .

Dr Jesús Lau, who studied in the iSchool for his doctorate (awarded 1988) has just been presented with a Special Libraries Association SLA John Cotton Dana Award. Earlier in the year he was recipient of the librarian of the year award in Mexico. Dr Lau is Director, Research Center on University Documentation, Universidad Veracruzana.

 This year Microsoft invited the iSchools to send a representative to their annual conference for university researchers (mostly in computer science), the Faculty summit, at their HQ at Redmond nr Seattle, WA. Andrew Cox drew the lucky straw, because there was a strong social media strand to the event this year. There were two full days of talks on latest developments including on social media and crowdsourcing, see http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/facultysummit2012-071612.aspx There was also a “Future of social experiences” Social media workshop attended by most of the iSchool delegates.

Miguel Nunes, as a panel member on behalf of the University of East London (UEL) , took part in two different Quality Assurance (QA) events at the Financial Training & Management Services (FTMS) College , Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. These events   held on 18th and 19th June 2012 included the Validation of a new programme (BSc (Hons) Computer Networks) and the Collaborative Review  of the partnership between UEL and FTMS that involves 3 established undergraduate programmes and 2 master programmes.

Miguel Nunes visited the Faculty of Information Management of the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Shah Alam, Malaysia, on the 20th of June 2012 invited by Professor Sohaimi Zakaria.  During the visit, Miguel gave a seminar on "Research Issues in the Study of Knowledge Management in Organisations: moving away from obsolete dichotomies".  The interaction with both staff and students was very rich and rewarding and laid the seed for the creation of more closer academic links between UiTM and Sheffield in the future.