Information School News

Affara Said Al Shamsi (MSc Information Management) was nominated and shortlisted as Course Representative of the Year and Peter Stordy was nominated and shortlisted for Personal Tutor of the Year at the University of Sheffield Union Award Ceremony on Thursday, 22nd April 2010.

Wen-Chin Hsu, a PhD student in the Health Informatics Research Group, and Peter Bath are presenting Wen-Chin's research on older people use of NHS-Direct at the British Geriatrics Society Spring meeting in Edinburgh on 22nd April. Wen-Chin's research is a unique study of the calls made by, or on behalf of, older people to NHS-Direct in England and Wales. The research has been undertaken in collaboration with Shirley Large and Sarah Williams from NHS Direct. Shirley is a member of the Departemnt of Information Studies Advisory Panel.