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
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