Information School News

The Information School is funding up to two PhD scholarships to start in 2023! Successful applicants to these GTA scholarships will be expected to provide up to 180 hours of teaching support per year (minimum 80 hours per year) alongside their research. Therefore, applicants must be able to teach topics on our Postgraduate programmes - we're particularly interested in applicants who could contribute to teaching on our Data Science and Information Systems programmes. If you're based in Sheffield, have a research question/focus in mind, have prior experience in research  and  in teaching and meet our academic entry requirements, then we'd love to hear from you! For the full specification and requirements, as well as a breakdown of the application process and links to apply, see point 5 on our website  here . You'll also find links to the other sources of PhD funding offered by the university on the same page, so you can see what is most suitable to you.

  The Information School at the University of Sheffield, ranked number one in the world for library and information management in the QS World University Rankings 2021, is advertising for up to two funded PhD Scholarships to start in the 2021/22 Academic Year. Job Title:  Departmental PhD Scholarship – GTA Department:  Information School, University of Sheffield Deadline for applications: Monday 5 th  July 2021 at 5pm The successful applicant(s) will be expected to provide up to 180 hours of teaching support per academic year. Payment for teaching support will be made in addition to bursary and fees, at the rate set by the  Graduate Teaching Assistant (GTA)  scheme. We welcome applications for research in any of our  research specialisms . Research Environment When you undertake a research degree with the Information School, you can be assured that you are getting not only world-class supervision, but also exceptional facilities. In the 2014 REF (Resea...

The Information School initiated a strategy around Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) funding in 2018-2019 and appointed a member of academic staff (Pamela Abbott) as a GCRF lead to champion this stream of funding and raise awareness about its potential for the school as a whole. To achieve this end, three GCRF awareness-raising briefings were held in the school and faculty were encouraged to align some of their research ideas around this potentially lucrative and long-term funding scheme. Several members of staff subsequently joined the GCRF collaborative network in the university and some also joined the Digital Technologies, Data and Innovation (DDI) theme of Sheffield Institute for International Development (SIID) to further engage with at least one theme relevant to the school and to GCRF – ICTs for Development (ICT4D). As a result of these initiatives, the school can now claim some success in the last two rounds of GCRF QR (Quality Research) pump-priming awards, having wo...

The University of Sheffield has opened its annual competition for PhD scholarships. If you have an idea for some high impact research this could be your route to get funding to do a PhD at the Information School. At the forefront of developments in the information field for more than fifty years, the Information School is a stimulating and exciting place to do your research. We were top in our category for the quality of research environment in the government evaluation of research quality, the REF. To succeed in the scholarship competition you will need a strong academic track record and a great research idea. It is recommended that you work with a member of staff in the Information School to develop your proposal to maximise your chances of being successful in the scholarship competition. Our expertise encompasses the range of information work including data science, digital societies, health informatics, information, knowledge & innovation management, information retrieval, inf...

Professor of Information Services Management, Stephen Pinfield, along with his Co-Investigator, Professor David Bawden (of City University London), have been awarded £182,097 by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for the 'Open Access in Theory and Practice' project. The project will investigate the uses of theory in open access research and their relationship with practice. The project will recruit a full-time Research Associate to be based in Sheffield. "We are delighted to have received this funding from the AHRC”, says Stephen. “We believe our project will make an important contribution to current discussions about open access and also about the relationship between theory and practice – both really important issues with wide implications for the role that academic research can play in society." The project will start in the first quarter of 2018 and will last for 18 months.