information school 2011

Information School 2011

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Contents

Cover Photo: Paula Goodale

People .............................................................................................................. 3 Welcome ........................................................................................................ 4 New Arrivals .................................................................................................. 5 Achievements and Awards .................................................................... 6 Staff Activities ............................................................................................. 7 Learning and Teaching ........................................................................... 16

Undergraduate Programmes .............................................. 16 Postgraduate Programmes .................................................. 17 Postgraduate Dissertations ................................................. 20

Research ........................................................................................................ 24 iLab Facility ................................................................................... 24 Research Group Reports ........................................................ 24 Research Projects ...................................................................... 27 PhD Theses ................................................................................... 28

Completed ..................................................................... 28 Continuing .................................................................... 31

Seminars ........................................................................................ 33 Presentations .............................................................................................. 34 Publications .................................................................................................. 38 Where are they now? ............................................................................... 42

Photo: Peter Bath

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Academic StaffAlastair Allan, Senior University Teacher, Blib, MCLIP

Peter Bath, Reader, BSc, MSc, PhD

Briony Birdi, Lecturer, BA, MA, MCLIP

Paul Clough, Senior Lecturer, BEng, PhD

Sheila Corrall, Professor of Library and Information

Science, PMA, DipLib, MBA, MSc, FCLIP, FCMI, FRSA

Andrew Cox, Lecturer, BA, MA, MSc, MEd, PhD

Nigel Ford, Professor of Information Science, BA, MA

Jonathan Foster, Lecturer, MSc, MEd, PhD

Val Gillet, Professor of Chemoinformatics, MA, MSc, PhD

Peter Holdridge, Learning Technologist, BSc, MEd John Holliday, Senior Research Manager, BSc, PhD

Philippa Levy, Professor of Higher Education Development,

Head of School, BA, MA, PhD, FHEA

Angela Lin, Lecturer, BA, MSc, PhD

Miguel Baptista Nunes, Senior Lecturer, BSc, MSc, PhD,

MBCS, FHEA, FIMIS

Alex Peng, Lecturer, BSc, PhD

Barbara Sen, Lecturer, BA, MA, MCLIP

Peter Stordy, University Teacher, BEd, MSc, PhD

Elaine Toms, Professor of Information Science, BA, B.Ed.,

MLS, PhD

Ana Cristina Vasconcelos, Senior Lecturer, BA, PGDip,

PhD

Robert Villa, Lecturer, BSc, MSc, PhD

Sheila Webber, Senior Lecturer, BA, Dip Lip, FCLIP, FHEA

Peter Willett, Professor of Information Science, MA, MSc,

PhD, DSc

Administrative and Technical John Bennett, Learning and Teaching Manager, BA, MEd

Paul Fenn, ICT Manager, BSc, MSc

Wendy Hardman, Admissions Secretary Matt Jones, Research and Resources Assistant, BA Tim Nadin, Research and Resources Manager, BSc

Julie Priestley, Examinations and Records Secretary Sophie Raynor, Programmes Assistant, BA

Andrea Shaw, Programmes Assistant, BA, MSc

Christine Shaw, Clerical Officer Andrew Stones, Computer Technician

Professors Emeritus Micheline Beaulieu, BA, PhD, FCLIP

Michael Lynch, BSc, PhD, CChem, FCLIP

Bob Usherwood, BA, PhD, Hon FLA, FCLIP, FRSA

Tom Wilson, BSc, PhD, Hon PhD, FCLIP

Research Staff Dr Ben Allen, De Novo Design Mary Crowder, Developing Deep Critical Information Skills Dr Eleanor Gardiner, Belief Theory Paula Goodale, Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage

Spaces (PATHS)

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Dr Mark Hall, Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage

Spaces (PATHS)

Dr Evangelos Kanoulas, EFireEval

Dr Petros Lameras, Pathway Dr Andrew Madden, Developing Deep Critical Information

Skills Monica Lestari Paramita, ACCURAT

Dr Richard Sherhod, Development of Data Mining

Methods for Knowledge Discovery in Toxicity Prediction

Visiting Professors Martin Molloy, OBE, Strategic Director of Cultural and

Community Services, Derbyshire County Council Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd

Professor Susan Williams, Institute for Information

Systems Research, University of Koblenz-Landau

Distance Learning Tutors Claire Beecroft, School of Health and Related Research

(ScHARR)

Andrew Booth, ScHARR

Helen Buckley Woods, ScHARR

Louise Guillaume, ScHARR

Alan O’Rourke, ScHARR

Angie Rees, ScHARR

Advisory Panel Dr John Barnard, Scientific Director, Digital Chemistry Ltd

Mr Neil Beagrie, Director & Principal Consultant, Charles

Beagrie Ltd

Mr Darron Chapman, Managing Director, TFPL

Mr Tim Gollins, Head of Digital Preservation, The National

Archives

Ms Grace Kempster, Library Services Manager,

Northamptonshire Libraries and Information Services

Dr Shirley Large, National Research and Development

Manager, NHS Direct

Mr Robin Murray, Vice-President, Global Product

Development, OCLC

Mr David A Smith, Chief Knowledge Officer, Communities

and Local Government & Department for Transport

Ms Nicky Whitsed, Director of Library Services, The Open

University

Mr Martin Lewis, Director of Library Services and

University Librarian, University of Sheffield

Dr Christine Sexton, Director, Corporate Information and

Computing Services, University of Sheffield

Mr Martin Molloy, Strategic Director, Cultural and

Community Services, Derbyshire County Council

Professor Susan P. Williams, Institute for IS Research,

University of Koblenz-Landau

Mr Martin White, Managing Director, Intranet Focus Ltd

People

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Welcome

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This year was a busy and productive one for the School. The following pages detail the many activities and achievements of staff and students – it is with pleasure that I draw special attention to just a few highlights here. We were delighted to welcome new staff to the School this year. Professor Elaine Toms joined us from Dalhousie University, Canada to take up the positions of Professor of Information Science and Head of our Information Retrieval Research Group. Elaine’s personal research expertise lies at the intersection of human computer interaction, information retrieval and the representation and presentation of information. Her appointment has enabled us to develop exciting plans for investment in a new research facility for the School, to be called the iLab and to be launched, with Elaine’s leadership, at the start of academic year 2012-13. Dr Robert Villa joined us as Lecturer in Information Retrieval from the University of Glasgow, bringing specialist expertise in interactive information retrieval, in particular the areas of image and video retrieval, support for complex search tasks, collaborative search and the evaluation of information retrieval systems. Among staff achievements I should like to highlight in particular Dr Peter Stordy’s very successful defence of his PhD thesis on the topic of digital literacies, with his doctorate awarded formally in early 2012. There were staffing changes too in our Administrative team, to which we were very pleased to welcome Andrea Shaw as Programmes Assistant and thank Sophie Raynor who moved to the University’s School of Management. I should also like to take this opportunity to warmly congratulate Julie Priestley, Examinations and Records Secretary, and Matt Jones, Research and Resources Assistant, for their very well-deserved promotions in 2011.

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The event we held in June 2011 to celebrate the launch of our new identity as Sheffield’s Information School, and our membership of the international iSchools organisation, was a major highlight for us this year, having changed our name from Department of Information Studies in 2010. We were delighted to take this opportunity to showcase our work to an invited audience, including our Advisory Panel, and to present key aspects of our strategic direction of travel. We included a special focus on our on-going work towards the redesign of our undergraduate programmes, including the launch of a new suite of Informatics programmes, for entry 2012-13. The timing of the iSchool launch also coincided with the publication of a special ‘Sheffield iSchool’ issue of Aslib Proceedings (vol 63, issue 2/3, 2011), guest edited by Professor Peter Willett, which draws together a rich collection of research papers by members of the School.

I would like to conclude with thanks and appreciation to all who contributed so much expertise and energy to the School’s many and diverse activities during 2011, including staff and students, Advisory Panel, external examiners and alumni. Special thanks are due to Dr Andrew Cox, Director of Learning and Teaching, for the tremendous hard work and commitment he brought to the task of coordinating our preparations for Periodic Review of Teaching. This is a major process in the University’s monitoring and review of the quality of all its taught programmes. That the School came through the review with flying colours is a testament to all our staff’s dedication to providing the very highest quality of research-led education and student experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as a core part of our overall commitment to contributing leadership to the development of the international information field. Professor Philippa Levy

“Welcome!”

Staff and guests at the successful iSchool launch in June

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Elaine Toms, Professor of Information Science, moved to Sheffield from a post at Dalhousie University, Canada as Canada Research Chair in Management Informatics, working prior to that as an Associate Professor, Faculty of Information Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.

"My teaching stretches across the human-technology interface to consider how technology meets peoples’ needs and what we need to design for human use, particularly when it comes to information", says Professor Toms. "I strongly believe in teaching the principles and foundations rather than how to “push buttons”. With rampant developments in technology, learning software applications is dated before graduation; foundations and principles have staying power. I have discovered over the years that teaching and research have a symbiotic relationship: research informs what we teach, and teaching influences the research path; this is the fundamental approach that I take in my teaching."

"Understanding why information systems fail users and designing systems for optimum human use is the focus of my research. This involves understanding how people work and use information and how people use existing systems to accomplish their work. It also includes evaluating novel tools that facilitate access to and use of information. As a result my research lies at the intersection of human computer interaction, information retrieval and the representation and presentation of information." Robert Villa joined the Information School in May 2011, before which he worked at Glasgow University on the EU project SALERO, developing user interfaces for image and video retrieval systems. Previous to this, he worked at the Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR) in Milan as part of the PENG project, working in the area of text filtering, and before this, at Strathclyde University on the Diogene project, on an ontology mapping system. He has a PhD from the Department of Computing Science, Glasgow University, an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction from Heriot-Watt University, and an

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undergraduate degree from Strathclyde University in Information Engineering (Computing Science and

Electronics). Dr Villa is currently involved in teaching on modules such as Designing Usable Websites, Information Retrieval, Human Computer Interaction, and Digital Multimedia Libraries. His teaching is linked to his research interests, which revolve around the area of Interactive Information Retrieval, with an

emphasis on Multimedia Retrieval. "With my background in Computer Science, I tend to bring a more technical point of view to my teaching, often aiming to describe the principles behind how different computer systems work "under the hood", says Dr Villa. "For example, on the Information Retrieval module, I lectured on Web search and Multimedia retrieval. Most of my teaching has taken place as lectures, or as laboratories. Lectures have included discussions and student tasks, which prove particularly useful when discussing web site interface issues, for example."

Andrea Shaw joined the iSchool in August. She brings considerable experience from her career on both sides of the Atlantic and her Master’s degree in Library and Information Management. Andrea supports the School’s undergraduate programmes and our MSc in Health Informatics (Distance Learning).

New Arrivals

“I believe in teaching the principles rather than pushing buttons.”

“With my background in Computer Science, I tend to bring a more technical point of view to my teaching.”

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Alice Schofield, PhD student, was awarded first prize for her Pecha Kucha presentation at the Vitae Yorkshire and NE Humberside Hub Conference on "Communication to the Public" in Durham on 6th April. Her presentation gave an overview of the early stages of her study: "Evaluating the intellectual assets of the Scholarship and Collections Directorate at the British Library". Alice was awarded first prize against competition from students from both social science and pure science disciplines.

Information School student Carly Miller won the first CILIP/IFLA Aspire Award in June. She received a free residential place at CILIP’s flagship conference, Umbrella 2011, in July. The Aspire Award was created in memory of CILIP’s Chief Executive Bob McKee, who died in August 2010. The Award will support Bob's passionate interests – developing new professionals and strengthening international relationships. It will help new professionals develop through networking at UK and international events. To win the award, qualifying CILIP members were required to identify an ambition or overall aim that attending Umbrella would help realise. They also had to demonstrate how attending the conference would bring a definable contribution to the library profession. Consideration was given to how their ambition related to Bob McKee’s core belief in the role of libraries as a means to a fairer and more prosperous society.

Former PhD student Jesus Lau (grad. 1988) was given the award of FIL Librarian 2011, the most prestigious recognition that a Librarian can receive in Mexico. The award ceremony included a bio summary and professional achievements that was also published and distributed to the audience, a biographical video with several interviews, and a lunch banquet. It took place at the 25th Guadalajara International Book Fair, the largest in the Spanish-speaking region, and the second in the Western world.

iSchool graduate 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, below) with her PhD viva examiners Professors

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Dorothy Williams and Nigel Ford), 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

MA graduate Lauren Smith, called the "one-woman library-saving machine," was named a Library Journal “Mover and Shaker” 2011. She campaigned tirelessly throughout 2010 against the closure of libraries in Great Britain. She is the driving force behind the "Save Doncaster Libraries" campaign (savedoncasterlibraries.wordpress.com) in defence of library service in what nominator Laura Woods describes as "one of the most deprived areas of the country, where libraries... are a lifeline to the local residents."

Information School researcher, PhD student and MA Librarianship graduate Paula Goodale was awarded one of just 5 coveted places at the DREaM project launch conference. The conference, organised by the Library and Information Science Research Coalition, took place at the British Library Conference Centre, London on Tuesday 19th July 2011. The theme of the conference was Out of the Comfort Zone.

In March, MA Librarianship student Sam Wiggins was awarded the Special Libraries Association (SLA) Europe Early Career Award. Sam attended the SLA Conference in Philadelphia in June as part of his prize. He also received a one year membership of SLA, and is gaining experience in co-ordinating SLA events throughout the year.

Prof Sheila Corrall's paper on 'Educating the Academic Librarian as a Blended Professional' won a 2011 Emerald Literati Network Award for Excellence, having been judged the best paper published in the journal Library Management during 2010.

Late March saw a personal milestone for Professor Peter Willett with the appearance in print of his 500th publication, which was based on an MSc Chemoinformatics dissertation project: Gardiner, E.J. et al. (2011) “Effectiveness of 2D fingerprints for scaffold hopping”, Future Medicinal Chemistry, 3, 405-414.

Achievements and Awards

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Alastair Allan In 2011, I continued my secondment from the University Library teaching my e-Government module and assisting on other modules that involved referencing or information literacy. Over the summer, from June to August, I taught the e-Government module at the School of Library and Information Science at the University of South Carolina in Columbia, USA.

Peter Bath During 2011, I participated in various research, teaching and administration activities within the Information School, the Faculty, University and externally. In terms of research, I collaborated with colleagues from the Department of Palliative Medicine in the Faculty of Medicine, in a study examining the feasibility of a holistic needs assessment questionnaire in a supportive and palliative care services and in a study evaluating the Midhurst Real Choice Project. Both studies were funded by MacMillan Cancer Care and I was involved in analysing the data from these projects. I also co-ordinated the University of Sheffield’s participation in an application to the Medical Research Council to set

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up a White Rose e-Health Informatics Research Centre. The proposed centre will involve the Universities of Sheffield, Leeds and York, as well as partners from the health sector and industry. I co-ordinated and helped to organise the 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011), which took place in Zurich, Switzerland in September 2011. I was involved in several presentations at the conference. I was an invited speaker at the Healthcare Computing 2011 conference, the UK’s leading conference for IM&T managers in the National Health Service. (April 2011). The title of my talk was ‘The interface between information, health and healthcare delivery’. I also visited the Headquarters of NHS Direct in London to give a presentation to senior managers on the work that Wen-Chin Hsu had undertaken for this PhD analysing data on older people’s use of the NHS Direct service. I also gave a public lecture on Health Informatics in Tirana, Albania, which was attended by over 250 people. Three of my PhD students in the Health Informatics Research Group were awarded their PhDs in 2011: Jackie MacDonald, Wen-Chin Hsu and Simon Read. I continued supervision of Tom Poulter, Jean Stevenson-Ågren, Rabab Al Jishi and Robinah Namuleme, and four new students started their

Staff Activities

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research under my supervision: Tomislav Dimitrovski, Eliza Mazlan, Jennifer Salter and Hanadi Husain. I was also appointed External Examiner for 1 MPhil thesis (University of Manchester) and one PhD thesis (Liverpool John Moores University). As part of my work as Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc in Health Informatics programme, I visited Tirana, Albania, Skopje, Republic of Macedonia and Thessaloniki, Greece to explore possibilities for developing the Health Informatics programme for South-East Europe. During my visit to Tirana, I was interviewed by two television channels and was asked various questions regarding the importance of health informatics. I continued in my role as the School’s Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching and was involved in the School’s Periodic Review of Teaching in November 2011. During the Spring Semester of 2011, I acted as Director of Learning and Teaching while Andrew Cox was on study leave. During 2011 I was asked to lead the development of new UG programmes for the Information School, the BSc in Informatics, the BA in Management and Informatics and the BA Accountancy and Financial Management and Informatics. These new programmes will commence in September 2012. In October 2011, I visited the University of Limerick, Ireland, in my role as External Examiner for their MSc in Health Informatics programme. I continued my work as the representative for the Faculty of Social Sciences on the University Research Ethics Committee. I also organised Faculty “Red-Lining” Days for staff from within the Faculty to dedicate three days to being in ICOSS and to writing research papers and grant applications. In November 2011, I convened a workshop on Health Informatics in collaboration with Professor Panos Ketikidis (South East Europe Research Centre).

Briony Birdi A highlight of my year was securing an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award, in partnership with Derbyshire County Council. The project, “Evaluating the Outcomes of Cultural Services: a Mixed Methods Investigation”, will commence in January 2012 when we will be joined by former student and MSc graduate Martin Simmons, who will be rejoining us to study for his PhD. I continued in my role as UG Examinations Officer and Deputy Coordinator of the MA Librarianship programme. In September I took maternity leave and look forward to returning to the School in Summer 2012.

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Paul Clough In 2011 I began a new three-year EU-funded research project entitled PATHS (Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage information Spaces) that explores the notion of pathways/trails through digital collections and the use of recommender systems to adapt paths to specific user profiles. The project is STREP funded under the EU FP7 programme with a total budget of £2 million, of which £460,000 will come to Sheffield. There are 6 partners in the project: Universidad del Pais Vasco (Spain), i-sieve technologies (Greece), Asplan Viak Internet Ltd (Norway), MDR Partners (UK) and Alinari 24 Ore Spa (Italy). Content has been made available by Alinari, an historic Italian photographic company, and Europeana, the large-scale European initiative to manage Europe’s cultural heritage. I am a Primary Investigator for Sheffield in the project, Scientific Director and also Work Package leader for “User interaction and interface design”. The project is being led by Dr Mark Stevenson in Computer Science and also involves Professor Nigel Ford from the Information School as well as Mark Hall and Paula Goodale as Research Assistants. In January 2011 I also completed a project funded by the UK National Archives (TNA) entitled “Improving Information Finding at the UK National Archives”. Tim Gollins, Head Of Digital Preservation and Resource Discovery, said this of the project “I think it is important that I document some of the impact of this work here; you should know that the outputs of the work were provided in such a focused and timely way that they have been able to dovetail with our system development activities this year [2011] and inform critical decisions in designing our new resource discovery system to the benefit of the organisation and ultimately the public that use The National Archives.”

I have continued my involvement in the organisation of workshops and conferences, acting as programme co-chair of the world’s 3rd largest conference on IR: the European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR) 2011. http://www.cikm2011.org/; the Lab Organising Committee Chair for the Cross Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2011 conference (equivalent to PC co-chair), http://clef2011.org/; a member of the Senior Programme Committee for the Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2011, http://www.cikm2011.org/; the co-organiser of Session Track at Text REtrieval Conference (TREC 2011). http://ir.cis.udel.edu/sessions/; a member of

“The outputs were provided in such a focused way that they have been of benefit to the public that use the National Archives.”

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the organising committee of Enterprise Search Europe 2011. I acted as external reviewer (and panel member) for Universidad Nacional de Educatión a Dictancia (UNED) for the thesis “Harnessing Folksonomies for Resource Classification” by Arkaitz Zubiaga Mendialdua (July 2011); was external reviewer for RMIT University of the thesis: “Source code authorship attribution” by Steven Burrows (Feb 2011); and was external reviewer of the MSc Information Management programme as a part of a five-yearly Institution-Led Subject Review of the Department of Information Management at Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University (2010-11). Two of my PhD students (Robert Pasley and Antje Bothin) successfully gained their PhDs in 2011 (Rob was my first PhD student).

Sheila Corrall I was on study leave for the first half of 2011 and used this time to develop teaching and research collaborations with colleagues in the Division of Information and Technology Studies at the University of Hong Kong and the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University in Australia. In Hong Kong I provided advice to the undergraduate and postgraduate programme teams on curriculum development and professional accreditation. In addition, I redesigned and delivered a core course on Methods of Research and Inquiry for the MSc in Library and Information Management, for which I received a Letter of Commendation from the Dean of the Faculty of Education for my exceptionally high student ratings for teacher effectiveness (83.3%). I also presented a seminar on information literacy research for the Centre for Information Technology in Education. At Charles Sturt University, I presented a research seminar on data literacy conceptions and pedagogies, delivered a presentation on preparing for research assessment exercises and discussed ideas for teaching and research collaborations on library management of research data, which led to a 12-month study of data management and bibliometric services in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK, funded by the CSU Faculty of Education. On my return from study leave, I resumed leadership of the Libraries & Information Society Research Group and took on the role of Graduate Research Tutor for the iSchool. During the year I acted as lead supervisor for eight MPhil/PhD students and examined doctoral theses at Aberystwyth University and the University of Huddersfield. In addition, I delivered 14 conference presentations in five countries (including eight invited keynote/plenary addresses) and served on the Credo Reference Corporate Advisory Board, the Facet Publishing

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International Advisory Board, the Online Information Asia-Pacific Exhibition & Conference Committee and the Research Information Network Working Group on Information Handling.

Andrew Cox The preoccupation in my research in 2011 was exploring ideas about using practice theory: a paper in Journal of Information Science on this topic being published early in 2012. This work took up much of my study leave from February through to June. Another continuing research interest is in the application of visual methods in our field. At the end of the year I was leading a small project with a colleague at Sheffield Hallam University collecting data using participatory mapping with residents to explore their experience of a Sheffield suburb. Martin Simmons, who is starting as a PhD student in 2012, did excellent work as the research assistant on the project. A highlight of the year from my perspective was visits from researchers from other institutions such as Eric Meyer from the Oxford Internet Institute in November and Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite in December. Professor Haythornthwaite was in Sheffield to hear the successful viva defence of Nashrawan Taha. Liz Brewster (for whom I was second supervisor) also successfully passed her viva. Another highlight was starting to work with two new research students, Soureh Latif Shabgahi and Nordiana Shah. As Director of Learning and Teaching for the iSchool, I was heavily involved in the preparatory work for a major internal University Periodic Review of our learning and teaching, held in November. Teaching related research included collecting focus group data for a University-funded internationalisation project, “Owning and sharing space: promoting inter-cultural encounters”, working with Prue Chiles and Leo Care from the Department of Architecture. In terms of professional activities, I was involved with organising CILIP’s MmIT group programme at the Umbrella conference and also the early preparations for holding their national conference in Sheffield around Easter 2012.

Nigel Ford In 2011 I continued as Principal Investigator on the £216,115 AHRC-funded project “Developing deep critical information behaviour” with Dr. Andrew Madden and Mary Crowder. This project is investigating the development of critical information skills as young people progress through school to university. I also continued on the editorial boards of Journal of Documentation and the Online

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Information Review, and as external examiner for the MSc in Intelligent Systems and Robotics at De Montfort University.

As in previous years, I reviewed a number of papers for journals including the British Journal of Educational Technology, Journal of Documentation and the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. I was also a member of the International Programme Committees of the Information: Interactions and Impact (i3) conference held in Aberdeen, and the 3rd International Symposium on Information Management in a Changing World (IMCW) held in Ankara, Turkey.

From the end of September 2011, I moved to part time status, stepping down as Head of the Educational Informatics Research Group.

Jonathan Foster My main research activity in 2011 consisted of the completion of the AHRC Beyond Text project “Riders Have Spoken: Designing and Evaluating an Archive for Interactive Performances” for which I was Principal Investigator. The archiving of electronic artworks and interactive performances presents considerable challenges of capture and documentation, information organisation, and interaction; and the Riders Have Spoken project contributed to the ongoing exploration of these challenges through an iterative, prototyping approach that enabled the incremental design and evaluation of a usable archive. The project was in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Nottingham and the University of York. In February 2011 I attended the iSchool Conference in Seattle, USA, disseminating findings from an educational project “From Marketplace to Marketspace” funded by the University of Sheffield Knowledge Transfer Fund. In April I gave a talk about the Riders Have Spoken project at a Beyond Text funded Spatial Technologies Workshop in York, UK; in May I participated in the GURT2011 (Georgetown University RoundTable on Language and Linguistics), Washington DC, USA; and in September I attended the Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts Conference in Shanghai, China, again giving a paper on the AHRC Beyond Text Riders Have Spoken Project. During 2011 I became Programme Coordinator for the MSc in Information Management.

Val Gillet2011 saw the start of three new research collaborations with external organisations. A project with AstraZeneca on Belief Theory started in February with Dr Eleanor Gardiner as researcher. The project was aimed at investigating the

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effectiveness of belief theory for combining the results of similarity searches applied to AstraZeneca data. A two year Knowledge Transfer Partnership with Dr Jonathan Vessey at Lhasa Limited in Leeds began in March. The aim of the partnership is to investigate and apply computer software techniques involving emerging patterns of chemical descriptors to knowledge discovery in the field of toxicity prediction. The project builds on the PhD work of the associate, Richard Sherhod (Richard successfully completed his PhD in April 2011 - Development of a Data Mining Tool for the Identification of Toxicophores). Later in the year, I started a new collaboration with Mike Bodkin at Eli Lilly and Dr Beining Chen in the Department of Chemistry on building reaction networks for use in de novo design. 2011 also saw the completion of a collaborative project with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and Eli Lilly in de novo design. Several presentations on the project were made at various international conferences and a manuscript describing the work should appear soon. Within the School, I took on the role of Director of Research. The role involves overseeing the development of research activities within the School and liaising with Faculty via the Faculty of Social Science Research and Innovation Committee. I also continued as Research Excellence Framework (REF) coordinator directing our activities in the areas of research outputs, impact and environment in preparation for REF2014. I also continued with various external activities including being on the advisory boards of the Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and the Journal of Cheminformatics and reviewing of manuscripts and grant applications for various organisations. I also served on the scientific advisory board and chaired two sessions of the 9th International Conference on Chemical Structures in The Netherlands, June 5-9th, the major conference in the field in 2011.

Peter Holdridge A large part of my year was taken up overseeing the iSchool's move to the new virtual learning environment as part of the second wave university wide implementation of the Blackboard 9 system. Largely this went smoothly and has become central to our ever-developing suite of digital teaching tools. In the first half of the year I co-delivered Digital Multimedia to the largest cohort of students the module has ever seen. We received exceptional positive feedback for the module, both from students and the external examiner. Later, I enjoyed the process of helping to design and deliver a 're-imagined' and 're-invigorated' version of the

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Science Teaching, in the role of institutional and team lead on behalf of the iSchool. This three-year project (2011-13) is promoting the adoption and development of inquiry and problem based approaches to primary and secondary level science education in Europe and beyond (see http://www.pathway-project.eu). In January I represented us at the project’s launch at Ellinogermaniki School in Athens and while there presented a paper on inquiry-based learning at the School’s 5th Educational Conference. At a project meeting in Heraklion, Crete in July, I facilitated workshop sessions on the conceptual and methodological frameworks for the project. During 2011, the iSchool team (Nigel Ford, Petros Lameras, Philippa Levy and Pam McKinney) contributed substantial literature review and methodological input to the first phase of the project. The other international highlight of my year came in February, when I had the pleasure of attending my first iConference, the 6th annual conference of the international organisation of research-led iSchools, hosted this year by the University of Washington Information School in Seattle. I was pleased to join the organising team for iConference 2012 as Programme Committee Member and Track Chair for Alternative Events.

Other highlights of my year included my PhD student Claire-Marie Handford’s graduation and Peter Stordy’s successful defence of his viva in November, along with the arrivals of two new PhD students, Joseph Essel and Ramin Naderi, whose projects I am supervising, the former with Sheila Webber. During the year I also was pleased to join the Steering Group of the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning at the University of Warwick (http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/iatl) and had two publications come out: a single-authored paper in CUR Quarterly - CUR is the US Council on Undergraduate Research - and a joint-authored chapter in an edited book about staff-student partnerships in higher education published by Continuum. Two joint-authored, refereed research papers were accepted for publication in 2012 in Instructional Science and Studies in Higher Education. My ongoing professional activities during 2011 included serving on the advisory boards of the Student as Producer project at the University of Lincoln (http://studentasproducer.lincoln.ac.uk) and the British Conference on Undergraduate Research (http://www.bcur.org), and continuing as external

“In February I had the pleasure of attending my first iConference in Seattle .”

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Designing Usable Websites module and also continued to deliver Essential Computing Skills to all our postgraduate students. I took over as

coordinator for the postgraduate programme in Multilingual Information Management in August and have enjoyed watching the programme develop over the academic year, with a hope to expand it in the near future.

John Holliday On the research side, it’s been a productive year, with four publications in a variety of journals. Two of my doctoral students (jointly supervised with Peter Willett) were awarded their PhDs: Shereen Arif and Chris Chu. As usual, the whole research group attended the triennial International Conference on Chemical Structures in June 2011. This is always a busy time as I deal with the logistics for the group. The Content Management Systems module which I coordinate had another good year, with more innovative student projects and a record number of students in the module’s third year. A redesign of the module for the fourth year will include an increase in open source implementations. My own MSc in Geographical Information Systems (part-time) is going well with the completion of all taught modules. The dissertation is an interesting area which I’m looking forward to getting started on. Based on data collected during the BBC’s Voices, the project is looking at ways to cluster the lexical, grammatical and phonological data in order to identify regions of natural language within the UK. Several maps generated from the project have been used in presentations around the world by Professor Upton from Leeds University, who helped to compile the data. As ICT supervisor, I'm pleased to say that the ICT team's (Paul Fenn and Andy Stones) excellent service to the School was praised by staff and students.

Philippa Levy At the start of 2011, I gave an invited research presentation for the University of Cumbria’s Study of Higher Education Network on first-year undergraduates’ experiences of inquiry and research. I also was delighted to join the European Union FP7 supporting action project, Pathway to Inquiry Based

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examiner for the taught elements of the E-Research and Technology-Enhanced Learning Doctoral Programme at the University of Lancaster, where in May I also acted as external examiner for a PhD thesis on networked learning by Dr Hayriye Ozturk. I completed a three-year term as external examiner for a Masters Foundation Programme at the University of Hull and continued to serve on the editorial boards of Teaching in Higher Education and Innovative Practice in Higher Education. I reviewed papers for a variety of journals and served as programme committee member for ALT-C, the annual conference of the Association for Learning Technology. Within the University, I embarked on chairing a University-wide task and finish group focusing on defining and supporting the work of university teachers, and participated in a Faculty of Social Sciences working group on the development of learning communities. I continued to serve on the University’s Learning Infrastructure and Spaces Management Group, and during the year completed participation in the University’s senior leadership development programme run by the Work Foundation.

Angela Lin In 2011 I continued running the postgraduate module E-Business and E-Commerce. Being aware of its popularity among students – in particular international students – and the University’s Internationalisation initiative, necessary content changes were made such as including more examples from various countries in order to connect to a wider international audience. The effort paid off as the students found that the contents and examples were useful and helped them to understand the subject better. The main challenge of the second half of the year was to coordinate the Information Systems Modelling module, with a cohort of 143 students. One change in the module this year was to have interactive seminar sessions using relevant case studies to help students consolidate their knowledge, and these sessions were well liked by the students. The topics covered in the modules were updated and reflect the current information systems issues and practice. My PhD student Nipon Parinyavuttichai successfully completed his study this year, with his thesis being described by both internal and external examiners as excellent. Shortly before his completion Nipon attended and presented a joint paper based on his PhD at the KMIS & Conf-IRM international conference 2011, which took place place in Seoul, South Korea. With Jonathan Foster I submitted work to the iConference and Georgetown University Round Table

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2011 (GURT) workshop based upon the University of Sheffield Knowledge Transfer project “From Marketplace to Marketspace”, completed the previous year.

Pam McKinney In 2011 I presented a paper at the Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) on a meta analysis study of evaluation data collected through the activities of CILASS, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at the University of Sheffield. The research examined the relationship between Inquiry-based Learning and Information Literacy and a paper of this research is currently in preparation.

Students on the Undergraduate Business Intelligence module investigated information problems proposed by four external partners, and feedback from the partners indicated that the presentations and reports prepared by the students had genuine worth: “I have identified clear financial savings based on the presentation. The presentation has been so useful I really want to consider developing ongoing business relations with the members of the group”. Through the activities on this module I have been able to further strengthen links with University of Sheffield Enterprise.

Miguel Nunes My activities during 2011 were, as usual, divided into teaching, administration and research. In terms of teaching activities in these fields, I retained my position as the Programme Co-ordinator for both the MSc in Information Systems and the MSc in Information Systems Management. Additionally, I continued my usual teaching duties for modules on Information Systems Modelling, Information Systems Project Management and Educational Informatics. I was also involved in the supervision of 1 undergraduate and 10 Masters students’ dissertations. In terms of research, I continued in my role as Head of the Information Systems Research Group. I also continued the supervision of 6 PhD students from last year, welcomed a new student from the Maldives and proudly witnessed and supported the completion of 3 of my students, namely George Katakalos, Lihong Zhou and Sayed Naser.

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I continued with my role as the Programme Chair for two International conferences, namely the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference on e-Learning 2011, that took place in Rome, Italy from the 20th to the 23rd of July as well as the IADIS Conference on Information Systems 2011, that took place in Avila, Spain from the 11th to the 13th of March. On the request of the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS), I also created and chaired a Workshop on Information Systems Research Trends, Approaches and Methodologies (ISRTAM 2011), that took place on the 21st of July 2011 in Rome, Italy. Finally, I published two papers in academic refereed journals and seven full papers in the proceedings of international refereed conferences and edited the three proceedings of the International conferences mentioned above.

Guo-Chao (Alex) Peng During 2011, I continued my role as Year Tutor of our BSc students (2009/10 cohort) and as the Deputy Coordinator of our BSc and BA Dual programmes. Moreover, I have taken the role of Deputy Programme Coordinator for MSc in Information Systems from the beginning of this academic year. I published 5 articles and continued to serve as reviewer of more than 12 international journals and conferences. I (together with Alex Balan, a level 2 UG student, and Reza Mojtahed, one of my current PhD students) was awarded a research grant by the Sheffield Undergraduate Research Experience (SURE) scheme for a project entitled “Factors leading to the acceptance and usage of Internet-based mobile applications in UK universities”.

In Aug 2011, I was invited by the CEO of Jingdong Rubber Co. Ltd (China’s No. 1 rubber company, located in Hebei province) to pay a three-day visit to the company. The purpose of my visit was to provide consulting advice on their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) implementation project, by engaging in highly interactive discussions with their internal ERP team as well as with their ERP vendor (i.e. UFIDA). The ERP project is now successfully completed. In Aug 2012, I will carry out an evaluation project to assess the efficiency of the newly implemented ERP system at Jingdong Rubber.

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Barbara Sen In 2011 I continued as MA Librarianship co-ordinator until September as well as Chairing the Schools' Library Committee. I contributed to the organisation of the ISHIMR Conference in Zurich, Switzerland, including the facilitation of the Doctoral Forum. I continued with my research interests in strategy and library management, Continuing Professional Development (CPD) and reflective practice, and health information. I was active in the Library and Information Science profession including taking part in the SINTO (the Information Partnership for South Yorkshire & North Derbyshire) Training Group; the NHS Staff Development Group; the Health Libraries Group; Health Information and Libraries for Evaluation and Research (HEALER) group, and also acted as a Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP) mentor.

Peter Stordy During 2011 I contributed to the development of the University’s new Higher Education Achievement Record (HEAR). This document more accurately records students’ achievements during their undergraduate studies than the traditional degree certificate and transcript. I also took over as module coordinator of Designing Usable Websites. Working with Robert Villa and Peter Holdridge, we created a module that introduces contemporary website design issues and provides opportunities for students to apply their knowledge to authentic design problems. Both undergraduate and postgraduate versions of this module received very positive feedback from students. At the administration level, I took over as Undergraduate Exams Officer. In addition to learning the minutiae of the University’s Regulations, I have attempted to record the tacit decision making criteria operated by the Information School. The year culminated in the successful completion of my PhD. My thesis explored Information School undergraduates’ and their lecturers’ perceptions of Internet literacy and their own Internet literacies.

Elaine Toms In June 2011, I started at the Information School after a long academic career in Canada at both Dalhousie University and the University of Toronto. I am a member of and lead the Information Retrieval research group; am Deputy Director of Research; and, administer the Research Ethics Review process for the School. While I relinquished most of my Canadian collaborations and research dollars on leaving the country, I continue to be a member of GRAND (Graphics, Animation and New Media) Network of Centres for Excellence which supports two remaining Canadian PhD students; I am slowly

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Programme Coordinator for the MSc in Information Management until September 2011, as well as being acting Postgraduate Research Tutor and departmental Erasmus and Study Abroad Coordinator. I am an external examiner at Northumbria University, School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences, Undergraduate Programmes. I continue to serve in the AHRC Peer Review College; as a member of the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organisations; and as Programme Committee Member and reviewer for 11th European Conference in Research Methods for Business (ECRM). During 2011, I was a reviewer for Knowledge Management Research & Practice, International Journal in Information Management, International Journal of Information Technology and Management, International Journal of Knowledge based Organisations, ECRM 2011, UKAIS 2011 and PACIS 2011. Also in 2011, I supervised 5 PhD students, with 1 successful completion, and examined 3 PhD theses.

Robert Villa I joined the iSchool in May 2011, with much of the initial period spent on various University introduction modules, and the process of moving to a new department. I shadowed Paul Clough's supervision of dissertation students over summer. I also took part in the Certificate of Learning and Teaching (CiLT) Module 1, and have been carrying out the subsequent activities associated with this module. During 2011, I also took over the Undergraduate Tutor role for year 2. I started to become acquainted with the teaching at the Information School, delivering lectures and aiding the preparation of a new module, Digital Multimedia Libraries. I worked on a research proposal targeting collaborative retrieval, which is still ongoing, with plans to collaborate with Glasgow University. At the beginning of December, I joined a consortium which put together a project proposal for the CHIST-ERA call "From data to new knowledge (D2K)".

Sheila Webber In September 2011 I took over as coordinator of the MA Librarianship programme, maintaining my role as coordinator of the MA Information Literacy. I continued to be Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, and also acted as Head of the Libraries and Information Society Research Group whilst Professor Corrall was on study leave.

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rebuilding replacement collaborative networks in the UK and EC. In July, I co-organised, with a group from University College London, the "International Workshop on Encouraging Serendipity in Interactive Systems" which was held at the Interact 2011 Conference in Lisbon, Portugal. In September, I was keynote speaker at CLEF 2011 in Amsterdam with a somewhat cheeky title "Would you trust your IR system to

choose your date? Re-thinking IR Evaluation in the 21st Century" that highlighted some of the fallacies in current thinking about IR evaluation. In November I presented a contributory piece to a "Workshop on Information Practices" at Borås, Sweden on "Bridging The Gap Between ‘Information Needs And Seeking Research’ and ‘Information Search And Retrieval Research’ for Design And Development of Search Applications that Support Work" which led to two currently outstanding research proposals. Closer to home, I gave an invited talk to the Institute of Humanities and Social Science Research, Manchester Metropolitan University on "The Measurement Dilemma in Information Science" and to the Natural Language Processing Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Sheffield on "Designing the Next Generation Information Appliance." In November, I gave my Inaugural Lecture to the Faculty of Social Sciences on "Serendipitous Journeys through Information Ecosystems" which outlined my somewhat serendipitous journey through various research themes that deal with information interaction and the user-centred evaluation of information systems. I continue to be a member of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Board of Directors, and served as a judge in the Design Competition, and also as faculty mentor for the Doctoral Seminar for Research and Career Development at its 2011 Annual Meeting in New Orleans, USA.

Ana-Cristina Vasconcelos During 2011, I contributed to the project Leading Transformational Change: Collaboration Sheffield: Digital World strand, funded by HEFCE, in the scope of a collaborative venture between the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. I am currently the head of the Knowledge and Information Management Research Group. I continued to act as

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My activities with Information Literacy have continued: I made invited contributions at a number of events, most notably at a seminar in Warsaw concerned with the EU-funded EMPATIC project, as an external contributor to an EU-sponsored Masters programme at Tallinn University, and (with Bill Johnston, Strathclyde University) as seminar leader for the annual Augustana Information Literacy Workshop at the University of Alberta, Canada. As a member of the IFLA Information Literacy Section Committee I contributed to a UNESCO-sponsored seminar in Puerto Rico focusing on developing international indicators for Media and Information Literacy. The Centre for Information Literacy Research hosted a seminar on the curriculum for information literacy, an outcome of a Cambridge University Arcadia Fellowship, in Sheffield, and has an active virtual presence.

The monthly information behaviour/information literacy journal club continued in Second Life, attracting international participants at every session. Discussion leaders included Eleni Zazani (Birkbeck College), Dr Yazdan Mansourian (Assistant Professor, Tarbiat Moallem University, Iran) and Marshall Dozier (Edinburgh University). Additionally I organised an iSchool launch event in Second Life, with two speakers from US iSchools (Dr Lorri Mon, Florida State University and Dr Joe Sanchez, Rutgers University), a discussion session led by Lyn Parker and a presentation co-authored with Professor Nigel Ford. Other events in Second Life included a presentation from US expert Esther Grassian and a talk from Hal Kirkwood, a librarian at Purdue University.

Peter Willett Within the University, I chaired the Student Attendance Monitoring Project Board, which has overseen the design and implementation of the University’s computer systems necessary to comply with the Government’s requirements for monitoring the attendance of overseas students at UK universities. 2011 was another very productive year in terms of papers. One of these, the article by Gardiner et al., represents a significant personal landmark in being the 500th publication since my first back in 1977 when I was a new PhD student. Two of my PhD students successfully completed their doctoral studies during the year: Nurul Malim

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(“Enhancing Similarity Searching”) and Simon Read (“Methods for the Improved Implementation of the Spatial Scan Statistic when applied to Binary Labelled Point Data”). Externally during the year, I was appointed as a member of Sub-Panel 36 (Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management) for the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework (REF2014), and as the first member with a chemoinformatics background of the International Academy of Mathematical Chemistry. I continued as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Cheminformatics, Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, and Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling.

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September 2011 marked the final intake to the School’s Information Management suite of degrees. The School took the strategic decision to develop new undergraduate programmes in Informatics for entry in September 2012 to replace the existing programmes. The Informatics programmes will build upon the excellent material and activities developed for the Information Management programmes.

• BSc in Information Management (Single Honours)

• BA in Accounting and Financial Management and Information Management (Dual Honours)

• BA in Business Management and Information Management (Dual Honours)

Programme Coordinator: Peter Stordy Deputy Programme Coordinator: Alex Peng External Examiner: Professor Keith Horton, Faculty of Business, Computing and Law, University of Derby

The Undergraduate curriculum continued to be improved and enhanced. For example, two new pathways through the degree were introduced, the BSc in Information Management and Technology and

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the BSc in Information Management for Business, resulting in an increase in the School’s single honours intake from 28 students in September 2010 to 43 in 2011. Also, modules continue to be developed, such as the Level 2 module Designing Usable Websites which now features the latest HTML5 web standards. In September, two of our BSc Information Management students achieved a first class degree and 74% of the remaining students achieved a 2.1. Our BA dual degree students also did well with 80% achieving a 2.1 degree. Student attendance (Level 1 data) and student satisfaction (NSS data) remain high. Furthermore, our student 'drop-out' rate and transfer rate is very low. Anecdotal evidence suggests that the new Introduction to Information Research module has improved BA dual degree student cohesion and belonging.

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• BSc in Informatics (Single Honours, from 2012) • BA in Accounting and Financial Management

and Informatics (Dual Honours, from 2012) • BA in Business Management and Informatics

(Dual Honours, from 2012) In 2011, the new Informatics programmes were made available through UCAS for potential students to apply and the Open Days were designed to present the new programmes to applicants. Peter Bath is Programme Co-ordinator and Robert Villa is Deputy Programme Co-ordinator for the new programmes.

Student Prizes The School was pleased to announce the following prizes awarded to students on the 2010-11 undergraduate taught programmes:

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BSc in Information Management Level 1: Marcus Walton Level 2: Rachel Gregory Level 3: Robert Grant BA in Accounting and Financial Management and Information Management Level 1: Doris Chong Level 2: Geying Qi Level 3: Joshua Coventry BA in Business Management and Information Management Level 1: Sonja Antelmann, Caitlin Pennington Level 2: Peggy Lawrence Level 3: James Ansell

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The School’s suite of postgraduate degrees includes both Masters degrees, aimed at candidates with an undergraduate degree, and Professional Enhancement Masters degrees, aimed at graduates with some years of professional experience. MSc in Electronic and Digital Library Management (Masters and Professional Enhancement Masters) Programme Coordinator: Andrew Cox Deputy Programme Coordinator: Paul Clough External Examiner: Ms Lucy Tedd, Department of Information Studies, Aberystwyth University In 2011 this degree completed its second full year. There were four full time students, two from Bahrain, one from Bhutan and one home student. In addition, one student started the MSc part time and two PG Certificate students started. Overall students performed well. The two PG Cert students completed the 30 credit Project module extremely creditably. The delivery of the module through a morning of teaching, uSpace resources and reactive support through email/phone worked well. In September 2011 the degree welcomed its third cohort, this time of 5 full time and 2 part time students. MSc in Health Informatics (Masters, Distance Learning) Programme Coordinator: Peter Bath External Examiner: Professor Goran Petersson, Director, eHealth Institute, Linnaeus University, Sweden

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The international distance learning MSc in Health Informatics programme continued to attract students from the UK and overseas in 2011. The first cohort of students on the new programme graduated in 2011. This brought the total number of students who have received an award on the Health Informatics programme, since it was originally launched in 2000, to over 100. During the year, Peter Bath visited Tirana in Albania, Skopje in the Republic of Macedonia and Thessaloniki in Greece to explore possibilities for developing the Health Informatics programme for South-East Europe. The combined intake of new students to the full time, part time, Masters, Diploma and Certificate routes through this programme in September 2011 was 17, compared to 20 in 2010. MSc in Information Management (Masters and Professional Enhancement Masters) Programme Coordinator: Jonathan Foster Deputy Programme Coordinator: Angela Lin External Examiner: Professor Catherine Urquhart, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School The programme continued to attract a large volume of students, increasing from 55 students in 2010-11 to 82 in 2011-12, mainly from overseas. Many achieved success with two Distinctions and 16 Merits being awarded. The programme saw no major changes during 2011.

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MSc in Information Systems (Masters and Professional Enhancement Masters) Programme Coordinator: Miguel Nunes Deputy Programme Coordinator: Alex Peng External Examiner: Professor Keith Jeffery, Director, IT and International Strategy of the Science and Technology Facilities Council The MSc in Information Systems is a mature programme that continued to successfully attract PGT students from all corners of the world and experiencing a 100% growth in numbers in the last 5 years (25 to 49). The course saw major changes this year with the removal of the technical and information pathway (created in 2004) as well as 10 credit modules from the syllabus. This has made the course more flexible and customisable by students enabling them to opt for more advanced computing options depending on their prior experience. Finally, support of students’ needs both in our School and the Department of Computer Science have resulted in a considerable improvement in student experience and academic performance, resulting in a very healthy set of merits and distinctions. At 49 students, the combined 2011 intake to the Masters, Postgraduate Diploma and Professional Enhancements Masters routes to this degree was equal to that of 2010. MSc in Information Systems Management (Masters) Programme Coordinator: Miguel Nunes Deputy Programme Coordinator: Ana-Cristina Vasconcelos The MSc in information Systems Management is a relatively new programme that continued to attract PGT students. The cohort is usually more experienced than in other PGT programmes and attracts both recent graduates and professionals from the IT, software and Information industries. The course has seen no major changes this year and seems to have stabilised both in numbers of students and in its syllabus. The collaboration with the Management School is still the key for the success of this programme and continues the complementarity and multi-disciplinarity that such a course requires. Recruitment to this degree was lower in 2011 than it was in 2010, an intake of 13 students compared to the 38 registered in the previous year. MA in Librarianship (Masters and Professional Enhancement Masters) Programme Coordinator: Sheila Webber Deputy Programme Coordinator: Barbara Sen External Examiner: Professor Dorothy Williams,

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Director, Institute for Management, Governance and Society Research, Aberdeen Business School, Robert Gordon University The programme continues to attract excellent students, whose motivation and commitment are notable. We celebrated the achievement of Lauren Smith, a 2010 graduate, who was designated a “Mover and Shaker 2011” by the US Library Journal for her library advocacy work. Our students have a good record of securing conference bursaries and this year a prominent success was Samuel Wiggins’ award of an SLA Early Career conference bursary to attend the SLA’s annual meeting in Philadelphia, USA. Students also participated in conferences, with the SINTO dissertation prize winners giving a talk on their research at the SINTO Members Day, and 2010-11 students Sam Wiggins and Laura Williams presenting at the New Professionals Conference. Finally a student magazine was published online, the Regent Librarian http://issuu.com/theregentlibrarian, edited by Jenny Owens and Ian Hunter. New students registered to all the full time, part time and Professional Enhancement routes through this degree in September 2011 numbered 36, a slight decrease on the previous year’s total of 43.

Student Prizes The School was pleased to announce the following prizes awarded to students on the 2010-11 postgraduate taught programmes: Ann Percy Memorial Prize Charlotte Brooke (MA in Librarianship, full time) Henry Heaney Memorial Prize Isabel Virgo (MA in Librarianship, full time) IADIS (International Association for Development of the Information Society) Prize Peter Voisey (MSc in Information Management, full time) SINTO (the Information Partnership for South Yorkshire & North Derbyshire) Bob Usherwood Prize Jennifer Owens (MA in Librarianship, full time) West Riding Country Library/Annenberg Award Daniel Grace (MA in Librarianship, full time) Eduserv Information Literacy Dissertation Prize Anne-Lise Robin (MA in Librarianship, full time) Eduserv Information Literacy Research Module Prize Kevin Cooper (MSc in Electronic & Digital Library Management, part time) Ben Remy (MA in Librarianship, full time) OCLC Prize Ian Hunter (MA in Librarianship, full time)

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Jennifer Owens, graduate of the MA Librarianship programme, collects the SINTO Bob Usherwood prize from Emeritus Professor Bob Usherwood

Isabel Virgo, graduate of the MA Librarianship programme, collects the Henry Heaney Memorial Prize from Professor Sheila Corrall

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Postgraduate Dissertations MA Electronic and Digital Library Management �

Alijawder, Seema� The Use of Digital Images in Education�Al-Mannaeim Maha � Crafting Appropriate Management Strategies for Digital National Libraries �Wangdi, Sonam � To Identify Requirements for a Digital Library for the Staff and Users of the

Ugyen Wangchuck Institute for Conservation and Environment (UWICE) �MSc Health Informatics �

Herbert, Paul� The NHS Lanarkshire Intranet Site (FirstPort) and its Effectiveness as a Knowledge Management Tool �

Patel, Bijal � An Evaluation to Find Out if Information Systems Have Helped to Reduce Cancer Waiting Times and the 18 Week Referral to Treatment Pathway for Cancer Patients �

Powell, Ria � Analysing the Utilisation of Knowledge Management Resources within NHS Western Cheshire in Informing Decision-Making Across the Organisation �

Thornton-Hurd, Sharon �

An Investigation into the Web Based Collaborative Working Technologies as a Tool to Support Knowledge Sharing and Communities of Practice within Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. �

Wood, Alan� Do Current Pre-Registration Nurse Education Programmes Appropriately Prepare Student Nurses to Meet the Demands of Health Informatics in Their Future Role Within the NHS? �

Yap, Aik Seong� To Determine the Effectiveness of Using Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) Dashboard in Treating Hyperlipidemic Patient - from Theory to Practice �

MSc Information Management �

An , Jianing� An Evaluation and Comparative Study of Popular Web Search Engines' Performance in Responding to Ambiguous Queries�

Chen, Yaoting� Computer Gaming and Information Behaviour�Chen, Yang� Investigation on the Loyalty of Sheffield United F.C. Supporters and the

Information Strategy of Sheffield United F.C. from the Perspective of Its Supporters �

Chiu, Yang-Shan� User Resistance of Information Systems in Organisations�Ciordas, Carmina� Knowledge Management Strategies, Theory and Practice�Darby, Paul� The Information Seeking Behaviour of Genealogists and Family Historians�Fan, Yue � An Investigation of the Chinese Fashion Virtual Community: What do Chinese

Consumers Talk About Fashion? �Gu, Yinzheng � An Investigation of Customer Loyalty in China's B2C E-Commerce �Guo, Yan � An Investigation into the Impact of Interactive Marketing Communication on

the Consumer Behaviour in the UK E-Business Environment�Hassan, Ali � Can Information Management Change the Organisation? A Case Study: An

Information Audit for Smart Accounting Ltd �Huang, Yuqin� Comparative Study of LIS Curriculum in Selected Universities in the UK and

China �Jayaprakash, Prasanth �

ERP Implementation Barriers Faced by SMEs in the Construction Industry in Dubai�

Jiang,Yuanzi � A Review of Web Evaluation Tools for People with Alzheimer's Disease�Kong, Yan� IT/IS Outsourcing Risk Management From Client and Vendor Perspective �Li, Xiang � The Impact of the Web Interface on the Consumer trust in E-Commerce (B2C) �

Li , Fei A Study of the Extent of People's Credence to Online Shopping and the Factors that Influence their Online Shopping Attitude

Liu, Xingbao An Investigation into Social Shopping Influence on Consumers' Decision Making

Liu, Zhao Influence Effect of Mass Media and Social Media on People's Buying Decisions Liu , Bingxin The Development of Second Life and Virtual World Activities and the Influences

on People's Lives

Luo, Jieqiong An Investigation of Network Information: How to Influence Customers' Online Shopping Behaviour in China - A Case Study of Taobao

Luo, Yang Retaining Customer Loyalty Using Social Media

Mathur, Ankitt The Role of IT in Supporting Knowledge Management Exploration and Exploitation Strategies in SMEs.

Meng, Zhaorui Barriers for Adopting and Using Foreign ERP Packages in China from the Perspective of System Vendors

Nie, Fei Privacy and Security Concerns in Facebook Pan, Ying Issues and Skills in UK Academic Library Electronic Resource Management Qiu, Chengtao An Investigation of the Online Shopping Behaviour of Young Chinese

Customers with a Particular Focus on Information Quality and Payment Security, and the Impacts of Online Shopping Recommendations

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Registration Nurse Education Programmes Appropriately Prepare Student Nurses to Meet the Demands of Health Informatics in Their

To Determine the Effectiveness of Using Clinical Decision Support Systems (CDSS) Dashboard in Treating Hyperlipidemic Patient - from Theory to Practice

An , Jianing An Evaluation and Comparative Study of Popular Web Search Engines' Performance in Responding to Ambiguous Queries

Chen, Yaoting Computer Gaming and Information BehaviourChen, Yang Investigation on the Loyalty of Sheffield United F.C. Supporters and the

Information Strategy of Sheffield United F.C. from the Perspective of Its Supporters

Chiu, Yang-Shan User Resistance of Information Systems in OrganisationsCiordas, Carmina Knowledge Management Strategies, Theory and PracticeDarby, Paul The Information Seeking Behaviour of Genealogists and Family HistoriansFan, Yue An Investigation of the Chinese Fashion Virtual

Consumers Talk About Fashion?Gu, Yinzheng An Investigation of Customer Loyalty in China's B2C EGuo, Yan An Investigation into the Impact of Interactive Marketing Communication on

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MSc Information Management �

Sargent, Katie � Using Business Process Modelling to Streamline Operations in SMEs: A Case Study Approach �

Subahi, Ghaida � To What Extent are Female Pupils in Saudi Secondary Schools Encouraged to Exploit their School Library's Resources Appropriately? �

Sun, Qiu � An Investigation into Career Information Seeking Behaviours of Postgraduates in Sheffield�

Sun , Ran� What Factors Influence Individual Adoption Intention of e-books? �Tang, Xinhui� A Discussion of Customer Attitudes to Privacy in Online Shopping, and the role

of Security�Voisey, Peter � Researching and Learning on the Internet: Investigating an Alternative to

Traditional Keyword Searches.�Wang, Jianfeng � The Use of Blogging, Social Networking Sites and Microblogging for Knowledge

Sharing, Focusing on Information Management Students in Group Work �Wang, Lipeng� A Study of the Applicability of Recent Models of Information Behaviour to the

Practical Academic Context Experienced by International Students�Wang, Peng� How do Consumers Deal with Product Information in the Process of Buying

Small Electronic Devices Online? �Wang, Yao � Risk Identification Practices in the Public Sector in China: A Case Study of Mi

Yun Governmental Information Office�Xuan, Zhilian � An Evaluation of Users' Acceptance in an Online Hotel Booking and Reviewing

Website in Li Jiang�Yan, Lu� The Online Shopping Environment in Developing Countries�Yu, Xinhao � E-Commerce Analysis: An Analysis of the eBay Online Auction Strategy and an

Investigation into the Degree of Online Auction Satisfaction of the UK Public �Zhang, Chuanqi � An Exploratory Study of the Consumers' Trust in E-Commerce�Zhao, Jian � Computer Gaming and Information Behaviour�Zhu, Xiangda� Customer Information Risks and Related Influence Factors in Online Purchasing

in China�MSc Information Systems Management �

Abualfaraj, Arwa The Role of Information on an e-Grocery Website: How the Saudi Consumer Responds

Benzies, Stuart Individuals' Motivation for Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing. A Case Study of MMORPGs

Cole, Elvis Identifying Useful E-commerce Website Features in B2C to Increase Consumer Confidence in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Nigeria

David, Lara Digital Television Transition and Risk Management: A Case from a Mozambican Media Broadcasting Station, SOICO Televisao

Dey, Souvik Evaluating the Next Generation of User Experience in Information Retrieval Through the Visualisation Power

Dhaser, Noel Knowledge Management in a Call Centre Haider, Syed Moeid A Study of Critical Success Factors in Implementation of Customer

Relationship Management Systems in the Banking Sector of Pakistan

Hu , Qianzhi The Use of 3 Chinese Social Media Websites and its Effects on Relationship Huang, Ying Assessment of Risk Management within Securities Companies Oriented

Systems Development Company: The Case Study of Beijing Rewin Network Technology Co Ltd

Huang, Jang-Ruei Fashion Online: Information Analysis from High Street to Haute Couture Korabandi, Tabitha An Investigation of Information Systems Outsourcing Risks in India Kumar, Shivaram Design and Implementation of the Publication Database for the Information

Systems Research Group; The University of Sheffield

Lee, Woojong How Can Government Services Develop and Maintain High Quality? Li, Liangzi How Does Social Media Influence Customer Loyalty. A Case Study of China Malkan, Bhavin The Extent to Which BI Can Help Improve Strategy For Small and Medium Sized

Enterprises Manurung, Shelly An Investigation of the Benefits and Risks of Inter-Organisational Integration of

ERP in South-East Asia Ratnananthan, Aroodguhan

E-Readiness of Consumers For E-Commerce Adoption: A Case Study in Sri Lanka

Sadri, Farhad OpinionMap: Mapping People's Views on Places Selvaraj, Thiyagrajan Evaluation of Content Based Image Retrieval Systems Shelke, Aditya Tacit Knowledge Sharing in Online Gaming Communities Shetty, Shishir Barriers Affecting the Quality of the Requirement Gathering in ERP Sonavane, Ankita Rich Internet Applications (RIA): A Comparison Between Two Popular

Frameworks (Adobe Flex and Microsoft Silverlight) �

Sun , RanTang, Xinhui

of SecurityVoisey, Peter Researching and Learning on the Internet: Investigating an Alternative to

Traditional Keyword Searches.Wang, Jianfeng The Use of Blogging, Social Networking Sites and Microblogging for Knowledge

Sharing, Focusing on Information Management Students in Group WorkWang, Lipeng A Study of the Applicability of Recent Models of Information Behaviour to the

Practical Academic Context Experienced by International StudentsWang, Peng How do Consumers Deal with Product Information in the Process of Buying

Small Electronic Devices Online?Wang, Yao Risk Identification Practices in the Public Sector in China: A Case Study of Mi

Yun Governmental Information OfficeXuan, Zhilian An Evaluation of Users' Acceptance in an Online Hotel Booking and Reviewing

Website in Li JiangYan, Lu The Online Shopping Environment in Developing CountriesYu, Xinhao E-Commerce Analysis: An Analysis of the eBay Online Auction Strategy and an

Investigation into the Degree of Online Auction Satisfaction of the UK PublicZhang, Chuanqi An Exploratory Study of the Consumers' Trust in E-CommerceZhao, Jian Computer Gaming and Information BehaviourZhu, Xiangda Customer Information Risks and Related Influence Factors in Online Purchasing

in ChinaThe Role of Information on an e-Grocery Website: How the Saudi Consumer

Individuals' Motivation for Knowledge Management and Knowledge Sharing. A

commerce Website Features in B2C to Increase Consumer Confidence in Developing Countries: A Case Study of NigeriaDigital Television Transition and Risk Management: A Case from a Mozambican

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MSc Information Systems Management �

Soundarararajan, Ishwarya�

Identifying and Evaluating the Risks Involved in a Business Intelligence Implementation �

Sunder, Vinod� Mobile Multimedia Information Retrieval �Tang, Xiaoyin � Factors that can Influence Customers' Loyalty in the Chinese B2C Retail Market �Thawal , Sheetal � The Role of Employee Satisfaction in the Success of E-training Within a

Company in India �Wang, Chenzhi � The Extension of the Technology Acceptance Model to Explain CRM Adoption in

China's Banking Industry �Xia, Huizhu� Investigating the Cost and Effectiveness of Staff Online Training in the

University of Sheffield�Yu, Minghao � How to Improve Business Processes to Prepare SMSs for ERP Implementation

in China�Zeng, Ming � A Study of Students' Sexual Health Information Seeking Behaviour in the

University of Sheffield�Zhang, Xiaowen� Factors Associated with Elderly Self-Rated Memory Comparison with Peers �Zhao, Yinan � Supporting Social Navigation in E-Commerce �

MSc Information Systems �

Abbas Hasan, Fatema Online Learning Communities in Higher Education Akhanova, Assel Cloud Computing Services: Consumers' Perceptions and Usage Al Aqsam, Ahmad An Investigation of the Factors Which Have Been Causing the Digital Divide in

Saudi Arabia Altamimi, Turki Information Security Risks for Internet Banking in Saudi Arabia Aswani, Amit An Analysis of the Factors that Affect the Judgement of People While Deciding

the Relevance of the Documents and Images Returned from a Search Engine

D'Souza, Glen Anthony

A Study of Green ICT Strategies for UK HEIs

Dutta, Arnab Identification and Assessment of the Risks in Enterprise Cloud Computing Eirewele, Omo Exploring the External Environment of More Effective Strategies and Decision

Making

Fadaeimia, Seyedeh An Investigation of the Impact of Trust on Consumer Behavior in the Area of Online Shopping in the Middle East

Gao, Jiedun The ERP Implementation Barriers: Issues, Causes and Improvement Margins in Chinese Enterprise Based on Hangzhou Tian-Mu-Shan Pharmaceutical Enterprise Co Ltd

Godage, Pratik Design and Development of a Web Prototype for a Research Group Kuruvilla, Niky An Investigation into the Green ICT Strategies' Benefits and Challenges: A Case

Study of Google

Kylilis, Nicolas A Comparison of Social Bookmarking Tools Lee, Yoonsang Alumni Relationship Management with Cloud Computing: Investigating CRM and

Cloud Computing Solutions for Managing Alumni relationships

Ngangom, Couhei Information Security in India IT Firms: A Case Study Nithyanandham, Madhusuthanan

Evaluating Users Exploratory Information Seeking Behaviours

Olubajo, David Information Dissemination: Exploring the Utilisation of SMS-text messaging for Effective Marketing Dissemination in Developing Countries

Ravikumar, Thejavathy

The Role of Web 2.0 in Developing Information Literacy

Rughani, Hursh The Usage of Twitter by the University of Sheffield and its Departments Singh, Neeraj Establishing the Evaluation Criteria for Risk Assessment Practices in

Information Systems Development

Shridhar, Athira Evaluation of an Osteoarthritis Website by Generic and Diseases Specific Tool: Assessing the Quality, Reliability and Validity of Information of Evaluation Tools

Takhtravanchi, Mohammad

Barriers to Knowledge Transfer Between Headquarters and Peripheries

Tang, Guoxia Culture Impact on the Success of Global Virtual Teams: A Professional Study in China

Tayo, Oluwasikemi Measuring the Success of Transaction Processing Systems: An Adaptation of the DeLone and McLean Information Systems Success Model

Vogel, Benedikt Knowledge Management in the Sales Process of IT Consultancies Wang, Yuhin The Relationship Between Life Satisfaction and other Varieties in Married and

Unmarried Elderly People in the UK Zhao,Pei An Evaluation of the Google Art Project Zheng, Yu The Relationship Between E-Business and Knowledge Management in China

MA Multilingual Information Management

Filipova, Jekaterina A Comparison of Country-Specific Identities of a Multinational Company on the World Wide Web: Danone

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Shridhar, Athira Evaluation of an OsteoaAssessing the Quality, Reliability and Validity of Information of Evaluation Tools

Takhtravanchi, Mohammad

Barriers to Knowledge Transfer Between Headquarters and Peripheries

Tang, Guoxia Culture Impact on the Success of Global Virtual Teams: A Professional Study in China

Tayo, Oluwasikemi Measuring the Success of Transaction Processing Systems: An Adaptation of the DeLone and McLean Information Systems Success Model

Knowledge Management in the Sales Process of IT ConsultanciesThe Relationship Between Life Satisfaction and other Varieties in Married and Unmarried Elderly People in the UKAn Evaluation of the Google Art Project

Business and Knowledge Management in ChinaSpecific Identities of a Multinational Company on the

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MA Librarianship � Al-Marri, Jooza Children's Fiction: A Comparative Study of School Libraries in Doha - Qatar and Sheffield-UK

Brooke, Charlotte An Investigation into the Provision of Library Support Services for Distance Learners at UK Universities: Analysing Current Practice to Inform Future Best Practice at Sheffield Hallam University

Carr, Georgina Could Public Libraries Ever Become Truly Book-Less? Cervantes, Guadalupe

Web 2.0 in Academic Libraries From the Students' Perspective A Case Study of the University of Sheffield Library

Charnock, Dawn The Impact of the Self-Service Environment on the Roles of Academic Library Staff

Dimoula, Anna Classification Practices in Relation to Printed Music Material Held by Academic Music Libraries Within the UK

Farnsworth, Lucy An Investigation into Students' Opinion Towards and Use of the eBooks Which are Currently Provided by the University of Sheffield Library Service

Fletcher, Kathryn What Do We Stand to Lose? Discourses on Public Library Cuts: An Analysis of Media Representations of Public Library Campaigns

Gibson, Lewis What are the Implications of the New Wave of Citation Databases for the Scholarly and Citation Community (A Comparative Study in Astronomy and Astrophysics)?

Grace, Daniel The Role of the Public Library in Promoting Community Resilience: An Auto Ethnographic Study

Grigsby, Katherine Web 2.0 Use in Marketing Public Libraries: A Case Study of North Tyneside Public Libraries

Hessey, Rachel The Impact of Knowledge Exports from Librarianship and Information Science: Investigating Cross-Disciplinary Citations

Hunter, Ian The Searching Behaviour of Worldcat Users in the Context of Broader Searching Patterns

Jesper, Steven Reformulation Patterns and Regional Variation within Web Searches of the National Archives

Lee, Chris To What Extent is Google Translate a Useful Tool for Teaching Assistants that Work with EAL Students?

Miller, Carly How Can Public Librarians Engage with Homeless People Through Outreach Activity?

Millership, Kelly LIS Graduates and Careers in the Public Library Sector; Relationships, Perceptions and Values

Moore, Nadine Implementing Digitisation as a Strategy for Preservation and Access to Rare Books: A Study on Staff Perception at the National Library in Guyana

Owens, Jenny Collaboration Between Academic Libraries: A Case Study of the SCONUL Access Scheme

Pettitt, Andrew Are all Online Outsourcing Platforms Equal? An Analysis of Freelancer.com and Comparison with Amazon Mechanical Turk

Pinar, Abdulhalik How Web 2.0 Applications Can Support Interaction Between Users and Digital Archives?

Powell, Katherine Do Nursing Students Prefer Electronic or Print Books? Priestley, Paul An Investigation into Attitudes Towards Personalisation in the Museum and

Library Sector: A Case Study and Survey to Assess the Level of Interest in the Implementation of Personalisation in Museums and Libraries

Remy, Ben Exploring the Social Culture of Librarianship Robin, Anne-Lise Implementation of Information Literacy in Secondary Schools in England and in

France

Simoes, Maria An Investigation into the Perception Held by the Librarians at Leeds Libraries of their Role as Regards the Teaching of Information Literacy

Symons, Emma Academic Faculty's Perception of the Subject Librarian: A Study at Three UK Universities: Health, English and Management

Virgo, Isabel How Can a University Library Support Masters Students Undertaking Dissertations or Similar Projects?

Wiggins, Samuel The Uses and Effects of Electronic Resources on Commercial Law Firm Libraries

Williams, Laura Exhibitions in Libraries: The Role of the Information Professional

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IS Graduates and Careers in the Public Library Sector; Relationships,

Implementing Digitisation as a Strategy for Preservation and Access to Rare Books: A Study on Staff Perception at the National Library in Guyana

Collaboration Between Academic Libraries: A Case Study of the SCONUL

Are all Online Outsourcing Platforms Equal? An Analysis of Freelancer.com and Comparison with Amazon Mechanical Turk

Web 2.0 Applications Can Support Interaction Between Users and Digital

Do Nursing Students Prefer Electronic or Print Books?An Investigation into Attitudes Towards Personalisation in the Museum and

Sector: A Case Study and Survey to Assess the Level of Interest in the Implementation of Personalisation in Museums and LibrariesExploring the Social Culture of LibrarianshipImplementation of Information Literacy in Secondary Schools in England and in France

An Investigation into the Perception Held by the Librarians at Leeds Libraries of their Role as Regards the Teaching of Information Literacy

Symons, Emma Academic Faculty's Perception of the Subject Librarian: A Study at Three UK Universities: Health, English and Management

Virgo, Isabel How Can a University Library Support Masters Students Undertaking Dissertations or Similar Projects?

Wiggins, Samuel The Uses and Effects of Electronic Resources on Commercial Law Firm Libraries

Williams, Laura Exhibitions in Libraries: The Role of the Information Professional


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iLab Facility 2011 marked a turning point for research infrastructure expansion at the Information School. Earmarking our own internal funding of £70,000, we embarked on the development of the iLab which will be open for operations in 2012, reusing existing space on the 3rd floor to build a modern testing facility for staff and student research. The facility will initially include two rooms with the option of future expansion next door. This initial development will include a space for testing from one to five participants in various research scenarios, and a control room with one-way mirrored window for

unobtrusive observation and managing the rich data collection. With its state-of-the-art audio, video and log data collection facilities, the iLab will enable multiple types of research including assessing how people use the components contained on a particular website, doing usability testing of website designs, evaluating the effectiveness of computer applications, studying human behaviour in particular scenarios such as how people cope with interruptions, examining how knowledge workers work in small group settings, and testing search applications. The facility can also be used for the conduct of interviews or a small focus group. Both staff and students are excited about how this new facility will enhance the research that we do, and enable additional research capabilities.

Health Informatics In September, Barbara Sen and Peter Bath organised the 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011) in

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collaboration with colleagues from the University Hospital Zurich and the University of St Gallen, Switzerland. Students, former students, visiting researchers and staff from the Health Informatics Research Group presented their research at the conference, which was attended by over 70 delegates from countries throughout the world. In May, Peter Bath conducted a seminar in Tirana, Albania. The Deputy Minister for Health in Albania, Mr. Albert Gajo, introduced Dr Bath's seminar which was entitled "Health Informatics: opportunities and challenges for the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in health care". During his introduction Mr. Gajo stressed the importance of health informatics for modern health care. The seminar was attended by over 250 people and was arranged by Professor Panos Ketikidis, Vice Principal for Research, Innovation and External Affairs at City College, an International Faculty of the University of Sheffield, in collaboration with the American University of Tirana. Whilst in Albania Dr Bath was interviewed by the national TV stations, ScanTV and News24, to discuss how health informatics can benefit patients and the public. The interviews were broadcast on Albanian television on 25th May.

Chemoinformatics The main event of the year for the Chemoinformatics Research Group was attendance at the 9th International Conference on Chemical Structures in The Netherlands, June 5-9th, the major conference in the field in 2011. Sheffield had a very strong presence at the meeting with eight members of the group participating including two oral presentations: Richard Sherhod (Mining of emerging structural patterns for identification of toxicophores) and Ben Allen (De novo design of synthetically feasible compounds using reaction vectors and evolutionary multiobjective optimisation) and three poster presentations: Hua Xiang, Sonny Gan and Jorge

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Valencia. Val Gillet was a member of the Scientific Advisory Board for the meeting and chaired two session. In addition, there were three oral presentations (Sarah Aaron, Dave Wood and George Papadatos) and three posters (Richard Martin, Maciej Haranczyk, Nathan Brown) by ex-PhD students from the group. Later in June the Chemoinformatics team ran the annual short course A Practical Introduction to Chemoinformatics, attracting 23 delegates from across Europe. The course was very successful with very positive feedback received from the delegates.

Knowledge and Information Management During 2011, the Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) group welcomed two new members: Ana Guedes Rosa, who is carrying out an investigation into knowledge creation, sharing and integration practices across organisational boundaries in eGovernment initiatives within a case study approach in the United Kingdom, who was the recipient of a prestigious and highly competitive University Prize Scholarship; and Soureh Latif Shabgahi, who is investigating the use of Enterprise Microblogging by small to medium enterprises. Also during this period, members of the group achieved academic success within their respective programmes of study. Inaam Idrees successfully completed her PhD on Cliques and Elites: Inter-Organisational Knowledge Sharing across Five Star Hotels in the Saudi Arabian Religious Tourism and Hospitality Industry. Inaam has taken up a position as Assistant professor at Taibah University, Saudi Arabia, and we wish her every success. Farshid Golzadeh, Alex Schauer and Alice Schofield have all successfully presented and led research seminar discussions as part of their MPhil/PhD upgrade requirements. In 2011, Ana Vasconcelos also contributed to the project Leading Transformational Change: Collaboration Sheffield: Digital World strand, funded by HEFCE, in the scope of a collaborative venture between the University of Sheffield and Sheffield Hallam University. Barbara Sen presented her work at EBLIB 2011 and at ISHIMR 2011. Alex Schauer was instrumental in further developing a University accredited, but student-run module, called PG Café Forum. He has secured funding for the 2011-2012 academic year, managed its budget and has moderated events which attracted around 60 postgraduate students across University faculties. Members of the group, led by Alex Schauer, have substantially revised the group’s website which can be found at ttp://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/research/groups/kim.

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Libraries and Information Society Sheila Webber continued to lead the Libraries and Information Society (LIS) Research group for the first part of 2011 until Sheila Corrall returned from study leave in June. The only change in staff membership of the group was Briony Birdi starting a period of maternity leave in August.

LIS staff members continued to receive many invitations from UK and overseas organisations to deliver keynotes and talks about their research (listed later in the report). Significant keynotes this year included Sheila Corrall’s addresses to the 9th International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services and to the (UK) Business Librarians Association, both on the theme of demonstrating library value. The group was also well represented at the 2011 CILIP Umbrella Conference, where the first CILIP Universities, Colleges & Research Group Sheila Corrall Publication Award (for new professionals) was presented to former MA Librarianship students, David Brown and Elizabeth Simpson, for their paper discussing the impact of ‘packaged information’ on student information-seeking behaviour at the University of Reading, which was subsequently published in the New Review of Academic Librarianship. The LIS group continued to attract large numbers of enquiries and applications from prospective PhD students in many different countries, including several applicants interested in conducting interdisciplinary research on the boundaries of librarianship and knowledge management. During the year we welcomed two new starters: Halima Egberongbe from Nigeria, who is investigating quality management in academic libraries; and Abdulhalik Pinar, from Turkey (a graduate of our MA Librarianship programme), who is investigating digital preservation in a Web2.0 environment; Dakhil Al Houti, Faisal Altamimi, Sahlee Bualat and Linda Kemp upgraded from MPhil to PhD; and Meshal Al-Fadhli, Liz Brewster, Eva Hornung, Shahd Salha and Stephen Tapril all successfully completing their PhDs on topics that are described elsewhere in the report. Two of our research students won external prizes: Alice Schofield won first prize for her presentation at a regional Vitae conference on Communication to the Public, in only the seventh month of her project, while Eva Hornung’s PhD thesis was highly

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commended in the 2011 international Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards. Following on from the pilot project described in our 2010 report, Briony Birdi was successful in winning funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) for a Collaborative Doctoral Award with Derbyshire County Council to investigate the value and impact of cultural services; Martin Simmons (a graduate of our MSc Information Management programme), was selected for the studentship, which is being jointly supervised by Robert Gent, Assistant Director of Cultural and Community Services for Derbyshire. Sheila Corrall also secured funding for a collaborative investigation of research support services in academic libraries in Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and the UK that is being undertaken with Mary Anne Kennan and Waseem Afzal of the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University and funded by the Faculty of Education at CSU. The Centre for Information Literacy Research (directed by Sheila Webber) has continued to maintain a high profile in both the academic research and practitioner communities, with a varied programme of journal club meetings and other events running throughout the year. In November, the Centre hosted a well-attended seminar for researchers and local practitioners on the new curriculum for information literacy developed by Emma Coonan (Cambridge University Library) and Jane Secker (London School of Economics) in a project funded by the Arcadia Fellowship Programme. CILR was as usual very well represented at the 2011 Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC) in London, where Sheila Corrall, Sheila Webber and Pam McKinney contributed five papers and Sheila Corrall also delivered a Pecha Kucha presentation and a workshop on behalf of the Research Information Network Working Group on Information Handling.

Information Systems The Information Systems research group grew steadily in 2011 both in numbers of PhD students and its research output. Research in the group focuses on the use of IT as a purposefully designed artefact within the context of human activity systems. The group had 4 PhD completions, presented 10 papers in International Conferences and published 4 papers in refereed journals.

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i3 Conference Several iSchool members participated in the i3 conference that took place at Robert Gordon University in Aberdeen, Scotland, in June. Dr Andrew Cox presented a paper on Information in everyday practice and Sheila Webber presented a paper coauthored with Dr Phussadee Dokphrom (recent graduate and now Head of Department at Silpakorn University): Conceptions of Information literacy: Result findings from the case study of undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, Thailand. Another recent doctoral graduate, Dr Shahd Salha, presented her research on The Variations and the Changes in the School librarians’ conceptions of Information Literacy. Current PhD student Robinah Kalemeera Namuleme (co-author Professor Nigel Ford) presented HIV and AIDS related health information behaviour: an ethnographic study.

Distinguished seminars The School introduced a new Distinguished Research Seminar series, inviting guests from around the world to present to iSchool staff and students. The series kicked off with talks from • Professor Caroline Haythornthwaite,

University of British Columbia: Participatory Models in Networks, Crowds and Communities

• Dr. Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs: A Taxonomy of Enterprise Search

• Dr. Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute: Information, Technology and Research: Adoption, Adaptation, and Innovation Across the Disciplines

• Dr. Helen Ashman, School of Computer Science and Information Science, University of South Australia: What can we learn from Web Search?

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New and Continuing Projects � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � � �Array Chemistry: Development of Data Mining Methods for the Analysis of Lead Optimisation Projects in the Pharmaceutical Industry

Val Gillet £235,682 Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council

October 2006 to January 2011

MetaCows: Metacognition in Web Searching

Nigel Ford, Peter Holdridge, Andrew Madden

£318,423 Arts and Humanities Research Council

September 2007 to June 2011

Evaluating the development of a pathway for patients presenting with metastatic malignancy of unidentified primary origin

Peter Bath; Dr. Bill Noble, Philippa Hughes, David Brookes (Academic Unit of Supportive Care)

£81,000 Macmillan Cancer Support

February 2008 to July 2011

De Novo Design: Development of a Method for the Design of Novel, Synthetically Accessible Molecules to fit a Variety of Constraints

Val Gillet; Beining Chen (Department of Chemistry)

£120,576 Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre

April 2009 to December 2011

Accurat - Analysis and Evaluation of Comparable Corpora for Under Resourced Areas of Machine Translation

Paul Clough, Monica Paramita; Rob Gaizauskas (Department of Computer Science)

£351,037 EU Framework 7 January 2010 to June 2012

A Feasibility Study of the SPARC Holistic Needs Assessment Questionnaire in a Supportive and Palliative Care Service

Peter Bath; Bill Noble, Nisar Ahmed, Philippa Hughes (Academic Unit of Supportive Care)

£150,030 Macmillan Cancer Relief

January 2010 to June 2012

A feasibility study of a holistic needs assessment questionnaire in a supportive and palliative care service.

Peter Bath; Dr Bill Noble, Philippa Hughes (Academic Unit of Supportive Care)


January 2010 to November 2012

Evaluation of the Midhurst Real Choice Project

Peter Bath; Dr Bill Noble, Professor Nigel King, Philippa Hughes, Jane Melvin, Dr Christine Ingleton (Academic Unit of Supportive Care)

£149,778 Macmillan Cancer Support and West Sussex PCT

February 2010 to January 2012

EFIREVal: Efficient and Effective Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems

Paul Clough, Evangelos Kanoulas

£127,589 Marie Curie EU Fellowship

May 2010 to April 2012

Riders Have Spoken: Designing and Evaluating an Archive for Interactive Performances

Jonathan Foster £96,557 Arts and Humanities Research Council

July 2010 to June 2011

Developing deep critical information behaviour

Nigel Ford, Andrew Madden, Mary Crowder

£261,805 Arts and Humanities Research Council

August 2010 to March 2012

Belief Theory: Investigation of the Use of Belief Theory in Assessing the Similarities of Pairs of Compounds

Val Gillet £70,000 AstraZeneca November 2010 to September 2011

Investigating the Intellectual Assets of the Scholarship and Collections Directorate at the British Library

Sheila Corrall, Alice Schofield (PhD student)

£70,000 Arts and Humanities Research Council (Collaborative Doctoral Award)

September 2010 to September 2013

User Centred Design of a Recommender System for a Universal Library Catalogue

Paul Clough, Simon Wakeling (PhD student)

£70,000 Arts and Humanities Research Council (Collaborative Doctoral Award)


Conceptualising the Library Collection for the Digital World: A Case Study of Social Enterprise

Sheila Corrall, Angharad Roberts (PhD student)

£70,000 British Library (Concordat Scholarship)


Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching (PATHWAY)

Philippa Levy, Pam McKinney, Nigel Ford, Petros Lameras

£41,000 EU Framework 7 January 2011 to December 2013

Lhasa KTP Project Val Gillet £129,000 Knowledge Transfer Partnership Programme, Lhasa Limited

March 2011 to March 2013

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April 2009 to December 2011

Resourced Areas of Machine Translation

Paul Clough, Monica Paramita; Rob Gaizauskas (Department of Computer Science)

£351,037 EU Framework 7 January 2010 to June 2012

A Feasibility Study of the SPARC Holistic Needs Assessment Questionnaire in a Supportive and Palliative Care Service

Peter Bath; Bill Noble, Nisar Ahmed, Philippa Hughes (Academic Unit of Supportive Care)

£150,030 Macmillan Cancer Relief

January 2010 to June 2012

A feasibility study of a holistic needs assessment questionnaire in a supportive and palliative care service.

Peter Bath; Dr Bill Noble, Philippa Hughes (Academic Unit of Supportive Care)


January 2010 to November 2012

Evaluation of the Midhurst Real Choice Project

Peter Bath; Dr Bill Noble, Professor Nigel King, Philippa Hughes, Jane Melvin, Dr Christine Ingleton (Academic Unit of Supportive Care)

£149,778 Macmillan Cancer Support and West Sussex PCT

February 2010 to January 2012

EFIREVal: Efficient and Effective Evaluation of Information Retrieval Systems

Paul Clough, Evangelos Kanoulas

£127,589 Marie Curie EU Fellowship

May 2010 to April 2012

Riders Have Spoken: Designing and Evaluating an Archive for Interactive Performances

Jonathan Foster £96,557 Arts and Humanities Research Council

July 2010 to June 2011

Developing deep critical information behaviour

Nigel Ford, Andrew Madden, Mary Crowder

£261,805

Belief Theory: Investigation of the Use of Belief Theory in Assessing the Similarities of Pairs of Compounds

Val Gillet

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Enhanced Similarity Searching Nurul Ahamed Malim Supervisor: Peter Willett, John Holliday Nurul's project looked at ways in which the outputs of individual chemical search engines could be combined to increase the effectiveness of searching. This increase was demonstrated empirically, and subsequent work has resulted in a mathematical rationalisation of the observed behaviour that is also applicable in principle to the combination of multiple text search engines. Technology Adoption in Academic Libraries in the State of Kuwait Meshal Al-Fadhli Supervisors: Sheila Corrall, Andrew Cox Meshal investigated factors influencing adoption of technology in three academic libraries in Kuwait, using a case study methodology based on document analysis, observation, focus groups and interviews. His research revealed the significance of institutional mission, economic development and national culture in library decision making, identifying a reliance on technology as the only solution to problems and a prevalence of ‘technolust’ in the case libraries. It contributes important new dimensions to the literature on technology in libraries. Fragment Weighting Scheme for Similarity Based Virtual Screening Shereena Arif Supervisors: Peter Willett, John Holliday Web search engines make extensive use of weighting techniques that assign relative degrees of importance to the keywords in a user query, and Shereena's project developed analogous techniques for increasing the effectiveness of systems for chemical database searching. Analysing Meeting Noters and their Role in Automatic Meeting Summarisation Antje Bothin Supervisor: Paul Clough This PhD investigated multiple people’s personal note-taking in meetings with the long-term aim of aiding the creation of innovative meeting understanding applications. The thesis consisted of three experiments using a large number of group meetings taken from the Augmented Multi-party Interaction meeting corpus. Statistical techniques were employed for this work. Findings suggest that temporal note-taking overlap information and the semantic content of the written private notes taken by many meeting participants both point to the majority of the most informative meeting events. Thus, the characteristics of note-taking can be seen as a contributing feature for new automatic meeting summarisation approaches and for the development of future meeting browser environments that better support the needs of individuals and organisations. A summary of Antje's work can be found in this journal article:

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Bothin, A. and Clough, P. Participants’ personal note-taking in meetings and its value for automatic meeting summarisation, Information Technology and Management, Published online: 25 December 2011 (DOI: 10.1007/s10799-011-0112-7), pp. 1-19. An investigation of experiences of reading for mental health and well-being and their relation to models of bibliotherapy Liz Brewster Supervisors: Barbara Sen, Andrew Cox Bibliotherapy is the use of imaginative or self-help literature as an intervention for mental health problems. Bibliotherapy schemes mainly operate in partnership between the public library and the NHS. Liz’s thesis critically analyses the emergence of the main models of bibliotherapy in the UK, deconstructing them using an Actor-Network Theory framework. The analysis concludes that the focus of these models is not always user-centred, with other factors driving the implementation of the intervention e.g. cost-effectiveness and health policy requirements. Liz’s thesis also takes a qualitative, ethnographic approach based on Interpretive Interactionism to investigate the experiences of people with mental health problems who use bibliotherapy. Data was collected via an interview and observation study. It concludes that there are diverse uses of bibliotherapy. Building on the gaps between the application of bibliotherapy and the experience of using it, the central finding of the thesis is the emergence of four user-centred models of bibliotherapy, focused on the outcomes of bibliotherapy rather than the text used. Information sharing practices and processes within product development in the baking industry Claire-Marie Handford Supervisor: Philippa Levy Claire-Marie investigated information sharing in the product development area of a large food manufacturing company in the baking industry, using a qualitative case study approach. Her research showed how information travels around and across distributed teams through personal networks using communication methods that facilitate interlinked information sharing and relationship building. It contributes to the evidence base on information sharing and knowledge management and enables practical recommendations for improving information sharing environments in distributed product development contexts. The current state and expectations of librarians working in one-person libraries in Ireland with regards to continuing professional development Eva Hornung Supervisor: Sheila Webber Eva conducted a phenomenographic study into the way in which solo librarians in Ireland understand the notion of Continuing Professional Development (CPD). She interviewed 30 people who were solo librarians (i.e. the only professional librarian in their organisation). She discovered five qualitatively distinct ways of experiencing CPD, ranging from up-skilling to meet

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organisational goals to a holistic lifelong learning view. As well as the conceptual value of the research, it will make a practical contribution towards developing a national CPD framework in Ireland. The insights into CPD needs will also be of relevance in other countries. Older Adults Use and Preferences for Telephone Helpline and Internet Resources Wen-Chin Hsu Supervisor: Peter Bath Wen-Chin Hsu successfully completed his PhD examining older people’s use of NHS Direct, which was undertaken in collaboration with NHS Direct itself. For his study, Wen-Chin obtained and analysed data on all the calls made by, or on behalf of, people aged 65 and over during a 12-month period. Part of the analyses involved examining how call rates varied according to geographical location and according to levels of deprivation. Results from Wen-Chin’s study were presented at the 14th and 15th International Symposia for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR) and at the British Geriatrics Society Spring meeting and published in the UK’s leading journal for geriatric medicine, Age and Ageing. Since completing his PhD, Wen Chin has been appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Information Management at the National Central University in Taiwan. Cliques and Elites: Inter-Organisational Knowledge Sharing across Five Star Hotels in the Saudi Arabian Religious Tourism and Hospitality Industry - a Grounded Theory Study Inaam Idrees Supervisor: Ana Cristina Vasconcelos This PhD focuses on knowledge sharing practices from an inter-organisational perspective in a context where organisations engage simultaneously in competitive and cooperative relationships. It addresses the paradoxical competitive-cooperative environment of the tourism and hospitality industry and the need for explanatory theories in this area. The study has deployed a four stage research design based on Grounded Theory principles. Employing elements of Game Theory, it demonstrates that, similar to successful strategies within the Prisoner’s Dilemma model, hotels within the five star segment choose to cooperate through specific knowledge sharing practices, as this represents a better long-term strategy than seeking to divide the market through competition. This strategy illustrates the mutual benefits of cooperation among competitors, by creating a basis for long-term success and protecting and maintaining the elite status of a particular clique within a market segment. Problems of communication, collaboration and cooperation in multicultural groups engaged in e-Learning through synchronous text-based communication George Katakalos Supervisor: Miguel Baptista Nunes George completed his PhD as a joint supervised programme between our School and the South-East European Research Centre (SEERC) in Thessaloniki,

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Greece. His study focused on an investigation of problems of communication in online groupwork in multicultural educational environments. His research methodology was based on a experimental research design and led to very interesting findings. These findings were presented at the IADIS Conference on e-Learning (2011), the European Distance Education Network Annual Conference (EDEN 2008), the Third South East European Doctoral Student Conference (DSC 2008) and International Conference on Learning: Living Issues in Education (2006). George is now back in Thessaloniki, where he has created his own very successful SW development company. The Information Sharing Behaviour of Health Service Managers: a three-part study Jacqueline Macdonald Supervisors: Peter Bath, Andrew Booth Jackie Macdonald completed her PhD investigating the Information Sharing Behaviour of Health Service Managers. This was a three-part study, carried out in Nova Scotia, Canada in which Jackie used two series of qualitative interviews, documentary analysis (an electronic calendar study), a card sorting exercise and a demographic questionnaire to explore the workplace information practices of 36 Nova Scotia health service managers as they informed critical decisions. Results from Jackie’s study were presented at the 12th International Symposia for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR), for which Jackie was awarded the prize for the best presentation, and the 74th IFLA General Conference and Council. Papers have been published in the Journal of Documentation, Health Informatics Journal, Evidence Based Library and Information Practice. Jackie is continuing to work as an Information Services Manager for three health districts in Nova Scotia, Canada and continuing to teach part time at Dalhousie University School of Information Management. She is also adjunct faculty at Dalhousie Faculty of Medicine, Medical Informatics. Factors Influencing Perceived Trust on e-Voting Solutions: A Study within Bagrain's Parliamentary Elections Sayed Naser Supervisor: Miguel Baptista Nunes Sayed successfully completed his PhD this year. His research was focused on a very interesting and topical area of e-government, namely individual, societal and political trust on e-voting as an alternative to traditional voting processes. His research was inductive and qualitative in nature and used an a-priori coding thematic analysis as overarching research methodology. Risk Management in Information Systems Development in Thai Context Nipon Parinyavuttichai Supervisor: Angela Lin Nipon Parinyavuttichai’s PhD thesis investigates risk management in information systems projects. The main contribution of his thesis to the existing body of knowledge is that it takes a holistic approach which considers IS project risks are dynamic in nature and

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change over time. The thesis argues that in order to effectively managing project risks one should recognise the process of risk formation within a project and adopt a more dynamic approach to manage the risks. To achieve this the research used a multiple case study method. Methods for the improved implementation of the spatial scan statistic when applied to binary labelled point data Simon Read Supervisors: Peter Bath, Peter Willett Simon Read completed his PhD developing methods for improving and implementing the spatial scan statistic when used for binary labelled point data. This was a studentship funded by the Medical Research Council and was supervised by Peter Bath, Peter Willett and Ravi Maheswaran (School of Health and Related Research - ScHARR). Results from Simon’s study were presented at the GISRUK conference, the 13th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR), the 14th International Conference on Knowledge-based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems conferences and published in Lecture Notes in Artificial intelligence, Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology, International Journal of Health Geographics. Since completing his PhD, Simon has been working in the Public Health section of ScHARR. The Variations and the Changes in the School Librarians' Perspectives of Information Literacy Shahd Salha Supervisor: Sheila Webber Shahd carried out a phenomenographic investigation into Syrian school librarians' conceptions of information literacy (IL). Half of the participants were qualified as librarians, and half were not. She interviewed them twice: once before an IL training course, and once some months after, when they had a chance to put IL into practice. Shahd analysed the two sets of data separately and identified two sets of IL conceptions. The results are significant in a number of ways: as a groundbreaking use of phenomenography in the arabic context and as the first qualitative investigation of IL conceptions in the Arabic context. The conceptions differed from those previous studies, in particular in bringing an inspirational focus of IL into the spotlight. The results will be valuable at both a conceptual and practical level. Development of a Data Mining Tool for the Identification of Toxicophores Richard Sherhod Supervisor: Val Gillet Richard Sherhod's PhD was concerned with the development of data mining methods for the identification of substructural features in toxic compounds. The main focus of the work was the development of a method known as emerging pattern mining which was used to cluster toxic compounds according to shared structural features. The clusters can then be arranged hierarchically to provide increasingly detailed descriptions of the features

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associated with toxic effects. The resulting clusters can be used by knowledge workers for rule building within an expert system for toxicity prediction. Undergraduates' internet literacies Peter Stordy Supervisor: Philippa Levy Following a constructivist qualitative methodology, Peter’s study explored information management undergraduates’ and their teachers’ perceptions of being Internet literate, of Internet literacy and their Internet-related practices. It concluded that undergraduates’ Internet literacies, coupled with their perception of their own Internet-related abilities and how they became Internet literate, are potentially at odds with academics’ understandings of undergraduates’ Internet literacies and their role in facilitating students’ Internet literacies. It suggested that unless this divide is bridged, the effective development of undergraduates’ Internet literacies within many information departments may be hindered. The Impact of the Millennials Generation on University Library Service Provision Stephen Tapril Supervisor: Sheila Corrall Stephen investigated expectations of library services among Millennials generation students at four UK universities in relation to the roles and competencies of library staff, using web-based questionnaires and online focus groups. His research showed how technology had shaped the outlook and behaviour of students and its impact on the responsibilities and skills of librarians. The outcomes include a new model of the ‘blended librarian’, highlighting the importance of emotional intelligence alongside information, technological and pedagogical abilities. Identifying barriers to sharing patient knowledge between healthcare professionals from Traditional and Western Medicines in Chinese hospitals Lihong Zhou (Nick) Supervisor: Miguel Baptista Nunes Lihong Zhou, or Nick as he liked to be known in the UK, completed his PhD in November 2011. Nick's research investigated the barriers posed to the sharing of patient specific knowledge between traditional and Western health practitioners in Chinese hospitals. The study was particularly relevant and topical due to the unique policies of the Chinese National health services that require these tow type of practitioners not only to work together in a complementary way, but to coexist in the same hospitals. Nick's research adopted a pure inductive Straussian grounded theory approach and resulted in four conference papers as well as two good refereed papers in the Information Management & Computer Security and the Journal of Librarianship & Information Science. Nick has now returned to his birth province of Hubei in China, where he is now an Associate Professor in the Department of Information Management of the University of Hubei. It is worth mentioning that this department is rated number 1 in the Library and Information Management subject area in China.

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Name Project

Munirah Abdulhadi� Towards enriching metadata descriptions with tags in a bilingual academic library context�

Murad Abouammoh � Investigation into diversity in information retrieval �

Mohamed Adil �Information management and knowledge integration through intra and inter enterprise computing to enhance teaching and learning management in higher education institutions �

Abdelkarim Agnawe � Use of the internet by academic staff members in Libya�Nordiana Ahmad Kharman Shah � Web2.0 in higher education �

Basheer Al Farwan � Enriching gazeteers by detecting the informal vernacular place names from the web�Nabhan Al Harrasi� Academic library collaboration in Oman�

Dakhil Al Houti� Information marketing in academic libraries of Kuwait University and the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET)in Kuwait�

Mashael Al Omar Use of electronic resources by Faculty members in academic libraries�Mazen Al-Dahiyat Personal Information Management�Wafaa Al-Motawah The role of Kuwait University Libraries in supporting graduate students' research.�Maram Alajamy The role of academic librarians in University-wide IS strategic planning�

Rabab Aljishi The use of data mining approaches to gain a better understanding of older people and their health problems�

Faisal Altamimi Total quality management implementation in Saudi academic libraries Mohammed Muhtar Arifin Sholeh

The information behaviour of academics in Indonesian Universities

Shaghayegh Asgari Cultural conflict in group work within the text of e-learning in multicultural UK Higher Education Institutions.

Dimitris Bibikas Towards a holistic model of the third generation of enterprise knowledge management systems

Brioni Birdi An investigation of the reading of, and engagement with, minority genre fiction in public libraries, with a particular focus on materials written by Black British and British Asian authors (Staff Candidate)

Sahlee Bualat Leadership development of library and information service professionals in higher education institutions in the Philippines

Stephen Burtoft How could internet resources that are specifically designed for adults at the lowest levels of literacy skill benefit their teaching and learning?

Daniel Butler Investigation of novel pharmacophore elucidation and fast shape search Liz Chapman Provision of LGBT-related fiction to children and young people in public libraries Si Chen The risks of coexistence of mixed IS in manufacturing SOES Thangositt Chuleekorn Information systems development for SMEs in Thailand Tuan Dang Information technology benchmarking in developing countries Tomislav Dimitrovski Preparedness for e-health in Macedonia

Jorge Durães Martins Towards a grounded theory of E-Learning policies for secondary education. An inquiry into policy formulation in Portugal and in the UK.

Halima Egberongbe Quality circles in academic libraries in Nigeria

Joseph Essel Information Literacy Instruction: A tool for promoting distance education teacher quality in Ghana

Linhao Fang Challenges in the introduction of digital technologies in Chinese SOEs - the potential risks of the digital archive

João-Pedro Franco Development of a quantitative model to support the assignment of orphan drug status

Sonny Gan Data mining for drug discovery Farshid Golzadeh Kermani

Towards a grounded theory of e-learning policies for secondary education

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Name Project Paula Goodale � Constructing personal narratives through exploration in cultural heritage spaces

online �Ana Guedes Pereira Rosa �

An investigation into knowledge creation, sharing and integration practices across organisational boundaries in eGovernment initiatives: a case study approach in the United Kingdom �

Hasan Hashim � Multi-professional learner support teams in higher education �George Katakalos� An investigation into multicultural constructivist learning environments to

complement traditional teaching �Linda Kemp� Authority and reference�Soureh Latif Shabgahi � The impact on information seeking and

sharing behaviour of the adoption of social networking tools by SMEs �Xuguang Li� The moderation of online communities �Eliza Mazlan � Health Informatics�Reza Mojtahed Study the socio-behavioural factors influencing on behaviour of UK citizens in term

of utilising mobile government services.�Iain Mott Investigations of multiobjective optimisation in scoring functions�M. Ramin Naderi Multimedia Children's Digital Libraries (MCDL): A constructivist environment for

learning improvement�Robinah Namuleme The contribution of information seeking behaviour on the students' academic

performance in higher institution of learning in Uganda �Sayed Naser E-Voting risk management�Nor Osman Mardziah Adopting effective knowledge sharing in the public sector: a study on Royal Malaysian

Customs Monica Lestari Paramita

Methods to build comparable corpora

Abdulhalik Pinar Digital preservation: preservation in Web 2.0 environment Thomas Poulter Requirements and benefits of electronic patient record systems in cancer treatment

services Hatoon Qadiee The impacts of investment in ICT in higher education institutions in Saudi Arabia Gibran Rivera Gonzalez Organisational culture that promotes the existence of communities in practice Angharad Roberts Conceptualising the library collection for the digital world: a case study of social

enterprise Johannes Schanda Federated search of cross-language databases Alexander Schauer A cross-cultural case study on the degree of knowledge sharing openness and

externalisation methods in the financial services industry Alice Schofield Evaluating the intellectual assets of the scholarship and collections directorate at the

British Library Barbara Sen Market orientation: its value as a strategic option for library and information services Jean Stevenson-Ågren Documentation of in-hospital patients' vital signs in electronic patient records prior

to cardiac arrest - a patient safety issue Mostafa Syed An investigation into the effectiveness of Public Library diversity training (PLDT) in a

Black and Minority Ethnic (BEM) context Nashwaran Taha The use of social network analysis to evaluate changes in a learning community Stephen Tapril What impact will the expectations of the so-call 'Millennials Generation' have upon

library services and the core skills of librarians? Jorge Valencia Multiobjective design of novel antiprion compounds Simon Wakeling User-centred design of a recommender system for a universal library catalogue Rita Wan-Chik Answers from the Quran: online information seeking needs Zefeng Wang How do Chinese companies respond to the rapid development of e-business and e-

commerce in China? Hua Xiang Similarity-based Virtual Screening: effect of the choice of similarity coefficient Fei Xie Building an intelligent multimedia meta-search engine �

its value as a strategic option for library and information servicesJean Stevenson-Ågren Documentation of in-hospital patients' vital signs in electronic patient records prior

to cardiac arrest - a patient safety issueMostafa Syed An investigation into the effectiveness of Public Library diversity training (PLDT) in a

Black and Minority Ethnic (BEM) contextNashwaran Taha The use of social network analysis to evaluate changes in a learning communityStephen Tapril What impact will the expectations of the so-call 'Millennials Generation' have upon

library services and the core skills of librarians?Jorge Valencia Multiobjective design of novel antiprion compoundsSimon Wakeling User-centred design of a recommender system for a universal library catalogueRita Wan-Chik Answers from the Quran: online information seeking needsZefeng Wang How do Chinese companies respond to the rapid development of e-business and e

commerce in China?Hua Xiang Similarity-based Virtual Screening: effect of the choice of similarity coefficientFei Xie Building an intelligent multimedia meta-search engine

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“Visualisation of Large Datasets using Semantic Web Technology”, Suvodeep Mazumdar (27th January).

“Development/validation of a novel ligand based rigid 3D similarity search method”, Daniel Butler (28th

January)

“Marketing Electronic Information Resources in Kuwaiti Higher Education Libraries”, Dakhil Al-Houti (24th February).

“Multiobjective design of antiprion compounds”, Jorge Valencia (18th March)

“Similarity based virtual screening using frequency-based weighting-schemes: effect of the choice of similarity coefficient”, Hua Xiang (18th March)

“How smart is your smart phone – the arrival of enterprise mobility”, Martin White, Intranet Focus Ltd (21st March).

“De novo design of synthetically feasible compounds using reaction vectors and evolutionary multiobjective optimisation”, Ben Allen (15th April)

“A Non-Overlapping Spectral Clustering Algorithm: Development, Optimisation and Application”, Sonny Gan (15th April)

“Total Quality Management Applications in the Saudi Academic Libraries,” Faisal Altamimi (28th April).

“University teaching and epistemic fluency: Frames, conceptual blending and experiential resources in teacher pedagogical and ICT choices”, Lina Markauskaite, University of Sydney (9th May).

“The evolution of my research”, Jonathan Levitt, Loughborough University (13th May).

“The adoption of e-government services among businesses: A case study of electronic Umrah in Saudi Arabia”, Hasan Hashim (26th May).

“Tinker, tailor, searcher, bricoleur: Studying software ecosystems”, Michael Twidale, University of Illinois (12th August).

“Understanding Documentary Practice: Lessons Learnt from the Text Encoding Initative”, Sue Williams, University of Koblenz (7th September).

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“Implementing e-learning in Vietnamese Universities”, Dang Cong Tuan (22nd September).

“eReferrals: clinical quality improvement initiative” Karen Day, University of Auckland (4th October).

“Knowledge absorptive capacity in SMEs”, Farshid Golzadeh Kermani (20th October).

“Investigation into the application of Belief Theory to virtual screening”, Eleanor Gardiner (25th October)

“Jumping Emerging Patterns (JEP) for binary classification - application and evaluation”, Ognyan Pukalov (25th October)

“Information, Technology and Research: Adoption, Adaptation and Innovation Across the Disciplines”, Eric Meyer, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (4th November).

“What can we learn from Web Search?”, Helen Ashman, University of South Australia (7th November)

“Factors shaping Scholars’ Personal Information Management (PIM) in the research process: a study of PAAET, Kuwait”, Mashael Al-Omar (18th November)

“Conceptualising the Library Collection for the Digital World: A Case Study of Social Enterprise”, Angharad Roberts (22nd November).

“A Taxonomy of Enterprise Search”, Tony Russell-Rose, UXLabs, (28th November).

“Evaluating the Intellectual assets of the Scholarship & Collections Directorate at the British Library”, Alice Schofield (30th November).

“A cross-cultural study on individual, team, organisational and institutional factors affecting knowledge sharing willingness in the IT services industry”, Alexander Schauer (8th December).

“Participatory Models in Networks, Crowds and Communities”, Caroline Haythornthwaite, University of British Columbia (12th December).

The following seminars were given in 2011 as part of the iSchool’s Research Seminar Series . Speakers are iSchool staff or PhD students unless otherwise stated.

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Al-Shamsi, A. & Sen B., 'Evidence-based medicine among Omani physicians: Awareness, knowledge and application'. 15th International Symposium of Health Information Management Research. 8th-9th September.

Baptista Nunes, J.M., McPerson M., and Isaías, P.,

(editors) 'Proceedings of the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference on e-Learning 2011', Rome, Italy. 20th-23rd July 2011.

Baptista Nunes, J.M., and Isaías, P. (editors) (2011)

Proceedings of the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Workshop on Information Systems Research Trends, Approaches and Methodologies (ISRTAM 2011), Rome, Italy. 20th-23rd July 2011.

Baptista Nunes, J.M., Powell, P., and Isaías, P.,

(editors), 'Proceedings of the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference on Information Systems 2011', Avila, Spain. 11th-13th March 2011.

Bath, P.A., 'The interface between information, health

and healthcare delivery'. Healthcare Computing 2011. April 2011.

de Bruijn C., Baptista Nunes J.M, Fang L., Pathak R.,

Zhou J., 'A System for Independent E-Learning of Practical Phonetics'. 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences (ICPhS XVII), Hong Kong, China. 17th-21st August 2011.

Chen, S., Osman, M., Baptista Nunes, J.M. and Peng,

G.C., 'Information systems evaluation methodologies'. IADIS International Workshop on Information Systems Research Trends, Approaches and Methodologies (ISRTAM), Rome, Italy. 20th July 2011.

Clough, P., 'Cross-language search and enterprises'.

Enterprise Search Europe 2011 (http://www.enterprisesearcheurope.com/2011/).

Clough, P., 'MultiMatch: Multilingual Information

Access to Cultural Heritage Materials'. Loughborough University. February 2011.

Clough, P., 'Using pathways for navigating and

personalising access to cultural heritage materials'. Glasgow University Information Retrieval Group. March 2011.

Clough, P., 'Using pathways for navigating and

personalising access to cultural heritage materials'. York University HCI Group. June 2011.

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Corrall, S., ‘Choosing Business Tools to Demonstrate Library Value’, (keynote presentation), Making an Impact – Demonstrating Value, Business Librarians Association Annual Conference, Sheffield. July 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/BLAlib/corrall-keynote2

Corrall, S., ‘Data Literacy Conceptions and

Pedagogies: Redefining Information Literacy Frameworks for the 21st Century’, 7th LILAC Conference, London. April 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/lilac2011/corrall-data-literacyshort

Corrall, S., ‘Developing Inclusive Models of Service to

Create Information Literate Communities’ (two invited lectures). Library Science Talks, Association of International Librarians and Information Specialists, CERN Scientific Information Services & Swiss National Library, Geneva & Bern. May 2011.

Corrall, S., ‘Educational Alignment: Library and

Information Science Perspective’ (invited panel presentation), Aligning National Approaches to Digital Preservation Conference, organised by the Educopia Institute, Library of Congress, University of North Texas and National Library of Estonia, Tallinn. May 2011. http://www.educopia.org/sites/default/files/educationalignment_corrall.pdf

Corrall, S., ‘Evaluating Intellectual Assets – New and

Improved Measures for the Transcendent Library’ (keynote presentation), Proving Value in Challenging Times, 9th Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, York. August 2011. http://www.york.ac.uk/media/abouttheuniversity/supportservices/informationdirectorate/documents/northumbriapresentations/Corrall-York%202011.pdf

Corrall, S., ‘Information-Handling Training for

Researchers: Towards a More Cohesive Environment’, 7th LILAC conference, London. April 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/lilac2011/corrall-rinpechakucha-lilac-2011

Corrall, S., ‘Pedagogical Development of the Library

and Information Workforce: Current Provision and Future Needs’, Librarians as Teachers: CILIP Career Development Group, University, College & Research Group Northern Region Meeting, Newcastle. June 2011.

Corrall, S., ‘Transforming Learning Spaces’, Evolving

Physical Environments in Libraries, Hong Kong Library Association, Hong Kong. March 2011.

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Corrall, S., & Goldstein, S. ‘Using the Researcher Development Framework to Develop Postgraduate Information Literacy’, workshop, 7th LILAC conference, London. April 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/lilac2011/corrall-goldstein-lilac-2011

Corrall, S., & Lewis, M. ‘Building Library Capacity for

Managing Data: Roles and Competencies in an Open Landscape’, poster, 7th International Digital Curation Conference, Bristol. December 2011. http://www.dcc.ac.uk/webfm_send/664

Corrall, S., & Stubbings, R. ‘Using the Researcher

Development Framework to Develop Postgraduate Information Literacy’ (invited workshop). Supporting Researchers Using Information Literacy, CILIP Information Literacy Group Seminar, Glasgow. July 2011.

Corrall, S., & Sweet, M. ‘Web-scale Discovery and

Information Literacy – Solution or Problem?’, XXXI Annual Charleston Conference, Charleston, SC. November 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/CharlestonConference/webscale-discovery-and-information-literacy-10278274

Corrall, S., & Torras, M.-C. ‘Using Cross-Cutting

Groups to Enact Information Literacy Strategy: A Comparative Case Study of Norway and the UK’, 7th LILAC Conference. London, April 2011.

Cox, A., 'Information in an every day practice: 365

self-portrait projects', Researching Everyday Life, University of Sheffield. 13th January 2011.

Cox, A., 'Photographic self-portraiture:

Empowerment through user generated content?', ESRC Visual dialogues: new agendas in inequalities research. 'New visual technologies: Challenges and opportunities' workshop, Open University. 13th May 2011.

Cox, A., 'Information in everyday practice: a

discussion', i3 Conference, Aberdeen. June 2011. Cox, A., 'Visualising shared space on campus'. Second

International Visual Methods conference, Open University, September 2011.

Cox, A., 'Negotiating the Territory: Composite Visual

Methods for Examining ‘Sense of Place’'. The Second International Visual Methods Conference, Open University. September 2011.

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Foster, J., 'Riders Have Spoken: Designing and evaluating an archive for replaying interactive performances', Spatial Technologies and ‘Beyond Text’ Workshop. AHRC ‘Beyond Text’ Programme. University of York. 1st April 2011.

Foster, J. & Lin A., 'Discourse 2.0 and the new

reputation economy', Discourse 2.0: Language and New Media, Georgetown University Round Table on Languages and Linguistics (GURT) 2011, Georgetown University, Washington, DC, USA. 10th-13th March 2011.

Foster, J., Price, D., Benford, S. & Giannachi, G.,

'Navigating beyond text: On conversation and visualisation in the development of a digital archive', Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts 2011, Ningbo, China. 4th-7th September 2011.

Hsu, W-C. and Bath, P.A., 'Older people’s health

information needs and sources: a systematic review of research'. 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011), Zurich, Switzerland. September 2011.

Ketikidis, P., Dimitrovski, T., Bath, P.A. and Lazuras, L.,

'Acceptance of Health Information Technology in Health Professionals: An Application of the Revised Technology Acceptance Model'. 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011), Zurich, Switzerland. September 2011.

Lin, A. & Foster, J., 'Understanding knowledge

transfer for social enterprise: some preliminary findings”, iConference ’11: Proceedings of 2011 iConference, 708-709. February 2012.

Martins, J., Baptista Nunes, J.M., Zhou, L. and Alajamy,

M., 'Grounded Theory Method Practices in Information Systems Research'. IADIS International Workshop on Information Systems Research Trends, Approaches and Methodologies, Rome, Italy. 20th July 2011.

Martins, J. and Baptista Nunes, J.M., 'On trust and

assurance: Towards a risk mitigation normative framework for e-learning adoption', 6th International Conference on E-Learning, Kelowna, Canada. 27th-28th June 2011.

Martins, J. and Baptista Nunes Nunes, J.M., 'A critical

discussion on the selection of a data collection technique for an interpretivist Grounded Theory study: in-depth interviews vs. focus groups', 10th European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies, Caen, France. 20th-21st June 2011.

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McCay-Peet, L. & Toms, E.G., 'The serendipity quotient'. American Society for Information Science and Technology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. October 2011.

McKinney, P., 'Meta analysis study of evaluation data

collected through the activities of CILASS, a Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning based at the University of Sheffield'. Librarians Information Literacy Annual Conference (LILAC). April 2012.

Melillo, P., Pecchia, L., Bath, P.A. and Bracale, M., 'The

use of Classification and Regression Tree to predict 15-year survival in community-dwelling older people'. 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011), Zurich, Switzerland. September 2011.

Mojtahed, R., Baptista Nunes, J.M. and Peng, G.C., 'The

role of the technology acceptance model in information systems research'. IADIS International Workshop on Information Systems Research Trends, Approaches and Methodologies (ISRTAM), Rome, Italy. 20th July 2011.

Namuleme, R., Ford, N. and Bath, P.A., 'Information

disconnects for people infected with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS'. 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011), Zurich, Switzerland. September 2011.

Parinyavuttichai, N. & Lin, A., 'Understanding the

Emergence of Requirement Risks in Information Systems Projects'. The 15th United Kingdom Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS), Oxford, UK. March 2012.

Parinyavuttichai, N. & Lin, A., 'Managing User

Requirement Risks – An Exploratory Study of IS Projects from the Views of Outsourcing Teams', 2011 Conf-IRM-KMIS, Seoul, South Korea. 12th- 14th June 2011.

Peng, G.C., Baptista Nunes, J.M. and Annansingh, F.,

'Investigating information systems with mixed-methods research'. IADIS International Workshop on Information Systems Research Trends, Approaches and Methodologies, Rome, Italy. 20th July 2011.

Poulter, T., Gannon, B. and Bath, P.A., 'An Analysis of

Electronic Document Management in Oncology Care'. 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011), Zurich, Switzerland. September 2011.

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Poulter, T. and Bath, P.A., 'Requirements for Oncology EPRs – a mixed methods approach'. In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011), Zurich, Switzerland. September 2011.

Sen, B. & Spring, H., 'A situational analysis of young

people coping with long term illness: Information, knowledge sharing, and communication experiences'. 15th International Symposium of Health Information Management Research. 8th-9th September.

Sen B., 'Reflective practice workshop'. Evidence

Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP6) Conference. Salford, UK. 27th-30th June 2011.

Sen, B. and Lee, C., 'Reflective Practice and Evidence

Based Librarianship', Evidence Based Library and Information Practice (EBLIP6) Conference. Salford, UK. 27th-30th June 2011.

Sen, B., Facilitation of Doctoral Forum. ISHIMR

Fifteenth International Symposium for Health Information Management Research. Zurich, Switzerland. 8th-9th September 2011.

Sharp, J. & Sen, B., 'The viability of automatic indexing

for biomedical literature'. 15th International Symposium of Health Information Management Research. 8th-9th September.

Stevenson-Ǻgren, J., Israelsson, J., Nilsson, G.,

Petersson, G. and Bath, P.A. 'Electronic patient record and documentation of deterioration in patients at risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest: pilot study'. 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011), Zurich, Switzerland. September 2011.

Toze, S. Mc-Cay-Peet, L. & Toms, E.G., 'Group

participation in the search process?'. International Conference on Collaboration Technologies and Systems, Philadelphia. 23rd-27th May 2011.

Wakeling, S., Sen, B., Clough, P., Connaway, L.S. (2011)

"If we build it, will they come? Recommendations and WorldCat". Poster. Proceedings of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. 48 (1) 1–3. DOI: 10.1002/meet.2011.14504801289. 9-12 October. New Orleans, USA.

Webber, S., 'Perspectives on the Information Literate

University'. Open University. Milton Keynes, UK. March 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/perspectives-on-the-information-literate-university

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Webber, S., Jacobsen Marrapodi, E., Barrios R., and Asenjo, C., 'Fostering health information literacy through use of a virtual world'. LILAC Conference, London, UK. April 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/fostering-health-information-literacy-through-use-of-a-virtual-world

Webber, S., 'Developing concepts of information

literacy'. (Poster). LILAC Conference, London, UK. April 2011.

Webber, S., 'Information literacy and the role of the

supervisor'. CILIP University Science and Technology Librarians’ Group seminar, Sheffield, UK. May 2011. http://www.slideshare.net/sheilawebber/information-literacy-and-the-role-of-the-supervisor-a-supervisors-perspective

Webber, S., Johnston, B., Two sessions on

information literacy; for the International Digital Libraries Masters Course, University of Talinn, Estonia. May 2011.

Webber, S., 'Information Literacy and school

libraries'. EMPATIC workshop, Krakow, Poland. June 2011.

Webber, S., Dokphrom, P., 'Conceptions of

Information literacy: findings from the case study of undergraduate students in the Faculty of Arts, Silpakorn University, Thailand'. i3 Conference, Aberdeen, Scotland. June 2011.

Webber, S., 'Researching by/with/from Second Life'.

New literacies annual research conference, Sheffield, UK. July 2011.

Webber, S., 'Inquiry Based Learning with first year

undergraduates'. M2N4SL – Midnight to Noon Conference for Second Life Educators and Researchers, Second Life. October 2011.

Webber, S., Johnston, B., Augustana Information

Literacy Workshop. University of Alberta, Canada. November 2011.

Webber, S., 'Reflecting on 23 Things: using 23 Things

in an Information literacy class'. Presentation in Second Life. December 2011.

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Al-Shamsi, A. and Sen, B.A. (2011) "Evidence-based medicine among Omani physicians: Awareness, knowledge and application". In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011); Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland.

Bakri, A. and Willett, P. "Computer science research

in Malaysian universities: a bibliometric analysis." Aslib Proceedings, 63, 2011, 321-335.

Bajorath, J., Barreca, M.L., Bender, A., Bryce, R.,

Hutter, M., Laggner, C., Laughton, C., Martin, Y., Mitchell, J., Padova, A., Renner, S., Selzer, P.M., Sherman, W., Sippl, W., Taft, C., Tuccinardi, T., Vistoli, G. and Willett, P. "Ask the experts: focus on computational chemistry." Future Medicinal Chemistry, 3, 2011, 909-921.

Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis, D. and Sen, B.A.,

(editors) (2011) "Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011)". Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 9-7809559-28314.

Bath, P.A., Raptis, D., Sen, B.A. and Mettler, T. (2011)

Foreword. In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011); Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 9-7809559-28314. Pp. v.

Bermejo, P., Joho, H., Jose, J., and Villa, R. "Study of

context influence on classifiers trained under different video-document representations". Information Processing and Management 47(2): 215-226 (2011)

Beverley, C.A., Bath, P.A. and Barber, R. (2011) "Health

and social care information for visually-impaired people". Aslib Proceedings. 63(2/3): 256-274.

Bickley, R. and Corrall, S. (2011). "Student perceptions

of staff in the Information Commons: a study at the University of Sheffield", Reference Services Review, 29 (2), 223-243.

Bothin, A. and Clough, P. (2011) "Participants’ personal

note-taking in meetings and its value for automatic meeting summarisation", Information Technology and Management, Published online: 25 December 2011 (DOI: 10.1007/s10799-011-0112-7), pp. 1-19.

Brackenbury, H.L. & Willett, P. "Secondary school

librarians as heads of department in UK schools." Library Management, 32, 2011, 237-250.

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Brewster, E. and Sen, B. (2011) "Quality signposting: The role of the online prescription in providing patient information". Health Information and Libraries Journal. 28 (1) 59-6.

Broadley, R. & Willett, P. "Effective public library

outreach to homeless people." Library Review, 60, 2011, 658-670.

Chen, H., Baptista Nunes, J. M, Zhou, L. and Peng G.C..

(2011). "The Role of Electronic Records Management in Information Systems Development: Gathering, Recording and Managing Evidence of Crucial Communication and Negotiations With Customers". Aslib Proceedings, 63(2/3), 168 - 187[p].

Clough, P., Ferro, N., Forner, P., Gonzalo, J., Huurnink,

B., Kekäläinen, J., Lalmas, M., Petras, V. and de Rijke, M. (2011) "CLEF 2011 Conference on Multilingual and Multimodal Information Access Evaluation", ACM SIGIR Forum, Volume 45(2), pp. 32-37.

Clough, P., Foley, C., Gurrin, C., Jones, G.J.F., Kraaij,

W., Lee, H., and Murdoch, V. (2011) "Advances in Information Retrieval" - 33rd European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2011, Dublin, Ireland, April 18-21, 2011. Proceedings Springer: Heidelberg, Germany, LNCS 6611.

Clough, P., Hall, M., Warner, A., and Tang, J. (2011)

"Linking Archival Data to Location: A Case Study at the UK National Archives", Aslib Proceedings, Volume 63(2/3), pp. 127-147.

Clough, P., Stevenson, M. and Ford, N. (2011)

"Personalising Access to Cultural Heritage Collections using Pathways", In: Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Personalised Access to Cultural Heritage (PATCH 2011). In conjunction with IUI2011 Conference, Stanford University 13 Feb 2011, pp. 12-19.

Corrall, S. (2011). "Continuing professional

development and workplace learning", In: Dale, P., Beard, J. and Holland, M. (eds) University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments, pp. 239-258, Farnham: Ashgate, http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/42793/2/020_Corrall_CH15.pdf.

Corrall, S. (2011). "Professional education for a digital

world", In: Dale, P., Beard, J. and Holland, M. (eds) University Libraries and Digital Learning Environments, pp. 49-67, Farnham: Ashgate, http://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/42792/1/009_Corrall_CH4.pdf.

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Corrall, S. and Keates, J. (2011). "The subject librarian and the virtual learning environment: a study of UK universities", Program, 45 (1), 29-49.

Corrall, S. and O’Brien, J. (2011). "Developing the legal

information professional: a study of competency, education and training needs", Aslib Proceedings, 63 (2/3), 295-320.

Cox, A. M., Clough, P., and Siersdorfer, S. (2011)

"Developing Metrics to Characterise Flickr Groups", Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Volume 62(3), pp. 493-506.

Cox, A.M. and Megan K. Blake "Information and food

blogging as serious leisure", Aslib Proceedings, 63 (2/3) 204-220.

Cox, A.M. and Marris, L. "Introducing elevator

speeches into the curriculum" Journal of Education for Library and Information Science, 52 (2) 133-141.

Firdaus-Raih, M., Harrison, A.-M., Willett, P. &

Artymiuk, P.J. "Novel base triples in RNA structures revealed by graph theoretical searching methods." BMC Bioinformatics, 12 (Supplement 13):S2, 2011 (doi: 10.1186/1471-2105-12-S13-S2).

Ford, N., (2011). "Technology, personalisation and

librarians". UMBRELLA Conference, 12-13 July 2011, University of Hertfordshire. Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals.

Ford, N., (2011). "The essential guide to using the web

for research". London: Sage. 256 pages. Gardiner, E.J., Holliday, J.D., O’Dowd, C. and Willett, P.

"Effectiveness of 2D fingerprints for scaffold hopping", Future Medicinal Chemistry, 3, 2011, 405-414.

Gillet, V.J. "Diversity Selection Algorithms". In: Wiley

Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science, 1(4), pp580-589. John Wiley & Sons. 2011.

Gorrell, G., Ford, N., Madden, A., Holdridge, P. and

Eaglestone, B. (2011). "Countering method bias in questionnaire-based user studies". Journal of Documentation, 67 (3), 507 – 524.

Gumulak, S. and Webber, S. (2011) "Playing video

games: learning and information literacy" Aslib Proceedings, 63 (2/3), 241-255.

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Hadfield, E. and Sen, B. (2011) "Graduate impact on economy and society". In: Graduate Impact Competition (Employability). Newtownabbey, N.I. The Higher Education Academy. Information and Computer Sciences. 7-11. ISBN 978-0-9565220-7-8 [Highly Commended]

Harper, R. and Corrall, S. (2011). "Effects of the

economic downturn on academic libraries in the UK: positions and projections in mid-2009", New Review of Academic Librarianship, 17 (1), 1-31.

Holliday, J.D. and Willett, P. "Representation and

searching of chemical-structure information in patents." In: Lupu, M., Mayer, K., Tait, J.I. & Trippe, A.J. (editors), Current Challenges in Patent Information Retrieval, pp. 343-356. Berlin: Springer Verlag, 2011.

Holliday, J.D., Kanoulas, E., Malim, N. & Willett, P.

"Multiple search methods for similarity-based virtual screening: analysis of search overlap and precision." Journal of Cheminformatics, 3:29, 2011 (doi: 10.1186/1758-2946-3-29).

Holmes, P. and Cox, A.M. "Every group carries the

flavour of the admins: leadership on Flickr" International Journal of Web Based Communities, 7 (3) 376-391

Hristozov, D., Bodkin, M., Chen, B., Patel H., Gillet, V.J.

"Validation of the Use of Reaction Vectors for De Novo Design". ACS Symposium Series. In: Bienstock R.J. (Editor) Library Design, Search Methods, and Applications of Fragment-Based Drug Design. pp 29-43, ACS Symposium Series, 2011.

Hsu, W-C., Bath, P.A., Large, S. and Williams S. (2011)

"Older people’s use of NHS Direct". Age and Ageing. 40(3): 335-40.

Hsu, W-C. and Bath, P.A. (2011) "Older people’s health

information needs and sources: a systematic review of research". In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011); Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 9-7809559-28314. Pp.153-164.

Idrees, I., Vasconcelos, A.C., Cox, A. (2011) – "The use

of Grounded Theory in PhD research: a model four stage research design". Aslib Proceedings, 63 (2/3), p.188-203.

Kanoulas, E., Carterette, B., Clough, P., and

Sanderson, M. (2011) "Evaluating Multi-Query Sessions", In: Proceedings of the 34th Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Bejing, China, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 1053-1062.

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Ketikidis, P., Dimitrovski, T., Bath, P.A. and Lazuras, L. (2011) "Acceptance of Health Information Technology in Health Professionals: An Application of the Revised Technology Acceptance Model". In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011); Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 9-7809559-28314. Pp.

Levy, P. (2011). "Embedding inquiry and research into

mainstream higher education: a UK perspective". The CUR Quarterly, 36 (1) 36-42.

Levy, P., Little, S. and Whelan, N. (2011). "Perspectives

on staff-student partnership in learning, research and educational enhancement". In: Little, S. (ed). Staff-Student Partnerships in Higher Education. 1-15. London: Continuum.

Levy, P., Lameras, P., McKinney, P. and Ford N. (2011).

"The Features of Inquiry Learning: theory, research and practice". Deliverable D2.1 for the EU FP7 ‘Pathway to Inquiry Based Science Teaching’ project (pp.1-96).

Levy, P., Lameras, P. and Ford, N. (2011). "Essentials of

Inquiry-based Science Education Pedagogy: Strategies for Developing Inquiry as part of Scientific Literacy". Deliverable D2.2 for the EU FP7 ‘Pathway to Inquiry based Science Teaching’ project (pp.1-37).

Li, J. and Willett, P. "Comments on “On bibliometric

analysis of Chinese research on cyclization, MALDI-TOF and antibiotics: Methodological concerns”.” Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 51, 2011, 3. �

MacDonald, J., Bath, P.A. and Booth, A. (2011)

"Information Overload and Information Poverty: challenges for healthcare services managers?". Journal of Documentation. 67 (2): 238-263.

Melillo, P., Pecchia, L., Bath, P.A. and Bracale, M. (2011)

"The use of Classification and Regression Tree to predict 15-year survival in community-dwelling older people". In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011); Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 9-7809559-28314. Pp.360-366.

McCay-Peet, L. and Toms, E.G. (2011). "Measuring the

dimensions of serendipity in digital environments". Information Research. (http://informationr.net/ir/16-3/paper483.html)

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Namuleme, R., Ford, N. and Bath, P.A. (2011) "Information disconnects for people infected with, or affected by, HIV/AIDS". In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011); Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 9-7809559-28314. Pp.220-228.

Nazari, M. and Webber, S. (2011) "What do the

conceptions of geo/spatial information tell us about information literacy?", Journal of Documentation, 67(2), 334-354.

Pan, K., Baptista Nunes, J.M. and Peng, G.C. (2011).

"Risks affecting ERP viability: insights from a very large Chinese manufacturing group". Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management, 22 (1), 107-130 [p].

Pecchia, L., Bath, P.A., Pendleton, N. and Bracale, M.

(2011) "Use of the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) for examining healthcare professionals’ assessments of the relative importance of risk factors for falls in community-dwelling older people". Methods of Information in Medicine. 50 (5): 435-444.

Poulter, T., Gannon, B. and Bath, P.A. (2011) "An

Analysis of Electronic Document Management in Oncology Care". In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011); Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 9-7809559-28314. Pp.23-33.

Poulter, T. and Bath, P.A. (2011) "Requirements for

Oncology EPRs – a mixed methods approach". In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011); Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 9-7809559-28314. Pp.543-544.

Read, S., Bath, P.A., Willett, P. and Maheswaran, R.

(2011) "Measuring the Spatial Accuracy of the Spatial Scan Statistic". Spatial and Spatio-temporal Epidemiology. 2 (2): 69-78.

Sedghi, S., Sanderson, M. and Clough, P. (2011)

"Medical image resources used by health care professionals", Aslib Proceedings, Volume 63(6), pp. 570-585.

Sen, B. and Ford, N. (2009). "Developing reflective

practice in LIS education: The SEA-change model of reflection". Education for Information, 27(4), 181-195.

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Simmons, M. and Corrall, S. (2011). "The changing educational needs of subject librarians: a survey of UK practitioner opinions and course content", Education for Information, 28 (1), 21-44.

Stevenson-Ǻgren, J., Israelsson, J., Nilsson, G.,

Petersson, G. and Bath, P.A. (2011) "Electronic patient record and documentation of deterioration in patients at risk of in-hospital cardiac arrest: pilot study". In: Bath, P.A., Mettler, T., Raptis and Sen, B.A., (eds). Proceedings of 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011); Published by University Hospital, Zurich, Switzerland. ISBN 9-7809559-28314. Pp.547-548.

Toms, E.G. (2011). "Task-based information searching

and retrieval". In: I. Ruthven & D. Kelly (eds.). Interactive Information Seeking, Behaviour and Retrieval, Facet Publishing, pp. 43-59.

Toms, E.G. (2011). "Models that inform digital library

design". In: M. Dobreva et al (eds.), User Studies of Digital Library Development, Facet Publishing.

Wan-Chik, R., Clough, P., and Ford, N. (2011)

"Searching for Islamic and Qur’anic Information on the Web: A Mixed-Methods Approach", In: Proceedings of the 7th Asian Information Retrieval Societies Conference (AIRS 2011), pp. 181-192.

Webber, S. and Nahl, D. (2011) "Sustaining learning for

LIS through use of a virtual world." IFLA Journal, 37 (1 ), 5-15. http://www.ifla.org/files/hq/publications/ifla-journal/ifla-journal-37-1_2011.pdf

Willett, P. "Similarity-based data mining in files of

two-dimensional chemical structures using fingerprint-based measures of molecular resemblance." Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery, 1, 2011, 241-251.

Willett, P. "Chemoinformatics: a history".

Computational Molecular Science, 1, 2011, 46-56. Willett, P. (Editor). Special issue of Aslib

Proceedings: "The Information School at the University of Sheffield". Aslib Proceedings, 63, 2011, 127-335.

Zhu, Q. and Willett, P. "Bibliometric analysis of

Chinese superconductivity research, 1986-2007". Aslib Proceedings, 63, 2011, 101-119.

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Vaiva Kalnikaite: User Experience Consultant: GE and AVEVA, Cambridge (PhD Graduate, Information School, University of Sheffield, 2005-2009). Vaiva obtained her doctorate degree from the University of Sheffield in summer 2009. She was part of the Information Retrieval Group (IR) at the iSchool, and this provided her with a great opportunity to work with an exceptional group of scientists including her supervisor Steve Whittaker, Mark Sanderson, Paul Clough, Daniela Petrelli, Simon Tucker, Ofer Bergman and others. Her research focused on designing, building and evaluating technologies that support everyday organic human memory. As part of her studies, Vaiva was also given the opportunity to complete internships at Palo Alto Research Centre (PARC) in California, and Microsoft Research in Cambridge. Since graduation Vaiva has held research positions at Sheffield’s iSchool, King’s College London and the Open University and is an author of over a dozen publications in top-tier journals and academic conferences. During the past couple of years, Vaiva has ‘ventured out’ into industry and has been working as a User Experience Consultant at GE and AVEVA in Cambridge, UK while still maintaining a keen interest in research. Vaiva certainly misses Sheffield and since moving away from the edge of the Peak District, with its stunning hills and climbing edges, to the fens of Cambridge, Vaiva has taken up indoor bouldering and street photography.

Kate Grigsby: Library Manager: Women’s Prison: HMP YOI Styal, Wilmslow (MA Librarianship Graduate, Information School, University of Sheffield 2010-11). Before I went to university and when I was in college I worked as a Saturday library assistant in public libraries. I really enjoyed the customer service and community focus of this job. I then began my undergraduate studies at the University of Sheffield studying Geography and Town Planning. In the summer between my studies I also worked as a summer temp at the public libraries in my hometown. In my second year I began working at the Information Commons as a Weekend Assistant and this post sparked an interest in studying librarianship as a lot of my colleagues had studied at the iSchool and were very positive about their experience. Straight after my undergraduate studies I began the Librarianship Masters whilst still working at the Information Commons where I progressed to Weekend Co- ordinator. My post at the IC linked well to my studies and I honed my management, information literacy and customer service skills. I began applying for jobs whilst still studying and was offered the post as a Prison Library manager in September 2011. My interest in this area of librarianship was sparked by a visit to Doncaster prison library organised by one of my fellow librarianship students. I found the visit very interesting and subsequently chose to write an essay on the topic as part of the public libraries module. Without my Masters and work experience I would not have got this post. I work for the public library service within a women’s prison alongside a library assistant and senior library assistant. We then manage three prisoner library assistants. I have responsibility for the budget, planning events, dealing with information queries, book buying and cataloguing. I really enjoy the autonomy this job affords me and have learnt a lot from this post in terms of management of people and resources and how to cater for the prison population who have a diverse set of needs. My favourite aspects of this role are the book buys, customer service, event organisation and high value that the library has within the prison community.

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Julie McLeod: Professor in Records Management, School of Computing, Engineering & Information Sciences, Northumbria University (MSc Information Studies Graduate, 1982). After graduating from Newcastle University in Mathematics and Statistics and undertaking research that later lead to a PhD in applied statistics, I made a conscious decision to move into information management. I felt it would offer a long term career with variety, options, challenges and change – and that was well before the birth of the WWW! Three decades later I know it was the right decision. I haven’t been disappointed, quite the opposite, the profession has exceeded my expectations. My first step was to study for my MSc and chose Sheffield on recommendation. My first post after graduating was as an Assistant Information Officer for a UK owned speciality polymers/electronics company in Swindon. It provided an excellent opportunity to apply my theoretical knowledge in the real world, develop my practical skills and enhance the services we offered to R&D scientists. I became expert in searching the patent literature. An unanticipated event brought me back to Newcastle where I initially worked for International Paint Ltd (now Akzo Nobel) establishing their first information and library service for their R&D scientists. Here my interest in managing the organisation’s own information, its records, grew so, when an opportunity to manage the information, library and records service for a pharmaceutical company arose I applied. This, my last post in industry, coincidentally brought me into contact with Northumbria University where I now work. Joining the university as a Senior Lecturer I have worked on innovative work-based and distance learning training and education with the BBC, The National Archives, the European Central

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Bank, and lead the MSc Records Management (distance learning) programme. In the last decade I’ve lead some of the only records management research in UK universities including a major AHRC funded e-records project AC+erm (http://www.northumbria.ac.uk/acerm). This and work as the Editor of the Records Management Journal and on BSI and ISO records management standards committees have provided many opportunities to travel in the UK and internationally. I have met some amazing people – industry colleagues, students who are now my peers and friends, and leaders in our field whom I have long admired. Being part of some pioneering activities in our discipline which is continually changing means I have been constantly challenged and that is rejuvenating and exciting, if sometimes a little daunting. A personal high for me was becoming the first Professor in Records Management in the UK/Europe. It signified the recognition of our discipline; my goal is to ensure its future growth and development.

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