Information School.

AnnualReport2012.

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People/staff listing 2

Welcome from the Head of School 4

News features 5

Awards 6

Staff activities 8

Learning and teaching 18

Research 28

Presentations and talks 44

Publications 46

Where are they now? 51

Contents

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Academic StaffAlastair AllanSenior University Teacher, Blib,

MCLIP

Jo BatesLecturer, BA, MA

Peter BathReader, BSc, MSc, PhD

Briony BirdiLecturer, BA, MA, MCLIP

Paul CloughSenior Lecturer, BEng, PhD

Sheila CorrallProfessor of Librarianship and

Information Management, PMA,

DipLib, MBA, MSc, FCLIP, FCMI, FRSA

Andrew CoxLecturer, BA, MA, MSc, MEd, PhD

Nigel FordProfessor of Information Science,

BA, MA

Jonathan FosterLecturer, MSc, MEd, PhD

Val GilletProfessor of Chemoinformatics,

Head of School, MA, MSc, PhD

Peter HoldridgeAssociate University Teacher, BSc,

MEd

John HollidaySenior Research Manager, BSc, PhD

Philippa LevyProfessor of Higher Education

Development, BA, MA, PhD, FHEA

Angela LinLecturer, BA, MSc, PhD

Andrew MaddenTeaching Associate, BSc, PgCT LTHE,

MSc, PhD

Jorge MartinsLecturer, BSc, PgCT LTHE, FHEA

Pam McKinneyLecturer, BA, MSc, MCLIP

Miguel Baptista NunesSenior Lecturer, BSc, MSc, PhD,

MBCS, FHEA, FIMIS

Alex PengLecturer, BSc, PhD

Stephen PinfieldSenior Lecturer, MA, PhD, MCLIP

Barbara SenLecturer, BA, MA, MCLIP

Peter StordyUniversity Teacher, BEd, MSc, PhD

Elaine TomsProfessor of Information Science, BA,

B.Ed., MLS, PhD

Ana Cristina VasconcelosSenior Lecturer, BA, PGDip, PhD

Robert VillaLecturer, BSc, MSc, PhD

Farida VisResearch Fellow in the Social

Sciences, BA, PhD

Sheila WebberSenior Lecturer, BA, Dip Lip, FCLIP,

FHEA

Peter WillettProfessor of Information Science,

MA, MSc, PhD, DSc

Administrative and Technical StaffLarah ArvandiAdmissions and Administration

Officer

John BennettLearning and Teaching Manager

Paul FennICT Manager

Matt JonesResearch and Resources Assistant

Tim NadinResearch and Resources Manager

Julie PriestleyExaminations and Records Secretary

Peter RosenbergSchool Manager

Christine ShawAdmissions and Administration

Officers

Andrea ShawProgrammes Assistant

Andrew StonesComputer Technician

Research StaffMary CrowderDeveloping Deep Critical Information

Behaviour

Eleanor GardinerBelief Theory

Paula GoodalePATHS, Search25

Mark HallPATHS

Evangelos KanoulasEFireEval

Andrew MaddenDeveloping Deep Critical Information

Behaviour

Monica Lestari ParamitaACCURAT

Richard SherhodDevelopment of Data Mining Methods

for Knowledge Discovery in Toxicity

Prediction

Eddy VerbaanRDMRose

People/staff listing

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Professors EmeritusMicheline BeaulieuBA, PhD, FCLIP

Michael LynchBSc, PhD, CChem, FCLIP

Bob UsherwoodBA, PhD, Hon FLA, FCLIP, FRSA

Tom WilsonBSc, PhD, Hon PhD, FCLIP

Visiting ProfessorsMartin MolloyOBE, Strategic Director of Cultural

and Community Services, Derbyshire

County Council

Martin WhiteManaging Director, Intranet Focus Ltd

Professor Susan WilliamsInstitute for Information Systems

Research, University of Koblenz-

Landau

Distance Learning External Tutors/CoordinatorsClaire Beecroft(ScHARR)

Andrew Booth(ScHARR)

Helen Buckley Woods(ScHARR)

Paolo Gardois(ScHARR)

Louise Guillaume(ScHARR)

Alan O’Rourke(ScHARR)

Angie Rees(ScHARR – Course Director, MSc in

Health Informatics)

Andrew Tattersall(ScHARR)

Advisory Panel Dr John BarnardScientific Director, Digital Chemistry

Ltd

Mr Neil BeagrieDirector & Principal Consultant,

Charles Beagrie Ltd

Mr Darron ChapmanManaging Director, TFPL

Mr Tim GollinsHead of Digital Preservation, The

National Archives

Ms Grace KempsterLibrary Services Manager,

Northamptonshire Libraries and

Information Services

Dr Shirley LargeNational Research and Development

Manager, NHS Direct

Mr Robin MurrayVice-President, Global Product

Development, OCLC

Mr David A SmithChief Knowledge Officer,

Communities and Local Government

& Department for Transport

Ms Nicky WhitsedDirector of Library Services, The

Open University

Mr Martin LewisDirector of Library Services and

University Librarian, University of

Sheffield

Dr Christine SextonDirector, Corporate Information and

Computing Services, University of

Sheffield

Mr Martin MolloyStrategic Director, Cultural and

Community Services, Derbyshire

County Council

Martin WhiteManaging Director, Intranet Focus Ltd

Professor Susan WilliamsInstitute for Information Systems

Research, University of Koblenz-

Landau

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As ever, 2012 has been a very busy and productive year for the School while also being a time of considerable change; the most significant being to our staffing and our infrastructure. We now have a larger complement of staff than at any previous point in our history and our facilities are leading-edge, flexible, technology-rich and consistent with our reputation as a world-leading iSchool. These changes signal the strong support that the School continues to receive from the University.

We were delighted to welcome six new staff to the School. Jo Bates joined as Lecturer in Information Studies and Society having recently completed a PhD at Manchester Metropolitan University on a neo-Gramscian analysis of the UK government’s Open Government Data strategy. Jo’s interests are in the political economy of data and information, focusing on the intersections and relations between civil society ‘interest groups’ and governing institutions such as local and national governments. Jorge Martins originally joined the School as a PhD student in 2008, and is now Lecturer in Organisational Informatics with research interests in e-learning, knowledge and information management and information systems.

Dr Stephen Pinfield, previously Chief Information Officer at the University of Nottingham, joined as Senior Lecturer. Stephen has a particular interest in scholarly communication and library and information strategy, and has research and teaching experience in subjects including digital libraries, project management, systems implementations in organisations, scholarly communications and research data management. Dr Farida Vis, previously lecturer at the University of Leicester, joined as Faculty Research Fellow with interests in researching social media, crisis communication, data journalism and citizen engagement. Farida, co-author of the Data Journalism Handbook, led the social media analysis of 2.6 million riot tweets in the Guardian’s ground breaking Reading the Riots project.

We were also very pleased to welcome Peter Rosenberg who has joined from Queen Mary College, London, as School Manager and has strengthened our Administrative team considerably, and Larah Arvandi who joined us permanently as Admissions Officer.

We said farewell to Professor Sheila Corrall who joined the School in 2006 and led us through significant changes including establishing our new identity as the Information School (from Department of Information Studies) and our joining of the international iSchools organisation. We wish Sheila every success in her role as Professor and Chair of the Library and Information Science Program at the prestigious iSchool, University of Pittsburgh.

The enhancements to our research, learning and social spaces benefit both staff and students and are described later in the report.

Finally, I would like thank all those whose expertise, energy and creativity have contributed so much to the Information School’s many achievements including staff and students, our Advisory Panel, external examiners and alumni. Details of many of these achievements are in the following pages.

Professor Val Gillet

From the Head of School...

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We were delighted to secure significant funding from the Faculty of Social Sciences, the University’s Alumni Grants Scheme and our own annual budget to improve a number of teaching rooms, meeting spaces and shared areas around the School.

The improvements were a welcome upgrade to the facilities available to our students, staff and visitors. This considerable six-figure financial investment was the biggest since the School moved into Regent Court in 1993.

During the Summer we undertook a works programme to carry out the improvements including:

Creation of the “iSpace” – a brand new shared common space and new groupwork/interview rooms for all students and staff

Upgrades to the Professor Tom Wilson Teaching Laboratory

Creation of a new ‘Digital Media Suite’ for teaching and research

Creation of a new staff meeting room

Creation of a new ‘iLab’ research facility

Professor Philippa Levy was appointed Deputy Chief Executive (Academic) of the Higher Education Academy, a national body for enhancing learning and teaching throughout UK higher education.

In this role Phil will draw on her previous experience as Director of a national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, as well as on her leadership of other learning and teaching development initiatives for higher education and on her research expertise in a range of areas of higher education development.

Phil stepped down as Head of School at the end of May in order to take up her new role on secondment from the University of Sheffield. We wish her all the best in her new position and thank her for her contribution as Head of School.

The School would like to thank all the organisers, bakers and customers of the iSchool’s Coffee Morning, part of the national “World’s Biggest Coffee Morning”.

The School was delighted to raise £390 for Macmillan Cancer Care.

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The Information School’s Chemoinformatics Research Group was awarded the 2012 UKeiG Jason Farradane Award, in recognition of its outstanding 40 year contribution to the information field.

The prize is awarded to the three current members of the group, Professor Val Gillet, Dr John Holliday and Professor Peter Willett.

The judges recognised the Group’s status as one of the world’s leading centres of chemoinformatics research, a major contributor to the field of information science, and an exemplar in raising the profile of the information profession.

The School has a long association with the Farradane prize. Its second recipient was long time member of staff Professor Mike Lynch in 1980.

Information School Lecturer Dr Alex Peng won the University’s SURE 2012 Academic Supervisor of the Year. He received his award at this year’s SURE Showcase.

Alex’s student Marcus Walton was also one of only three students nominated for the SURE 2012 Student Researcher of the Year.

University Teacher Peter Stordy obtained his PhD viva in January. His thesis explored Information School undergraduates’ and academics’ perceptions of Internet literacy.

Rachel Hessey (MA Librarianship 2010-11) won the JIBS Student Prize 2012 for her dissertation on “The Impact of Knowledge Exports from Librarianship and Information Science: Investigating Cross-Disciplinary Citations”.

The JIBS award goes to a work that focuses on the area of library information systems, bibliographic databases or other resource discovery technologies and how such resources or technologies are being developed or exploited.

Dr. Wen-Chin Hsu, former PhD student in the Information School, had his PhD research chosen, by the Editor of the Journal of Documentation, as a Highly Commended Award winner of the 2012 Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards in the Information Science category.

The title of Wen-Chin’s thesis is “Older people’s use of the NHS Direct telephone advice and information service” and this research was undertaken in collaboration with NHS Direct.

Two research articles describing the research have been published in Age and Ageing, the UK’s leading journal on Geriatric Medicine.

Anneli Sarkanen, who graduated from the School’s MA Librarianship programme in 2005, was the winner of the 2012 Special Libraries Association Europe/LMD Conference Award. The award recognizes outstanding achievement in the information profession amongst those living and working in Europe.

Anneli works as Information Officer at Field Fisher Waterhouse LLP, and is an active member of the British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL), and currently serves as Vice-Chair of their PR & Promotions Committee.

Anneli was recommended for the award by a former colleague, who described her as ‘an excellent ambassador for the information profession in London and the UK’.

Becky Broadley, who graduated from our MA Librarianship in 2010, worked with Prof Peter Willett to produce a paper based on her dissertation. The resulting work, entitled “Effective public library outreach to homeless people,” won first prize at Emerald’s Outstanding Paper Awards 2012.

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Lihong Zhou (Nick) former MSc and PhD student in the School and now Associate Professor in the Information School of Wuhan University, was awarded, in collaboration with Miguel Nunes, a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Project entitled “Inter-organisational tacit knowledge sharing in hospitals through the processes of patient transfer and referral”, and a total of 210,000 RMB (approximately £21,000). The NSFC is the most important and prestigious scientific research grant funding body in China and is extremely competitive (in 2011 there were 170,792 applicants and only 34,779 (20%) were approved).

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

Ruth Jenkins, student on our MA Librarianship degree, was announced as one of the five winners of the SLA Europe Early Career Conference Award (ECCA) 2012.

Ruth studied with us following a graduate traineeship at the Bodleian Social Science Library at the University of Oxford. Ruth also worked as a library assistant in a public library and Devon School Library Service. Ruth was co-sponsored by the Business and Finance Division.

The iSchool congratulates Dr Iain Kewley, a student on the MSc in Health Informatics programme and Chief Clinical Information Officer for the Department of Health on the Isle of Man, on his recent appointment to the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

Iain’s award is in recognition of his work with St John Ambulance in the Isle of Man. Iain has been appointed as Knight Commander in the Order of St. John.

Dr Farida Vis, who joined the School as a research fellow in September, was part of a team awarded First Prize for ‘Data Visualisation and Storytelling (National/ International)’ at the Global Editors’ Network inaugural Data Journalism Awards. The team analysed rumours spreading across Twitter during the 2011 London riots and presented results as an interactive front end on the Guardian’s Reading the Riots site.

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Staff activities

We welcomed Jo Bates to the Information School in June. Over the following 6 months, Jo worked to create content for and co-ordinate a new taught module, Informatics in Society, and assisted with the wider development of our teaching programmes and marketing including co-organising the Excellence Hub, an event for local sixth form students to get an interesting taste of what the Information School can offer. Jo also continued to work on her PhD, which was submitted in December, and also completed a substantial part of the Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CiLT).

Jo presented a paper at the 22nd World Congress of Political Science, Madrid in July; completed an article for publication in Policy and Internet; reviewed articles and conference papers for iConference 2013 and the Journal of Further and Higher Education; was awarded funding by the AHRC to co-organise the Digital Transformers Symposium in May 2013 (see digitaltransformersnetwork.com); and attended conferences, seminars, and workshops such as the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI) Annual Conference and Internet Research 13.0.

Peter Bath collaborated with colleagues from the Supportive Care Unit, Department of Oncology in the Faculty of Medicine, in a randomised controlled trial of a holistic needs assessment questionnaire in a supportive and palliative care service and in another study evaluating the Midhurst Real Choice Project. These studies were funded by MacMillan Cancer Care; and Peter was involved

in analysing the data from these projects and writing the project reports. Peter also obtained funding to work on a systematic review, funded by NHS Direct, to appraise research evidence on the effects of telephone assessment on Out-Of-Hours urgent care. Peter was the invited Keynote Speaker at the 4th International Well-being in the Information Society Conference in Turku, Finland in August 2012. His talk was entitled “The Information Society and an Ageing Society: how information can support health and well-being in later life”. Peter also gave a presentation at the University of Sheffield Learning and Teaching conference on “Incorporating online learning into a distance learning programme: challenges faced and lessons learned”.

Peter was External Examiner for PhD theses at Liverpool John Moores University, the University of Nottingham, UK and Massey University, Auckland, New Zealand. Peter continued in his role as Deputy Director of Learning and Teaching and continued 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 commenced in September 2012 with new cohorts of students. Peter also developed a new module, Information Behaviour in Context, for students on these programmes in the Autumn semester. In September 2012, he passed on the role of Programme Co-ordinator for the MSc in Health Informatics programme, to Angie Rees from the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR).

In October 2012, Peter visited the University of Limerick, Ireland, in his role as External Examiner for their MSc in Health Informatics programme. He was also appointed External Examiner for the MSc in Health Informatics programme in University College, London.One of Peter’s PhD students in the Health Informatics Research Group, Robinah Namuleme, successfully completed her viva. Peter continued his work as the representative for the Faculty of Social Sciences, and was appointed Deputy Chair on the University Research Ethics Committee. He also organised Faculty “Red-Lining” Days for staff from within the Faculty of Social Science to dedicate three days to being in ICOSS and to writing research papers and grant applications.

Briony Birdi returned to work at the end of August after a period of maternity leave, resuming supervision of an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award student (Martin Simmons), working in partnership with the Cultural Services Department of Derbyshire County Council, and continuing to supervise PhD students Liz Chapman and Mostafa Syed. A fourth student, Jon Webster, began his doctoral research in October 2012, in which Briony has involved Dr. Clare Griffiths of the Department of History as second supervisor. Briony joined the newly formed Race Research Network here at the University, and this has led to exciting collaboration with colleagues from other departments in the Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities faculties, including a funding application for a cross-departmental doctoral research network.

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Networks with colleagues have also been developed via the University Springboard Personal and Professional Development Programme for women, which has provided a valuable starting point for future collaboration. Outside the University Briony’s work with the CILIP Community, Diversity and Equality group committee continued in 2012, for example with plans made for future involvement in the CILIP Equalities Summit, to be held in 2013.

Paul Clough was pleased to announce the publication of his new book Multilingual Information Retrieval: From Research To Practice (Peters, Carol, Braschler, Martin, Clough, Paul, Springer) with a book launch event in the Information School.

Paul continued as primary investigator (PI) and Scientific Director for the EU-funded PATHS project that has allowed him to explore ideas around exploration and the creation of trails through collections of cultural heritage items.

Based on work with the National Archives, Paul published a journal paper in IEEE Internet Computing on his work on the limits of crowdsourcing for relevance assessment in Information Retrieval (IR) evaluation. In June he was invited to give a keynote talk at the Spanish IR conference (CERI 2012) on evaluation of visual information retrieval systems. He continued to serve on the programme committees of the major conferences in his area, including the Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR), the European Conference on Information

Retrieval (ECIR) and the International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM). He has also continued his involvement with the Enterprise Search Europe series of conferences organised by Martin White (Visiting Professor and member of the Advisory Panel to the Information School) as a member of the organising committee.

Paul was external examiner for three PhD students from the University of Hull, University of Essex and Polytechnic University of Valencia. He continued his role as external examiner of the MSc in Geospatial Intelligence that is run by the Royal School of Military Survey in conjunction with Cranfield University. This has provided an interesting insight into the higher education practices of the British Army. One of his own PhD students that he co-supervised with Mark Stevenson from the Department of Computer Science, Muhammed Adeel Rao, successfully completed his PhD entitled “Natural Language Processing for Plagiarism Detection”. Paul also collaborated with two visiting research students - Fernando Peregrino from the University of Alicante and Huping Du from Nanjing University in China. Fernando worked on geo-locating Tweets with the intention of mapping sentiments based on place. The result of the work was a short paper for the Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI2012). Huping studied the barriers faced by Chinese students when accessing information resources at Sheffield University.

Paul was approached by John Tuck from Royal Holloway University to consult on a research project to evaluate a new aggregated library search service called Search 25. This was a Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)-funded project to build an aggregated search engine for libraries within the M25 Consortium. A total of £30,000 was provided to Sheffield that enabled Paul to employ a Research Associate, Paula Goodale, to gather information about the searching behaviors of users of a current search system, assess users’ satisfaction with the current system and analyse transaction logs. In collaboration with Robert Gaizauskas from Computer Science Paul was awarded a grant by the EU European Coordinated Research on Long-term Challenges in Information and Communication Sciences & Technologies ERA-Net (CHIST-ERA) call. The project is known as “VisualSense: Tagging visual data with semantic descriptions”. 2012 has seen the end of two EU-funded projects: EFireEval and ACCURAT. The former project was an EU Marie Curie grant on evaluation of IR systems with Evangelos Kanoulas who has now moved on to work for Google in Zurich. Paul was also awarded a Faculty Research Grant Stimulation Fellowship that enabled him to work on identifying potential further work based on the PATHS project. A positive outcome of this funding was the presentation of ideas at the BIAL2012 Law Librarians Conference in Belfast and the submission of a Google Research Award on analysing query logs.

Staff activities

Finally, with Elaine Toms and Robert Villa, Paul worked on a bid to host the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2014) in Sheffield. The bid was successful and will bring around 200 participants together to discuss the areas of evaluation and cross-lingual information retrieval.

Paul had some excellent MSc dissertation students in 2012 with Jennifer Smith being awarded a prize from OCLC Inc. Marie Steiner, who worked on analysing log files from the UK National Archives, produced work that subsequently lead to her being employed in that organisation prior to her returning home to the US.

Visiting Professor Martin White produced a new book on Enterprise Search in 2012 aimed at practitioners and academics interested in the field. In the book Martin pays a very nice complement to the iSchool and in particular describes the Information Retrieval module as an example of the kinds of topics that the team supporting enterprise search should study.

Andrew Cox attended the conference of the Special Libraries Association – Gulf Chapter in Bahrain in March; the Microsoft Faculty Summit in Seattle (WA) in July; the Association of Internet Researchers conference in Manchester in October; and ASIST in hurricane Sandy torn Baltimore (MA), also in October. The trips were mostly to present work on the application of practice theory to information science and social informatics. Andrew was also heavily involved in organising the CILIP group MmIT’s

annual conference in Sheffield in April. His main project work was around Research Data Management (see the article on RDMRose on page 28).

One highlight of Andrew’s year was interviewing past graduates in Information Management to talk to them about how the degree had made them more employable. He was also involved in some exciting Undergraduate and Masters dissertation topics: from use of informal learning space to political cartoonists’ information behaviour. Andrew finds working with research students is one of the most rewarding parts of the job and thanks Dina, Kareem, Lee, Mashael and Soureh for all the interesting conversations about their research in the year; extends a warm welcome to Nicolas and Martin who started their PhDs; and congratulates Gibran Rivera for his successful viva defence which was the highlight of December.

In April Jonathan Foster gave a seminar on Collaborative Information Behaviour’ as part of the Information School Research Seminar Series. In July he gave an invited keynote lecture on Digital Economy and Collective Intelligence at the 6th RRU Academic and Research National Conference at Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University in Thailand and in November attended a conference on The Digital Subject: Questioning Hypermnesia at the University of Paris.

Research student Dang Cong Tuan, investigating the implementation of information systems in Vietnamese Higher Education, successfully transferred to PhD,

while another research student Dr Nabhan Al-Harrasi successfully defended his PhD thesis on a soft systems approach to collaboration among academic libraries in Oman. Jonathan also continued to act as programme coordinator for the MSc in Information Management; and as External Examiner of the Economics, Management, Finance and Social Sciences (EMFSS), Dept. of Management (Information Systems), London School of Economics, University of London International Academy.

Val Gillet took over as Head of School in September following Phil Levy’s secondment to the Higher Education Academy in May and the interim headship of Peter Willett.

Val’s research activities during the year focused on a number of collaborative projects. She continued to work with Lhasa Limited on the development of software for knowledge discovery aimed at toxicity prediction, via a Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) funded by Lhasa and the Technology Strategy Board, with Richard Sherhod as KTP Associate. She continued to collaborate with AstraZeneca and Eli Lilly via CASE studentships in the areas of spectral clustering applied to chemical datasets (Sonny Gan) and de novo design (James Wallace). She continues to work with Dr Beining Chen in Chemistry and colleagues in ChELSI (Chemical Engineering at the Life Science Interface) and SiTran (Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience) on a project aimed at identifying the biological targets relevant to Prion diseases, with this work forming the basis of a PhD project undertaken by Jorge Valencia. In October, Val

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started a new collaboration with colleagues in Biomedical Sciences (Dr. Vincent Cunliffe) and Chemistry (Prof. Joe Harrity) funded through the University’s Cross Cutting PhD Network Scheme, which is aimed at the design and synthesis of compounds for the treatment of epilepsy, and recruited Simon Hand as PhD student.

Together with Peter Willett and John Holliday, Val organised the short course A Practical Introduction to Chemoinformatics and the team were very fortunate to be joined by Richard Lewis, Novartis, and Stefan Sengar from GlaxoSmithKline as course tutors. The course was very successful and as usual very positive feedback was received from the delegates. Val also lectured at two other international workshops: the Resources for Computational Drug Discovery course at EMBL/EBI in Cambridge, and the 3rd Strasbourg Summer School on Chemoinformatics. Val continued as a Governor of Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre and as a member of the editorial boards of Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling and the Journal of Cheminformatics, and was external examiner for PhD’s at the University of Cambridge and Imperial College.

Prior to Val taking over the headship of the School, she continued to act as Director of Research and Research Excellence Framework (REF) Coordinator in preparation for our submission in 2013.

John Holliday published three academic articles with a further two articles and a book chapter in press. One

highlight was the completion of his MSc in Geographical Information Systems. His dissertation, which was submitted in December, investigated geographical aspects of the BBC Voices Project data, a collection of lexical, grammatical and phonological data collected by the BBC and analysed by the British Library and the University of Leeds. Results of the study are reported in an article in the forthcoming iSchool 50th anniversary issue of the Journal of Information Science as well as a forthcoming book about the BBC Voices project. In addition, the work was presented in September at the ‘Advances in Visual Methods for Linguistics’ conference in York.

Students on the Content Management Systems taught module produced some excellent websites as part of the assessment process. Several students adapted open source packages for their projects, while others opted for full implementation of their own system. John will be coordinating two new modules for the new BSc in Informatics and will start to plan these in 2013.

As well as co-organising the short course with Val Gillet and Peter Willett, John has started to plan for next year’s triennial Sheffield Conference on Chemoinformatics.

2012 brought a change to Philippa Levy’s role in the School, as a result of an opportunity that arose for her to take up a national leadership position in higher education learning and teaching enhancement with the UK Higher Education Academy (HEA). Phil began working for the HEA as Deputy Chief Executive (Academic Practice) on a

part-time, three-year secondment basis one day per week from February, moving to four days from the end of May when she stepped down from her role as Head of School. Before this, Phil had enjoyed representing the School at the international iConference 2012 in February in Toronto, Canada, in the role of Programme Committee Member and Track Chair, and had continued to serve on a number of University of Sheffield working groups including, as Chair, a group on ‘defining and supporting the work of University teachers’ until the completion of its work in the summer.

In the second part of the year, Phil continued with a range of Sheffield activities alongside her HEA role, including Masters teaching and dissertation supervisions, PhD supervision, and internal and external (Sheffield Hallam, University of Sydney) PhD examining. Phil was very pleased to be invited to present on the topic of research-based education at a conference organised by the Danish Council for Research Policy in October, and honoured to be invited to serve as the Deputy Convenor of the Education Panel for the Hong Kong Research Assessment Exercise 2014.

Phil continued to serve in a range of external roles including as external examiner for the Technology-Enhanced Learning Doctoral Programme at the Department of Educational Research, University of Lancaster and as a member of Steering Groups including for the Institute for Advanced Teaching and Learning, University of Warwick, the Student As Producer project

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at the University of Lincoln, and the British Conference on Undergraduate Research. She also continued as a peer reviewer including on the editorial board for Teaching in Higher Education and on the programme committees for ALT 2012 and SOTL Commons 2012, and as Sheffield lead in the EU-funded PATHWAY project, which is focusing on Inquiry-Based Science Education.

Angela Lin continued to coordinate the postgraduate module E-Business and E-Commerce. Being aware of its popularity among international students and the University’s Internationalisation initiative, content changes were made to include more examples from different countries in order to connect to an international audience. The effort paid off as the students found that the content and examples were useful and helped them understand the subject better. Angela’s PhD student, Thanongsitt Chuleekorn, successfully completed his PhD. His thesis examines the management of information systems implementation processes from a power and discourse perspective.

Angela was invited, with Jonathan Foster, to give a 2-day workshop on qualitative research methods, in particular case study research methods, to the researchers and research students of the Faculty of Science at Rajabhat Rajanagarindra University, Thailand, and also gave a public lecture on E-commerce Business Models to staff and students there. Angela was invited to be the Programme Chair for e-Commerce 2012 (EC2012), IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information

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Systems 2012, Lisbon, in July; and was an associated editor for the European Conference on Information Systems 2013. Internally at the University of Sheffield, Angela chaired a session entitled ‘Media and Digital Worlds’ at the 1st International Affairs Research Symposium organised by Faculty of Social Sciences in October. She continued to be the deputy programme coordinator of MSc Information Management and this year took on an additional role of Ethics Coordinator in the school to overlook and manage ethics applications. Angela worked with Elaine Toms to update the ethics review procedure with very positive changes being made.

We welcomed Jorge Martins to the School in September when he took up the post as Lecturer in Organisational Informatics. His overarching research and teaching area is the management and use of information technology in complex organisations. He is interested in the intersection between Information/Knowledge Management systems and organisation, with particular emphasis on structures, cultures, work practices, behaviour, and change. These intersecting teaching and research interests form the basis of his dual affiliation to the Information Systems and Knowledge and Information Management research groups.

Jorge took on coordination of the new undergraduate module Information Architecture and began teaching on a number of other modules including Information Management for the Learning Organisation, Digital Technologies in Organisations, Information Systems in

Organisations, Information and Knowledge Management and Educational Informatics. He also took on the administrative roles of Study Abroad Advisor, Erasmus Tutor and International Students Advisor.

Jorge published in the Australian Library Journal and presented at the World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications in Denver in June. He also completed a book chapter that discusses the use of Grounded Theory across Information Systems PhD research that has been conducted at the School.

Jorge joined the planning committee of the Information Behaviour Conference (ISIC 2014), which will be co-hosted by the Information School, Aberystwyth University’s Department of Information Studies, and Leeds University Business School. He continued his role as Programme Committee member and reviewer for the International Conference on E-Learning (ICEL 2012) at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He initiated collaborative links with Lisbon’s School of Economics and Management (ISEG, Portugal), with a view to develop a research project on SME resilience in the context of economic downturn. This has developed into ISEG’s Professor Elsa Fontainha being invited to visit the School on an Information School Distinguished Scholarship.

Miguel Baptista Nunes’ activities were divided into the areas of teaching and research within both e-learning and information systems. He continued to coordinate

the MSc in Information Systems – seeing success in boosting the recruitment of this programme – and the MSc in Information Systems Management, and continued his usual teaching duties in Information Systems Modeling, Information Systems Project Management and Educational Informatics.

In terms of research Miguel was successful with an application to a National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) Project entitled “Inter-organisational tacit knowledge sharing in hospitals through the processes of patient transfer and referral” together with Lihong Zhou of Wuhan University. Miguel was also pleased to see two of his PhD students graduate.

Miguel chaired three international conferences: IADIS International Conference in Information Systems (Berlin); IADIS International Conference in e-Learning (Lisbon); and IADIS International Post-implementation and Change Management (Lisbon). He was also Programme Committee Member at the 11th European Conference in Research Methods for Business, in Madrid and Caen.

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

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In August, Miguel visited China where he attended three International Conferences and visited three of the highest ranking cognate Schools, namely the Information School of Wuhan University, the Department of Archival Studies at Renmin University of China in Beijing and the Information of Nanjing University. In Wuhan he made progress towards a formal academic link between Wuhan and the Information School.

Guo-Chao (Alex) Peng was granted a Sheffield Crucible Award by the University of Sheffield in 2012. The Sheffield Crucible is a professional development program for talented and young researchers at Sheffield, with the aim of developing their competencies to initiate and develop interdisciplinary collaborations. During three intensive two-day residential Crucible workshops, Alex enhanced his skills and knowledge on multidisciplinary research and made useful contacts that led to two collaborative projects.

The first project was funded by the Sheffield Collaborative R&D and Partnership scheme, entitled: “Communication for Life: Enabling Effective Communication in Adolescents with Severe and Complex Speech, Language and Communication Disability” (SLCD). The research, done in collaboration with the Department of Human Communication Sciences, aimed to develop an e-resource system to train school teachers and students as well as make them more aware of the needs of young children with learning difficulties.

The second project was funded by the Sheffield Crucible Seed Funding scheme, entitled “The Phoenix Project: Surviving Cancer – A Pilot Study to Assess the Unmet Needs of Cancer Survivors”. The research, done in collaboration with the Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, the Department of Sociological Studies, and the School of English at the University of Sheffield, aimed to explore the unmet (e.g. psychological, sexual, and medical) needs of cancer survivors as well as to develop a mobile app to support and satisfy these unmet needs. Together with Miguel Nunes, Alex co-chaired the IADIS International Conference in Information Systems Post-implementation and Change Management.

Stephen Pinfield joined the School in September having previously worked as a senior information professional in the UK higher education sector, latterly as Chief Information Officer at the University of Nottingham. He embarked on a number of research projects continuing to pursue his interests in scholarly communications, research data management, and professional skills and roles, maintaining close links with practitioners. He also began teaching on the Librarianship and Digital Library Management programmes.

During the year, Stephen spoke at a number of professional conferences and also contributed in an advisory capacity to several national initiatives, including the Finch Review on expanding access to research outputs and the Royal Society review of Science as an Open Enterprise.

Barbara Sen was involved in two research projects: RDMRose, led by Andrew Cox, a JISC funded project that aims to design learning materials and training for liaison librarians and Project WHIPPET: Working in the Health Information Profession: Perspectives, Experiences and Trends. This project is funded by EAHIL – the European Association of Health Information and Library Professionals – and was one of two 25th anniversary grants awarded by EAHIL. The projects aims to support career planning and training within the health information sector.

Barbara was appointed as external examiner at the University of Aberystwyth’s Department of Information Studies for their undergraduate programmes. She is also an assessor for the British Medical Association on their Patient Information Award.

Barbara took responsibility as Deputy Programme Co- ordinator for the School’s MSc in Health Informatics programme and continued to be Chair of the School’s Library Committee, whilst also taking on a new role as Director of Postgraduate Recruitment. Externally she has continued to be involved with SINTO: the Information Partnership for South Yorkshire & North Derbyshire.

Barbara’s work on reflective practice was selected for inclusion in the University of Sheffield’s Learning and Teaching Services’ (LeTS) Learning Toolkit.

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Peter Stordy’s teaching has increasingly become more blended during 2012. That is, he has been utilising online pedagogies when and if appropriate. For example, the undergraduate and postgraduate Database Design laboratories are now delivered entirely via MOLE and YouTube, with optional support laboratories. Students can replay demonstrations as often as they like. To ensure students cover material presented in the online tutorials, students’ tutorial work is assessed. Compared with previous years, students’ overall Database Design grade has significantly improved and far fewer students failed the module. 2012 was also Peter’s first year as Undergraduate Examinations Officer.

Elaine Toms attended the SCORE: Serendipity, Chance and Opportunity in Information Discovery workshop from 28th April at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, funded by the Social Science and Humanities Council Canada Aid to Workshops and Conferences Program. Elaine was the former principal investigator and the grant was transferred to a collaborator When Elaine left Canada to come to the Sheffield Information School. Elaine was a co-organiser of this invitation-only workshop to map out the research terrain and outline a book on the topic. Elaine was formally appointed as one of the UK representatives to the MUMIA (Multilingual and Multifaceted Interactive Information Access) Cost action in which she participated primarily in the working group on user-centred aspects.

With the addition of the Information School to the Erasmus Mundus training programme on Information Foraging, Elaine participated in the two-week graduate programme at Nijmegen, Netherlands in August 2012. Elaine was an invited participant to ENWI, the European Network for Workplace Information workshop in Boras, Sweden to examine information access and use in the workplace from a broad contextual perspective. Closer to home, Elaine worked on the design of the new iLab with Tim Nadin, revised an existing module, Human Computer Interaction, into a human computer information interaction module, and stream-lined the process for how the research ethics review process is administered at the School.

Ana-Cristina Vasconcelos took on the role of Post- Graduate Research Tutor, overseeing the coordination of the School’s PhD Programmes, and continued to lead the Knowledge and Information Management (KIM) Research Group. She completed her period of service as external examiner at Northumbria University and as member of the AHRC Peer Review College. She delivered a key note speech at the SLA Annual Conference - Arabian Gulf Chapter and delivered a guest talk at the research seminar series at the Department of Information Science at Loughborough University. Ana examined two PhD theses and one MPhil/PhD transfer.

Ana continued to act as a reviewer for several quality journals and conferences in her subject area such the International Journal of Knowledge-Based Organisations, Knowledge Management Research & Practice, Information Processing and Management, International Journal of Production Research, Library Review, Library Trends, 11th European Conference in Research Methods for Business, and the UK Academy for Information Systems Conference. She is a member of the Planning Committee for ISIC 2014, Information Seeking in Context, which is jointly hosted by Leeds University Business School, Aberystwyth University’s Department of Information Studies and the Information School at the University of Sheffield.

Early in 2012 Robert Villa completed a joint EU project proposal for the CHIST-ERA call “From data to new knowledge (D2K)” with the title “Image Understanding from the Web with User Interaction” and also worked with Barbara Sen to secure research funding for Project WHIPPET: Working in the Health Information Profession: Perspectives, Experiences and Trends.

Robert hosted former PhD student Hideo Joho in Sheffield, who was visiting from the Faculty of Library, Information and Media Studies, University of Tsukuba in Japan.

In November, along with Andrew Cox, Robert presented at our first Researcher’s Dragon’s Den event, pitching his research idea to a panel of critical experts. The idea was a personal analytics system for students (“learning

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analytics”). He aided Paul Clough and Andrew Cox with an OCLC grant proposal, submitted in September.

In July Robert attended the CHIST-ERA conference in Edinburgh concerning the “Intelligent User Interface” proposal call which was subsequently published by CHIST-ERA consortium. He was a mentor at the IIiX Doctorial Consortium in Nijmegen in the Netherlands in August and also attended the associated conference held immediately afterwards. He also attended the CLEF conference in Rome, and the PROMISE (Participative Research labOratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation) project meeting.

Sheffield will be hosting CLEF in September 2014, and Robert has been involved in organising this conference throughout the year.

Towards the end of the year Robert collaborated on a short paper for SIGIR, working with Martin Halvey from Glasgow Caledonian University.

Robert coordinated the Digital Multimedia Libraries taught module, and taught on a number of other modules including Designing Usable Websites, Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval, as well as taking part in our undergraduate open days and the “Excellence Hub” event, presenting a mini-lecture and an iLab research activity.

Robert successfully passed the Certificate in Learning and Teaching (CiLT) in July.

Farida Vis joined the School as a Faculty of Social Sciences Research Fellow in September. Since then she has given a series of presentations at leading academic conferences alongside keynotes at key business and technology conferences including Emerce Eday and the Open Knowledge Festival. She was invited to speak as part of a high profile panel, ‘The Big Data Debate’, organised by the British Academy and Sage, part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, to discuss the implications of ‘Big Data’ for the social sciences. She has engaged with a number of key UK and international stakeholders, including The Guardian newspaper, UK Foreign Office, Finnish national broadcaster YLE and leading Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. These engagements have centred on Farida’s work in data journalism, social media in crisis communication and open data policies in the UK, specifically in relation to the future of allotments. During this time, she also wrote two papers, most notably one for the inaugural issue of Digital Journalism which considers the role of Twitter as a reporting tool during the 2011 UK riots. A second co-authored paper looks at the role of images circulated on Twitter during the riots and will appear in what no doubt will become a key text for Twitter research: Twitter and Society (forthcoming with Peter Lang in Spring 2013). Finally a third co-authored piece, published on The Guardian Data Blog examined the role of fake images circulated on social media during Hurricane Sandy.

Farida made two grant applications: one for a project that critically analyses UK open data polices through the lens of two communities: those interested in growing food and those organised in local open data initiatives. The second, a large FP7 application, aims to make a significant contribution to the use of social media data during crises. The first application has now been funded and work on the project is underway.

A profile of Farida’s work was featured in Times Higher Education in December 2012, highlighting her research and methodological innovation in social media research.

Sheila Webber continued as Coordinator of the MA Librarianship programme and Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, and took on the role of Head of the Libraries and Information Society research group in October. As part of the team on the Arts and Humanities Research Council Deep Critical Information Behaviour project she contributed to project planning and discussion of data collection and analysis. Sheila was invited onto the Standing Committee, and is an invited speaker, for the first European Conference on Information Literacy to be held in 2013 in Istanbul, and was again invited onto the International Programme Committee for the 2013 i3 conference. As a member of the International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) Standing Committee on Information Literacy, Sheila attended meetings at the IFLA 2012 conference in Helsinki, and she is heading a new IFLA project on Profiles of the Information Literacy Professional (#infolitpro).

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Other information literacy activities included delivering workshops and consultations in Canada on the invitation of a group of universities.

Sheila has continued work in the virtual Second Life (SL), including leading a small team nominating the best posters at the Virtual World Best Practices in Education conference in March 2012, and co organising a monthly information literacy journal club that meets in Second 16 Life. A joint mini-conference of the School’s Centre for Information Literacy Research and the (US) Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL) virtual worlds special interest group was also held on the School’s SL island, Infolit iSchool, in October.

Following Philippa Levy’s secondment to the Higher Education Academy in May, Peter Willett acted as the interim Head of School during the summer until Val Gillet took over at the start of the 2012-13 academic year. 2012 was another very productive year in terms of publications, with one of Peter’s previous year’s (Broadley, R. & Willett, P. “Effective public library outreach to homeless people.” Library Review, 60, 2011, 658-670) receiving the 2012 Emerald Outstanding Paper Award for the journal Library Review. Within the University, Peter chaired the Student Attendance Monitoring Project Board, which has now completed its work on overseeing the design and implementation of the University’s systems to comply with the Government’s requirements for monitoring the attendance of overseas students at UK universities. He also chaired the Research Data Management Steering

Group, which has been charged with developing a University-wide strategy for handling the many, and highly disparate, types of data generated by its research activities.

Externally Peter continued to work as a member of Sub-Panel 36 (Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management) for the forthcoming Research Excellence Framework (REF2014), as the Associate Editor of Computational Molecular Science, and 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. During the year he also joined the board of a new open-access journal, Informatics, and re-joined the board of Journal of Documentation.

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Learning and teaching

BSc (Hons) Information ManagementBSc (Hons) Information Management for BusinessBSc (Hons) Information Management and TechnologyBA (Hons) Business Management and Information Management BA (Hons) Accounting & Financial Management and Information ManagementBSc (Hons) InformaticsBA (Hons) Business Management and InformaticsBA (Hons) Accounting & Financial Management and Informatics

Coordinators: Peter Stordy, Peter Bath, Robert VillaExaminers: Professor Keith Horton (University of Derby); Professor Ian Ruthven (University of Strathclyde)

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The 2011-12 Level 1 cohort was one of the biggest we’ve ever had. In total we have 160 undergraduates - approximately half BSc single honours (83) and half BA dual degree students with the Management School (77).

We introduced our new BSc in Informatics programme at the start of the 2012-13 academic year. This involved the re-design and re-development of the UG curriculum, building on the success of the Information Management programmes, and with the introduction of a range of new modules:

A number of modules on the Information Management programme continue to be improved and enhanced:

“Information Literacy” continues to be developed. This year the students collaborated in Second Life with students from Gwinnett College, Georgia, USA.

‘Designing Usable Websites’ has been totally revamped building on students’ enthusiasm at Level 1 for HTML coding. It now features the latest HTML Web standard – HTML5, which includes embedded video support.

‘Information Searching and Retrieval’ has been restructured and modernised. Students are now introduced to the basics of information retrieval (indexing and matching keywords to documents) before embarking on more advanced topics. Some contemporary topics like multilingual information retrieval and enterprise search have also been introduced

“Database Design” assessment has been enhanced.

“Information Systems and the Information Society” has successfully introduced compulsory peer assessment of group presentations. The students observing the presentations are far more engaged and their comments inform the markers’ final marks.

“Information Management and Strategy” and ‘Information Management in the Digital Economy’ have been heavily revised.

“Business Intelligence” continues to use the University’s Enterprise Zone to find new businesses that students can collaborate with.

These developments have all led to improved student performance, as judged by the end of semester results, and higher student satisfaction, as judged by student evaluations.

The NSS results for last year’s Level 3 students were also encouraging. We scored highest for ‘The teaching on my course’, ‘Academic Support’ and ‘Organisation & Management’.

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MSc in Digital Library ManagementCoordinator: Andrew CoxExaminer: Lucy Tedd (Aberystwyth University)This year we had four full time students, three from the UK. In addition, 1 part time and 1 part time certificate student completed their studies. An additional student completed their dissertation from the 2010-11 cohort.

Jen Smith earned a distinction and also won the OCLC prize for best dissertation in the Digital Libraries field.

For 2012-13 a few significant changes were made in response to student feedback, including simplifying the programme title to Digital Library Management; making the “management and strategy” module a 30 credit year-long module in order to give the students a home module throughout their studies; and defining three pathways (Digital library technologist, Digital library project manager, Digital libraries for humanities). This means there are fewer core modules.

MSc in Health InformaticsCoordinator: Peter Bath, Angie Rees (ScHARR)Examiner: Professor Göran Petersson (Linnaeus University, Sweden) [2011-12]; Alison Brettle/Maria Grant [from 2013-13]Overall, 2011-12 was a good year for the MSc in Health Informatics programme in terms of student recruitment and attainment.

Peter Bath stepped down as Programme Coordinator on 31st August with Angie Rees from the School of Health and Related Research (ScHARR) taking over, and Barbara Sen taking over as Deputy Programme Coordinator.

A new optional module on Telehealth and Telecare was formalised as a new optional module for the Year 2 students for the first time in 2012-13.

We took part in a trial of the video conferencing software Blackboard Collaborate, which replaces the Wimba software which we had used since the revised programme began in 2008.

Induction week took place in early September with both new and Year 3 students getting the chance to meet each other and chat over lunch. The induction received very positive feedback and was well supported by Information School and ScHARR staff.

This year has been the last year for Professor Göran Petersson as External Examiner for the programme, and the School would like to thank Professor Petersson for his valuable contribution over the last four years.

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MSc in Information ManagementCoordinator: Jonathan FosterExaminer: Dr Frank Ulbrich (Northumbria University)The MSc Information Management programme continues to be a very popular course which currently appeals to overseas students who wish to combine subject knowledge of management with a twin focus on designing effective information environments and developing their practical information-handling skills.

The number of merits and distinctions for the programme has been maintained in 2012; and this aspect is particularly pleasing given the high number of overseas students. During 2012 a general review of all postgraduate programmes was initiated, and it is anticipated that this will provide a context within which the programme team can further develop the programme and its modules to respond to the opportunities and challenges of information-handling in a digital age.

MSc in Information SystemsCoordinator: Miguel NunesExaminer: Dr Mark Lee (University of Birmingham)The 2011-12 academic year was a very good year for the MSc in Information Systems. We had the largest cohort of students ever and a very high level of success with three candidates receiving a distinction and 19 receiving a merit. In fact, students were very successful in both taught and dissertation components of the course. But it was in the dissertation that students seem to have excelled with 34 out of 39 students obtaining 60% or above.

This academic success and significantly better performance in relation to previous years are probably due to the curriculum revisions made to this programme that took effect this year, as well as a good co-ordination between the Information School and the Department of Computer Science. It also shows that an investment of the school in the IM and IS areas, both in terms of staff recruitment and the creation of new modules (sometimes re-creation of modules such as Human Computer Interaction) is now bearing fruit. Finally, this success is also due to the very efficient and student friendly administrative staff, that makes this complex inter-departmental programme possible.

MSc Information Systems ManagementCoordinator: Guo-Chao PengThe 2011-12 academic year was a good year for the MSc in Information Systems Management. We had a relatively smaller cohort of students this year due to the recent economic downturn and immigration changes in the UK. However, the programme continued to successfully attract high quality students, as evidenced by the fact that nine (representing 75%) of the attending students received a Merit degree this year. This academic success is certainly the result of a good co-ordination between the two contributing departments, namely the Information School and the Management School. Some changes to the curriculum (e.g. a new module on Information Systems Change Management) are planned for the next academic year. We are sure that these changes will make the programme more enjoyable and more practically valuable to future students.

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MA in LibrarianshipCoordinator: Sheila WebberExaminer: Professor Dorothy Williams (Robert Gordon University)The quality of the student intake has continued to be high. The 2011-12 cohort demonstrated its engagement, by, for example, producing a newsletter “The Regent Librarian” http://issuu.com/theregentlibrarian. There was continued success in capturing awards: Ruth Jenkins, student on our MA Librarianship degree, was one of the five winners of the SLA Europe Early Career Conference Award (ECCA) 2012, with a bursary to attend the conference in Chicago. The standard of work produced was excellent: twelve students gained a distinction and a further sixteen students earned a merit.

The external examiner commented on a fantastic cohort, highlighting high quality dissertations of publishable standard.

MA in Multilingual Information ManagementCoordinator: Marta Pahisa (School of Modern Languages and Cultures)The 2012-13 cohort was somewhat disappointing in terms of numbers, only three compared to 5 in 2011-12.

The programme experienced a change of leadership a new programme coordinator, Marta Pahisa, taking over the reins. We made significant headway in adjusting the content of the course to bias more significantly towards localisation – a rapidly expanding subject with global ramifications. This included streamlining both the module of that name and Designing Usable Websites to ensure there was less cross-over and students felt there was a ‘natural progression’. Students appear to have enjoyed this gradual move towards a greater degree of technical content and we had one distinction in 2011-12 and two students awarded Merits for their work. There has been a greater push in terms of advertising the Multilingual Information Management overseas, with both India and China being targeted for the next academic year. Coordination of open days and advertising events between Modern Languages and the School is being improved and the appointment of a new programme leader will further help this.

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Postgraduate PrizesEduserv Prize: Kevin Sheehan/Mengwei Dai

OCLC Prize: Jennifer Smith

SINTO Prize: Penelope Dunn

Henry Heaney Memorial Prize: Mark Foster/Rachel Davies

Annenberg (West Riding) Prize: Penelope Dunn

Ann Percy Memorial Prize: Michelle Parker

Departmental Prize for Information Systems: Niloufar Farhang

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Postgraduate

Programme Awarded 2011-2012 Programme Registered 2012-2013

Digital Library Management MSc FT 2 Digital Library Management MSc FT 6

Digital Library Management MSc PT (C) 1 Digital Library Management MSc PT (A) 1

Digital Library Management Diploma FT 2 Digital Library Management MSc PT (B) 1

Health Informatics MSc 8 Health Informatics MSc 20

Health Informatics PGDip 1

Health Informatics PGCert 2 Health Informatics PGCert 1

Information Literacy MA PT (B) 1

Information Management MSc FT 81 Information Management MSc FT 44

Information Management MSc PT (C) 1 Information Management MSc PT (B) 1

Information Management Diploma FT 3 Information Management MSc PT (C) 1

Information Management MSc (PE) PT (A) 1

Information Management MSc (PE) PT (B) 1

Information Systems MSc FT 35 Information Systems MSc FT 20

Information Systems MSc (PE) FT 4 Information Systems MSc (PT) 1

Information Systems Certificate 1

Librarianship MA FT 28 Librarianship MA FT 17

Librarianship MA PT (B) 5 Librarianship MA PT (A) 4

Librarianship MA PT (C) 2 Librarianship MA PT (B) 5

Librarianship MA (PE) FT 1 Librarianship MA PT (C) 2

Librarianship Diploma 1 Librarianship Diploma (PE) PT 1

Information Systems Management 11 Information Systems Management 12

Multilingual Information Management 3 Multilingual Information Management 4

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Undergraduate

Programme Awarded 2011-2012 Programme Registered 2012-2013

BSc Information Management 25 BSc Informatics 17

BA Business Management and Information Management 21 BA Business Management and Informatics 3

BA Accounting and Financial Management and Information Management

10 BA Accounting and Financial Management and Informatics 20

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iLab

The iLab is our new state-of-the-art suite of research labs. Including both a Usability Lab and Digital Media Lab, the suite of rooms enables the systematic collection of research data in controlled conditions via audio, video and screen capture as well as remote observation of participant activities via one-way mirrored windows from the Control Room.

Students and staff now can more efficiently apply a range of methods from interviews, to user testing. They now may more effectively conduct focus groups or study small group behaviour using the Digital Media Lab, or test software or website usability, or observe how individuals use a technology in the Usability Lab. This new facility has the flexibility to accommodate a range of methodologies and types of research projects.

Notably the facility has also been used to showcase our programmes and research to a group of visiting sixth form students during an Excellence Hub day. The group observed and participated in a mock research study demonstrating the types of options available in the School. The PROMISE Network of Excellence used the Digital Media Lab to introduce and test its novel evaluation software to visiting researchers.

Professor Elaine Toms, Director of Research, said “we believe this facility is unique among our competitors and offers our students a world-class learning environment and research laboratory on par with similar facilities used in industry. We greatly appreciate the Faculty Funding and Alumni donations that enables us to realise our vision for research”.

In addition, the labs are available for hire by departments across the University.

For more information or to view the facility, please contact the iLab Manager, Tim Nadin (ilab@sheffield.ac.uk).

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RDMRoseThe UK funding councils now mandate that researchers should carefully manage the data they create in the course of publicly funded research. As the onus has been placed on individual institutions to provide an infrastructure to store and perhaps share research data, universities have realised there is a pressing need for new policies and infrastructure.

Libraries could play a key role in supporting Research Data Management (RDM), if library staff can develop an understanding of the issues. With this in mind JISC funded the White Rose Consortium of the university libraries of Leeds, Sheffield and York, working closely with the Information School to produce learning materials about RDM, tailored for information professionals, within the RDMRose project (http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/ research/projects/rdmrose). These learning resources will be used in Sheffield courses and are also available for self-directed Continuing Professional Development by any information professional or for reuse under a creative commons licence for internal library training or by other information training groups.

Producing this sort of Open Educational Resource (OER) has been an interesting experience for the Information School staff involved: Andrew Cox and Barbara Sen, with Eddy Verbaan and latterly Jen Smith as Research Associates. Delivering half-day and full day workshops has meant we have had to adopt new styles of teaching. Integrating full time PGT students with working professionals has also been interesting.The close collaboration with library staff at Leeds, Sheffield and York has been very rewarding. We hope these connections can be maintained and strengthened in the future. The project has been challenging but has enhanced the School’s reputation for a high quality, up-to-date curriculum; its good networking with the profession in the delivery of learning; and its ability to carry through successful projects.Project web site:http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/is/research/projects/rdmrose

Selected Invited TalksProfessors Val Gillet and Peter Willett both spoke at the 3rd Strasbourg Summer School in Chemoinformatics, discussing “In silico approaches to toxicity prediction” and “Chemoinformatics: the first half-century.”

Professor Peter Bath delivered the keynote address, “The Information Society and an Ageing Society: how information can support health and well-being in later life at the 4th International Conference “Well-being in the Information Society (WIS 2012), which was held in Turku, Finland.

Professor Elaine Toms gave two invited keynotes: one on “Finding without Formally Seeking” to the Workshop on Searching 4 Fun, European Conference on Information Retrieval 2012 in Barcelona, Spain; and a second on “Information Architecture: Bridging Information Science with Human Computer Interaction for Effective User Information Experiences” to the International Colloquium on Information Architecture, November 19-20, Lyon, France.

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Dr. Miguel Nunes spoke to Faculty of Information Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Shah Alam, Malaysia on “Research Issues in the Study of Knowledge Management in Organisations: moving away from obsolete dichotomies”.

Dr Farida Vis spoke at Emerce eDay in Van Nelle fabriek, Rotterdam, about her work on The Guardian newspaper’s Reading the Riots project and her forthcoming book, Researching Social Media, written with computer scientist Mike Thelwall.

Dr. Vis also spoke at The ‘Big Data’ Debate at 2012 ESRC Festival of Social Science held at the British Academy for the humanities and social sciences to examine issues surrounding the opportunities for social sciences as well as the needs for skills, training and resources.

Professor Sheila Corrall participated in a strategy colloquium organised by the CONUL consortium of Irish research libraries in Athlone, where she delivered a keynote presentation on library support for learning and teaching. Professor Corrall contributed two sessions to the SCONUL Annual Conference 2012 in Liverpool where she talked on the Balanced Scorecard Approach to Evaluation. She also led a workshop on Continuity and Change in the Mission of Academic and Research Libraries as part of the SCONUL Fringe Programme.

Professor Elaine Toms presented seminars to three events specifically for PhD students in information and/ or computer science: a seminar on “User-oriented information retrieval” to the PROMISE Winter School on Information Retrieval Meets Visualisation in Zinal, Switzerland; a second on “Information Foraging, Exploratory Search & Serendipity: Concepts and Evaluation” to the EU Erasmus Mundes funded programme on Programme “Information Foraging” held at Radboud University, Nijmegen, Netherlands, and a third on “The proliferation of theories and models in information science” to the Norslis Workshop “Theoretical Frameworks in Information Science”, held in Turku, Finland.

Sheila Webber, with Bill Johnston, ran seminars on the Information Literate University, at the initial invitation of York University and Ryerson University in Canada. A one-day seminar was tailored to the needs of York and Ryersons’ librarians. This was followed by a day of consultation sessions with the Information Literacy committees of each university. A final seminar was held at the University of Waterloo, with participants from Guelph University, the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and Information Literacy leaders from McMaster University and Western Universities.

An international panel that included Sheila Webber talked about information literacy associations on 21st November at the first event to be jointly sponsored by the Sheffield iSchool Centre for Information Literacy Research and the Association of College and Research Libraries Virtual World Interest Group.

Staff in the NewsThe Times Higher Education Supplement interviewed Dr. Farida Vis about her research on the use of social media to share information about major events such as Hurricane Katrina and the London riots (see http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/422096.article). Dr. Vis, along with colleagues from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries & Innovation, were featured in the Guardian Datablog, discussing “How many fake Sandy pictures were really shared on social media?”.

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Selected Research PresentationsProfessor Val Gillet, Sonny Gan and Jorge Valencia presented at the Spring 2012 American Chemical Society Meeting in San Diego, March 25-29th. Dr. Gillet presented a paper on “De novo design of synthetically accessible molecules”, while PhD students, Sonny and Jorge presented posters on “Identification of alternative druggable targets for prion diseases” and “A Lanczos-based approach to the spectral clustering of chemical data”, respectively.

Sheila Webber and Dr Eva Hornung both presented at the Special Interest Group Phenomenography conference “Phenomenography and Variation Theory — New Challenges” held in Jönköping, Sweden, in August.

Tom Poulter presented work from his PhD at the Medical Informatics in Europe (MIE2012) conference Pisa, Italy. He gave a talk on his paper, entitled ‘The Use and Usability of EPR systems in Oncology’, co-authored with Peter Bath, and also presented their poster on ‘Onco-Alerts to support Acute Oncology Services’.

Sheila Webber and Ridvan Ata gave a presentation Teaching and learning in Second Life as Part of a Blended Approach: reflections and lessons learnt at the conference on The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference took place in the virtual world, Second Life, in March.

PhD student, Nordiana Shah presented a paper “Factors influencing academics use of microblogging tools in teaching and learning” @ eLearning2.0 at Brunel University.

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

Two representatives of the School spoke at Internet Research 13 at the University of Salford, 18-21 October. Dr Andrew Cox participated in a panel discussion on “Weaving handicrafts into the Web: crafting cultures and online communities”, while Dr Farida Vis presented on “What do data visualisations want?”.

Dr. Alex Peng presented two new projects to public visitors in the Festival of the Mind, which was held in the Sheffield Spiegeltent. These two interdisciplinary projects (one focusing on developing and evaluating an e-learning system to train teachers and letting them provide better support to disable young people; and the other aiming to develop a mobile app to support the unmet needs of cancer survivors) are the results of Alex’s participation in the Sheffield Crucible programme (http://www.shef.ac.uk/faculty/science/training-and-development/sheffield-crucible), and involve colleagues from the Department of Human Communication Sciences, Academic Unit of Clinical Oncology, Department of Sociological Studies, and School of English.

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Professor Sheila Corrall participated in a discussion day organised by Research Libraries UK (RLUK) in April on the Roles of Libraries in Research Data Management. She spoke on the skills needed by librarians and whether libraries and library/information schools were ready to meet the new demands.

Despite the threat of superstorm Sandy, Dr Andrew Cox travelled to Baltimore at the end of October, to participate in the 75th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), where he participated in a panel on social media and presented a paper for the Social Informatics symposium. Andrew was one of the panelists (together with Jutta Haider, Isto Huvila, Helena Francke and Hazel Hall) for a session Transformation or Continuity? The Impact of Social Media on Information: Implications for Theory and Practice.

The Information School had a strong presence again at the Librarians’ Information Literacy Annual Conference taking place in Glasgow on 11-13 April. Professor Sheila Corrall delivered a paper on Webscale Discovery and Information Literacy with John Dove, President of Credo Reference.

Sheila led a workshop on Exploring Good Practice for Research Supervisors in Information Literacy Development with Ruth Stubbings of Loughborough University, while Pam McKinney and Barbara Sen spoke on “Reflection for Learning: Understanding the Value of Reflective Writing for Information Literacy Development”. In addition, Munirah Abdulhadi presented a poster on “Collaborative Social Tagging and Information Literacy” based on her PhD research supervised by Barbara Sen and Paul Clough.

Professor Sheila Corrall and PhD student Angharad Roberts spoke on “Information Resource Development and “Collection” in the Digital Age: Conceptual Frameworks and New Definitions for the Network World” at the Libraries In the Digital Age (LIDA 2012), held at the University of Zadar, in Croatia.

Angharad Roberts presented her PhD work on “Conceptualising the Library Collection for the Digital World: a Case Study of Social Enterprise’ at the PhD Forum held at the same meetings.

Sheila with colleagues at Charles Sturt University, Australia presented a poster on “Changes in Academic Libraries: Evolution and Innovation in Research Support Services.”

Sheila Webber and PhD student Ridvan Ata were two of the three judges of the poster exhibit The Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference that took place in the virtual world, Second Life, in March.

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Awards, Honours, Best Papers and other items of NoteIn January, one of the world’s leading chemistry journals, Organic and Biomolecular Chemistry, celebrated its tenth anniversary, and the fourth most cited article in the journal’s history is a paper from the School: “Comparison of topological descriptors for similarity-based virtual screening using multiple bioactive reference structures” by Jérôme Hert, Peter Willett, David J. Wilton, Pierre Acklin, Kamal Azzaoui, Edgar Jacoby and Ansgar Schuffenhauer, and published in Volume 2 (2004) pp. 3256-3266.

Rachel Bickley and Sheila Corrall’s paper on student perceptions of staff in the Information Commons was chosen for the American Library Association’s Reference Research Review for 2011, which highlights 20 studies selected for their importance to the practice of reference. The paper was based on Rachel’s 2010 MA Librarianship dissertation project and published in Reference Services Review, 39 (2), 223-243. The annotated bibliography is available at http://connect.ala.org/node/180163.

Representing our iSchoolIn February, Head of School Professor Philippa Levy and Dr. Jonathan Foster attended iConference 2012, the annual conference of the international iSchools group of which the Information School is a member. With the overall theme of Culture:Design:Society, and a great mix of papers, workshops, alternative events and posters, the conference was a testament to the intellectual vibrancy and range of current research in our interdisciplinary field.

Microsoft Faculty SummitMicrosoft invited the iSchools to send a representative to their annual conference for university researchers, the Faculty summit, at their HQ at Redmond near Seattle, WA. Dr. Andrew Cox represented the School at the two days of talks on latest developments including on social media and crowdsourcing, see http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/news/features/facultysummit2012-071612.aspx

Visitors to the SchoolJennifer Sigalet, Campus Public Services Librarian at Okanagan College, British Columbia, Canada, visited the School as part of an information literacy study tour. Jennifer has been involved in some interesting initiatives, and she and her colleagues at Okanagan College received the 2011 Community and Technical College Libraries Innovation Achievement Award for the development and implementation of the CILRI (Course Integrated Library Research Instruction) programme.

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ResearchNew and continuing projects

Title Staff Value Sponsor Dates

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 a holistic needs assessment questionnaire in a supportive and palliative care service

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

£150,030 Macmillan Cancer Support 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)

£149,778Macmillan 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

Developing Deep Critical Information Behaviour

Nigel Ford, Andrew Madden, Mary Crowder £261,805Arts and Humanities Research Council

August 2010 to March 2012

PATHWAY to Inquiry Based Science Teaching

Philippa Levy, Pam McKinney, Nigel Ford, Petros Lameras

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

Lhasa KTP project Val Gillet, Richard Sherhod £129,000Knowledge Transfer Partnership Programme, Lhasa Limited

March 2011 to March 2013

RDMRose Andrew Cox, Eddy Verbaan, Jen Smith £60,000Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)

July 2012 to June 2013

WHIPPET: Health information professionals, their roles, and contributions to the sector

Barbara Sen, Elizabeth Chapman £8,500EAHIL Anniversary Grant Funding

September 2012 to August 2013

PROMISE: Participative Research Laboratory for Multimedia and Multilingual Information Systems Evaluation

Elaine Toms, Robert Villa, Mark Hall £97,302 EU Framework 7 September 2012 to August 2013

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Speakers from the Information School unless otherwise statedOpening Up the Academy: Strategic and Tactical Opportunities in the ‘Open’ AgendaDr Stephen Pinfield

The User Centered Design of a Recommender System for a Universal Library CatalogueSimon Wakeling, PhD student

Exploring university students’ experiences of inquiry and research, and implications for pedagogy.Professor Philippa Levy

Enriching gazetteers by detecting the informal vernacular place names from the webBasheer Al-Farwan, PhD student

Use of data fusion methods to find biologically active molecules in chemical databasesProfessor Peter Willett

Libraries and librarians in the network world: defining our value propositionProfessor Sheila Corrall

Elaborations of grounded theory and of arenas theory in information management research.Dr Ana Cristina Vasconcelos, Ms Barbara Sen, Ms Ana Guedes Pereira Rosa, PhD student

A Study of Knowledge Sharing and Construction in Virtual Product User CommunitiesXuguang Li, PhD student

Towards enriching metadata descriptions with tags in a bilingual academic library contextMunirah Abdulhadi , PhD student

Use of information to support health and wellbeing in older people.Dr Peter Bath

Drill-and-practice is not necessarily a behaviourist pejorative tool: an example of its successful application as a self-learning component of a constructivist phonetics blended learning environment.Dr Miguel Baptista Nunes

Tailored Bibliometrics Analysis: in support of evidence-based S&T policy decision making.Jianfang Wang, Department of Information Analysis, National Science Library, Chinese Academy of Sciences.

The role of curiosity and serendipity in how people browse digital information systemsProfessor Elaine Toms

Examining the Limits of Crowdsourcing for Relevance AssessmentDr Paul Clough

Continuous evaluation framework for educational programmes: the case of the École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’informationDr. Christine Dufour, Associate Professor, École de bibliothéconomie et des sciences de l’information, Université de Montréal, Canada.

Designing a decision model for an e-procurement decision support system (DSS) in public sector using multi-criteria decision analysis (MCDA)Mohamed Adil, PhD student

The culturally competent public librarianMostafa Syed, PhD student

Twitpic-ing the riots: analysing images shared on Twitter during the 2011 UK riotsDr Farida Vis

Social practice, information and social informaticsDr Andrew Cox, Information School

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Understanding Omani Academic Library Collaboration: A Soft Systems Approach, Nabhan Al-HarrasiSupervisor: Jonathan Foster

The primary aim of this research was to understand the situation of Omani academic library collaboration (OALC). The results show that the situation of Omani academic library collaboration was problematic due to lack of library collaboration activities in Oman, financial and human constraints that have rendered working in isolation no effective, and challenges related to purchasing, processing and providing services and information to the library community. Therefore, an investigation was required to understand factors that delay establishment of collaboration activities, factors that support working collaboratively, and methods and strategies that can be used to improve the current situation of OALC.

Soft systems methodology (SSM) was used as an interpretive approach to find out about the problematical situation and to model, discuss and improve OALC. Four academic libraries were involved in this study: Sultan Qaboos University Library, Nizwa University Library, Sohar University Library, and Dhofar University Library. 23 participants were involved in describing their situation in one-to-one interviews in order to gain understanding of the complexity of OALC. Then three group interviews were used for the purpose of modelling and discussing conceptual activities which were suggested to improve

the situation. Systems that are systematically desirable and culturally feasible were identified. A workshop was then organised to implement the awareness raising system, improve inter-group communication and conflict resolution, establish a strategic planning committee composed of representatives from every library to carry out the activities, and develop some rules and regulations that could be used to operate and control the system of interlibrary loans. The changes achieved through the process of the research would impact on three dimensions of the academic libraries: structure, attitude and procedures. The contribution of this research is in the application of SSM in academic library collaboration.

Web- based Internet Resources as a Resource for the Literacy Development of Adults with Lower Literacy Skills (MPhil), Stephen BurtoftSupervisors: Phil Levy, Nigel Ford

Stephen Burtoft successfully completed his MPhil thesis entitled “Web-based Internet Resources as a Resource for the Literacy Development of Adults with Lower Literacy Skills’. This case study research sought to investigate the extent to which the use of web-based resources could help adults with lower literacy skills improve their skills and confidence. It explored users’ requirements and the features of web-based literacy teaching resources designed to be used by adults with low literacy skills. The research found that although there is a great desire amongst many adults with lower level literacy skills to use the Internet, there is a distinct lack of appropriate web-

based resources that are accessible to them. The result is that many of these adults feel disadvantaged and excluded from accessing the Internet.

Development and validation of a 3D similarity method for virtual screening (MPhil), Daniel ButlerSupervisor: Val Gillet

This MPhil project involved the development of a novel method for assessing the similarity of a pair of molecules according to their three dimensional properties. Each molecule is represented by a small number of data points with each of the data points representing a subset of the atoms within the molecule. A pair of molecules is then aligned in three dimensions based on their reduced representations and their similarity is calculated. The method has been evaluated for virtual screening in which the molecules within a database are ranked according to their similarity to a given target molecule and its performance compared with more established methods.

Management of Information System Implementation from a Power Perspective: Case Studies of Organisations in Thailand, Thanongsitt ChuleekornSupervisor: Angela Lin

The main findings suggest that information system implementation can be impacted by power relations enacted through discursive actions of textual practices

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constituting discourse. Besides, a grand discourse can itself be a source of power that affects the system implementation process. The findings indicate that: i) knowledge integrated in discourse plays a prominent role in power relations, ii) discursive legitimacy could enable and at the same time delimit the exercise of power, and iii) an information system may be used as an apparatus for domination as well as human emancipation. The main findings are taken as significant contributions to both theory and practice in the information systems field.

Problems of communication, collaboration and cooperation in multicultural groups engaged in eLearning through synchronous text-based communication, George KatakalosSupervisor: Miguel Nunes

This PhD thesis is focused on investigating whether culture can pose conflicts to the communication, collaboration and/or cooperation of multicultural groups comprised by students coming from South East Europe (SEE) and studying in Greece, by using synchronous text-based chat. Thus, this PhD attempts to answer the following research question: “Are there problems of communication, collaboration and cooperation in multicultural groups engaged in eLearning activities by using synchronous text-based communication?”

Information and HIV/AIDS: an ethnographic study of information behaviour, Robinah NamulemeSupervisors: Peter Bath, Nigel Ford

Robinah Namuleme successfully completed her viva in November 2012, the title of her thesis was Information and AIDS: an ethnographic study of information behaviour. Robinah’s study involved conducting interviews with people infected with, or affected by HIV/AIDS, who were recruited from an HIV support centre. The aim of the study was ultimately to inform information management, practice, strategy and policy in the fight against the condition. Robinah presented her research at the 15th International Symposium for Health Information Management Research (ISHIMR 2011) in Zurich, Switzerland and at the i3 Conference, Aberdeen, UK. Robinah also received a Roberts placement fund from the University of Sheffield to undertake a successful 3-month community outreach project proposal “Fighting HIV on an information front.

Factors Influencing Perceived Trust on e-Voting Solutions: A Bahraini Community Leaders’ and Election Officials’ Perspective, Sayed NaserSupervisor: Miguel Nunes

Since it was declared a Kingdom in 2002, when municipal elections and parliamentary elections were held in the same year, Bahrain has taken a strategic appeal to the application of ICT in boosting the democratic operations. Bahrain partially applied e-Voting in the 2002 parliamentary election, and has prepared for its full application in the 2006 election. However, a sudden decision was taken to put 2006 e-Voting programme on hold for some years. Within this framework, this research project aimed at investigating what determines Community Leaders’ and Election Officials’ evaluation of the trustworthiness of an e-Voting solution. The study which resulted in devising a comprehensive trust in e-voting model that can inform similar studies internationally, followed a qualitative research strategy, which included interviewing Members of the Parliament MPs as well as Bahraini’s election officials as key informants in the research field. As this thesis will show, many researchers have addressed the challenge of elite interviewing, which has been successfully met in the case of this research, based on the researcher’s previous experience in conducting this kind of research.

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The use of Actor-Network Theory and a Practise-Based Approach to understand online community participation, Gibran Rivera GonzalesSupervisor: Andrew Cox

Participation in online communities is problematic. Take up of community technologies is often patchy and subject to resistance, particularly in organisational settings. Previous literature, mainly influenced by a cognitive tradition, tends to explain this either through features of the technology such as interface design or through individual motivational structures. This study explores the insights Actor-Network Theory (ANT) and a practice-based approach (PBA) provide to more fully explain participation in online communities. The study focuses on the failure to establish an online community supported by a collaborative technology as part of a Human Resources project within a Multi-campus University in Mexico. A range of methods for data collection were used, however semi-structured interviews were the main basis for analysis. During the first stage of the research, ANT was used to explore how a group of actors aimed to promote participation in the online community by developing different strategies to enrol the collaborative technology supporting participation into their network. In the second stage of the research, insights from PBA were used to further explore how pre-existing practices shaped participation in the online community. Although offering distinct accounts, the findings of ANT and PBA offer two perspectives that deepen our current understanding of online community by foregrounding the relational and collective, historical and emergent, and highly contextualised character of participation.

Breakthroughs and Early Event Detection: Expanding New Event Detection to new Frontiers, Johannes SchandaSupervisor: Paul Clough

Learning about new events occurring in the world has been of significant research interest for many years and lends itself well to automation. In the Information Retrieval and Knowledge Management communities, various aspects of this problem have been studied within Topic Detection and Tracking (TDT) research. Certain tasks in TDT have proved challenging and in particular first story detection is problematic. This thesis focuses specifically on the problem of identifying new events and takes past work further by re-examining the definitions of what constitutes a new event. The accuracy of detecting new events on news and academic source material is investigated. The impact on accuracy of detecting an early rather than the first story is examined across a range of time windows. Results for early event detection across windows and sources show that accuracy increases under a broader time window. However, while the increase is large, many events are missed and there remains an underlying challenge to detecting new events.

Factors Shaping the Network Dynamic of International Students in UK Higher Education, Nashrawan TahaSupervisor: Andrew Cox

The study investigated the social network dynamics of international students and the factors shaping their friendship, support, advice, work networks. Specifically, the study research questions were: What networks do international students build in the UK HE context? What are the types and characteristics of these networks? What factors shape their dynamics of change over time? The research adopted a mixed method approach combining social network analysis, observation and qualitative interview data. The findings of this research were interpreted through the lens of Community of Practice (CoP) and Social Network (SN) theories. Findings showed that international students build rather different networks than pictured in the literature. Although co-national factors are important at the beginning of studies, they are not always the main influences shaping student networks. Learning motives were found to be an important factor shaping ties over time.

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Research Students

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 Designing a decision model for an e-procurement decision support system for the public sector using multi-criteria decision analysis

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

Arwa Aljohani Critical barriers to successful adoption of ERP system in Higher Education in Saudi Arabia

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

Ridvan Ata An investigation into teaching in Second Life (joint supervision with School of Education)

Dimitris Bibikas Towards a holistic model of the third generation of enterprise knowledge management systems. (SEERC)

Brioni BirdiAn 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

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

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Name Project

Edmund Duesbury Development and efficacy of chemical hyperstructures in similarity searching and virtual screening

Catherine Ebenezer An investigation of the impacts upon professional learning and information seeking of information governance and security policies in the English NHS

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

Paula Goodale Constructing personal narratives through exploration in cultural heritage spaces online

Ana Guedes Pereira RosaAn investigation into knowledge creation, sharing and integration practices across organisational boundaries in eGovernment initiatives: a case study approach in the United Kingdom

Simon Hand Chemical and genetic control of seizures in zebrafish embryos (joint supervision with the Department of Chemistry and School of Biomedical Science)

Hasan Hashim Multi-professional learner support teams in higher education

George Katakalos An investigation into multicultural constructivist learning environments to complement traditional teaching

Nicolas Kylilis Social participation in online and offline communities

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 Emergency department workflow study

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 institutions 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 the Web 2.0 environment

Thomas Poulter Requirements and benefits of electronic patient record systems in cancer treatment services

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Research Students

Name Project

Goudarz PoursharifDriving benefits from sustainable electricity network Information: understanding and representing smart network data (Joint supervision with Management School)

Hatoon QadieeThe Impacts of Virtual Learning Environment systems on teaching in Saudi Higher Education institutions: a case from Wisdom College for women in Jeddah

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

Jennifer Salter Understanding health changes through the analysis of electricity consumption data

Nor Sani Use of genetic algorithms and genetic programming to develop methods for the prediction of biological activity

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

Syeda Shahid An assessment of information literacy content and practices in Grade 1 & 2 student’s general curriculum and designing a needed sample curriculum

Martin Simmons What is the intrinsic value of cultural 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?

Evanthia Tramantza Information literacy skills teaching and its impact on the employability of engineering students in the University of Surrey

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?

Jonathan Webster The history, development and cultural impact of libraries in the North Riding of Yorkshire 1775-1914

Kondwani Wella Information Sources Preferences and Information Seeking Behaviour of sero-discordant couples in Malawi

Hua Xiang Similarity- based Virtual Screening: effect of the choice of similarity coefficient

Fei Xie Building an intelligent multimedia meta-search engine

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Presentations and talks

Abdulhadi, M. Clough, P. & Sen, B. (2012) Social tagging and

information literacy. Poster. LILAC Conference, Glasgow, UK. April 2012.

Ahmed, N., Hughes, P., Winslow, M., Bath, P.A., and Noble, B.,

‘Feasibility study of the Sheffield profile for assessment and referral for care’. 9th Palliative Care Congress. Gateshead, UK. March 2012.

Bates, J., ‘Building consent: strategy and power in the development of the United Kingdom’s Open Government Data initiative’, International Political Science Association 22nd World Congress of Political Science, Madrid, 08 Jul 2012 - 12 Jul 2012

Bath, P.A., ‘The Information Society and an Ageing Society: how information can support health and well-being in later life’. 4th International “Well-being in the Information Society” Conference. Turku, Finland. August 2012.

Bath, P.A., Beecroft, C., and Holdridge, P., ‘Incorporating online learning into a distance learning programme: challenges faced and lessons learned’. Learning and Teaching Conference, University of Sheffield. January 2012.

Clough, P. and Dunbar, I., ‘Exploiting search trails for information access, discovery and learning in law firms’. British and Irish Association of Law Librarians (BIALL). June 2012.

Clough, P., ‘Examining the limits of crowdsourcing for relevance assessment. Invited talk, Information Retrieval group at Glasgow University. November 2012.

Clough, P., ‘Experimental Evaluation in Visual Information Retrieval’. Keynote address, 2nd Spanish Conference on Information Retrieval (CERI 2012). June 2012. http://users.dsic.upv.es/grupos/nle/ceri/en/keynotes.html

Clough, P., ‘Retrieving Candidate Plagiarised Documents using Query Expansion’ European Conference for Information Retrieval ECIR 2012. April 2012.

Clough, P., ‘Sheffield and Basque Country Universities at CHiC’. Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF) 2012. September 2012.

Cox, A., ‘Information in social practice - food blogging’, in the panel on Transformation or continuity? The impact of social media on information, ASIST, Baltimore. October 2012.

Cox, A., ‘Information management and IPR in the social practice of photography for food blogging’ in the panel Weaving Handicrafts into the Web: Crafting Cultures and Online Communities, Association of Internet Researchers Conference 13, Manchester. October 2012.

Cox, A., ‘Refreshing the information focus’. Keynote presentation at Special Libraries Association – Gulf chapter Conference, Bahrain. April 2012.

Cox, A., ‘Turning to practice theory in social informatics’. Social Informatics: Past, present and future: The 8th Annual Social Informatics Research Symposium (ASIST SIG SI) ASIST, Baltimore. October 2012. Event website: http://www.britac.ac.uk/events/2012/The_Big_Data_Debate.cfm

Gillet, V.J., ‘De Novo Design of Synthetically Accessible Molecules: Application to Fragment-based Drug Design’. American Chemical Society, San Diego. March 2012.

Gillet, V.J., ‘In-silico Approaches to Toxicity Prediction’. 3rd Strasbourg Summer School on Chemoinformatics, Strasbourg. June 2012.

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Gillet, V.J., ‘Overview of Ligand and Structure-based Drug Design’. Joint EMBL/EBI Wellcome Trust Course. Resources for Computational Drug Discovery. Cambridge, July 2012.

Gillet, V.J., ‘Pharmacophore Modelling’. Joint EMBL/EBI Wellcome Trust Course. Resources for Computational Drug Discovery, Cambridge. July 2012.

Hughes, P., Farrington, C., Brooks, D., Bath, P.A., and Noble, B., ‘Patient and carer reports of care in metastatic presentation of cancer of unknown primary origin’. 9th Palliative Care Congress. Gateshead, UK. March 2012.

Hughes, P., Farrington, C., Brooks, D., Bath, P.A., and Noble, B., ‘Patients presenting with metastatic Cancer of Unknown Primary (CUP): the importance of palliative medicine independent of the final

diagnosis’. 7th World Research Congress of the European Association for Palliative Care. Trondheim, Norway. June 2012.

Johnston, B., and Webber, S., ‘The Information Literate University’. One day invited seminar and one day consultation; University of York and University of Ryerson, Toronto, Canada. December.

Johnston, B., and Webber, S., ‘Using phenomenographic research as a lens on the practice literature’ . European Association for Research on Learning and Instruction SIG Phenomenography conference, Jönköping University, Sweden. August.

Johnston, B., and Webber, S., The Information Literate University. Invited seminar, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Canada. December.

Levy, P., ‘Developing Research-Based Education; a perspective from the UK’, Danish Council for Research Policy, Copenhagen. October 2012.

Nunes, M. Invited lecture at the Faculty of Information Management of the Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) in Shah Alam, Malaysia. June 2012.

Nunes, M. Seminar Presentation at the Chinese Academy of Sciences. August 2012.

Nunes, M. Seminar Presentation at the Nanjing School of Information Management. August 2012.

Nunes, M. Seminar Presentation at the Wuhan School of Information Management. August 2012.

Pinfield, S., ‘IS governance at the University of Nottingham’. Russell Group IT Directors’ conference, Oxford. February 2012.

Pinfield, S., ‘It’s the end of the world as we know it… and I feel fine’. Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers conference, Birmingham. September 2012.

Pinfield, S., ‘Skills for the library and information professional of the future’. Research Libraries UK conference, Newcastle. November 2012.

Pinfield, S., Williams, C., ‘The ADMIRe project and institutional research data management’. Research Libraries UK conference, Aberdeen. March 2012

Read, S., Bath, P.A., Willett, P., and Maheswaran, R., ‘A pilot inference study for a beta-Bernoulli spatial scan statistic’. 2012 GISRUK conference. Lancaster, UK. April 2012.

Sherhod R., Gillet, V.J., Hanser T., Judson, P. Vessey J., ‘Toxicological Knowledge Discovery by Mining Emerging Patterns from Toxicity Data’. GCC 8th German Conference on Chemoinformatics, Goslar, Nov 2012.

Toms, E.G. ‘Chance encounters with information’. Presentation to the Serendipity, Chance and the Opportunistic Discovery of Information Research Workshop, Montreal, Canada, April/May 2012.

Toms, E.G. ‘Finding without Formally Seeking’. Invited Keynote to the Workshop on Searching 4 Fun, European Conference on Information Retrieval, Barcelona, Spain. April 2012.

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Toms, E.G. ‘Information Architecture: Bridging Information Science with Human Computer Interaction for Effective User Information Experiences’. Presented to the International Colloquium on Information Architecture, Lyon, France. November 2012.

Toms, E.G. ‘Information Foraging, Exploratory Search & Serendipity: Concepts and Evaluation’. Presented to EU Intensive Programme “Information Foraging” 2012, Radboud University, Nijmegan, Netherlands, August/September 2012.

Toms, E.G. ‘Re-visiting Information Retrieval Evaluation’. Presentation to the Information Retrieval Research Group, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, UK, February 2012.

Toms, E.G. ‘The proliferation of theories and models in information science’. Presented to the Norslis Workshop “Theoretical Frameworks in Information Science, Turku, Finland, October 2012.

Toms, E.G. ‘The relationship between curiosity and browsing patterns’. Presented to the Department of Computer Science, University of Leeds.

Toms, E.G. ‘User-oriented information retrieval’. Presented to the PROMISE Winter School on Information Retrieval Meets Visualization, January 2012.

Vasconcelos, A.C.,– ‘Integrating knowledge exploration and knowledge exploitation strategies : The contribution of social enterprise software’ Keynote address to the 18th Annual Conference of the Special Libraries Association – Arabian Gulf Chapter, Manama, Bahrain. March 2012

Villa, R., ‘Revisiting User Information Needs in Aggregated Search’, EuroHCIR workshop. August 2012.

Vis, F., ‘Big Adventures in Big Data: a cautionary tale’. The Big Data Debate, panel organised by SAGE and the British Academy, forming part of the 2012 ESRC Festival of Social Science. Invited presentation. November.

Vis, F., ‘Crisis Communication: moving to real time analysis’. Invited talk for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office. September.

Vis, F., ‘How (not) to measure influence on Twitter’. Emerce Eday (theme: Always On), Rotterdam, The Netherlands. October. Invited Keynote. Event website: www.emerceeday.nl/

Vis, F., ‘My open data and data journalism’. Invited presentation for Helsingin Sanomat (leading Finnish newspaper). September.

Vis, F., ‘My open data and data journalism’. Invited presentation for YLE (Finnish National Broadcaster). September.

Vis, F., ‘Re-thinking crisis communication: the role of disaster myths and social media rumours’. Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute conference: Humanitarianism: Past, Present & Future?, Manchester. November.

Vis, F., ‘Reading the Riots on Twitter/Twitter as a reporting tool for breaking news’. University of Helsinki, Invited presentation. September.

Vis, F., ‘Recent adventures in open data and data journalism’. Open Knowledge Festival, Helsinki, Finland. September. Invited Keynote. Event website: http://okfestival.org/

Vis, F., ‘Twitter as a reporting tool for breaking news: Journalists tweeting the 2011 UK riots’. Open Knowledge Festival, Helsinki, Finland. September. Invited presentation for the Data Journalism and Visualisation stream.

Vis, F., ‘What do data visualisations want?’, Association of Internet Researchers conference, IR13, Salford. October.

Vis, F., ‘What do data visualisations want?’, Visualizing Knowledge conference, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. September. Invited presentation.

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Vis, F., & Ottaviani, J., ‘Everyday tweeting: the Metropolitan Police on Twitter’. European Communication Research and Education Association conference, Istanbul, Turkey. October.

Vis. F., ‘Reading the Riots on Twitter’. Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication. Invited presentation. September.

Webber, S., ‘Media and Information Literacy: strength through diversity’. Invited presentation shown on video at the UNESCO meeting on Media and Information Literacy. Moscow. June.

Webber, S., and Ata, R., ‘Learning in Second Life as Part of a Blended Approach: Reflections and Lessons learned’, Virtual Worlds Best Practices in Education conference, Second Life. March.

Willett, P., ‘Chemoinformatics: the first half-century’, keynote presentation at 3rd Strasbourg Summer School in Chemoinformatics. June.

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Albright, K.; Petrulis, R., Vasconcelos, A.; Wood, J. (2012) Inquiry-based learning, research methods and dissertation support in Information Studies, Education for Information, 29 (1), p.19-38.

Aleixo C., Baptista Nunes J.M and Pedro Isaias (2012). “Usability and Digital Inclusion: Standards and Guidelines”. International Journal of Public Administration, 35(3), 221-239 [p].

Baptista Nunes, J. M., Martins, J., Alajamy, M.and Zhou, L. (2012). “Grounded Theory in Practice: A Discussion of Cases in Information Systems Research”. In Isaias P. and Baptista Nunes J.M (2012) (editors) Information Systems Research and Exploring Social Artifacts: Approaches and Methodologies, 142-160. Hershey, PA: IGI Global

Baptista Nunes, J.M., McPerson M., and Isaías, P. (editors) (2011) Proceedings of the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference on e-Learning 2012, 17- 20 July 2012, Lisbon, Portugal

Baptista Nunes, J.M., Peng, G.C., and Isaías, P. (editors) (2011) Proceedings of the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference on Post-implementation and Change Management, 17- 19 July 2012, Lisbon, Portugal.

Baptista Nunes, J.M., Powell, P., and Isaías, P. (editors) (2012) Proceedings of the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference on Information Systems 2012, 10-12 March 2012, Berlin, Germany.

Bates, J. (2012) “This is what modern deregulation looks like”: co-optation and contestation in the shaping of the UK’s Open Government Data Initiative. Journal of Community Informatics. 8(2).

Bath, P., Raptis, D., Sen, B., Mettler, T. (2012) International perspectives on how information and ICTs can support healthcare. Editorial. Health Informatics Journal. 18 (2) 79-82

Bath, P., Sen, B., Raptis, D. Mettler, T. (2012) Understanding how information and understanding how information and ICTs can improve health. Expert Review of Pharmoeconomics and Outcomes Research. 12 (1) 11-14.

Birdi, B. (2012) The Changing Shape of Reading - the 21st century challenge. In C. Rankin and A. Brock (Eds.). Library Services for Children and Young People: challenges and opportunities in the digital age. (39-48). London, England: Facet.

Brewster, L., Cox, A. and Sen, B. (2012) Legitimising bibliotherapy: evidence-based discourses in healthcare. Journal of Documentation 68 (2) 185-205.

Burgess, J., Vis, F., & Bruns, A. (2012). How many fake Sandy pictures were really shared on social media? The Guardian Data Blog. http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/nov/06/fake-sandy-pictures-social-media

Care, L., Chiles, P. and Cox, A. (2012) Exploring Students’ Group Work Needs in the Context of Internationalisation Using a Creative Visual Method. International journal of Higher Education, 2 (1)

Chen, H., Ragsdell G, O’Brien, A., Baptista Nunes, J.M. (2012) “A Proposed Model of Knowledge Management in the Software Industry Sector”. In Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2012), 22-24 August 2012, University of Macau, Macau, China.

Chen, S., Baptista Nunes J.M., Peng G.C, and Mojtahed, R. (2012) “Exploring CRM Adoption in Chinese SOEs: Insights from A Case Study”. In Proceedings of The 2012 International Conference on Computer Science and Service System (CSSS 2012), 11-13 August 2012, Nanjing, China.

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Chen, S., Baptista Nunes J.M., Peng G.C, and Mojtahed, R. (2012) “Exploring SCM Awareness in Chinese SOEs: Insights from a Case Study”. In Proceedings of the Global Information and Management Symposium (GIAMS 2012), 15-17 August 2012, Shanghai, China.

Chen, S., Peng G.C, Baptista Nunes J.M., Mojtahed, R. and Zhou, L. (2012) “Understanding of ERP systems in Chinese SOEs: A Case Study”. In Proceedings of Seventh International Conference on Digital Information Management (ICDIM 2012), 22-24 August 2012, University of Macau, Macau, China

Chu, C. -W., Holliday, J. D., & Willett, P. (2012). Combining multiple classifications of chemical structures using consensus clustering. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 20(18), 5366-5371. doi:10.1016/j.bmc.2012.03.010

Clough, P. (2012) User-related issues in multilingual access to multimedia collections. In Dobreva, Dwyer and Feliciati (eds) User Studies for Digital Library Development, Facet Publishing, pp. 117-126.

Clough, P., Sanderson, M., Tang, J., Gollins, T. and Warner, A. (2012) Examining the limits of crowdsourcing for relevance assessment, IEEE Internet Computing, 28 Jun. 2012. IEEE computer Society Digital Library. IEEE Computer Society (doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MIC.2012.95)

Cox, A. (2012) An exploration of the practice approach and its place in Information Science. Journal of Information Science, 38 (2) 176-188.

Cox, A. and Al Hijji, K. (2012) Performance measurement methods at academic libraries in Oman. Performance measurement and metrics, 13 (3) 183 – 196.

Cox, A. and Rivera Gonzalez, G. (2012) Redefining participation in online community: some neglected topics. in H.Li (Ed.) Virtual Community Participation and Motivation: Cross-Disciplinary Theories, pp.72-89.

Cox, A., and Spencer, S. (2012) Sheffield then and now: myths of place in local history picture books. In Environment, space, place 4 (1)

Cox, A., Herrick, T. and Keating, P. (2012) Accommodations: staff identity and university space. Teaching in Higher Education, 17 (6) 697-709

Cox, A., Verbaan, E. & Sen, B. (2012) Upskilling liaison librarians for Research Data Management. Ariadne, 70 (November) URL: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue70/cox-et-al

Fang L., Baptista Nunes, J.M, and de Bruijn C. (2012)”A Discussion of a Constructivist Application for Phonetics Transcription E-learning Using Drill”. In Proceedings of the Global Information and Management Symposium (GIAMS 2012), 15-17 August 2012, Shanghai, China.

Fang, L., Baptista Nunes, J.M. & de Bruijn, C. (2012). “Drill-and-Practice is not Necessarily a Pejorative Approach: an Example of its Successful Application as a Self-learning Component of a Phonetics Blended Learning Environment”. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, (EdMedia 2012), pp. 1655-1664, 26-29 June 2012, Denver, CO, USA:

Fernando, S., Hall, M., Agirre E., Soroa, A., Clough, P. and Stevenson, M. (2012) Comparing taxonomies for organising collections of documents. In Proceedings of The 24th International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2012), pp. 879-894.

Fernie, K., Griffiths, J., Stevenson, M., Clough, P., Goodale, P., Hall, M., Archer, P., Chandrinos, K., Agirre, E., de Lacalle, O., de Polo, A., Bergheim, R. (2012) PATHS: Personalising access to cultural heritage spaces. In Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Virtual Systems and Multimedia (VSMM 2012), pp.469-474.

Gillet V.J. (2012) Pharmacophore Models in Drug Design. In Barril X & Luque F.J. (Editors). Physicochemical and Computational Approaches to Drug Discovery, pp 151-170. RSC Publishing, 2012.

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Gillet, V.J. (2012) Design of Screening Sets. In Muchmore S.W. & Hajduk P. (Editors). Molecular Similarity: Concepts and Applications for Pharmaceutical Research. Wiley-VCH. In Press.

Goodale, P., Clough, P., Ford, N., Hall, M., Stevenson, M., Fernando, S., Aletras, N., Fernie, K., Archer, P., de Polo, A. (2012) User-Centred Design to Support Exploration and Path Creation in Cultural Heritage Collections. In Proceedings of the 2nd European Workshop on Human Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (EuroHCIR 2012), pp. 75-78.

Hall, M., Clough, P. and Stevenson, M. (2012) Evaluating the use of Clustering for Automatically Organising Digital Library Collections. In Proceedings of The International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2012), pp. 323-334.

Hall, M., Clough, P., Lopez de Lacalle, O., Soroa, A. and Agirre, E. (2012) Enabling the Discovery of Digital Cultural Heritage Objects through Wikipedia. In Proceedings of the 6th Workshop on Language Technology for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, and Humanities (LaTeCH 2012), April 24 2012, Avignon, France.

Hamdani, H. Y., Appasamy, S. D., Willett, P., Artymiuk, P. J., & Firdaus-Raih, M. (2012). NASSAM: a server to search for and annotate tertiary interactions and motifs in three-dimensional structures of complex RNA molecules.. Nucleic Acids Res, 40(Web Server issue), W35-W41. doi:10.1093/nar/gks513

Isaias P. and Baptista Nunes J.M (2012) (editors) Information Systems Research and Exploring Social Artifacts: Approaches and Methodologies, Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

Ketikidis, P., Dimitrovski, T., Bath, P.A. and Lazuras, L. (2012) Acceptance of Health Information Technology in Health Professionals: An Application of the Revised Technology Acceptance Model. Health Informatics Journal. 18(2):124-134.

Lameras, P., Levy, P., Paraskakis, I. and Webber, S. (2012) Blended university teaching using virtual learning environments: conceptions and approaches. Instructional science, 40(1), pp.141-157.

Levy, P. (2012). Developing inquiry-guided learning in a research university in the United Kingdom. In: Lee, V. (ed.) Inquiry Guided Learning. New Directions for Teaching and Learning Number 129. 15-26. San Francisco, CA: Jossey Bass.

Levy, P. & Petrulis, R. (2012). How do first-year university students experience inquiry and research, and what are the implications for the practice of inquiry-based learning? Studies in Higher Education 37(1), 85-101.

Martin, R.L., Gardiner, E., Gillet, V.J., Senger, S. (2012) Compression of Molecular Interaction Fields using Wavelets Thumbnails: Application to Molecular Alignment. Journal of Chemical Information and Modelling. 52, 2012, 757-769.

Martins, J.T., & Martins, R. (2012) Portuguese School Libraries Evaluation Model: an Analysis of Primary Schools’ results for the ‘Reading and Literacy’ Domain. The Australian Library Journal, 61(4), 265-280.

Martins, J.T., and Baptista Nunes, J.M. (2012) Intellectual property rights and the myth of the open scholar: an exploratory study of Portuguese academics’ reluctance to make educational materials available online. In Proceedings of World Conference on Educational Multimedia, Hypermedia and Telecommunications, EdMedia 2012, 26-29 June 2012, Denver, CO, USA.

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Martins, J.T., Nunes, M., Zhou, L., Alajamy. M., (2012) Grounded Theory in Practice: a Discussion of Cases in Information Systems Research. In P. Isaias, and M. Nunes, (Eds.), Information Systems Research and Exploring Social Artifacts: Approaches and Methodologies. Hershey, PA: IGI Global, 142-160.

McKinney, P. & Sen, B. (2012) Reflection and information literacy reinforcing learning. LILAC Conference, 11-13 April. Glasgow, UK.

McKinney, P. & Sen, B. (2012) Reflection for learning: Understanding the value of reflective writing for information literacy development. Journal of Information Literacy. 6 (2) 110-29 URL: http://ojs.lboro.ac.uk/ojs/index.php/JIL/article/view/LLC-V6-I2-2012-5

Nadzirin, N., Gardiner, E. J., Willett, P., Artymiuk, P. J., & Firdaus-Raih, M. (2012). SPRITE and ASSAM: web servers for side chain 3D-motif searching in protein structures.. Nucleic Acids Res, 40(Web Server issue), W380-W386. doi:10.1093/nar/gks401

Nawab, R.M.A., Stevenson, M. and Clough, P. (2012) Detecting Text Reuse with Modified and Weighted N-grams. In Proceedings of First Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics (STARSEM 2012), pp. 54-58.

Nawab, R.M.A., Stevenson, M. and Clough, P. (2012) Retrieving Candidate Plagiarised Documents using Query Expansion. In Proceedings of 34th European Conference on Information Retrieval (ECIR 2012), pp. 207-218.

Nazari, M. and Webber, S. (2012) Loss of faith in the origins of information literacy in e-environments: Proposal of a holistic approach. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 44 (2), 97-107.

Papadatos, G., Bodkin, M.J., Gillet V.J. & Willett, P. (2012) Mining for Context Sensitive Bioisosteric Replacements in Large Chemical Databases. In Brown N. (Editor) Bioisosteres in Medicinal Chemistry, pp103-128. Wiley-VCH. 2012.

Paramita, M., Clough, P., Aker, A. and Gaizauskas, R. (2012) Correlation between Similarity Measures for Inter-Language Linked Wikipedia Articles. In Proceedings of the Eighth international conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC 2012), pp. 790-797.

Peng, G.C. and Baptista Nunes, J.M. (2013). “Establishing and verifying a risk ontology for ERP post-implementation”. In Ahmad, M., Colomb, R.M. and Abdullah, M.S. (editors), Ontology-based Applications for Enterprise Systems and Knowledge Management, pp 43-67. Hershey, USA: IGI Global.

Peters, C., Braschler., M. and Clough, P. (2012) Multilingual Information Retrieval: From Research to Practice, Springer: Heidelberg, Germany, ISBN 978-3-642-23007-3, 217 pages. Available from Springer

Petrelli, D. and Clough, P. (2012) Analysing User’s Queries for Cross-Language Image Retrieval from Digital Library Collections. The Electronic Library, Volume 30(2), pp. 197-219.

Pinfield, S. (2012). Opening up the academy: the ‘open’ agenda, technologies and universities. EDUCAUSE Review 47(1), 52-53. http://net.educause.edu/ir/library/pdf/ERM1217.pdf.

Pinfield, S. and Middleton, C. (2012). Open-access central funds in UK universities. Learned Publishing 25(2), 107-116. http://dx.doi.org/10.1087/20120205.

Poulter, T., Gannon, B., and Bath, P.A. (2012) An Analysis of Electronic Document Management in Oncology Care. Health Informatics Journal. 18(2):135-146.

Sushmita, S. Halvey, M., Lalmas, M. and Villa, R. (2012) Revisiting User Information Needs in Aggregated Search. 2nd European Workshop on Human-Computer Interaction and Information Retrieval (EuroHCIR 2012), at IIiX 2012, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, 24-25th August 2012.

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Sedghi, S., Sanderson, M. and Clough, P. (2012) How do health care professionals select medical images they need? Aslib Proceedings, Volume 64(4), pp. 437-456.

Sen, B. & Willett, P. (2012) Research in Library and Information Science. In Bowman, J. (Ed.) British Librarianship and Information Work 2006-2010. Aldershot: Ashgate.

Sherhod, R., Gillet, V.J., Judson, P.N., Vessey, J.D. (2012) Automating Knowledge Discovery for Toxicity Prediction Using Jumping Emerging Pattern Mining. Journal of Chemical Information and Modelling. 52, 2012 3074-3087.

Taylor, R., Cole, J.C., Cosgrove, D.A., Gardiner, E.J. Gillet, V.J. (2012) Development and Validation of an Improved Algorithm for Overlaying Flexible Molecules. Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design. 26, 2012, 451-472.

Todeschini, R., Consonni, V., Xiang, H., Holliday, J., Willett, P., & Buscema, M. (2012). Similarity coefficients for binary chemoinformatics data: Overview and extended comparison using simulated and real data sets. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 52(11), 2884-2901. doi:10.1021/ci300261r

Vasconcelos, A.C. Sen, B. A., Rosa, A. G., and Ellis, D. (2012) Elaborations of Grounded Theory in Information Research: Arenas/Social Worlds Theory, Discourse and Situational Analysis. Special issue of Library and Information Science Research on research methodologies in LIS, 36 (112), p. 120-146.

Villa, R. and Jose, J.M. (2012) A study of awareness in multimedia search. Information Processing and Management 48(1): 32-46, Jan 2012.

Vis, F. (2012). Twitter as a reporting tool for breaking news: Journalists tweeting the 2011 UK riots. Digital Journalism. Online first. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21670811.2012.741316

Wakeling, S., Clough, P., Sen, B. and Connaway, L. (2012) Readers who borrowed this also borrowed ...: Recommender Systems in UK Libraries, Library Hi-Tech, Volume 30(1), pp. 134-150.

Whittaker, S., Kalnikaite, V., Petrelli, D., Sellen, A., Villar, N., Bergman, O., Clough, P., and Brockmeier, J. (2012). Socio-technical Lifelogging: Deriving design principles for a future proof digital past. Human Computer Interaction, Volume 27(1-2), pp. 37-62.

Willett, P. (n.d.). Dissimilarity-based algorithms for selecting structurally diverse sets of compounds.. J Comput Biol, 6(3-4), 447-457. doi:10.1089/106652799318382

Willett, P. (n.d.). Test article about Chemoinformatics. Journal of Molecules.

Zhou, L. and Baptista Nunes, J.M. (2012) “Identifying knowledge sharing barriers in the collaboration of Traditional and Western Medicine professionals in Chinese hospitals”. Published online before print March 18, 2012, doi: 10.1177/0961000611434758 Journal of Librarianship and Information Science.

Zhou, L., Baptista Nunes, J.M., Luo, L. Liu, W. (2012) “Advocating a desk case-study research approach in Chinese Information Systems Research: a Proposition of a Research Framework”. In Proceedings of the International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) Conference on Information Systems Post-implementation and Change Management Conference 2012, 17 - 19 July 2012, 63-70, Lisbon, Portugal

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Where are they now?

James AnsellFrom: SheffieldStudied: Accounting and Financial Management and Information ManagementGraduated: July 2011Current job:I am currently a technical specialist for Business Analytics software at IBM. This involves providing clients with technical knowledge on how the Business Analytics software works, how it may fit within their current IT environment and demonstrating the value the software can bring.

What did you enjoy about studying at Sheffield?: My particular course gave me a very broad and high level skill set, ranging fromunderstanding financial statements to Information Management.

What has really helped you in your career?: I can really recommend working towards attaining the Sheffield Graduate Award. This is something that really helps you focus on a few crucial areas, i.e. volunteering, team work, all of which employers often look for.

Any other comments or advice?: Sheffield is a fantastic city, offering a vibrant city lifestyle or a quick escape to the countryside. The University is highly regarded and has made significant investments in improving the student experience, i.e. Student Union improvements. I would recommend the University of Sheffield to anyone.

Anne-Lise RobinFrom: Rouen, FranceStudied: MA in LibrarianshipGraduated: November 2011Current job:I am responsible for running a busy library in a secondary school and sixth form college. I manage all library aspects as well as teach weekly lessons to Year 7, Year 8 and sixth formers.

What did you enjoy about studying at Sheffield?: Everything: course content, lecturers, the city, support when I needed. It is a great time that I remember fondly.

What has really helped you in your career?: The management module and the children’s library module were particularly relevant to my position.

Any other comments or advice?: The Information School is the best place I have studied at. It allowed me to grow as an individual and a professional. At the University of Sheffield you feel valued and opportunities are numerous to achieve what you desire. I could not recommend it enough.

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Where are they now?

Lihong (Nick) ZhouFrom: Xiangyang, Hubei, ChinaStudied: MSc in Information Management, PhDGraduated: October 2008, October 2011Current job: I am currently Associate Professor at the School of Information Management at Wuhan University. I am in charge of teaching two undergraduate modules: Library and Information Centre Management; and Professional English for Librarian students. I supervise a number of undergraduate and MSc dissertations. I am working on several research projects, one of which is funded by National Natural Science Foundation of China. This is my first job after my PhD in Sheffield. I applied for this post as soon as I finished my PhD. I was extremely lucky since the Information School in the University of Sheffield not

only has a world-class reputation, but also taught me how to teach and research to a very high standard.

What did you enjoy about studying at Sheffield?: I very much enjoyed studying at Sheffield. It is easy to love Sheffield since it is such a lovely and beautiful city. Also, I met a wide variety of people from every corner of the world.

What has really helped you in your career?: I am always proud to say that I graduated from Sheffield and I always consider myself very lucky since I was trained properly as an academic. Skills and knowledge that I obtained from Sheffield helped me in successfully applying for national research grants and in winning teaching and research awards.

Any other comments or advice: Sheffield would be the best place to obtain new knowledge, meet new people and obtain new perspectives on your life. Sheffield made me, so can it make you.

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