University of Portsmouth

RAE analysis

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University of Central England in Birmingham_61 3a [20.83B]

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De Montfort University_61 3a [6.4C]

During the period there has been a significant growth in research activity. Research has continued to evolve and progress under a strategy of well-defined targeted areas of research and encouraging all staff to become involved. As seen by the evidence presented in this submission international excellence has been achieved in much of the research activity during the period. The group’s initiatives and collaborations are well received and supported by the international research community. The ETHICOMP initiative is indicative of the group’s standing.

The formation of CCSR coincided with the launch of the ETHICOMP conference series in 1995. Professor Bynum and Professor Rogerson are the founders and joint directors. The purpose of this series is to provide an inclusive European forum for discussing the ethical and social issues associated with the development and application of ICT. Conferences are held every 18 months. There have been four conferences to date ETHICOMP 95 (De Montfort University, UK), ETHICOMP 96 (University of Salamanca, Spain), ETHICOMP 98 (Erasmus University, The Netherlands) and ETHICOMP 99 (LUISS Guido Carli University, Italy). Delegates and speakers from all continents have attended. Of the 231 papers presented at the 4 conferences 69% had European authors or co-authors representing Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Hungary, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Spain, Sweden and UK. ETHICOMP 2001 will be held at Technical University of Gdansk, Poland. The series has succeeded in creating a critical mass of scholars in Europe concerned with the ethical issues of ICT. Many important papers have come from this series. Indeed Professor Bynum and Professor Rogerson have edited special ETHICOMP editions of refereed academic journals including; Business Ethics: a European Review, Ethics and Information Technology, Metaphilosophy, Science and Engineering Ethics , the Australian Journal of Information Systems, and the Journal of Business Ethics. The ETHICOMP name has become recognised and respected in the field of computer ethics and has led to it being registered as a trademark by De Montfort University to control its use and ensure ongoing integrity.

University of Northumbria at Newcastle_61 3b [15.38C]

Impact of key staff in subject area
The following snapshots document the contributions of key research active staff.
Collier has been a key figure in library management research both nationally and internationally for many years, with particular emphasis on the development of the electronic library. Appointed as Research Professor in IMRI, he has been instrumental in developing research activity in the areas of strategic management in the electronic environment which has led to involvement as a sub-contractor in TEL, funded by the EU, and to the Resource funded project to review UKOLN.
Parker has contributed to the growth in research, and has developed her earlier public library focus to now encompass the museum and archive sectors. She is the Project Director of Resource’s first cross-sectoral project (the Bidding Culture), and also of their Neighbourhood Renewal project. She has also championed the School on the international stage with the development of the Performance Measures conference series, and contributions to IFLA Roundtables.
Heine’s priority has been to continue his work on formal models and to develop (with Ian Winkworth) a new methodology for modelling service seeking behaviour in libraries.
Hare and McLeod have built up a research culture in records management through use of internal funding to support an RA who is working strategically. Bids have been submitted, consultancy links have been developed into research partners, and conference papers have been presented to raise the profile of research in a domain where there is no established research culture and hence, little funding.
Winkworth is Director of Learning Resources. His research over the period has had a dual focus. He has been central to the development of an international view of performance measurement. He is co-founder of the Performance Measures conference series. He has also had a key role in hybrid library research. His earlier involvement in the IMPEL projects led to the eLib HyLiFe hybrid library project, which he co-directed.
Banwell has co-ordinated the research activity of the School since 1996, until 1999 under the Directorship of Joan Day, and since November 1999 as the Acting Director of IMRI. Through her own work she has underpinned the development of the person-centred focus of the School’s research with projects such as GINN, JUBILEE, LOGOPLUS, Managing Organisational Change, TEL and the various health projects.
Walton began his research involvement as a practitioner researcher, involved in the IMPEL projects as co-Director with Joan Day, and moving to a wider interest in managing the impact of change in the HE and health sectors. He has published and disseminated widely, both nationally and internationally, and is Assistant Director (part-time) of IMRI.
Dixon came into research through an interest in the learning society, and has built on her international links gained through delivering Masters level teaching in Italy, Denmark and Thailand. Through PGR supervision, she has developed an interest in qualitative research methodology. She is co-founder of the Performance Measures conference series.
Eakins has been one of the pioneers of research into image storage and retrieval in the UK, raising awareness of content-based image retrieval (CBIR) techniques among the library and information community. He has combined investigation into improved techniques for image retrieval, such as the development of ARTISAN, a shape retrieval system for abstract trademark images, with more wide-ranging studies, such as investigating variability in human image perception and its relevance to retrieval system design. He is now beginning to research semantic image retrieval.
Graham started working with Eakins in the mid-1990s concentrating firstly on the evaluation of the ARTISAN system and then reviewing with him the state of the art of CBIR. Her long-standing expertise in the use of ICT in the special library sector has evolved into a more specialised interest in image data management. As head of the VISOR project, she has initiated research into information seeking behaviour in image retrieval.

University of Sheffield_61 5* [19A]

Nothing to report.

University of Glasgow_61 3a [7A]

International Conferences
Over 300 attended the Business Archives Council’s Annual Conference organised by the Archives in conjunction with the UK Association of Business Historians and the Business History Conference in 1997 (Richmond 1). HATII hosted the third annual Digital Resources in the Humanities (DRH'98) Conference (September 1998). 225 delegates attended this international conference on the development and use of digital resources making it the largest of the series; Jean Anderson (Resource Development Officer, HATII) co-edited the proceedings (OHC, 2000). HATII staff hosted CHArt99 (Computers in the History of Art) in 1999 and The Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers in the Humanities (ALLC/AHC) in 2000.

MSc(IT)
Glasgow University is an institution deeply involved in the development of theory and practice in the arena of digital libraries and archives. HATII has close collaborative arrangements with the Department of Computing Science and four of HATII's courses are taken by significant numbers of students on the Computing Science run Master's in Information Technology (Cultural and Heritage Computing, Digitisation, Text Processing, and a new course in Multimedia). Ross has supervised five MSc(IT) theses during the past two years; one of these, on Virtual Reality, was subsequently published in Internet Archaeology (Terras, 2000).

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