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Enser: Member: Editorial Advisory Board New Library World, 2000. Editor-in-Chief: Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences
Gill: Editor: AI and Society Journal. Editor: Book Series – Human Centred Systems, Springer-Verlag, London. Member: Editorial Board, Applied Artificial Intelligence
Refereeing and reviewing
Invited lectures
Conference committees and organisation
Day: Member of the Programme Committee for Participatory Design 2000
Enser: Co-Chair: Challenge of Image Retrieval 2000 conference, held in Brighton in May 2000; Member: of the Programme Committee, Challenge of Image Retrieval 1998 and 1999; Member of the organising committee 4
Enser: Robert Gordon, City University, Dublin City University
Gill: Sunderland University, Brunel University, Warwick University
Pemberton: Edinburgh (2), Sussex and Leeds Universities
Collaborations and links
Gill: International Co-ordinator: International Research Institute in Human Centred Systems (IRIHCS); Academic Expert: Fifth Program (CEC); Member: Board of Advisors, Machine Learning Centre, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, USA; Member: IFIP WG9.2 Group Member: PRELUDE: Programme of Research and Liaison Between Universities for Development; Member: Advisory Board, Oxford Innovation Institute
Pemberton: Invited member: COTCOS European research network in CSCW (1996-9); Chercheur adjoint: Université de Rouen, France, 1998 - date.
Wallis: Invited to organise and lead two British Council Workshops on curriculum development to senior information and policy officials in Ho Chi Minh City and Hanoi, Vietnam in 1997
Professional and grant-giving bodies
Arundale: Chair: Library Association Registration Board; Enser: Member: Library, Archives & Information Science Panel, AHRB, 1998 - date; Member: QAA Subject Benchmarking Group for Librarianship & Information Management, 1999 – 2000; President: Institute of Information Scientists 2000-2; President Elect: Institute of Information Scientists 1999-2000; Chair: Institute of Information Scientists Council 1996-9; Chair: Institute of Information Scientists Management Committee; Chair: Institute of Information Scientists Professional Standards & Development Committee 1994- date; Co-Chair: Joint Accreditation Administration (with Library Association) 1999 – date; Member: Institute of Information Scientists/Library Association Unification Planning Group - publishing Our Professional Future : a Proposal for a new organisation for the library and information profession, 1998; Our Professional Future : Revised Proposals for a new organisation for the library and information profession, 1999; Member: BAILER Heads of Departments and Schools Committee; Member: South East Regional Film & Video Archive Advisory Committee 1994 - date
Day: Former Chair: Sussex Community Internet Project Member: Brighton and Hove Community Information Network Steering Group, UK Telecottage Association, Information & Communication Development committee of Brighton and Hove Council
Williamson: Member: BAILER Committee
Wallis: Invited member: NHS Executive Scientific Advisory Panel for the SE Project Grant Scheme in December 2000; Member: Steering Committee of the LIC Research Committee on ‘Sources of Research Funding’ 1999; Member: Institute of Public Finance team appointed by the DCMS to assess Public Library Annual Library Plans, 1999 to date.
Other
Enser: Awarded personal chair, 1999; International guest at workshop on Digital Libraries, University of Minnesota, USA, 2001; winter school, University of Tampere, Finland, 1995
Gill: Awarded personal chair, 1997
Professor Elkin was elected (2000) an academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences (AcSS). She was Chair (1998-1999) of the IFLA Standing Committee on Education and Training, and conference organiser for 1998-2000. Train has been elected a member of IFLA Reading Section Standing Committee, 2001- . ISIS was host to the 9th PhD Consortium of the UK Academy for Information Systems (1999). Dr Dingley organised this with Green; researchers from 17 institutions including University College, Cork and the University of Athens attended. Dingley is a member of the Programme Committee, 3rd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, Portugal, July 2001. Dalton was a member of the refereeing panel for papers submitted for the UK Evaluation Society Annual Conference 2000.
Nankivell has made significant input to CIPFA Children’s Plus Advisory Panel. Foster and Matthews were members of the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education Benchmarking Group, Librarianship and Information Management. Dr Matthews has acted as referee for the AHRB Large grant scheme, and contributed to the BLRIC Preservation Research Programme Focus Group. Elkin and Nankivell have advised the DCMS /Wolfson programme and Elkin was Chair, Referees Panel, DCMS Wolfson Public Libraries Reader Development 2000. Foster advised the eLib Music Online project. Matthews chaired the Advisory Group of the BLRIC funded Co-operative activities in preservation for libraries and archives project, Loughborough University, 1998-99. Elkin and Train have made significant academic impact as advisers to LaunchPad. Elkin, Matthews and Nankivell contributed to the development of the LIC research programme. Elkin was a member of the New Opportunities Fund ICT Training Working Group for New Library: the People’s Network, and of the DCMS/DfEE Taskforce: Empowering the Learning Community. Dalton was invited to participate in the LIC Social Inclusion Think Tank. Elkin is a member of the Steering Group for a major new public library/cultural centre development in Birmingham and is external adviser (electronically) to the National Library Board, Singapore, on its new national library development for 2003.
Elkin is Chair of RAE UoA 61 Panel (and was a member of this Panel in 1992 and 1996); she was also a LIC Commissioner (1995-2000) and founder member of the LIC Research Committee. She co-authored LIC policy statements: 2020 Vision; Libraries: the life force for learning; Libraries: the essence of inclusion, and Keystone for the Information Age: a national information policy for the UK. In 2000, she gave evidence to the Parliamentary Select Committee Hearing on Public Libraries. Matthews advised the BLRIC/LIC Preservation of the national recorded heritage research programme, and is a member of the NPO Preservation Administrators’ Panel, and Chair of its Education and Training Working Group. Butcher is a member of the Standing Committee on Official Publications (SCOOP) and of the LA’s Information Services Group national committee. Nankivell is a committee member, Library and Information Research Group (LIRG), Public Libraries Research Group, and a member of the LA Professional Training and Education Group national committee.As well as a normal range of external examining by academic staff at a number of UK and overseas universities, Elkin has examined 9 PhDs since 1995 at all major LIS academic departments. She has also been external adviser for professorial appointments (eg Aberystwyth, Manchester) and institutional reviews (eg Brighton). Matthews was external adviser to an institutional review at The Robert Gordon University. Dr Winfield has recently been invited to examine a PhD at Salford University.
Black: Invited speaker, ‘Gendering Library History’, Liverpool John Moores University, May 1999
· Invited UK representative at ‘National Libraries of the World: Interpreting the Past, Shaping the Future’, a Library of Congress Bicentennial Symposium and Library History Seminar 10, Library of Congress, Washington DC, October 2000 · Invited to address the Library History Seminar, Institute of Advanced Studies, Senate House, University of London, May 1998Gibbs: Guest speaker at School Library Association national conferences (1996, 1997, 1999)
Halpin: Invited speaker, Library Association Black Librarians Conference, November 1999
· Invited expert contribution, Human Rights and the Internet Conference (for the Canadian Human Rights Foundation and the Canadian Governement), Montreal, September 1998 · Expert guest speaker, An EU Human rights Agenda for the Year 2000 (for the European University Institute, Florence, the European Commission and the European parliament), Brussels, May 1998Muddiman: Invited to speak, in respect of his research on social exclusion and public libraries by: The Community Development Foundation, The North West Branch of the Library Association The London and Home Counties Branch of the Library Association and The Yorkshire and Humberside Branch of the Library Association
Orange: Invited speaker, Neties 1998
Editing, Refereeing and Visiting Activity and Membership of Editorial and Advisory Boards
Black: Editor (with Peter Hoare) of Cambridge University Press’ History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland, Volume 3: 1850-2000 (forthcoming 2002), to which over 30 authors have been contracted
· Member of the editorial board of, and referee for, Library History Referee for Library and Information Commission research grant applications · Invited member, as historical consultant, of the Library Association’s 150 Years of the Public Library Committee, 1998-2000Brunt: Served as a member of the international committee of Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR and contributor to the revision of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (1997)
· Member of the advisory board of the Bradford OPAC research project · Member of the referee panel of Journal of Documentation · Member of the UK national committee on AACR · Referee for AHRB research awards Reviews Editor for Catalogue & IndexBryant: Co-editor of a special volume (14) of Annals of Software Engineering on Process-Based Software Engineering
· Visiting Professor at the University of Amsterdam Course Director for Asia-Europe Masters Programme, Asia Europe Institute, University of MalayaGibbs: Referee for Journal of Librarianship and Information Science
Halpin: Advisor to the Department of Health’s Ethnic Minority Policy Officer on the issue of information and ethnic minorities
· Referee for book proposals made to Macmillan · Visiting Fellow at Manchester Metropolitan University · Invited to edited (with S. Hick and E. Hoskins) Human Rights and the Internet, Macmillan Press, 2000Muddiman: Reviewer for Library and Information Research News Member of the (Government) Department of Culture, Media and Sport’s Advisory Group on Public Library Social Inclusion policy
· UK representative on the American Society of Information Scientists’ planning group for its History of Information Science Conference, 2002O’Donovan: Member of the editorial boards of, and referee for, Accounting Education and the South African Journal of Accounting Research
· Member of the IFIP Working Group 8.2 · Visiting Professor, University of Pretoria, January-June 1999Orange: Committee member of the Socio-Technical Group of the British Computer Society Founder member and committee member of the European Association of Telematics Applications
· Invited to edit (with S. Katsikides) International perspectives on information systems: a social and organizational dimension (Ashgate, 1998) and (with D. Hobbs) International perspectives on tele-education and virtual learning environments (Ashgate, 2000) · Referee for EPSRC LINK funding proposals · Referee for European Journal of Information Systems and Logistics Information Management
Book Reviewing in Refereed Journals
Several members of staff have acted as book reviewers for scholarly journals: Muddiman for Education for Information; Black for Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Journal of Documentation and Library History; Halpin for Library Management and Managing Information; O’Donovan for Accounting Education and the South African Journal of Accounting Research; and Brunt for Journal of Documentation and Library Review.
Conference Organisation
Orange was the chief organiser of Neties98, held in Leeds. Black organised the following conferences on behalf of the Library History Group of the Library Association: ‘Libraries and Modernity’, Under-One-Umbrella 4, UMIST, June 1997; ‘Libraries and Identity’, Under-One-Umbrella 5, UMIST, July 1999; ‘From People’s University to People’s Library: an International Conference Celebrating 150 years of the Public Library in Britain’, Croydon Public Library, April 2000. Muddiman acted as the chief organiser of two conferences: ‘Public Libraries and Social Exclusion’, Library Association, July 2000 (keynote speaker The Rt. Hon. Mo Molam M.P.); and (with Gibbs) ‘Information work in the Voluntary Sector’, Library Association, 1998.
Day Schools Arising from Research Activity
Linked to his research on the past development of the public library, Black was invited to deliver a day school on the Victorian Public Library, Leeds Centre for Victorian Studies, Trinity and All Saints College (University of Leeds), February 1997. Arising from her BLRIC-funded research project on information skills in the voluntary sector, Gibbs was invited to deliver a day school at Voluntary-Action Leeds on managing information centres effectively (1999); as well as a session for the Leeds Information Workers Group on organising information in the voluntary sector (2000).
Media Visibility
Halpin was appointed as a consultant to the BBC in connection with the production of a series of three reports on ‘Extremism on the Internet’ for Breakfast News, broadcast November-December 1999; later also broadcast by BBC World and BBC Education. Black, as consultant and interviewee, made a significant contribution to ‘Undercover libraries’, BBC Radio 4, broadcast 19 April 2000. Muddiman’s research on social exclusion and Black’s ‘Mass Observation of the Public Library’ were reported in the Times Literary Supplement and the Times Higher Education Supplement, respectively.
Research Grants
Staff have been very successful in attracting support for their research from a variety of funding bodies. In the current RAE period staff obtained the following grants:
Contributions to Encyclopedias and Dictionaries
Black was invited to contribute 3 entries to the New Dictionary of National Biography (forthcoming): articles on John Potter Briscoe, Edward Edwards and Thomas Greenwood.
International Activity
While most indicators of esteem reflect the good national reputations enjoyed by staff, some individuals also command international reputations in their specific fields and/or research in an international context. It is possible to distill a number of international activities from the indicators of esteem noted above. In Information Systems Bryant has worked closely with several European colleagues. In Library and Information Studies, Black has developed close links with European and American library and information historians. Both Halpin and Walker have undertaken much of their Social Informatics research in a European environment. Aside from delivering papers at international conferences, a number of staff have been involved at an international level in such activities as refereeing and serving on editorial and advisory boards. Finally, conferences organised by Orange and Black have attracted strong international audiences.
Burke has presented papers on business information and business strategy at international conferences in Crimea (Crimea 99), Bratislava (7th BOBCATSS, 1999), Prague (6th International Symposium for Information, 1998), Ljublana (Role of Libraries in Economic Development, 1997), Warsaw (Information & Democracy, 1997),and Graz (FID, 1996) and received the IIS John Campbell Award in 1998. Burke is a Visiting Fellow, Institute of Information Science, Jagiellonian University, Warsaw. Her Navigating Business Information Sources (with H. Hall) was described as ‘a thorough review’ (Inform, 1998) and ‘an invaluable resource for every manager’ (Managing Information, 1998).
Craven has been invited to present her research at the IFLA Pre-conference Libraries for the Blind in Washington in 2001 for which she will receive support from her recent IIS John Campbell Award. She was an invited speaker at the Library and Information Show in 1998 and at the SINTO Conference (Sheffield, 1998).
Fisher is a member of the Editorial Board for the Annals of Information Technology and Librarianship and is Deputy Editor of The New Review of Information and Library Research and The New Review of Libraries and Lifelong Learning. She has acted as article referee for the Journal of Documentation and has refereed research grant applications for the LIC. She was an invited contributor to the LIC’s New Library: the People’s Network (Ch. 7) and is an invited member of the Evaluation Panel for JISC/NSF projects. Fisher has refereed DCMS/Wolfson Challenge Fund applications from public libraries since 1997and she is an invited contributor to Resource’s Working Group on library procurement.
Hartley was, until 1999, a member of the AHRB Panel for Librarianship, Archives and Information Science and is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Institute of Image Data Research, University of Northumbria. He is Joint Editor of Education for Information and on the editorial board of ITALICS. He acts as a referee for AHRB research proposals, has refereed research grant applications for the LIC and predecessor bodies and has refereed articles for the International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Program and other journals Since 1996, he has examined research degree candidates for the universities of Aberystwyth, Cape Town, Loughborough and Strathclyde. Hartley‘s Information seeking in the online age (1999) was described as a ‘classic’ by Bawden (International journal of information management) and Fjallbrant commented that it ‘should be on the shelves of every library and in every department of library & information studies’.
Johnson is a member of the Committee of the BCS-IRSG. She organised the 1996 Colloquium and was editor of the Proceedings. She has refereed research grant applications for the LIC and book proposals for Addison-Wesley and LAPL.
Kendall is a member of the Editorial Board for The New Review of Children’s Literature and Libraries and has refereed papers for Education for Information She has acted as referee for research grant applications to the LIC and for DCMS/Wolfson Challenge Fund applications from public libraries. She is a Council Member of the National Library for the Blind, is on the Management Committee for the Ahmed Iqbal Ullah Race Relations Archive and is Best Value steering group member for Manchester City Libraries. She was Convenor of the panel of judges of public library websites submitted to EARL's ‘Best on the Web’ Awards. Kendall’s e-journal article (Kendall 3), was commended on its success by the Editor (Wilson, Sheffield) for attracting over 700 ‘hits’ in less than a week.
Lambert succeeded Oulton in 1997 as Project Director of the EC DECIMAL project on decision making and performance measurement. The Project and her contributions were highly commended by the EC reviewers. Also in 1997, she undertook consultancy for Wirral Health Authority and most recently was selected to undertake a strategic review of library & information services for West Pennine Health Authority as part of the local implementation strategy for the NHS’ Information for Health.
Simpson has acted as referee for the Telecommunication Policy Journal and for Edward Elgar Publishers. He is a member of the BAILER Committee.
Editorships
The submitted group is heavily involved in editorial work for leading academic journals and book series. For example; Professor Bynum is a past editor of Metaphilosophy, Professor Stowell is editor of Systemist and Dr Fairweather is an associate editor of Telematics and Informatics. Membership of editorial boards includes; Australian Journal of Professional and Applied Ethics (Bynum, Gotterbarn and Rogerson), Computers and Society - ACM (Gotterbarn), e-Business Strategy Management - Winthrop Publications (Rogerson), Ethics and Information Technology - Kluwer (Bynum, Gotterbarn and Rogerson), Journal of Global Information Management - Idea Group Publishing (McBride), McGraw-Hill IS Series (Stowell), Metaphilosophy - Blackwells (Bynum), Science and Engineering Ethics - Orpragen (Bynum), Systems Research and Behavioral Science (Stowell), Telematics and Informatics - Elsevier (Rogerson). A number of edited anthologies have been produced by members of the submitted group. This includes; Environmental Futures - Macmillan (Fairweather), The Digital Phoenix - Blackwells (Bynum), Information Systems: An Emerging Discipline?- McGraw-Hill (Stowell) and Global Information Ethics (Bynum and Rogerson).
Keynote addresses and other invitational activity
During the period several of the group have been invited to give keynote addresses at conferences around the world. Professors Bynum, Gotterbarn and Rogerson were invited as three of the four keynote speakers at the inaugural conference of the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics in Melbourne in July 1999. These three had previously been invited to participate in the International Round Table on Global Information Ethics at World Congress of Philosophy, Boston, USA and to speak at The Tangled Web Conference, Dartmouth College, USA in August 1998. Professor Stowell delivered invitational addresses at the IDIMT conference in Zadov (1998), the University of Prague (1998), University of Ulster (1999), UKSS Conference (1999), and the BIT Conference (1999). Professor Rogerson regularly presents keynote talks at events within the UK, for example; the British Academy’s Science and Society Week (2000), the IBM Computer Users Association Annual Conference (2000), the UK On Line User Group Biennial Conference (1998), QMW Public Policy Seminar - New technologies and better government (1997).
By invitation through a series of seminars Professor Bynum and Professor Rogerson have been instrumental in encouraging others to become involved in computer ethics as an area of research. In 1996 they ran a special session on Business Computing Ethics at the Annual Conference of the European Business Ethics Association, Frankfurt, Germany in September; they participated in the Ethics and Informatics conference of Complutense University, El Escorial, Spain in July; and held the Ethics and the Information Revolution conference at Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland in June. In February 1998 they ran three seminars at Charles Sturt University and Swinburne University of Technology to launch the Australian Institute of Computer Ethics. In 2000 they were invited to run a one day seminar at the Universidade Lusiada in Lisbon to launch a new business computer ethics initiative. Furthermore, Professor Bynum and Professor Rogerson were invited as advisors to the UNESCO conference on Protecting Children on the Internet in 1998.
In March 1998, Professor Rogerson was asked by The European Group on Ethics in Science and New Technologies, an independent consultative committee within the European Union, administered by the EC, to be a member of an invited panel of experts for its work on IT in the health care sector. His work involved presenting a paper entitled „Citizens’ health data: the ethical and social responsibility issues“ to the Committee, EC representatives and Euro MPs, providing briefing papers and advising on the formulation of the Expert Opinion which was adopted and published by the EC at the end of 1999. This work has led Dr Fairweather and Professor Rogerson to undertake further research in this area which they published in 2000 (see RA2).
Conferences
During the period members of the submitted group were actively involved in organising and participating in conferences. In particular members of the group are on the programme committees of several well respected conference series including BIT, BITWorld, CEPE, ETHICOMP (discussed further in Additional Information) and the UKAIS annual conferences. Until her illness Dr Fidler was a track chair for the Association of Management conference series in North America. Professor Stowell has been chairman of the Information Systems streams for 8 international conferences and 2 UKSS International conferences. He was chairman of the 7th UKAIS PhD consortium.
Awards
Several members of the submitted group have received prestigious awards and accolades during the period.
For their leadership and work in the research and development of the Software Engineering Code of Ethics and Professional Practice Professor Gotterbarn and Professor Rogerson both received the IEEE Certificate of Appreciation in 1998.
In 1999 Professor Rogerson received the IFIP Working Group 9.2 Namur Award. This biennial international award is made for an outstanding contribution to the creation of awareness of the social implications of information technology. The citation recognised Professor Rogerson as „one of the most important researchers on ethics of computing and information and communication technology in the United Kingdom“ and that he had „pioneered ethics of computing research and education“. In 2000 Professor Rogerson was made a lifetime honourary Vice President of the Institute for the Management of Information Systems.
In 1998 Professor Bynum received the Award for Outstanding Contributions to the Advancement of Philosophy Teaching from the American Association of Philosophy Teachers (AAPT). This award was given in recognition of his outstanding service to the philosophical profession over a period of over 20 years commencing with him founding AAPT in 1976. In the same year he was made a Dartmouth Research Fellow at Dartmouth College, USA.
In 1999 Professor Gotterbarn received the University Award for Excellence in Research from the College of Applied Science and Technology in the USA and has held the title of ACM Distinguished National Lecturer since 1989.
Academic and Professional Bodies
The submitted group are significant participants in the representative bodies related to IS as shown by the following illustrations. Professor Stowell was a founding member of the UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS) and is currently its President. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the UK Systems Society (UKSS) and editor of Systemist, the publication of the UKSS. Professor Rogerson is involved in the Institute for the Management of Information Systems as its Vice President and member of its Education Committee. Professor Rogerson and Dr Fidler are involved in the British Computer Society, the former being a member of the Ethics Committee and the latter being a member of the Examination Board. Professor Rogerson is a member of the Parliamentary IT Committee, a Member of the House of Lords colloquium on the ethical and spiritual implications of the new IT and telecommunications environment run in association with The Worshipful Company of Information Technologists and a member of the interdisciplinary World Technology Network. Professor Gotterbarn is Chair of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Vice Chair of the ACM/SIG Computers and Society and Chair IEEE-CS/ACM Task Force on Software Engineering Ethics and Professionalism. Professor Bynum is a member and past Chair of the Committee on Philosophy and Computing of the American Philosophical Association, and is a past Chair of ACM Committee on Professional Ethics. The strength of research is recognised through members of the group being involved in postgraduate education at other universities. For example, Professor Stowell has been an external examiner of doctoral candidates at several universities including University of Lancaster and Professor Rogerson currently holds external examinerships for Masters in Information Systems at the University of Salford and Sunderland University.
Refereeing of Grant Applications
Professor Stowell and Professor Rogerson have acted as referees and raporteurs for ESRC. Professor Bynum and Professor Gotterbarn have acted as referees for the National Science Foundation in the USA. Professor Rogerson is a referee for the EC Fifth Framework Programme Information Society Technologies - Future & Emerging Technologies Availability.
Evidence of esteem
Significant progress has been made in consolidating national excellence across all areas and demonstrating excellence at international level. Contributions by individuals have been influential in the development of the subject. Staff are recognised by invitation to participate in professional and academic bodies, conferences, editorial boards and examinerships.
Conference series
A highly successful series of biennial conferences was initiated by the School (Parker and Dixon) and Learning Resources (Winkworth) in the area of information service performance assessment, to facilitate both the application of research findings to practice and communication between researchers and practitioners. Conferences were held in 1995, 1997 and 1999 with the title of Northumbria International Conference on Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services, attracting over 120 delegates from 22 nations in 1999. In August 2001, it will be held in Pittsburgh in collaboration with colleagues in the Carnegie-Mellon University. The School will bring the series back to a European venue in 2003.
IIDR has been host for the Challenge of Image Retrieval Conference series with Eakins as its Co-Chair for the 1998, 1999 and 2000 conferences.
Under the aegis of IMRI, the First International Conference on Human Aspects of the Information Society is planned for September 2001 and, as with the PM series, is attracting a wide international audience of researchers and practising information managers.
Invited contributions
Collier has given invited papers on digital library developments, in France, Turkey, Germany, Norway, Switzerland, Portugal and Sweden. He participated in institutional reviews at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia and at the Ecole Nationale Superieure des Sciences de l'Information et des Bibliotheques (ENSSIB), Lyon, France. Day was on the Development Board of the International Centre for Information Management and Services (ICIMSS), Torun, Poland. Dixon leads the research postexperience MA Information Studies course which has led to short courses and research seminars for information managers in Bangkok, Catania, Rhode Island and Florence, and an invited paper to a conference on digital libraries in Naples, 2000. Eakins has contributed to Library and Information Briefings, and to an IEE symposium on AI and IR in Glasgow, 2000. Hare has given invited lectures at the Microlib Conference in Lisbon, 1999, and in Lille (2000) to the ADBS (the French equivalent to the U.K. IIS), and in South Africa. She has also given training courses at the International Federation of Agricultural Development in Rome, and is a visiting lecturer at both the University of Pau, France, and the IUT-V University in Paris. Heine gave a paper at an ACM SIGIR 2000 Workshop, Athens, 2000. Walton has given invited lectures in Cologne, Copenhagen, and Leuven.
Several members of the School have been invited to contribute book chapters (Hare and McLeod on Records Management, Parker on Performance Measurement) to the forthcoming eighth edition of the Aslib Handbook of Special Librarianship and Information Work, an internationally recognised compendium of professional best practice. Banwell and Walton were invited to contribute to the LA's Managing Knowledge in Health Services (LA Publishing, 2000), a work also co-edited by Walton. Banwell has been invited to write a chapter on information behaviour in the electronic age for inclusion in the refereed annual International Yearbook of Library and Information Management (LA Publishing, volume to be published in 2001). Edwards gave invited papers at national eLib workshops on the use of e-journals (two workshops) 1999; on staff development, 1998; and on conflict and change, 1999.
Membership of committees and advisory bodies
Banwell is a member of the Advisory Committee for JISC HEINUS project, 2000-1. Collier was a member of the Library and information Commission (1996-2000); he was Chair of, and Day a member of, the LIC Research Committee. Both were members of JISC committees. Collier was also a member of the Working Party on "New Library" and Chairman of the Technical committee (1997), a member of the Education and Libraries Task Force, reporting to DfEE and DCMS (Jan 2000), Chair, UKOLN Management Board (1995-7) and a member OFTEL Task Force on public access to telecommunications (1997). Dixon was on the Advisory Committee for the Libraries of the Future project supported by BLRIC, the NCETand the Dept for Education in Ireland, which reported in 1996. Eakins was a member of the Advisory Panel, BL Call for proposals in information retrieval. Edwards is on the Advisory Committee for Libtech 2000 and was Coordinator of Integrate, Co-operate, Innovate (JISC/eLib Phase 3 conferences) (1998-1999). Hare is past Chair, Records Management Society of Great Britain and a member of the QAA Benchmarking Group for Library and Information Management. Parker was President of the Library Association (1996) and Chair of LIC's Workforce Project Recruit, retain, lead, (1998) and is a member of the IFLA Roundtable on Women’s issues. Walton was member of the Advisory Board of the SKIP (Skills for Information Professionals) eLib project and is an Executive Member of the LINC Health Panel. Winkworth is a member of the SCONUL Performance Indicators committee.
Editorial responsibilities
Banwell referees for Education for Information and Performance Measurement and Metrics. Collier is on the Editorial Board of Program. Dixon is on the Editorial Board for PM2-PM3-PM4 conferences and for the journal Performance Measurement & Metrics. Eakins referees for IEEE Computing, Information Retrieval, Journal of Information Science, Pattern Recognition, IEE Proceedings, International Journal on Digital Libraries, Information & Software Technology, Challenge of lmage Retrieval and ACM Conference on Multimedia Applications. Edwards was on the Editorial Board of eLib's Ariadne 1994-98. Parker is the founder Editor of Performance Measurement & Metrics and editor of Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services: value and impact. selected papers presented at the International Performance Measurement Conferences (PMl-PM3), 1995-99, LA Publishing. She is Chair of the Editorial Board for the 2001 PM4 Conference in Pittsburgh. Hare and McLeod are the joint Editors of the Records Management Journal. Heine is on the Editorial Board of Journal of Documentation, and referees for the Journal of Information Science, JASIS, and IPM. He also refereed for the ACMSIGIR 2000 - Mathematics/Formal Methods Workshop.
Refereeing
Banwell and Parker are referees for the DCMS/Wolfson Public Libraries Challenge Fund and Banwell has also refereed LIC proposals. Collier and Eakins refereed proposals for the JISC Technology Applications Programme. Eakins was Rapporteur for Esprit project evaluation, 1997 and Collier was Rapporteur for the Fourth Telematics Framework for Libraries, 1995. Parker is an Assessor of AHRB Grant Applications and for the LIC/N4LAC/Resource Research Panel.
Examining
Hare has acted as external PhD examiner at Wales, Parker at Sheffield, Eakins at Southampton and York, Day at Aberystwyth and Collier at Loughborough.
EPSRC Computing Peer Review College
Project Management and Research Awards
Editing of International Journals
Other National and International Committees
Conference/Workshop Organisation
MPhil/PhD External Examinations
Burrell, University of Paris IV, University of Greenwich, University of Reading, Asian Institute of Technology – Bankok (2x), University of Catalunya (2x)
Invited Speakers
· Faulkner is Reviews and Commissioning Editor of Interfaces, the Magazine of the British HCI Group.
· Faulkner is Series Editor for the Macmillan series "Human Factors Forum“
· D. Patel was guest editor for Annals of Software Engineering, special issue on "Comparitive studies of engineering approaches for software engineering", December, 2000.
· Banissi, Chair of Information Visualisation Society, since 1999.
· Kennedy is Treasurer of the British Computer Society's Configuration Management Special Interest Group.
· Kennedy is President elect of the UK Chapter of the System Dynamics Society.
· Kennedy is Treasurer of the UK Chapter of the System Dynamics Society.
· Faulkner is a member of the British HCI Group Executive
· D. Patel is a member of the OPEN consortium on object-oriented methodologies.
· Culwin, founder and chair of the JICC (Java In the Computing Curriculum) Conferences 1997 to 2001
· Culwin, tutorials chair of British HCI 2000 & 2001
· Culwin, conference chair, British HCI 2002.
· Culwin, programme chair, ITiCSE 2001.
· Dastbaz, chair of the IEEE's Multimedia 2001 Symposium, part of the IV2001 conference due to be held in London in July 2001.
· Faulkner, organisor of the British HCI education workshop in 1999 & 2000.
· Kennedy and Williams - Co-chair, Higher Education Management, Royal Society, London, 1999.
· Kennedy is the joint Organising Committee Chair designate of the international System Dynamics Society Conference, Oxford, 2001. South Bank University will host the conference in 2004.
· Lu, Committee member of 2nd International Workshop on Management of Information on the Web - Web Data and Text Mining, in conjunction with the 12th International Conference on Database and Expert Systems Applications. London 2000
· D. Patel, and S. Patel, were founder members of the biennial conference series Object Oriented Information Systems (OOIS) which was first held at South Bank University in 1994 and has since been held in Australia, France and Canada. They were members of the organising committees and edited the proceedings in ’94, 96, and ’00.
· D. Patel has co-organised a workshop on "Business object design and implementation“ at the international conference, OOPSLA, every year since 1995.
· D. Patel has co-organised a workshop on "Project management of object-oriented development systems“ in 1999 and 2000.
In addition we have had members on numerous organising committees for international conferences.
Jennings (Royal Holloway College (3x), University of Glamorgan)
D. Patel, India Institute of Technology, (India), La Trobe University (Australia), Sri Venkateswara University (India), Liverpool John Moores University
Devai, UMIST (2x)
· Williams, keynote paper System Dynamics Stream at the 2000 Young Operational Research Conference held at Cambridge University, 28-30 March 2000
· Williams, keynote paper System Dynamics Stream at the 2001 Young Operational Research Conference at Nottingham University, 27-30 March 2001.
· Dastbaz was invited panelist at the 9th World Marketing Congress, Qawra, Malta, June 1999
Eardley published 10 papers and one book (Ritchie B, Marshall D and Eardley A, 1998, Information Systems in Business, International Thompson Business Press.) in the assessment period.
Liu was promoted to Professor of Computing Science in 1999 and appointed Visiting Professor in Computing at Foshan University (1999) and Southeast University (2000) in China. Liu has served on the organising committees of the ICEIS’99 (Setubal) and ICEIS 2000 (Stafford) conferences, as programme committee chair for the 2nd (Almelo, 1999) and 3rd (Stafford, 2000) Organisational Semiotics workshops and on the programme committees of the 3rd International Workshop on Information Technology (Biarritz) 1997, the 4th International Conference of Co-operative Information Systems (Edinburgh) 1999, the 6th Intl. Conf. on Computer-supported Co-operative Work on Design CSCWD 2001 London, Ontario, the Intl. Workshop on New Models of Business Management and Enabling Technology 2001, St. Petersburg, Russia, and the 2nd Asia-Pacific Conf. on Quality Software APAQS 2001, Hong Kong. He is also Programme Committee Chair of IFIP WG 8.1 Working Conference on Organisational Semiotics, Montreal, Canada in 2001. He is a guest editor of a special issue on Co-design of Business and IT Systems for the Journal of Information Systems Frontiers. He has reviewed for CACM (1999) and the China National Science Foundation (1999) and reviews for the Hong Kong Research Council. Liu published two books and 37 papers (including 7 in journals) in the assessment period and subsequently has had 2 journal papers published, 3 conference papers accepted and 2 edited books to appear.
Shah has served on the organising committee of the ICEIS 2000 (Stafford) conference, will serve for ICEIS 2001 (Setubal), and served as Chair and Organiser of the 1998 UKAIS Ph.D. Consortium (Stafford). Shah published one book and 15 papers in the assessment period.
Sharp has served as Programme Co-chair for the International Conferences on Enterprise Information Systems ICEIS 2000 (Stafford) and will so serve for ICEIS 2001 (Setubal). Sharp was a member of the organising committee for the International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, ICEIS' 99, held in Setubal, in Portugal in March 1999, sponsored by IBM, ICEP and the Portuguese Association for Informatics, and for Data Management Systems, and for the 3rd International Workshop on Information Technology (Biarritz) 1997, sponsored by IEEE, ACM and AFCET. She has been requested to comment on the suitability of a candidate for a faculty position by the University of California at Los Angeles. Sharp published 16 papers in the assessment period.
Sun is serving on the programme committee of ICEIS 2001. She is a guest editor of a special issue on Co-design of Business and IT Systems for the Journal of Information Systems Frontiers. Sun published 6 papers in the assessment period and 2 journal papers subsequently.
Walley was promoted to Professor in 1998. He is a member of the EPSRC Peer Review College and a member of the Advisory Board of IFIP 5.11 (Computers & Environment). He has been a member of the International Programme Panel of the International Symposium on Environment Software Systems ISESS) since 1995. He served on the programme committee of ICEIS 2000. He has given seminars at ESR (a Crown Research Institute, Wellington, NZ) and universities in Vienna, Dunedin, Christchurch, Manchester, Leeds, London (Royal Holloway) and Birmingham. An article in a recent issue of the quarterly magazine of NIWA in New Zealand describes Walley as “a world leader in the application of artificial intelligence techniques to environmental science”. In Nov. 2000, he was invited to give a series of seminars and workshops at the University of Agriculture, Uppsala, Sweden, but this has had to be postponed until April 2001. Walley produced 20 publications in the assessment period and subsequently has had 2 journal papers and 2 conference papers accepted.
Both are members of the editorial board of the New Review of Information and Library Research, which Roberts edited from its foundation as the International Journal of Information and Library Research up to 1997. Olden is a member of the editorial boards of Innovation: Appropriate Librarianship and Information Work in Southern Africa and the University of Dar es Salaam Library Journal. Both reviewed books for the Journal of Documentation, the Journal of Librarianship and Information Science and other journals in the 1996-2000 period. Olden has also been invited to review by the Times Higher Education Supplement.
Both are regularly invited to lecture, teach and conduct workshops outside the UK. Roberts was invited to become visiting professor at Universidad Autonoma Metropolitana—Xochimilco, Mexico, where his principal activity every July/August is to teach research methods on a master's programme that is a joint initiative of UAM-X and of the Universidad de La Habana, Cuba. He has also given invited lectures and seminars.
Olden was invited to conduct workshops in Uganda and Tanzania, and to lecture in South Africa. He has been invited by the Africa Educational Trust to conduct a workshop in Hargeysa, Somalia (July/August 2001). He is a trustee of the Southern African Book Development Education Trust, and is one of the organizers of SABDET's Africa-related seminar programme at the London Book Fair. The programme is sponsored by the Danish government.
Conferences
Beeson:
Co-chair, PAIS I and PAIS II Conferences and UKAIS 2000 Conference
Member, Programme Committee, ECIS 2000 and ECIS 2001 conferences
Invited speaker at seminars at Hull University (Centre for Systems Studies) and University of Bath (Management School)
Davis:
selected by UKAIS PhD Consortium to present paper at ICIS 1999, Helsinki
Dugdale:
Invited speaker, British & Irish Association of Law Librarians Conference, Newcastle upon Tyne, Sept 1997; ALISS Annual Conference, Bangor 1999; Bobcatsss 1999 Symposium
Moggridge:
Member, Programme Committee, Women Into Computing Conference, 1997
Stephens:
Co-chair, PAIS II conference
Member, Programme Committee, ECIS 2000
Thomas:
Chair, HUC2000 conference on Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing and co-editor of associated publication Readings in Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing (Morgan Kaufmann September 2000)
Yazdani:
Member, Programme Committee, VL'2000: IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages 10-13 September 2000, Seattle, Washington.
Advisory Groups and Panels
Plant:
Invited member of ‘Wired Communities’ Advisory Group of BASSAC (British Association of Settlements and Social Action Centres)
Rapporteur for ESRC Virtual Society Programme
Thomas:
Member, commissioning panel, EPSRC/ESRC PACCIT funding programme, 2000-
Member, EPSRC responsive mode human factors panel, 1999-
Member, Foresight Task Force on Information Relationships, 1999-
Recognition by other institutions
Thomas:
Associate Research Fellow, Centre for Research into Innovation, Culture and Technology, Brunel University, 1992-; and Centre for Applied Simulation Modelling, Brunel University, 1993-
Visiting Professor, Middlesex University 2000-2003.
Peer reviewer: Cano for JASIS, Interciencia and PeerNet; Buckner for Active Learning; McMurdo for Journal of Information Science.
Editorial duties and board membership: Cano for FID News Bulletin, Newsletter of the European Chapter of ASIS and Interciencia and Herring for International Review of Children's Literature and Librarianship.
b) Reviewer/Advisor/Evaluator for external grant awarding bodies:
Buckner acted as a peer review for ESRC in 1999 for the project Simulator for Innovation. Cano has been an EU external evaluator for the Alpha programme to the Columbus Project 2000; the EU IST Programme; National Board on Evaluation and University Accreditation, Argentinian Ministry of Culture and Education; Commission Nacional de Evaluacion y Acreditacion Universitaria. Ministerio de Educacion. Argentina; Universidad Tecnologica Metropolitana.Dept. of Librarianship and Information Science, Santiago.
c) Invited Lectures, Keynote Addresses and Academic panel membership in Conference Organisation.
Buckner - on review panel for ACM SIGCHI CHI 98 Conference and an invited speaker to UK conferences. Herring - keynote speaker at conferences in South Africa, Belgium and Portugal and invited speaker in Greece and the UK. Cano - keynote speaker at conferences in Mexico, Chile and USA and invited speaker at conferences in the Ukraine, Brazil, Dubai, Columbia and the UK.
d) External Funding and R&D consultancy work:
Buckner was the grant holder for the Living Memory Project funded under the EU 4th Framework Esprit Programme (Funding - £500K). She has been involved in consultancy projects with Spafax Consulting, 1999 and Nutricia 1999-2000, as a consultant on projects with Luton and Dunstable NHS Trust 2000 and Bassetlaw NHS Trust 2000. These consultancy and R&D projects amount to £6300. Her research on the CD-ROM on production of medical devices (in cooperation with members of the Health and Nursing department at QMUC) gave her the 1999 QMUC Commercial Ideas Competition Award.
Dr Gill Ragsdell was a member of the organising committee for the UKSS conference held in Lincoln in 1999. She has a strong track record in attracting external funding (£478K raised between 1997 and her arrival at Paisley). She is a member of the Editorial Advisory Committee for the International journal Systemic Practice and Action Research, and is Associate Editor of OR Insight, a journal of the OR Society. Dr Ragsdell has recently been approached by the Open University who have requested her permission to reprint her paper "Engineering a paradigm shift: a holistic approach to organisational change management“ in a course text entitled "Foundations for Senior Managers“ to be printed in March 2001. Since 1997, Dr Ragsdell has also examined two PhD’s within the period.
Dr Daune West was Chair of the UK Systems Society from 1998-2000, was invited to present at the IEEE conference on Process Modelling in Ulster in 1999 and in the IS stream at the OR conference in 1998. She has acted as a Faculty member at the UKAIS PhD Symposia in 1996, organised and UKSS sponsored workshop in 1997, and was co-editor of the UKSS’ publication Systemist, until 1998.
Dr Ragsdell and Dr West are part of the four person organising committee for the 7th International Conference of the UKSS, to be held at the University of York in July 2002 which is being co-sponsored by the University of Paisley. The conference title is "Systems Theory and Practice in the Knowledge Age“. The conference proceedings will be published by Kluwer Academic/Plenum Press.
Mr Alistair Campbell is a Director of Parallel 56 Limited, an e-business services group specialising in e-business strategy and planning. He was also involved with the development and launch, in April 2000, of the Scottish Enterprise 'First Steps into E-Commerce' workshop programme. Mr Campbell was a registered consultant with the 'ICT Solutions for Business' programme operated by Scottish Enterprise and has provided impartial, expert IT consultancy support for the DTI 'Information Society Initiative' project; Telecom Service Centres and for the Georgian Export Programme Agency.,
Dr Jun-Kang Feng has been invited to be a member of the Programme Committee for the conference of the IFIP WG8.1: "Organisational Semiotics: evolving a science of information systems“, to be held in Montreal in July 2001.
Research Boards Membership:
Davenport - Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) Panel 6
Research Boards Refereeing Work:
Davenport - EPSRC, ESRC, AHRB, Social Sciences Research Council of Canada
S. Turner and P. Turner - EPSRC
Research Degree External Examining:
Davenport - Ph D examiner in University of Utrecht; Ph D examiner at the University of Sheffield
S. Turner - Ph D examiner in University of Lancaster
P. Turner - M Phil (by research) – examiner at University of Durham.
Chairs of Conferences, Panels etc:
Davenport - Organiser and Chair for ‘Trust’ panel, Interact 99; Organiser and Chair for ‘Trust’ panel, CHI 2000; Organising committee member for the Second Nordic-British conference.
Horton - Member of the planning committee and member of programme committee for International Conference on Information Systems, Technology & Management, Jan. 2002 in Brisbane
Macaulay - Member of the planning committee for OIKOS 2001 – International Workshop on Methodologies for the Design of Household Technologies (Aarhus, March 2001)
Macintosh - Tutorial Chairman;13th biennial Conference Chair ES'94 14th Annual Conference of the BCS Specialist Group on Applications Programme Chair of ES’96, the 16th Annual Conference of the BCS Specialist Group on Knowledge-Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge; 1996; Applications Programme Chair of ES'97 the 17th International Conference of the BCS Specialist Group on Knowledge-Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge; 1997; European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98) Brighton, UK; 1998; Programme Chair; PAKeM99 the International Conference on Practical Application of Knowledge Management; London: 1999; Applications Programme Chair of ES'2000 the 21st International Conference of the BCS Specialist Group on Knowledge-Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence, Cambridge; 2000.
Turner, S. and Turner, P. - Programme organising committee for Human Computer Interaction (HCI) 2000, and short papers co-chairs.
Organisation of Workshops:
Davenport – co-ordinator of an IIS sponsored workshop ’Business intelligence in the age of networks’, Napier University, October 1999; co-ordinator of an IIS sponsored workshop ‘Knowledge management in the age of business networks’, Napier University, October 2000
Macintosh - Organising Committee; Second International and Interdisciplinary Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories, 16th International Joint Conference on AI (IJCAI-99), Stockholm, Sweden, 1999; .Organising Committee; International Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memory, to be held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI-2001) Seattle, August 6, 2001; Programme Committee: Interdisciplinary Workshop Building, maintaining and using organizational memories at 13th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-98); Brighton, UK; 1998; Programme Committee; Workshop on Knowledge Management and Organizational Memories; the 14th biennial European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI-2000); Berlin, Germany, 20-25 August, 2000
Invited membership of professional and advisory bodies:
Macintosh - 1999 – to date member of the British Computer Society's Technical Board;
1997- to date; Vice Chairman of the British Computer Society's Special Interest Group on Knowledge-Based Systems and Applied Artificial Intelligence; Member of the Scottish Executive's Ministerial Task Force on "Digital Scotland"; 1999 – 2000; Member of the UK-Online working group to determine the content of the UK government’s web portal; Member of the National Grid for Learning (NGfL) Scotland, Communities Working Group; Member of the Advisory Council for the Commonwealth Centre for Electronic Governance; 2000- to date
Visiting posts and links with external institutions:
Davenport - Visiting Scholar in the School of Library and Information Science, Indiana University, 1994 – present; Fellow of the Center for Social Informatics Universiy of Indiana, 1996 – present
Davenport – Memorandum of agreement with EBSI University of Montreal
Turner, S. - Member of the advisory committee for AHRB-funded VISOR projects, Institute for Image Data Research, University of Northumbria at Newcastle
Invitations to speak:
Davenport - National Danish Research Laboratory, May 1999; Knowledge Management Seminar, Royal Danish School of Librarianship, May 1999; British Council sponsored visitor to Toronto, Halifax and Montreal, February 1999; Edward Clark Memorial Lecture, University of Toronto, February 1999; invited speaker EBSI (Ecole de biblioeconomie et sciences informatiques, Universite de Monreal) Montreal, February 1999; invited speaker ACFAS Annual Conference: Le savoir dans l’ere des reseaux. Ottowa, May 1999; National Research Council of Canada, May 1999; Lazerow Memorial Lecture, UCLA March 2001; invited speaker UTS NSW, July 2001 (partially sponsored by the John Campbell Trust).
Macintosh - International Workshop on Forming a Digital Citizenship in Europe held in the Swedish Parliament, Stockholm, Sweden, September 2000; EU Digital Democracy: Technology and the Future of Local and Regional Governance; Missouri, US, March 2001; 2nd Worldwide Forum on Electronic Democracy, Paris, France, May 2001; 8th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, Nicosia, Cyprus, 8-10 November 2001.
Macaulay - Glasgow University Interactive Systems Group (GIST). December 1997;
Invited editorships:
Davenport - Assistant editor (with R. Williams of Edinburgh University) of a special issue of The Information Society, 16 (2), 2000
Turner, P and Turner, S. - Co-editors of special issue of the journal Interacting with Computers
Turner P and Turner S. - Editors of Volume II of the HCI 2000conference proceedings
Macaulay: - Editor, HCI Thesis-in-Progress List (TIP) Website (1998-current)
Referee for tenure and promotion dossiers:
Davenport - Universite de Monreal; University of North Texas; University of Illinois; Indiana University.
Journal submission refereeing:
Davenport - The Information Society; Journal of Documentation; International Journal for Information Management; Annual Review of Information Science and Technology; Journal of Information Science; Online Review; Library Quarterly
Horton - Long Range Planning; The Information Society
Macaulay – International Journal of Human Computer Behaviour
S.Turner and P. Turner - Interacting with Computers, Design studies and Int. J. Human Computer Studies.
Involvement with editing major international IS and HCI journals is part of our strategy. Information Systems Journal (ISJ) and the European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), the two best regarded non-American IS journals, are edited by Brunel staff (Fitzgerald, Paul and O’Keefe). Avison and Fitzgerald founded ISJ in 1990. Paul founded EJIS is 1989 and is now co-editor. We also provide editorial team members for Logistics Information Management (Irani), the Business Process Management Journal (Irani), Virtual Reality (Macredie) and Information Visualisation (C. Chen).
Additionally, staff hold editorial board or associate editor positions on the following journals: Journal of Information Technology (Currie, Fitzgerald), Journal of Change Management (Currie), Journal of Contemporary Issues in Business and Government (Fitzgerald), Personal Technologies (Macredie), Journal of Intelligent Systems (Paul), Logistics Information Management (Elliman, Paul), Journal of Simulation Systems Science and Technology (Paul), Multimedia Tools and Applications (Angelides), Journal of Workplace Learning (Irani), International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (Irani), Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (Hierons).
Within this period of assessment, we have edited special issues of the following journals: Journal of the American Society for Information Science (C. Chen and Macredie), International Journal of Human-Computer Studies (C. Chen), Information and Software Technology (Harman), Software Testing, Verification and Reliability (Hierons),
International Journal of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (Irani) and International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management (Irani).Books and Conferences
The following book series are either edited by, or have an editorial team member, at Brunel: McGraw-Hill’s Information Systems (Fitzgerald), Springer-Verlag’s BCS Practitioners (Paul), Springer-Verlag’s Applied Computing (Paul and Kuljis), the IEE series in Professional Applications of Computing (Macredie) and Butterworth Heinemann/Computer Weekly’s Professional Information Systems (Irani).
Of particular note are three research driven books written by staff. C. Chen has written Information Visualisation and Virtual Environments (Springer Verlag, 1999), the first authored book in the field of information visualisation. Currie’s The Information Society (Wiley, 2000) presents research results on IS strategy, outsourcing and e-commerce frameworks. Avison and Fitzgerald’s Information System Development: Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (McGraw Hill, 1995), now in its second edition and soon to be released in its third, is one of the major global texts in advanced IS development. It is the largest selling advanced IS text in the UK and also sells extensively in Europe, the Far East and Australia.
We regularly present at the major conferences in IS and HCI, especially the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), the Hawaii Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), the Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), INTERACT and the international Computer Human Interaction (CHI) conference. However, as a matter of policy we encourage staff to turn conference papers into international journal papers. Both Brooks and Seltsikas have had papers selected from ECIS to be submitted to special issues of ISJ and EJIS. This is highly prestigious: in a typical year 400+ papers are submitted to ECIS, 100+ are presented, 12 or 13 selected for journal review and 5 or 6 published in ISJ or EJIS.
Fitzgerald was the International Liaison for ICIS 1999, Charlotte, USA, and Vice-Chairman of the Programme Committee for the Fifth European Conference on Information Systems, Cork, Ireland, 1997. C. Chen, Irani and Pouloudi have been allocated research mini-tracks at HICSS; these are assigned following a highly competitive bidding and selection process. Staff have been programme committee members at many other conferences organised by the IEEE, IEE and IFIP. Angelides was Chair of the multimedia tracks at the IFIP Working Conference on the Impact of IT, Israel, 1996, and the 5th International Conference of the Decision Sciences Institute, Greece, 1999. C. Chen gave the keynote speech at the 4th International Conference on Visual Information Systems in 2000 (Lyon, France). Currie gave the keynote address at the 2000 International Conference on Systems Thinking in Management (Deakin University, Australia).
As a matter of policy the Department hosts specialised conferences and workshops, including the Fifth Research Symposium on Emerging Electronic Markets (September 1998) and the Sixth European Conference On Information Technology Evaluation (November 1999). Both of these drew researchers from around the world, including the US, Australia and South Africa in addition to Europe. Brunel will host the 2001 International Conference of the Society for Decision Support Systems, with Paul as Conference Chair.
International Visitors and Research Collaboration
We have hosted, among others, the following visitors: Professor Dick Welke (Georgia State, USA), Dr. Paul Cragg (University of Canterbury, New Zealand), Professor Dick Nance (Virginia Tech, USA), Dr Gary Tan (National University of Singapore) and Dr Michael Deng (Hong Kong Polytechnic University). All our visitors are actively engaged in collaborative research with many members of staff.
Through Visiting Professor Doukidis, we have a strong relationship with the e-commerce lab at Athens School of Economics. Three students started their studies in Athens before moving to Brunel to complete their PhDs.
Work in outsourcing is the only such international comparative work undertaken and is notable for the high quality of its contributors, including Lacity (Missouri, USA) who is the premier US researcher in the area. Currie and Fitzgerald have personal invitations to an international workshop from Hirschheim (Houston, USA) designed to set the future direction for IT outsourcing research.
TENURE COMMITTEE: I McIlwaine: U of Toronto; Hockey: U of Ottawa.
COLLABORATION WITH INSTITUTIONS OVERSEAS &c: includes: a nine year link with the University of Ghana, Legon with interchange of staff (Dawson, Danbury, Peters) and supervision of MSc (1), MPhil (1) and PhD (2) students from Ghana. Foot: Princeton; U of Virginia, Charlottesville; Metamorfoze Programme (evaluator of major Dutch preservation programme, funded by Dutch Government, 1998-2000); Biblioteca Naçional, Portugal (evaluator of Preservation Programme, 1999). Hockey: U of Alberta (Advisory Board of Orlando Project, 1999-); external reviewer of LE-PAROLE (EU project based in Paris, 1997); U of Toronto review of research proposals. I McIlwaine: U of Toronto (research project with N Williamson); Malta (supervision of external PhD); Boras, Sweden (invited seminar). J McIlwaine: Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (member of cttee appointed to visit and evaluate work of the Afrika StudieCentrum, U of Leiden, April, 1998).
COMMITTEES &c: Bowman: LA Dewey Decimal Classification Cttee (Cttee member); LASER; Printing Historical Society (Hon Sec, 1994-97); Society of Indexers (Research Cttee, 1994-97). Brown: BCS Electronic Publishing Specialist Group (Cttee member, 2000-); Institute of Publishing (Council member); Electric Editors (Co-ordinator); Tony Godwin Memorial Trust; Sir Stanley Unwin Travelling Scholarship (Administrator). Broughton: Bliss Classification Association (Cttee member); FID/CR (Chair, 2000-); UDC Advisory Board. Danbury: AHRB, Panel 6; British Automated Catalogue on Seals; Centre for Palaeography (Steering Cttee); English monastic archives project (Consultative cttee); ICA Cttee on Professional Training (corresponding cttee); Restore UK panel (expert adviser on archives); Palaeography: Developing the National Resource (Advisory Panel). Foot: Association Internationale de Bibliophilie (Council member, 1996-); Bibliographical Society (President, 2000-2002); Bibliotheca Wittockiana, Brussels (Advisory Board, 1982-); BSI Cttee to revise BS 5454: Storage of library and archive material; Brotherton Library, U of Leeds (Advisory Cttee, 1993-99); Friends of the British Library (Council member, 1989-); Friends of Cambridge University Library (Cttee member, 1999-); IFLA Preservation & Conservation (Cttee member, 1992-97); ISO, Storage of Library & Archive Material Cttee; Lambeth Palace Library (Advisory Cttee, 1993-99); LIBER (Chair, Preservation Div, 1994-2000); National Preservation Office (Management Cttee, 1994-99); Society of Antiquaries (Library Cttee, 1999-; Council member, 2000-). Forde: ICA Preservation Cttee (Chairman, 1996-2000); ICA Commission on Programme Management (2000-2002); Wellcome/BL grant awarding body for documentary collections in the history of medicine (2000); consulted on preservation and preservation training in Yemen (UNESCO, 1995 & 1997), Budapest (1998), Kazakhstan (1999), UN Geneva (1999), and OUP for their archive (2000). Hockey: ALA ALCTS Task Force to Define Bibliographic Access in the Electronic Environment, 1995-7; Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing (Chair, 1984-97); Model Editions Partnership Steering Cttee (Chair, 1996-99); Oxford Text Archive (AHDS) Steering Cttee (2000-); Society of Biblical Literature Seminar on Electronic Standards for Biblical Language Materials (1998-99); Text Encoding Initiative (Member of Steering cttee, twice Chair, 1987-99). I McIlwaine: Bliss Classification Association (observer); BSI/DOT/-; BSI/DOT/3 (Vice Chair); FID/CR (Chair, 1996-2000); IFLA: Professional Board (1999-2001), Div of Bibliographic Control (Chair, 1999-2001), Classification & Indexing (1995-, Chair, 1997-2001); LA Dewey Decimal Classification Cttee (observer); Palaeography: Developing the National Resource (Advisory Panel); QAA Benchmarking Group for Library & Information Management; Society of Indexers (Research Cttee; Continuing Education Cttee). J McIlwaine: IFLA: Preservation & Conservation (1997-; Chair, 1999-2001); National Council on Orientalist Library Resources (1994-); RSLP: Mapping Asia Project (Chairman, Review Cttee); Survey of Conservation of Asian documents (cttee member); RSLP/BL CPP: Mapping the National Collection of South Asian Official Publications (external assessor); Standing Conference on Library Materials on Africa (1994-). Peters: English monastic archives project (Consultative cttee); Society of Archivists (International Panel, 1998-2000). Shepherd: BSI IDT/2/17 for records management (1997-); FARMER (Chair, 2000-, ); ICA Cttee on Professional Training (full cttee, 2000-); National Council on Archives (Press & Publicity Officer, 1998-); QAA Benchmarking Group for Library & Information Management; Society of Archivists (national councillor, 2000-; Hon Sec, 1995-98; Chairman, Education, Training & Development Cttee, 2000-).
HONOURS, AWARDS, &c: Danbury was elected a FRHistS, 2001. Foot was presented with a Festschrift in 2000. She was also elected Sandars Reader in Bibliography at the U of Cambridge and will deliver Sandars Lectures in 2002-3. I & J McIlwaine awarded LA centenary medals, 1998. J McIlwaine awarded Conover-Porter Prize by African Studies Association of the US. Sayers given freedom of Gavignano, Italy, 1998.
CONFERENCE ORGANIZING CTTEES &c: Bowman: 6th Int. Study Conf. on Classification Research, 1997. Danbury: AMARC annual conf., 1994 to date. Foot: LIBER Preservation Cttee annual one-day confs., 1994-99 (organizer). Forde: Int. Conf. on photographic preservation & conservation training, 2000 (organizer); Society of Archivists 50th Ann. Conf, 1997 (joint organizer). Hockey: ACM Digital Libraries Conf. Program Cttee (1998 & 1999); ALLC-ACH Programme cttee, 1996; ICHIM99 Programme Cttee, 1999. I McIlwaine: ISKO, 1996, 1998, 2000; 6th Int. Study Conf. on Classification Research, 1997 (Chair); BL Conf. on future of the National bibliography, 1998 (Chair); Subject retrieval in a networked world, OCLC, Dublin, Ohio, 2001 (Chair). I & J McIlwaine: invited delegates at Int. Conf. on National Bibliographies, Copenhagen, 1998, at which I McIlwaine chaired a focus group and wrote one of four preprinted scoping papers. J McIlwaine: IFLA Satellite Conf. on Collecting and safeguarding the oral traditions, Khon Kaen, Thailand, 1999. Miller: Temporal reasoning artificial intelligence & logic (TRAIL) seminar series. Shepherd: Society of Archivists 50th Ann. Conf., 1997 (joint organizer); ran a workshop as part of ESARBICA Conf. in Zanzibar, 1999.
KEYNOTE ADDRESSES &c: Brown: 1998: "Digital Learning Materials", U of Oslo. 1999: Society of Indexers; ALPSP. 2000: Society of Freelance Editors & Proofreaders; Independent Publishers Guide. Foot: 1997: Panizzi lectures. 1999: "From Craft to Industry", Bryn Mawr; "The only certainty is change", LIBER. 2000: "Bookbindings: Purpose, use and content, an historical view", Princeton. Hockey: 1996: Nat. Inst. for Japanese Literature, Tokyo; Nat. Research Council, Washington DC; Nat. Humanities Center, N Carolina; ACLS Ann. Meeting, Washington DC; Lansdowne Lecturer, U of Victoria; New York Public Library Cam Lecture series. 1997: Mellon Foundation Conf. on Scholarly Communication & Technology, Atlanta. 1998: U of Tübingen 25th Ann. Colloquium on text analysis; Congress of Humanities & Social Sciences, Ottawa; New York University; Conf. on Editorial Methods, The Hague. 1999: U of Virginia seminar on humanities computing; workshop on computing corpora, U of Michigan. 2000: Society of Biblical Literature, Nashville; appointed Hooker lecturer at McMaster University for January 2000 but declined. 2001: North American Symposium on Corpus Linguistics, Boston MA. I McIlwaine: 1998: Libraries & associations in the Transient World, Crimea; OCLC "Distinguished Speakers Seminar". 2000: Seminarium: UDK Universalla decimalklassifikationem, Boras, Sweden. 2001: Deutsche Bibliothek. J McIlwaine: 1997: 7th South African Conference of Bibliophiles, Cape Town; 40th Ann. Conf. of the Africana Librarians Council, Columbus, Ohio.
EDITORIAL BOARDS: Hockey: African-American Research Library; Computing in the humanities working papers; Hypermedia Ulysses; Literary and linguistic computing; Papers of Thomas A Edison; Project Muse; Internet Shakespeare Editions. I McIlwaine: Universal Decimal Classification (Editor in chief); Knowledge organization. J McIlwaine: Africa research & documentation (Editor); African journal of LIS. Miller: Journal of electronic transactions on artificial intelligence. Shepherd: Archival science; Records management journal.
GRANTS: Danbury: "Heritage Preservation Management", BL/LIC £31,590; (with Shepherd) European Project E-Term, EU Leonardo da Vinci Programme, 33,637.50 Euros; (with Dawson) ICT Training in Public Libraries, £15,000; share in English medieval monastic archives project (AHRB, £371,660 to Prof. D’Avray, UCL Dept. of History; co-applicant Peters). Hockey: "From Archives to researcher: a generic tool set", AHRB £292,560. I McIlwaine: UDC Consortium £47,000; "Behaviour based modelling of scholarly communication in the sciences", Elsevier Science £63,000. I McIwaine (for Jennifer Hogarth): "Indexing Handlist to papers of JZ Young", BL £2,500; National Register of archives and ARCHON, RCHM £10,000. Sayers: "Calendar of papal registers", AHRB £71,143. Shepherd: "Management of electronic records: educational videos" (2 pubns resulted), BLR&DD £48,304; "Distance education & continuing professional development", HEFCE £36,000; "Application of ISAD(G) to the description of datasets", AHRB £4,925; "Mapping of descriptive standards across domains", BA £4,021.
Consultancy and advisory work
• Consultancy work for the Council of Europe, the Goethe Society, Open Society Foundation and the Governments of Norway, Greece and Macedonia (Sturges), overseas professional associations such as The Open Society Institute, Budapest (Morris), Czech Republic National Library (Sumsion), Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of China (Feather), Singapore National Library (Evans); Government of Denmark, NATO, and the European Commission (Oppenheim); and the French Ministry of Culture (Dearnley). LISU also carries out much consultancy work for public and private sector clients.
• Advisory work in overseas universities, including curriculum development (Evans, University of Hong Kong: Development of Undergraduate Curriculum); external examining (Evans, University of Malaya; Feather, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore; Sturges, University of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, Moi University Kenya, Madras University and University of Cape Town; Oppenheim, ISEGI, Lisbon) and assessment of candidates for appointment and promotion.
• Advisory work for national and international organisations, including British Council (Oppenheim); British Standards Institution (Davies, Oppenheim, Sumsion), International Standards Organisation (Sumsion), FID (Oppenheim), NATO (Oppenheim); European Commission’s Legal Advisory Board (Oppenheim).
• The Department’s Legal and Policy Research Group has run two successful research seminars on behalf of the Library Association’s International Group.
• External assessor for the French National Centre for Information Science (Meadows). Expert advisor to House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology (Oppenheim); expert witness to House of Lords Select Committee on Public Understanding of Science (Herman, PhD student). Policy advisory work for the Council of Europe (Feather; Sturges); work in advising the French Ministry of Culture on e commerce (Dearnley),
Editorships and editorial boards of international refereed journals
• Editorships and memberships of major international journal editorial boards: Information Management Report, Alexandria, Information Services and Use, Journal of Documentation, Library and Information Science Abstracts, Journal of Information Science, Electronic Publishing Journal, Business Information Review, Information Research, Journal of Information Law and Technology, International Journal of Electronic Library Research, World Patent Information (Oppenheim); Journal of Information Science, Information Processing and Management, Scientometrics, Serials (Meadows); New Review of Children’s Literature and Librarianship (Evans); Librarianship and Information Work Worldwide (Feather; and Sturges); Journal of Digital Information; International Journal of Human-Computer Studies; New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia; Journal of Educational Multimedia and Hypermedia (McKnight); Learned Publishing (Rowland); The Electronic Library (Morris); Library Management (Evans, Goulding and Murray); Journal of Librararianship and Information Science, (Evans and Goulding); Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering (Summers); Asian Libraries (Sturges); Journal of Digital Information (Muir
Invited and refereed lectures at international conferences
• Invited and refereed contributions to international conferences e.g., Feather — LIBER Conference, Switzerland; Evans — IFLA, European Foundation for Quality Management, International Association for School Librarianship; Goulding —INULS, Ireland; Hepworth — Thailand; McKnight — Greece, Korea, Japan; Meadows — Brazil, Mexico, France; Murray — Greece, Croatia, Sweden; Rowland — Hungary, Canada, Thailand, Sweden, Japan, Turkey, Netherlands; Sturges — Slovenia, Zimbabwe, Germany, Luxembourg, France, Poland, Brazil, Burkina Faso, Finland, Sweden, Canada, Greece, Macedonia, Croatia, Hungary, Namibia, Norway, Latvia and Estonia; Oppenheim – Vietnam, Poland, Czech Republic, USA, France, Italy, Germany as well as IOLIM in London; Morris – Hungary, Greece, Canada, Thailand, Portugal; Sumsion – Luxembourg. In addition, members of staff have been on the organising committees of international conferences, e.g. Oppenheim (IOLIM), and Rowland (ICCC/IFIP Electronic Publishing Conferences).
International visitors
• International scholars who contribute to the Department’s work as Visiting Fellows have come from: USA (Borgman); China (Zhou); India (Babu).
Honours and awards
• Festschrift in Journal of Documentation and conference based upon work done (Meadows)
• Award of ISI Research prize – Oppenheim.
• Professional honours include several Fellowships for members of staff, and an Honorary Fellowship (Sumsion) of the Library Association, several Fellowships, and an Honorary Fellowship (Oppenheim) of the Institute of Information Scientists, an Honorary Higher Doctorate and Vice Presidency of the LA (Meadows), Vice Presidency of Aslib (Oppenheim), President of the Institute of Information Scientists (Oppenheim), and Fellowship of British Computer Society (McKnight)
• Visiting Research Fellowships in other Universities (Sturges, Oppenheim)
• Invited contributions for Annual Review of Information Science and Technology (Morris, O’Brien).
Professional involvement
• Professional activities at all levels include: membership of advisory committees of the British Library (Feather, Meadows); United Kingdom Office for Library Networking (McKnight), the British Council Library and Information Advisory Committee (Feather, Oppenheim), membership of the Arts and Humanities Research Board (Feather); membership of the Archives, Libraries and Information Advisory Committee, English Heritage (Feather); Steering Committee, Research Support Libraries Programme (Feather); chairmanship, Advisory Committee, Library and Information Plan for Leicestershire (Feather); membership/chair of committees of major professional organisations, including the International Federation of Library Associations (Evans, Feather, Goulding, Meadows, Sturges, Sumsion), Library Association (Evans, Feather, Goulding, Sturges), Institute of Information Scientists (Davies, Muir, Oppenheim, Rowland), Library and Information Research Group (Davies, Sumsion), UK Association of Publishing Educators (Rowland), British Computer Society (McKnight), Library Association of Latvia (Smith) and the Association for Computing Machinery (McKnight). Professor Summers is Vice-President of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society, UK Representative to the International Measurement Confederation Technical Committee 13; the latter body is based in Hungary. He is also UK representative on the International Federation of Automation and Control Technical Committee on Business and Management Techniques and a member of the UK Automation and Control Council. He is also a member of the Executive Committee of the British Medical Informatics Society and a member of Council of the Institute of Measurement and Control.
• The Department was asked by the British Council to run a high-level week-long international research seminar on the digital library in 1999. Such was the success of this event that, most unusually for the British Council, it has asked the Department to re-run the event in 2001.
Members hold a number of editorial positions: Adam is on the advisory board of Information Communications Technology and Law; Avis served as Executive Editor on Virtual Reality: Research, Development and Application; Aylett was guest editor of Applied Artificial Intelligence; Howcroft is guest editor of Data Base and IT & People; McMaster and Wastell were Co-Editors of the IFIP WG8.6 Conference Proceedings (1997); Cooper and Rezgui are on the editorial board of the Electronic Journal of IT in Construction. Wilson served on the editorial board of IT & People; Wood is a member of the editorial board of Information Systems Journal and Requirements Engineering and co-editor (with Wood-Harper) of the BCS IS Methodologies Conference Proceedings (1998); Wood-Harper is a member of the editorial board of Information Systems Journal and New Review of Information Systems and was Associate Editor for ECIS (1999).
Members of the centre have also held a number of key positions at international conferences and workshops. Adam was theme chair for IFIP TC-9 (1998) and Co-chair of the forthcoming Critical Research in IS Workshop (with Howcroft); Allen has organized three workshops on Information Strategies; Ananiadou was Workshop organizer for Machine Translation for Cross-language Information Retrieval (1999) and Computational Terminology for Medical and Biological Applications (2000); Aylett was the Chair for the 1st International Workshop on Intelligent Agents and forthcoming chair of the 3rd International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents (Madrid 2001); Linge was organizer/chair of 7 IEE Colloquiums. These positions are in addition to the numerous programme committees on which members of the Centre have served. These include: ICIS (Wastell, 1997 and 1999); IFIP WG 8.1 (Wood-Harper 1999); IFIP WG8.2 (Howcroft, 2001); IFIP WG 8.2/8.6 (Wastell, 1998; Wood-Harper, 1997); IFIP WG 8.6 (Wastell, 2001); IFIP WG 9.1 (Adam 1997; 2000); IFIP TC-9 (Adam, 1998); UKAIS (Allen, 1999; Howcroft, 1999; Wood-Harper 2000); Information Seeking in Context (Allen, 2000); CIB W78 (Cooper & Rezgui, 1998); ICIntIS (Cooper & Rezgui, 1997).
Researchers at the Centre have been invited to present at numerous national and international research seminars. Presentations have been made in Germany (Adam), Holland (Allen), Sweden (Howcroft), S. Africa (Light), Norway (Wastell & Wood-Harper), France (Wastell) and Australia, Malaysia & New Zealand (Wood-Harper). In addition, Adam gave a keynote address at the International Women’s University in Hanover; Avis was an invited speaker at the VR World Congress and was invited to give the North West region IEE centenary lecture; Chadwick has been invited to give seminars to the UK MOD and US DoD; McMaster has been invited to submit keynote papers on Social Justice and IS to be published in the Communications of the AIS 2001; Wastell was Keynote speaker at the Ferranti Annual Conference (1997); Wood gave a keynote address at the Manchester E-commerce conference in 2000; Wood-Harper gave keynote addresses at the UK Systems Society Conference, the BIT Conference, the UK Doctoral Consortium and the ‘Get Smart’ Community Informatics Conference, Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia.
Members of the centre also hold a number of visiting positions: Avis is a visiting Professor at Imperial College; Basden is a visiting Professor/Scholar University of Tampere, Free University of Amsterdam & University of Luleå; Chadwick a visiting Professor at Ljuljana, Slovenia; Linge an invited Lecturer at the British Association Festival of Science (1999); Wastell was a visiting Professor at the Centre for Innovation in Product Development, MIT (1999); Wood-Harper is a visiting Professor at the University of South Australia, University of Technology Malaysia and University of Oslo.
Members of the group also hold a range of positions of esteem. Adam was a founder member of IFIP WG 9.9 (Women and Technology) and a founder member of the computer ethics society, Chair of Women into Computing (WiC) 1999 and an invited member of IFIP WG9.1. Ananiadou was Vice-president of the European Association for Terminology (EAFT) (1997-1999). Avis is the Scientific advisor to the Science Museum (London) and Education officer to UK Chapter of Eurographics. Aylett is an executive member of EU Network of Excellence in AI planning. Linge was the chair of IEE professional group on distributed systems Engineering (1997-8). Vadera is on the Panel for BCS C (Eng.) whilst Wood-Harper is on the BCS Validation Board. Wood is an ESPRIT Project Reviewer (1996-2000) under Esprit Programme 7.1. Several staff have served as reviewers for EPSRC grants (Adam, Howcroft, Wastell, Wilson, Wood and Wood-Harper). Ananiadou was a member of review panel of Greek Ministry of Research and Technology for research proposals in Language Technology (1999). Wood-Harper is on the UK Committee of IS Professors and is a faculty member of the UK annual IS doctoral consortium. He is also a member of the board of the UKAIS whilst Allen was Chair of the UKAIS Northern Group Committee in 1998/1999. Wood-Harper hosted and chaired the 1997 IFIP TC8 meeting in the Lake District.
Qualitative indicators of esteem The excellence of the Department’s reputation is indicated by the funded research it has carried out in collaboration with a very wide range of both national (Arts Council, Audit Commission, Barnsley City Challenge, British Dental Association, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre, Eli Lilly, Elsevier, GlaxoWellcome Research and Development, Healthcare Environments Ltd., James Black Foundation, Newcastle City Council, Oxford Asymmetry International, Pfizer Central Research, Sheffield Health Authority, Somerset County Council and Zeneca Agrochemicals) and international (Pfizer Inc., Tripos Inc., Warner-Lambert Parke-Davis) organisations. Further significant support has been received from conventional research funding agencies such as the AHRB, government departments, the EU, HEFCE and the major UK research councils. Its excellence is also demonstrated by its involvement in international research consortia such as CLARITY, DEDICATE, MERLIN 2000, MIND and MOSART (see RA5c) and the number of overseas students attracted to the Department by its reputation (42% of the 38 research degrees awarded in 1996-2000).
In addition to its own seminar series and many other small meetings and workshops, the Department has hosted several major international conferences in areas where it has particular expertise. Thus, as noted previously, CHIMR has organised the annual SHIMR conference, which has established itself as an important forum for research in this rapidly developing area: the fifth of these was held in Sheffield in 2000, with the sixth taking place in Halkidiki (Greece) in May 2001. 1998 saw the Department organising a major international conference on behalf of the Chemical Structure Association and of the Molecular Graphics and Modelling Society. This conference, on Computational Approaches to the Design and Analysis of Combinatorial Libraries, was so successful that the Department was asked to organise a successor in April 2001. 1998 also saw the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC ‘98) conference discussing research in information needs, seeking and use in different contexts, the previous conference in this international series being in Finland. The Department also organised the third conference on Community Information Networks (CIN’99), this being immediately followed by the UK launch conference of the European Association of Community Networks, and will host the SIGIR 2004 international IR conference.
The Department’s research on the impact of public libraries received extensive media coverage during the 1997 National Libraries week. Secretary of State Chris Smith, and the then Libraries’ Minister, Mark Fisher, both referred to the value of Sheffield's research in speeches, and the work was also covered by Radio Four, BBC Breakfast News, ITN, The Guardian, The Observer, The Times, The Bookseller and Municipal Journal. More recently, the importance of the group’s work on library closures was underlined by the BL’s decision to distribute a free copy of the final research report to every public library authority in England and Wales.
A very different exemplar of the quality of the Department’s research is the range of chemoinformatics software that is distributed commercially. For example, the GOLD computer program for flexible ligand docking was developed during a BBSRC/MRC LINK project in collaboration with the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC) and GlaxoWellcome (Willett-1). GOLD is distributed by CCDC, with the program already in use in industrial and academic organisations worldwide, including most major pharmaceutical companies; it also figured prominently in Innovation in the Biosciences, a publication demonstrating the exploitation of BBSRC-funded research. The GASP system for automatic pharmacophore detection is distributed by a major US chemical software company, who will shortly release other Sheffield software for combinatorial library design. Our expertise is also evidenced by an EPSRC award of £523K for the delivery of the first MSc course in chemoinformatics anywhere in the world.
Further evidence of esteem is provided by staff acting as external examiners for taught courses and research theses for 34 universities (10 of them overseas) during 1996-2000, and being members of the editorial boards of the following 20 academic journals: Anales de Documentación, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Education for Information, Information Processing and Management, Information Retrieval, Information Research, International Journal of Information Management, Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, Journal of Chemical Information and Computer Sciences, Journal of Computer-Aided Molecular Design, Journal of Documentation, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling, Knygotyra, Liberpolis Revista das Bibliotecas Publicas, Library Association Record, Public Library Journal, SAR and QSAR in Environmental Research, SIGIR Forum.
Recognition of individuals’ research achievements In Computational Informatics, Beaulieu was a member of the AHRB research panel for Library and Information Studies from 1998, is now chair 2000-2004 and a member of the AHRB Board. She is a member of the ESRC Programme Evaluation Committee and was a member of the British Library Advisory Committee for the Centre for Innovation and Research 1995-1998, and is European Programme Chair for the 2002 SIGIR conference (Tampere); Eaglestone was conference chair for the SHIMR99 and SHIMR2000 conferences, and co-chair of the International Database Engineering and Applications Symposia (Montreal 1997 and Cardiff 1998) and of the International Workshop on Validation, Verification and Integrity Issues of Expert Systems and Databases (Vienna, 1998); Ford was awarded a Readership from the University of Sheffield in 2000 in recognition of his research achievement, and had a paper included in the special 50th anniversary issue of Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology (as did Allen and Wilson); Gillet was the project leader for the widely-used SPROUT system for computer-aided molecular design, is chair of the conference Computational Tools for Lead Discovery (Sheffield 2001), and is a regular lecturer in combinatorial chemistry for the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation; Nunes is the UK project head of MERLIN 2000, a multinational EU LEONARDO project to develop Web-based distance learning techniques in engineering; Sanderson is the European Editor of the Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology and joint editor of SIGIR Forum; Warwick was the recipient of an Association of Literary and Linguistic Computing (ALLC) Bursary for Young Scholars to enable her to attend the 1999 ALLC conference (Virginia), is on the review panel for the 2001 ALLC conference (New York), and was on the organising committee of the Digital Resources in the Humanities conference (Sheffield 2000); Willett is the President of the Chemical Structure Association and the Chair of the Governors of the Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre. He was awarded a DSc from the University of Sheffield in 1997, was the 1997 recipient of the Distinguished Lecturer Award of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, was European Chair for the 1997 SIGIR conference (Philadelphia) and was Chair (1996-99) of the Management Advisory Committee of the EPSRC Chemical Database Service.
Ross has delivered 45 invited papers at such places as Brussels (DLM Forum 1996 & 1999), Budapest (Hungarian Academy of Sciences), Chicago (RLG Annual Conference 1997; MER’98), Dublin (Society of Archivists Conference), Edinburgh (Royal Society Conference on Digitisation), Göttingen, and Stockholm (Wenner-Gren Foundation and Academia Europaea). Some, such as Changing Trains at Wigan (British Library 2000: ISBN 0712347178), have been published. Ross has served as an external Ph.D. examiner at the University of Southampton and is an external examiner for Pallas (Humanities Computing) at the University of Exeter (1997- ). Ross’s committee service includes, DLM-Forum Committee of the European Commission (1997- ), Content Working Group of the JCEI of the JISC (1996- ), the Steering Committee for the Arts and Humanities Data Service (1995-2000), PRESERV RLG Working Group on Preservation Issues of Metadata (5/1997-5/1998), and the Digital Archiving Working Group (DAWG) of the Joint Information Systems Committee and the National Preservation Office (1997-1999). Ross was expert advisor to the Heritage Lottery Fund on IT (1996-2000) and continues to act as a Project Monitor. Ross has contributed to shaping the Fifth Framework Programme of IST Funding in the Libraries, Archives and Museum arena (DGXIII) (1998 and 1999), served as an FP5 Evaluator (February and June 2000), and during 2000 contributed to initiatives led by DGXIII to create a European Strategy on Digitisation. Ross was UK Look Visiting Researcher in the Department of Information Studies at the University of Tampere (Finland) in 1999, a member of the editorial board of Archives and Museum Informatics (1996-2000), and of the steering committee of Internet Archaeology (which he co-founded in 1995). He was Chair of the InterPARES European Group (1999-2000) and is its co-Chair (2000- ).
Moss is regularly invited to speak at international conferences; in 1998 he delivered a named lecture at the University of Otago (NZ) and gave the inaugural lecture for the Liverpool University Centre of Archive Studies (LUCAS) (2000, Moss 2), and in 2000 participated by invitation in the 200
th anniversary conference of the Banque de France. Moss serves as business module convenor and tutor for the Society of Archivists Archival Diploma (1995- ). He is a member of the executive committee of the National Trust for Scotland (2000- ) and the architect of its information strategy, the Accounting History Committee of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (1994- ), the advisory committee of the Scottish Architects' Papers Preservation Project (2000- ), and convenor of the Senior Historians Group (1999- ) and of the Business Archives Council of Scotland (2000- ). The University recognised the achievement of Moss with his appointment to a chair in Archival Studies in 1997.Richmond delivered fifteen papers including Beijing (International Council on Archives Congress, 1996), Milan (International Council on Archives Section on Business Archives and International Association of Labour Historians, 1998), and Aarhus (50th Anniversary of Danish National Business Archives, 1999). She serves on the Society of Archivists Diploma Committee (1998- ) and is external examiner for the UCL Diploma and Masters modules in archives and records management (1999- ). Richmond is a member of the Business Archives Council executive committee (1994- ) and the International Council on Archives's Committee on Appraisal (2000-), an elected member of the steering committee and Secretary of the International Council on Archives Section on Business Archives (1996- ), chair of the Scottish Universities Special Collections & Archives Group (1998-), and was a member of the Scottish Archival Mapping Project Board and joint editor of its final report (2000). Richmond is a member of the National Council on Archives National Networking Implementation Committee (1997- ) and, along with Ross, was a member of the Committee when it developed Archives Online (1998). Richmond is the co-editor of Studies in British Business Archives.
Tough took part in a major initiative led by the International Records Management Trust (IRMT) to improve the management records in African Countries under the DFID programme Tanzania in 1998-2000. This was followed by a subsequent consultancy in Rwanda in 2000. In 1996 he was Snell Visitor at Balliol College (Oxford) and in 1997 he was Bentley Research Fellow (University of Michigan). He has served on the National Council of Society of Archivists (1996-8), was Chair of the Specialist Repositories Group (1996-7) and will become a member of the British Standards Institution Committee on Records Management from early 2001.
Rawles spoke at conferences on Emblematics in Wroclaw (1995), Leuven (1996) and Munich (1999), and at the Early Book Society in Glasgow (1999); he was an invited participant at the Belgian Flemish Academy conference on printing connections between the Low Countries and the rest of Europe in the 16th century (2000). He was the Glasgow University delegate at the Research Libraries Group (RLG) sponsored conference on 'Digitalisation and Preservation' in Washington DC (1995). He is Treasurer of the (International) Society for Emblem Studies, and on its executive committee. He sits on the Editorial Board of Glasgow University Library Studies, and is newly appointed to the Editorial Board of Emblematica. He has contributed reviews to French Studies, Modern Language Review, and Bibliothèque d’Humanisme et Renaissance.
Currall has been invited to speak on a variety of topics at the boundary between information and technology: Intranets, Information Strategy, Information Security, Data Protection, Information Access and Extensible Markup Language (XML). He has spoken at the invitation of the following bodies: Association of Specialist Librarians (ASLIB), Association for Survey Computing (ASC), Royal Statistical Society (RSS), the Society of Archivists (SOA) and as part of conferences run by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), UK Office for Library and Information Networking (UKOLN), Capita, the Student Record Officers Conference (SROC) and South Bank University. He was co-author, with Moss, of the University of Glasgow Information Strategy, which has been used as a basis to inform those of many other HEIs.
Economou has published more than twenty papers and contributed to two major research reports. She has spoken about her research at fourteen conferences including Heraklion (Crete), New Orleans, Helsinki, Lillehammer (Norway) and Paris. She delivered extended seminars on her work on museological and evaluation studies at the Aristotle University (Thessaloniki, Greece) and the University of Crete. She was Chair of the Panel of Judges at the 1999 International Conference on Museums on the Web.
Gibb completed a period of office as European Editor of Online and CD-ROM Review during the assessment period and has also been a member of the Editorial Board for the New Review of Applied Expert Systems. Most recently he has been invited to join the Editorial Board of Telecommunications Policy, and Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences. Burton completed a period as Reviews Editor for Program and Kirriemuir completed a period as editor of Ariadne. Law is a member of the editorial board of the New Review of Academic Librarianship, Libri, and the New Review of Information Networking. Many staff have been involved in acting as reviewers of research papers for key journals and conferences in the field (e.g. Journal of Documentation, Journal of Information Science, Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Online Information Review, Electronic Library, Telecommunications Policy, etc.).
2. Conference Involvement
Leon, Landoni, and Gibb were involved with the Programme Committees for the British Computer Society Information Retrieval Specialist Group Conference and also acted as editors for the proceedings for two of the conferences. The Department was invited to organise the 1999 conference which was sponsored jointly by the British Computer Society, the Council of European Professional Informatics Societies (CEPIS) and the Department. Kirriemuir was co-organiser of the IRISS conference in 1998: and co-organiser of MEDNET '98. Law was on the Organising Committees and Reviewer for the 1999 European Conference on Digital Libraries, the 8th International Congress of Medical Librarianship, and Digital Research in the Humanities 99.
Staff have been regularly invited to give papers at conferences and to lead workshops both in the UK and abroad. Gibb has been invited to give a number of presentations including most recently papers on online teaching in Bad Honnef and the relationships between computer science, linguistics and information science in Barcelona. Landoni was invited to present a series of lectures on information retrieval at a week long workshop at University Carlos III, Madrid and has also been invited to give research seminars in UCL and Aberdeen. Law has been invited to give papers in over a dozen countries, three of them as keynote papers, with many more in the UK including the 4th Epixtech Annual lecture on the Information Society. He also led a SURF workshop in Utrecht on convergence. Nicholson has given invited papers in Moscow, Melbourne and Madrid as well as numerous presentations in the UK. Revie was invited by the World Agriculture Information Centre of the UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation to present papers and act as rapporteur for the First Consultation on Agricultural Information Management held in Rome, June 2000. Henderson was invited to present a paper as a member of the discussion panel on electronic publishing at the ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing in Sweden, 1999 and was also invited to present a paper by the BCS Working Group on On-demand Publishing. Barton was invited to give a paper at the IATUL conference in Brisbane. Chowdhury was invited to Chair a Workshop on Information Science Education in Singapore in 1999 and was also invited to contribute a paper to a special issue of Library Trends. Most recently he has been invited to contribute to the next volume of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology. Burton was invited to present a paper at the joint CIG and CIG Ireland Study Conference, Dublin, 26-28 June 1998.
3. Project Involvement and Funding Sources
A key feature of the Department's funded research has been participation in international collaborative projects funded under ESPRIT involving prestigious academic and industrial partners in Europe. This participation has been based on invitations to join research consortia based on successful involvement in previous projects. Gibb was invited to add the Department to the STAMP project consortium following the conclusion of an ESPRIT project on Structured Information Management Processing and Retrieval (SIMPR), and was subsequently invited to join the AUTOSOFT project. Most recently Gibb was asked to act as Project Co-ordinator for an IST funded project involving academic partners in Europe and the US. Revie has participated in a number projects which have focused on applying research results to operational contexts. This has included work funded by the Open Society Institute (sponsored by George Soros) on the development of web-enabled database systems for storing and distributing Eastern European public opinion and work funded under the EU Concerted Actions into Lyme Disease and Animal Trypanosomaisis, and the European Society for Cataract and Refractive Systems. Revie has also acted as an advisor to the International Livestock Research Institute on the definition of project proposals. CDLR has sought a wide funding base and has now received funds in excess of £1m from JISC, RSLP, eLib, SEED, SHEFC, SCURL , SCRAN, Scottish Enterprise, the Scottish Education Department.
4. Other External Activity
Landoni was invited to join the e-Book working group which is organised by DNER (Distributed National Electronic Resource). The purpose of this group is to help inform the DNER collection and development strategies with respect to electronic books. The scope of this group includes looking at licensing books in electronic forms, grey literature and electronic dissertations and theses. Revie has been appointed as a visiting academic in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine at Glasgow University as a result of his research activity in the field of Veterinary Informatics. Chowdhury was elected a Fellow of the Library Association. Law received an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Paris.
Gibb has acted as a consultant on information and knowledge management to the European parliament, the Scottish Museums Council and the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Barton serves on the Steering Group of the SAPIENS project and has completed service on the SCONUL Advisory Committee on Performance Indicators and the SCONUL Advisory Committee on Benchmarking. Kirriemuir was an advisor to the National Electronic Library for Health and has also undertaken consultancy work for JISC and the Resource Discovery Network. Law and Kirriemuir served on panels for the JISC 2001-2006 Strategy Review. Law is a Board Member of UKERNA, Treasurer of IFLA, President-elect of the Scottish Library Association, a member of the British Council Information Panel, and a Trustee of the National Library of Scotland. He is a Visiting Professor at the Universities of Central England and Sheffield and has acted as external examiner to PhD candidates in Cambridge and Sheffield. He has also acted as a consultant to the Danish Government on information policy. Nicholson leads the BUBL Service and has worked with the National Grid for Learning in Scotland on database access, with Scottish Enterprise Glasgow on metadata tagging and database management for the REAL Project (Glasgow, the Learning City), and as an adviser to the Scottish Library and Information Commission.
· of staff who have been on the organizing committees or made presentations at international and national conferences and meetings including British Nordic Conferences on Library and Information Studies (Broady-Preston, Tedd, Urquhart), Information Seeking in Context (Broady-Preston, D Ellis, Preston, Urquhart), Performance Measurement in Libraries and Information Services (Broady-Preston, Urquhart), Libraries and Human Resource Management (Broady-Preston), Health Information Management Research (Preston, Urquhart), ELVIRA (Stoker), Global Information for Library Applications (Tedd), Media History (Stoker), Computers in Libraries (Tedd), ICC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing (Armstrong, Lonsdale), Gendering Library History (Baggs) and conferences of the British Academy (Jones); Deutsche Bibliotheks Institut (Tedd), American-Bulgarian Conference (Broady-Preston), German-Dutch Conference (Broady-Preston), FID (Broady-Preston), IFLA (Evans, Huws), LA (Tedd), German LA (Baggs), Lebanese LA (Tedd), Arabian Gulf Chapter of the SLA (Tedd), Welsh LA (Lonsdale, Roberts) Health Libraries Group (Urquhart), Public Libraries Group (Evans), UK Academy for Information Systems (D Ellis, Preston), Association for Global Strategic Intelligence (Broady-Preston), British Book Trade (Baggs, Jones, Llwyd, Stoker, Turner), Book Trade History (Jones), Reading Practices and Reading Formations (Baggs), Society for the History of Authorship, Reading and Publishing (Baggs, Turner) and the International Conference to celebrate 150 years of British Public Libraries (Baggs).
· of staff who have held or served as Fellows, Professorial Fellows, and External Examiners for taught programmes and PhD theses in UK Universities including City University, Napier University, Queen Margaret University College (D Ellis), Loughborough University (D Ellis, Roberts), Sheffield University (Broady-Preston, Huws, Stoker, Tedd), Strathclyde University (D Ellis, Roberts). The number who have been referees for Research Councils and other prestigious bodies including AHRB, Leverhulme, BLRIC (Broady-Preston, D Ellis, Roberts, Tedd) or serve on the Committees of such bodies including the AHRB Peer Review Panel for Librarianship Archives and Information Science (D Ellis) and the RAE panel for Library and Information Studies (Stoker), and the Archive Council Wales (M Ellis).
· of formal links it has with governments and international organisations including UNESCO, Red Cross, Government of Palestine, British Council, and Slovakia, by the extensive involvement of the Department's staff in policy making and research activity for governmental and non-governmental organisations, or who are Council members of organisations such as the National Library of Wales (Roberts), by its consultancy and development work in the Welsh Information Network (WIN) and its International Graduate Summer School in collaboration with the Universities of Cape Town, McGill, Montreal and Pittsburgh.
· of prizes and awards staff have received including the prizes for most outstanding papers in Library Management 1997 and in New Library World 2000 (Broady-Preston), the Library History Prize for best essay in Library History 1997 (Baggs), Library Association Centenary Medal (Roberts), and Fellowship of the Institute of Information Scientists (Armstrong), and the number of staff invited to contribute to prestigious large scale publishing projects such as the Cambridge History of Libraries in Britain and Ireland (Baggs, Jones, Stoker) and the Dictionary of National Bibliography (Stoker, Turner). Stoker was also recently awarded a University of Wales Ph.D through published work, and Urquhart a Ph.D by dissertation.