• Information seeking behaviour
• User-centred Design
• Usability studies
• Participatory Methods
• Field Ethnography

I am a Lecturer in Information Behaviour in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences (CIS).

My main research interests are Information Behaviour and Human Computer Interaction (HCI).

My experience of empirical investigations of information seeking and user interactions with technology encompasses studies in many human contexts and occupational domains including Education, Healthcare, Law, FinTech and Cultural Heritage. Much of my research has been driven by a curiosity regarding the information and technological needs and practices of understudied and often vulnerable populations such as children and young people and older adults.

Recent projects

"Cumulative Revelations in Personal Data" (EPSRC), exploring the organisational security risks posed by the digital traces created by online personal information sharing. https://cumulative-revelations.github.io/revelations/

SIPA2 Improving the Pharmaceutical care of People with Sensory Impairment: https://sipa2project.co.uk/

Research Affiliations

I am a member of ACM SIGCHI and ASIS&T and participate in the Strathclyde iSchool Research Group (SISRG), Digital Health and Wellness Group (DHAWG) and Cybersecurity Research Group at CIS. 

Citizenship

I have served as Programme Committee member for the Ageing and Accessibility track of CHI and for CHI Play and was co-organiser of workshops and panels on Ageing and Technology at CHI and MobileHCI and on Children and Technology at IDC. I have co-edited special issues of the International Journal of Child Computer Interaction and the International Journal of Mobile HCI. I review for CHI, MobileCHI, NordiCHI, DIS and many of the key conferences and journals in Information Science and HCI.

I am interested in mental health, wellbeing and widening access and was a mentor with the Disability and Wellbeing Service for many years. 

I am programme leader for MSc Information Management and Deputy Director of PGT (Student Experience) at CIS.

I lead modules on a number of CIS's PGT programmes:

CS978 Legal, Ethical and Professional Issues for the Information Society
CS800 Health Information Governance
CS955 Information Law

and lead a module on the Graduate Apprenticeship in Information Technology & Software Development:

• CS355 User-centred Design

I supervise MSc dissertations projects across several PGT programmes.