News
Our Chemoinformatics Group wins Jason Farradane Award
The Information School's Chemoinformatics Research Group has been awarded the 2012 UKeiG Jason Farradane Award, in recognition of its outstanding 40 year contribution to the information field.
The prize is awarded to the three current members of the group, Professor Val Gillet, Dr John Holliday and Professor Peter Willett.
The judges recognised the Group's status as one of the world's leading centres of chemoinformatics research, a major contributor to the field of information science, and an exemplar in raising the profile of the information profession.
The School has a long association with the Farradane prize. Its second recipient was long time member of staff Professor Mike Lynch in 1980.
Read more about this award on the University's Staff News Archive.
New appointments make the iSchool larger than ever
With three new academic appointments this year, the School now has a larger complement of staff than at any previous point in its history.
Dr Jorge Martins originally joined the School as a doctoral researcher in 2008, and now joins us as a member of academic staff. With a background in e-learning research, knowledge and information management and information systems, Jorge will be teaching on a range of courses, including his own Information Architecture module for our new undergraduate Informatics degrees.
Dr Stephen Pinfield joins us from his Chief Information Officer post at the University of Nottingham. Stephen has a particular interest in scholarly communication futures and library and information strategy, and research and teaching experience in a wide range of subjects, including digital library development, project management, systems implementations in organisations, scholarly communications, publishing, and research data management.
Dr Farida Vis was previously a lecturer at the University of Leicester, and her work is centrally concerned with researching social media, crisis communication, data journalism and citizen engagement. Farida is a co-author on the Data Journalism Handbook, and led the social media analysis on an academic team that examined 2.6 million riot tweets, part of the Guardian’s groundbreaking Reading the Riots project, which won a Data Journalism Award at the inaugural ceremony for this new journalism award.