| Chemoinformatics Research Group: | | |
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| Name | Research | Supervisor(s) | Email |
| Nurul Ahmed | Turbo Similarity Searching | Professor Peter Willett | lip07na@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Shereena Arif | Fragment Weighting Scheme for Similarity Based Virtual Screening | Professor Peter Willett, Dr John Holliday | lip06sma@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Aryati Bakri | Citation Analysis in Malaysian Publications | Professor Peter Willett | Aryati@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Daniel Butler | Investigation of novel pharmacophore elucidation and fast shape search | Professor Val Gillet | lip08dsb@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Jenny Chen | Data fusion of similarity coefficients for improved database searching and diversity | Dr John Holliday | lip01jwc@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Chia-Wei Chu | Clustering for 2D chemical structure | Professor Peter Willett, Dr John Holliday | Chia-Wei.Chu@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Richard Martin | Novel Methods for the Three Dimensional Representation and Searching of Molecules | Professor Val Gillet, Dr Eleanor Gardiner | lip06rlm@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Sonny Gan | Data Mining for Drug Discovery | Professor Val Gillet | liq09sg@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Iain Mott | Investigations of multiobjective optimisation in scoring functions | Professor Val Gillet | lip06ipm@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Georgios Papadatos | Data Mining for Lead Optimisation | Professor Val Gillet, Professor Peter Willett | G.Papadatos@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Richard Sherhod | Computational approaches for prediction of toxicity of chemicals | Professor Val Gillet | lip07rjs@sheffield.ac.uk |
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| Educational Informatics Research Group: | | |
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| Name | Research | Supervisor(s) | Email |
| Stephen Burtoft | How Could Internet Resources that are Specifically Designed for Adults at the Lowest Levels of Literacy Skill Benefit their Teaching and Learning? | Professor Nigel Ford | S.Burtoft@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Tuan Dang | Information Technology Benchmarking in Developing Countries | Dr Jonathan Foster | D.C.Tuan@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Claire-Marie Jones | Information Behaviour at British Bakeries, Rank Hovis McDougal | Professor Phil Levy | Claire-Marie.Jones@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Linda Kemp | TBC | Professor Nigel Ford | lip09lk@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Robinah Namuleme | The Contribution of Information Seeking Behaviour on the Students´ Academic Performance in Higher Institution of Learning in Uganda | Professor Nigel Ford | R.K.Namuleme@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Maryam Nazari | Information Literacy for Online Distance Learning GIS (Geographic Information Systems/Science) Programmes | Ms Sheila Webber | m.nazari@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Muhammad Sholeh | The Information Behaviour of Academics in Indonesian Universities | Professor Nigel Ford | lip08mms@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Peter Stordy | Internet Literacies and the Secondary School Curriculum | Professor Phil Levy | lip03phs@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Nashrawan Taha | The Use of Social Network Analysis to Evaluate Changes in a Learning Community | Dr Andrew Cox | lip07nnt@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Margaret Weaver | Effect of student perceptions of learning in higher education | Professor Phil Levy | lip06mlw@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Yazriwati Yahya | Collaborative Information Seeking | Dr Jonathan Foster | Y.Yahya@sheffield.ac.uk |
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| Health Informatics Research Group: | | |
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| Name | Research | Supervisor(s) | Email |
| Haleh Ayatollahi | Comparison and evaluation of emergency department information systems | Dr Peter Bath, Professor Steve Goodacre | H.Ayatollahi@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Liz Brewster | Strategic aims and service user needs in bibliotherapy schemes in UK public libraries | Mrs Barbara Sen, Dr Andrew Cox | l.brewster@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Juliet Harland | Information needs of carers of people with dementia | Dr Peter Bath | lip05jah@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Wen-Chin Hsu | Older Adults Use and Preferences for Telephone Helpline and Internet Resouces | Dr Peter Bath | lip06wh@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Jacqueline MacDonald | The use of information by health care planners operating within a population health framework in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia, Canada | Dr Peter Bath, Mr Andrew Booth | lip03jm@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Joel Minion | Chronic disease, health information and decision making by gay men living with AIDS | Dr Peter Bath | J.Minion@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Reza Rabiei | Evaluation of electronic records | Dr Peter Bath, Professor Alan Hutchinson | R.Rabiei@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Simon Read | Use of graph theory to search for patterns of morbidity and deprivation in public health data | Dr Peter Bath, Professor Peter Willett, Dr Ravi Maheswaran | Simon.Read@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Theocharis Stavroulakis | The informationneeds and behaviours of women in relation to osteoporosis: implications forhealth promotion | Dr Peter Bath, Dr M Gott | T.Stavroulakis@sheffield.ac.uk |
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| Information Retrieval Research Group: | | |
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| Name | Research | Supervisor(s) | Email |
| Murad Abouammoh | Investigation into Diversity in Information Retrieval | Professor Mark Sanderson | M.Abouammoh@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Mazen Al-Dahiyat | Personal information Management | Professor Steve Whittaker | M.Al-Dahiyat@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Antje Bothin | Browsing meeting records | Dr Paul Clough | A.Bothin@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Huda Farhan | Manual Tagging to Help Search | Professor Mark Sanderson | H.Farhan@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Suvodeep Mazumdar | Visualisation of Large Semantic Dataset | Dr Daniela Petrelli | s.mazumdar@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Robert Pasley | Defining imprecise regions using knowledge from the web | Dr Paul Clough, Professor Mark Sanderson | R.Pasley@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Johannes Schanda | Federated search of cross-language databases | Professor Mark Sanderson, Dr Paul Clough | lip06jcs@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Rita Wan-Chik | Answers from the Quran: Online information seeking needs | Professor Mark Sanderson | lip08rzw@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Fei Xie | Building an Intelligent Multimedia Meta-Search Engine | Professor Mark Sanderson | lip08fx@sheffield.ac.uk |
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| Information Systems Research Group: | | |
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| Name | Research | Supervisor(s) | Email |
| Thanongsitt Chuleekorn | Information systems development for SMEs in Thailand | Dr Angela Lin | T.Chuleekorn@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Hasan Hashim | Multi-professional learner support teams in higher education | Dr Angela Lin | H.A.Hashim@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Nipon Parinyavuttichai | Development of Contingency Model of Software Project Risk Management in Thai ISD Environment | Dr Angela Lin | N.Parinyavuttichai@sheffield.ac.uk |
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| Knowledge and Information Management Research Group: | | |
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| Name | Research | Supervisor(s) | Email |
| Maram Alajamy | The Role of Academic Librarians in Unviersity-wide IS Strategic Planning | Dr Miguel Nunes | M.Alajamy@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Solomon Alexis | Constructivist online teaching and learning | Dr Miguel Nunes | lip03sa@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Salim Al-Mamari | The use and role of information systems in decision-making for Omani firms | Dr Miguel Nunes | S.AlMamari@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Gibran Rivera Gonzalez | Organisational culture that promotes the existence of communities in practice | Dr Andrew Cox | Gibran.Rivera@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Dimitris Bibikas | Towards a holistic model of the third generation of enterprise knowledge management systems | Dr Ana-Cristina Vasconcelos | D.Bibikas@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Jorge Durães Martins | Towards a grounded theory of E-learning policies for secondary education | Dr Miguel Nunes | jorge.martins@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Inaam Idrees | Knowledge Sharing in the Tourism and Hospitality Industry | Dr Ana-Cristina Vasconcelos, Dr Andrew Cox | I.Idrees@sheffield.ac.uk |
| George Katakalos | An investigation into multicultural constructivist learning environments to complement traditional teaching | Dr Miguel Nunes | liq03gk@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Sayed Naser | E-Voting Risk Management | Professor Nigel Ford, Dr Miguel Nunes | lip07sjn@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Robert Polding | An investigation into the conversion of the paper-based version of the Times Good University Guide into a full, dynamic WWW version | Dr Miguel Nunes | R.Polding@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Lihong Zhou | Knowledge Management in Healthcare | Dr Ana-Cristina Vasconcelos | L.Zhou@sheffield.ac.uk |
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| Libraries and Information Society Research Group: | | |
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| Name | Research | Supervisor(s) | Email |
| Abdelkarim Agnawe | Use of the internet by academic staff members in Libya | Dr Andrew Cox | lip07aa@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Nabhan Al Harrasi | Academic Library Collaboration in Oman | Dr Jonathan Foster | N.Harrasi@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Khalfan Al Hijji | Strategic concerns of academic library directors in private Universities in Oman | Dr Andrew Cox, Professor Sheila Corrall | lip07kza@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Mashael Al Omar | Use of Electronic Resources by Faulty Members in Academic Libraries | Dr Andrew Cox | liq09ma@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Meshal Al-Fadhli | Critical analysis of IT developments in academic information centres in the state of Kuwait | Professor Sheila Corrall, Dr Andrew Cox | lip05ma@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Dakhil Al Houti | Information Marketing in Academic Libraries of Kuwait University and the Public Authority for Applied Education and Training (PAAET) in Kuwait | Ms Sheila Webber | lip09daa@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Wafaa Al-Motawah | The role of Kuwait University Libraries in supporting graduate students´ research. | Professor Sheila Corrall, Mrs Barbara Sen | lip08waa@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Faisal Altamimi | Total Quality Management Implementation in Saudi Academic Libraries | Professor Sheila Corrall, Barbara Sen | lip08faa@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Briony Birdi | An investigation of the reading of, and engagement with, minority genre fiction in public libraries, with a particular focus on materials written by Black British and British Asian author | Professor Nigel Ford | b.birdi@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Liz Brewster | Strategic aims and service user needs in bibliotherapy schemes in UK public libraries | Mrs Barbara Sen, Dr Andrew Cox | l.brewster@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Sahlee Bualat | Leadership development of library and information service professionals in higher education institutions in the Philippines | Professor Sheila Corrall, Mrs Barbara Sen | lip08sb@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Elizabeth Chapman | Provision of materials and services to LGBT young people and parents in public libraries | Mrs Briony Birdi, Professor Nigel Ford | e.chapman@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Phussadee Dokphrom | The information literacy skills needs of undergraduate students | Ms Sheila Webber | P.Dokphrom@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Eva Hornung | The current state and expectations of librarians working in one-person libraries in Ireland with regards to continuing professional development | Ms Sheila Webber | E.Hornung@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Kaori Ishida | The partnership between libraries and the book trade to deliver better reader development: Its history and future prospect | Mrs Briony Birdi, Professor Sheila Corrall | K.Ishida@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Xuguang Li | The Moderation of Online Communities | Dr Andrew Cox | ldp07xl@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Zapopan Muela Meza | An application of Community profiling to analyse the information needs and Community issues affecting the people in Broomhall, Sheffield, and to evaluate the roles of their information providers | Professor Nigel Ford, Mrs Briony Birdi | Zapopan.Muela@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Marie O'Neill | Income generating activities in academic libraries | Ms Sheila Webber, Professor Sheila Corrall | lip08mmo@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Shahd Salha | Information literacy of Syrian school librarians | Ms Sheila Webber | lir08ss@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Mohammed Muhtar Arifin Sholeh | The Information Behaviour of Academics in Indonesian Universities | Professor Nigel Ford | lir08ss@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Barbara Sen | Market Orientation: Its Value as a Strategic Option for Library and Information Services | Ms Sheila Webber | b.a.sen@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Somsak Sriborisutsakul | Developing and measuring performance indicators for organisational intellectual assets of Thai academic libraries | Professor Sheila Corrall | lir05ss@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Stephen Tapril | What impact will the expectations and experiences of the so-called `Millennials Generation´ have upon library services and the core skills of librarians? | Professor Sheila Corrall | S.Tapril@sheffield.ac.uk |
| Jo Webb | Reading for a degree: exploring student reading for pleasure and study in the social sciences and humanities | Professor Sheila Corrall, Briony Birdi | lip05jmw@sheffield.ac.uk |
