The University of Sheffield
Information School

Educational Informatics Research Group: Staff Listing

Academic Staff

Name Research Interests
Professor Philippa Levy (Head of Research Group and Head of School) Networked learner support in Higher Education; networked learning; professional learning and development in information work; information literacy in lifelong learning; computer-mediated communication; qualitative methodology, especially constructivist evaluation methodology and action research.
Dr Andrew Cox (Lecturer) Internationalisation; spatial aspects of learning; group work
Professor Nigel Ford Information storage and retrieval; artificial intelligence and expert systems; libraries and learning; audio-visual librarianship; academic librarianship; the psychology of human information processing; computer-assisted learning.
Dr Jonathan Foster (Lecturer) Information management; computer-supported collaborative group work and learning; organisations, management and information systems; information society.
Mr Peter Holdridge (Learning Technologist) Educational Technologies - including the creative/logistic/pedagogical impacts of learning technologies such as VLEs/LOs/Wikis and Blogs. Accounting for cognitive style in networked learning systems. Metacognitive approaches to learning and searching.
Dr Miguel Nunes (Senior Lecturer) Instructional systems design; web based learning environments for active and distance learning; computer-supported collaborative work environments (e-business, intranets and extranets); computer-mediated communication; networked learning; information systems analysis; information and data modelling.
Dr Peter Stordy (University Teacher) Internet-related literacies and primary school education.
Ms Sheila Webber (Director of the Centre for Information Literacy Research, CILR) Information literacy - theory, practice and pedagogy; marketing of information; internet marketing; business information.

Research Staff

Name Project
Dr Andrew Madden Developing Deep Critical Information Behaviour.
Ms Mary Crowder Developing Deep Critical Information Behaviour.