Dr Lee Pretlove

My academic background is in Classical Studies and Classics and Ancient History which I studied before working in the information management and archives sectors. With over fifteen years’ work experience and a postgraduate qualification from the University of Dundee’s Centre for Archive and Information Studies, I have worked at Cambridge University Library in their Special Collections as a Systems Archivist and in Digital Services as a Polonsky Fellow in Digital Preservation as part of a two year collaborative project with Bodleian Libraries, Oxford. Prior to work in digital cultural heritage, I worked in records management and information governance in the commercial engineering research and development sector, specialising in corporate quality management systems and information law compliance such as data protection (GDPR).

I joined the Information School at Sheffield in 2018 as an AHRC-funded doctoral researcher. I was awarded my PhD in 2022 on runners' ongoing relationship between wearable technology data and their embodied information experience through a socio-materialist, posthuman lens. In 2022 I was a University Teaching Associate and for the 2023/4 academic year I will consolidate and develop my doctoral research with an ESRC WRDTP Postdoctoral Fellowship. I have been appointed as a Lecturer in Librarianship/Information Management which will begin after the completion of my fellowship in 2024.

I have taught on postgraduate programmes for the Information School’s MSc in Data Science, MSc in Information Management, MA in Librarianship, and the undergraduate BA in Digital Media and Society programme delivered with Sociological Studies.

My professional background and my research informs my teaching practice. My practice has a strong focus on student-centred learning and employability by drawing on my work experience in information management, compliance and digital archives. My extended reality (XR) research methods are applied to digital education and learning technologies as a way of providing an alternative, self-paced student learning experience about workplace environments to complement field visits.