Lecturer
Office: IT Building 6-41, Hatfield Campus
Tel: +27 12 420 4070
Qualifications
BIS Information Science, BIS (Hons) Information Science, MIT ICT Information Science (Pretoria)
Research
Interest:
- Information behaviour
- Information retrieval, and information retrieval systems
- Information ethics
- Competitive entelligence
- Cold case investigations
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Modules offered
Module coordinator and lecturer:
- INL 140 – Information Science: Introduction to information communication technology
- INL 240 – Information Science: Social and ethical impacts
- INL 380 – Information Science: Competitive intelligence
- INY 714 – Information behaviour, retrieval and organisation
Lecturer:
- INL 370 – Information Science: Experiential learning project
- INY 713 – Information and knowledge management (I)
- INY 716 – Information and knowledge management (II)
Postgraduate supervisor
- Coursework master’s dissertations
- Honours research reports
Recent publications and presentations
- Autoethnography for Librarians and Information Scientists. Chapter 10: Autoethnography, law enforcement and an opportunity for libraries.
- Pathways to research participant recruitment in a challenging information behaviour context: South African cold case investigators as exemplar. Information Research Journal
- Which lens for a study of information retrieval systems for cold case investigations - activity theory, systems or ecological approach? Information Research Journal
- ACEIE engages in international policy dialogue. Innovate
- Effective use of value-added features and services of proprietary databases in an academic context. Information Research Journal
Achievement
- Voted the most organised lecturer by the EBIT Faculty House in 2021
Member
- Golden key
- ASIS&T: Association for Information Science and Technology
- ASIS&T Africa Chapter: Association for Information Science and Technology ASIS&T Africa Chapter
- SCIP: Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals
Reviewing Committee
- ASIS&T: Association for Information Science and Technology: interest group for international participants: serve on the Jury Committee for best paper submissions
- WBCLA: West Bengal College Librarians' Association: Honorary Reviewer for College Libraries
Other
- Collect bottle caps to recycle for a wheelchair Sweethearts foundation Initiative
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