Visiting scholar

We are very priviledged to welcome Professor Daniel Alemneh at the Department of Information Science as a visiting Fullbright Scholar from November 2021 until August 2022. He has an extensive research interest in digital curation, information organisation, knowledge management, open access and scholarly communication.

Guest lecturers

Our Department makes regular use of guest lecturers who are willing to share their wealth of knowledge and experience with our undergraduate and postgraduate students. Their contribution helps to maintain the standards of our programmes and teaching, and ensures we keep up to date with industry trends. Their continued support is very valuable and is greatly appreciated by our Department. Guest lecturers may change on a yearly basis.

In 2020, for instance, we were very fortunate to have Prof Tom Wilson, a renowned expert in information behaviour, giving a lecture to Information science honours students. In 2017,  as a well-deserved recognition, he was awarded the ASIS&T (Association for Information Science & Technology) Award of Merit, the Association's highest award, which recognises sustained contributions to the field of information science. His book, Exploring information behaviour: an introduction Sheffield, UK, was published in 2021. He is also the founder and editor of one of the first Web-based electronic journals, Information Research, which is an open access, international, peer-reviewed, scholarly journal, dedicated to making accessible the results of research across a wide range of information-related disciplines.

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Some of our recent guest lecturers have included:

1.  Undergraduate programmes   1.1  BIS Information Science Digital libraries (data repositories, digitisation, institutional repositories) Dr Johann van Wyk, UP Library Mr Tlou Mathiba, UP Library Ms Lidia Swart, UP Library UP Library 1.2  BIS Multimedia Multimedia and hypermedia theory | Advanced mark-up languages | Multimedia trends The following companies currently present regular guest lectures: Amazon EPI-USE Retro Rabbit TeamGeek Amazon EPI-USE Retro Rabbit TeamGeek   1.3  BIS Publishing Commissioning, digital publishing | Management in the publishing environment Ms Janet Naude, Pearson Education Publishers Mr Benoit Knox, BK Publishing and Briza Publications Ms Catrina Wessels, PEN Afrikaans Translation Fund Ms Erika Janse van Rensburg, Sabinet Ms Shawna-Leze Meiring, Penguin Random House Ms Nadia Gerber, ITSI Pearson BK Briza PEN   Sabinet   Penquin Random House   itsi

2.  Postgraduate programmes 2.1  BIS Hons Information Science Information behaviour, retrieval and organisation Dr Hester Meyer, Research Associate, UNISA Prof Ian Ruthven, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, and Chair of the Information Seeking in Context (ISIC) Steering Committee Prof Chirag Shah, Information School (iSchool), Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering (CSE), Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE), University of Washington, and Director, InfoSeeking Lab, and editor of Information Matters, a publication of Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Prof Craig Locatis, US National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health Unisa Univ of Strathglyde Univ of Washington National Institutes of Health   Information ethics Ms Erin Klazar, Independent expert Prof Siswe Snail, Independent expert Dr Theo Watson, Independent expert Mr Evert Smith, Independent expert Information and knowledge management Dr Brenda van Wyk, UNISA Research Fellow Prof Michael Twidale, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and Prof Preben Hansen, Stockholm University   Unisa Univ of Stockholm     Data management (data rescue) Ms Louise Patterton, CSIR CSIR   Competitive intelligence Mr Albert Cruywagen, Chief Executive & Proprietor of quantumiii and independent intelligence practitioner   Information communication Dr Madely du Preez, Research Fellow, Department of Information Science, UNISA Dr Hester Meyer, Research Associate, UNISA   Unisa   2.2  BIS Hons Multimedia Hypermedia and mark-up languages The following companies currently present regular guest lectures: Amazon EPI-USE Retro Rabbit TeamGeek Amazon EPI-USE Retro Rabbit TeamGeek   2.3  BIS Hons Publishing Advanced digital publishing | publishing industry research Ms Thabiso Mahlape, Director, BlackBird Publishing Mr Benoit Knox, Director, BK Publishing Ms Andri Nel, Digital projects and OA editor, Cambridge University Press Blackbird BK Univ of Cambridge