dissertation students
Master’s dissertations supervised at City University London
Here is a list of all the dissertations that I have supervised (successfully!) at City University London. This will give those interested some ideas about dissertation titles and topics, and more specifically, show some of the areas for which you may wish to consider me as a supervisor. Our full-time students submit in September (and results are confirmed at the November exam board), but as our part-timers do not submit until January the following year I usually update the list around the end of March – after the March exam board – so the complete listing for those starting their dissertations in June 2011 will be added at the end of March 2012.
2010-2011
Nicola Beer
Social media in UK academic libraries: a study of social media use compared with social media wants
Kate Byrnes
e-books in schools: how educators can effectively use technology to boost student achievement
Elfrida Cable
The information landscape of developmental biology: a domain analytical approach
Anna Casey
Image digitisation: an examination of four London archives and their individual approaches to the process of image collection digitisation
Christopher Crawford-Franklin
Radio in the United States: a study of the use of information resources in 1920s America
Lucy Flanders
The use of e-books in UK law firm libraries
Namutenya Hamwaalwa
Networking and the future of ministerial libraries: the case of Namibia’s ministerial libraries
Tyson Henrie
Promoting the library’s Facebook page: an analysis of academic library websites and Facebook profiles
Victoria Kuhr
Why we go: a domain analysis of travel
Ke Ma
The information seeking behaviour of animation artists in the arts and media enterprises in the digital age
Olumuyiwa Ogunleye
Building an organisational taxonomy using bibliographic tools: a case study of a further education college library
Daniel Parker
The classification of religions: a domain-analytic examination of the history and epistemology of the classification of religions within the Religious Studies discipline
Monika Pietras
Three views of the ‘musical work’: a study of conceptualisations in philosophical, bibliographical and editorial contexts within the domain of music
Stewart Spear
What social roles do minority community archives have? Examining the importance of black and LGBT minority archives
Helen Timpson
The loss of heritage: an investigation into the impact of orphan works and potential solutions
Francesca Woolley
Approaches to electronic resource management in libraries: professional practices versus academic libraries
2009-2010
Aquiles Alencar Brayner
Web archiving initiatives in the UK and US – a comparative analysis
Philip Bower
Professionalism and identity in librarianship/information
Oliver Bridle
Contrasting the role of bioinformatics and bioinformatics librarians in libraries in the UK and the USA
Megan Cooper
A domain analysis of botanical information using an historical analysis approach
Sarah Corns
How much subject knowledge is needed in special librarianship?
Conor Donegan
How have new ICTs affected the handling of artists’ books in art libraries?
Julia Flood
A subject gateway for Mesoamerican studies
Maureen Garvey
The future role of libraries in civil society
Lorretta Marcel
How are ‘memory organizations”, libraries, museums and archives integrating access to folklore collections: a comparative study of Greece and the British Isles
Cheryl Mulholland
From pen and paper to the internet – a study of the communication chain and information management over 30 years, as a healthcare professional
Nadezda Onuchina
Modern information management for businesses (through the world wide web)
Emma Osland
The school library: “to be or not to be?” – a literature review of CILIP’s Library and Information Manifesto 2010, to make school libraries statutory
Sophie Pattison
Investigating the occupational therapy journal literature and its usage by British occupational therapists: a bibliometric study and questionnaire survey approach
Meredith Ship
What’s on at Tower Hamlets and Westminster libraries: a study of the Idea Store service model vs the traditional public library service model
Sonja Siegenthaler
Web archiving – what should be saved?
Penelope Swan
Information literacy in primary schools
David Watson
Disposable media? An investigation into the archiving of videogames
Paraskevi Zigras
What effect has the move from tape-based storage to file-based technology had on the information life cycle in video libraries?
2008 – 2009
Ana Moreno Antoranz
Handling information for unlicensed and newly licensed drugs.
Sarina Barron
UK Politicians and Web 2.0 Technologies: a best practice proposal on the use of these technologies for the communication and exchange of information.
Stephanie Bunyan
The information needs of a medical research group, based at the Royal Marsden Hospital.
- Bunyan S and Robinson L (2010). Meeting the user needs of a clinical research team: personalizing Endnote. Paper presented at Health Libraries Group Conference July 19th-20th 2010, The Lowry, Salford Quays, Manchester, UK.
Tim Coupe
Clinical Knowledge Management in the new NHS – a crisis of control?
Clare Davies
Public library services for looked-after children in England and Wales.
Beatrice Gilpin (Shared the R T Bottle Prize)
The disabled child and the library: a case study in Sierra Leone.
Helen Mason (Shared the R T Bottle Prize)
The information behaviour of emerging artists.
- Mason H and Robinson L (2010). The information-related behaviour of emerging artists and designers: inspiration and guidance for new practitioners. Journal of Documentation (in press).
Philip Segall
How can libraries successfully design effective spaces for face-to-face support and advice services?
Joanna Tidswell
A domain analysis of the fine art information-communication chain.
Robert Williams
The use of Web 2.0 in academic libraries.
Benjamin Wynne
Innovation in UK university libraries: the case of library web services.
2007 – 2008
Joanna Ashe
The impact of the National Library for Health’s new Search 2.0 on the staff and users of an NHS hospital library.
Shem Baldeosingh
The second coming of the Web: Do public libraries have to adapt?
Susan Charman
Is the school library effective: does the school library impact on pupil’s learning and development? A survey of the opinions of students, the users of the school library.
Niamh Doran
RFID in public libraries.
William Higgs
The Books on Prescription Scheme: a qualitative evaluation and assessment of its implementation and use in Hertfordshire public libraries.
Joanne Johnstone
Society’s perception of information communication technologies.
Meghan Jones
Social bookmarking and online subcultures.
Michael Maguire (Shared the Catherine Hamilton Prize)
Philosophical concepts and their relationship and influence on Information Science and Knowledge Management.
- Robinson L and Maguire M (2010). The rhizome and the tree; changing metaphors for information organisation. Journal of Documentation (in press).
Ruth Nott
Open access through self-archiving
Clare O’Connor
Can Libraries reach excluded communities and How? An examination of Islington Libraries Community project ” New Horizons”.
Tim Reeves
The United Kingdom Research Reserve (UKRR) project and its effects on research libraries.
Hannah West
Investigation into setting up an intranet-based information resource for an out-of hours GP service.
2006 – 2007
Louisa Bentley
Information literacy at Imperial College London.
Margarita Garcia
Liaison between librarians and lectures regarding information literacy: a case study of some academic libraries.
Owen Grey
Informal co-operation between libraries, their staff and other organisations.
Rebecca Howard
Marketing of specialist libraries.
Tamar Moselle
Prison service librarians: Changing roles … changing information needs?
Stephen Penton
A domain analysis of the music discipline: an examination of history and epistemology of the discipline, and its journal production and use.
Stephanie Pluess
Clinical librarianship from three perspectives.
Regitze Glahn Ren
Data sharing in R&D: a pharmaceutical data warehouse model.
Vibeke Walton
The future of the book in the digital world: a study of awareness of and attitudes to the e-book.
2005 – 2006
Janet Chow
Meeting Diverse User Groups’ Library Needs: the case of a mental health library.
Melissa Harden
Information needs of paediatricians for the practice of evidence-based child health.
Caroline Goetzee
The issues, promises and functionality of library management systems in school libraries: an assessment and usability focused evaluation.
Katrina Malone
Transforming the personal into the public. Information issues raised by the acquisition and digitisation of personal papers: a case study focusing on the Francis Crick Papers at the Wellcome Library.
Ella Mitchell
The People’s Network – boom or bust?
Elizabeth Pinel
Palliative medicine: its knowledge base and impact.
2004 – 2005
David Allen
A Comparative Information Needs Analysis of Health Workers in the Field of HIV/AIDS in London and Philadelphia.
Helen Bainbridge
Evidence-based practice in Primary Care: a study of UK general practitioners’ attitudes, awareness and use of evidence-based medicine.
Chucksi Ibe
How well do GP trade magazines meet the needs of GP’s? Content analysis of GP trade magazines.
Ioannis Papageorgiou
Toxicology Information Resources.
Salman Shahid
The role of health related information web resources on health care practice in the U.K and Sub-continent(Pakistan- India).
