The DIS Research Open Day 2024

Thank you to everyone who attended the Information Studies Research Open Day on 3rd June 2024.

The keynote by Prof. Elizabeth Shepherd ("What is Research in Information Studies?") was recorded and can now be watched at: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5lvcGLWL_o

Slides and presentations from the day (where available) can be found below:

Understanding human and machine cognition

Alison Hicks - Conceptualising information avoidance

Antonis Bikakis - Developing a model for dialectical arguments

Luke Dickens - Consistency and Interpretability in AI

Knowledge Organisation and Digitisation

Vanda Broughton - 100 years of Ranganathan

Deborah Lee - Adventures with classification schemes: rethinking classification scheme analysis as a research methodology

Jin Gao - Digitisation practices and pedagogy: bridging the gap between academia and industry

Impacts of Technology

Kaitlyn Regehr, Caitlin Shaughnessy - SAFER SCROLLING: How algorithms popularise and gamify online hate and misogyny for young people

Photini Vrikki - Resisting Technology Infrastructure

Laura Dietz - Rhetorics of 'realness' in reader experiences of books on screen

Diversity and Inclusion in Information Studies

Charlie Inskip - EDI in Library and Information Studies

Anna Sexton - Trauma-Informed Approaches and the Cultural Heritage Sector

Lucy Brownson - These Women’s Work: Tracing a feminist history of archival practices, within and beyond the British country house

Daniele Metilli  - Wikidata Gender Diversity: Studying queer representation in a collaborative knowledge base

Preserving the Past: Digital Approaches to Cultural Heritage

Andreas Vlachidis - Data driven cultural heritage interrogations facilitated by knowledge base technology - the Sloane Lab example

Foteini Valeonti - Blockchain, web3 and Digital Humanities

Anna Mladensteva - Emulating Mobile Hardware for the Preservation and Access to Mobile Apps

Data-empowered societies

Oliver Duke-Williams - Research challenges with the UK Census

Bonnie Buyuklieva - Work in Progress: A LLM Review of Social (In)fertility in Modern Households

Rob Miller - Repurposing of Resources: from Everyday Problem Solving to Crisis Management