Professor Gobinda Chowdhury
Computer and Information Sciences
Personal statement
I am a Professor of Information Science in the Department. I have been involved in teaching and research in Information Science for over 25 years and have taken senior management positions at universities in UK and Australia. This year I finished my term as the Chair, and Past Chair of the global iSchools Organization (www.ischools.org), and member of the Board of Directors of the iSchools Inc. My research focuses on digital libraries and information services trying to understand how people access and use information and data in different contexts. Recent research includes information systems and services for addressing global challenges and sustainable development. I am always looking out for interesting partnerships and good PhD students.
Publications
- Grey digital divide : factors associated with older people’s use of the Internet for financial transactions in the UK
- Thomas Dain, Chowdhury Gobinda, Ruthven Ian
- Journal of Documentation (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-08-2024-0198
- Towards a sustainable automated library operation : the imperatives of digital skills and related factors of digital skills development of university library professionals in Nigeria
- Adetunla Gbenga, Chowdhury Gobinda
- Information Research Vol 30, pp. 884-896 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30iConf47173
- Digital skills development of university library professionals in Nigeria : testing the UTAUT model
- Adetunla Gbenga, Chowdhury Gobinda
- Information Research Vol 30, pp. 897-909 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.47989/ir30iConf47170
- The iSchools landscape : diversity, inclusiveness and global identity
- Wang D, Zhou Lihong, Seadle Michael, Chowdhury Gobinda
- Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24995
- LIS Sector’s contributions to climate action : indicators for measuring success
- Chowdhury Gobinda, Jack Ellie, Chowdhury Sudatta, Macquarrie Kirsten, McNamara Sean
- IFLA Journal, pp. 1-16 (2025)
- https://doi.org/10.1177/03400352241310528
- A framework to facilitate older people in leveraging online financial services
- Thomas Dain, Chowdhury Gobinda, Ruthven Ian
- Sustainability and Empowerment in the Context of Digital Libraries 26th International Conference on Asia-Pacific Digital Libraries, ICADL 2024 Lecture Notes in Computer Science Vol 15493, pp. 305-319 (2024)
- https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-0865-2_25
Professional Activities
- Engage with Strathclyde: Digital Cultural Heritage: people, data, technology
- Speaker
- 9/5/2024
- Invited visit and Invited talk at Renmin University in China
- Speaker
- 18/4/2024
- National Library of China
- Visiting researcher
- 17/4/2024
- Nanyang Technological University
- Visiting researcher
- 11/3/2024
- BOBCATSSS2024
- Participant
- 23/1/2024
- Sustainable Library and Information Services
- Speaker
- 17/1/2024
Projects
- SustDL-UK: Sustainable Legal Deposit Libraries in the UK
- Chowdhury, Gobinda (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2024 - 31-Jan-2025
- Libraries as Agents of Sustainability Thinking in Scotland (LASTs)
- Chowdhury, Gobinda (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- ESRC IAA 2023 / R220785-151
- Chowdhury, Gobinda (Co-investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2028
- Libraries for a Sustainable Future
- Chowdhury, Gobinda (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2023 - 31-Jan-2024
- iSchools Knowledge Map
- Chowdhury, Gobinda (Principal Investigator)
- 01-Jan-2022 - 31-Jan-2023
- Digital footprints and search pathways: working with National Collections in Scotland during Covid-19 lockdown to design future online provision
- Chowdhury, Gobinda (Principal Investigator)
- 11-Jan-2021 - 31-Jan-2022
Contact
Professor
Gobinda
Chowdhury
Computer and Information Sciences
Email: gobinda.chowdhury@strath.ac.uk
Tel: 548 4846