Dr Diane Pennington

Senior Lecturer

Computer and Information Sciences

Personal statement

I am a Senior Lecturer in Information Science and the Course Director for the MSc/PGDip in Information and Library Studies in the Department of Computer and Information Sciences.

My research areas include non-text information indexing and retrieval, qualitative methods for visual information, Emotional Information Retrieval (EmIR), information organisation, user behaviours on social media, and online health information preferences.

You can view my full CV at https://personal.cis.strath.ac.uk/diane.pennington/.

Expertise

Has expertise in:

Qualitative research methods
Information organisation
Online consumer health information search and retrieval
Indexing, search, and retrieval of non-text information
Database design and implementation
User-centred design and usability
Library technology systems
Systems analysis

Prizes and awards

Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts: Recipient; 2017
Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy: Recipient; 28/9/2016

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Publications

Geospatial analysis: Buchel Olga, Pennington Diane; The Sage Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2017) (2017)
Coding of non-text data: Pennington Diane; The Sage Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (2017) (2017)
'The most passionate cover I've seen' : emotional information in fan-created U2 music videos: Rasmussen Pennington Diane; Journal of Documentation Vol 72, pp. 569-590 (2016); https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2015-0086
Analysing found non-text social media data : options and challenges: Pennington Diane; Social Media and Society, pp. 1-3 (2016)
Small data and big data controversies and alternatives : perspectives from the Sage Handbook of Social Media Research Methods: Bonneau Claudine, Gruzd Anatoliy, Hand Martin, Latzo-Toth Guillaume, Millette Mélanie, Quan-Haase Anabel, Pennington Diane, Sloan Luke, Vatrapu Ravi, Zeller Frauke; Social Media and Society (2016)
Youth e-mental health in Scotland : challenges and opportunities: Pennington Diane; BCS Health Informatics Scotland Conference (2015)

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Teaching

I teach Organisation of Knowledge as well as Library Technology & Systems for our MSc/PGDip in Information and Library Studies. I also supervise MSc and PhD research projects.

Prior to arriving at the University of Strathclyde, I taught classes in research methods and statistics, online searching, systems analysis, social media for libraries, database design, web usability, web development, metadata, indexing/abstracting, and cataloguing/classification.

Research interests

Non-text information indexing and retrieval
Information organisation
Emotional Information Retrieval (EmIR)
Information engagement
Online health information preferences

Professional activities

Evidence Based Library and Information Practice: Organiser; 15/6/2019
Developing and applying theoretical frameworks to your research: Speaker; 7/3/2018
How can we best design online mental health resources?: Speaker; 25/1/2018
Social media in the classroom: Speaker; 11/1/2018
How can Scottish libraries link their resources to the world?: Speaker; 2018
ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction & Retrieval 2019: Member of programme committee; 2018

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Projects

Finding solutions to advance digital health for addressing unmet needs in relation to self-harming: Pennington, Diane (Principal Investigator); 02-Jan-2018 - 01-Jan-2018
Shifting paradigms for dementia: Involving people living with dementia across research, policy and practice: Gibson, Grant (Principal Investigator) Pennington, Diane (Co-investigator); Funded by the Scottish Universities Insight Institute Programmes of Knowledge Exchange (£17,502.50); 01-Jan-2017 - 28-Jan-2018

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Address

Computer and Information Sciences
Livingstone Tower

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