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/. 

Publications

Self-harm : Detection and support on Twitter
Alhassan Muhammad Abubakar, Inuwa-Dutse Isa, Shehu Bello Bello, Pennington Diane
European Conference on Social Media (2021)
Investigating non-suicidal self-injury discussions on Twitter
Alhassan Muhammad Abubakar, Pennington Diane
International Conference on Social Media and Data Mining - ICSMDM (2021)
A review of polymorphic malware detection techniques
Alrzini Joma Rajab Salim, Pennington Diane
International Journal of Advanced Research in Engineering and Technology Vol 11, pp. 1238-1247 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.34218/IJARET.11.12.2020.119
"Maybe we can work together" : Researchers' outcome expectations for sharing knowledge on social media
Alshahrani Hussain, Pennington Diane
Global Knowledge, Memory and Communication (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1108/GKMC-07-2020-0093
A review of polymorphic malware detection techniques
Alrzini Joma, Pennington Diane
International Conference on Interdisciplinary Computer Science and Engineering (ICICSE2020) (2020)
Twitter as health information source : exploring the parameters affecting dementia-related tweets
Alhayan Fatimah, Pennington Diane
SMSociety'20 - International Conference on Social Media and Society 11th International Conference on Social Media & Society, pp. 277–290 (2020)
https://doi.org/10.1145/3400806.3400838

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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
Navigating Social Systems: Information Behaviour in Refugee Integration
Examiner
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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