Personal statement
I am a Senior Lecturer in Information Science and the leader of the Information Engagement Group within the Strathclyde iSchool.
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/.
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
- ISKO UK 2023 Conference
- Chair
- 24/7/2023
- EDI in Information Science
- Invited speaker
- 28/10/2022
- Knowledge organization competencies and skills
- Invited speaker
- 31/8/2022
- Decolonisation 2.0: Lessons learned
- Invited speaker
- 8/7/2022
- #WINspiration Special – the iSchools Women’s Coalition
- Invited speaker
- 6/6/2022
- Preparing an information workforce to address health misinformation
- Invited speaker
- 3/3/2022
More professional activities
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
More projects
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