Information Studies Research Students

Current PhD students

Huda ALMUTAIRI Critical Success Factors for Implementing Knowledge Management
Kenneth ATUMA Record keeping and accountability in the Nigerian public sector: user perspective
Christie DOOLEY Intersection and Intervention at Hospitalfield: where site-specific contemporary art meets historic Scottish landscapes, architecture, and collections
Aimee FLETCHER Autism in Museums: Co-Creation Strategies for Making Museums
Thomas HANSON Remembering ‘The Troubles’: Contextualisation Practices in Archiving of Conflict Photography
Caitlin KNOX Scottish Museums and the Black Lives Matter Movement: A critical analysis into decolonial initiatives and changing museum practice.
Yi Ting LIN Preserving the cultural diversity of Taiwan history with the Coordination in Museum's Digital Archival Systems
Giulia MARINOS Imagining Ancient Egypt in the Age of Empire
Miriam MATTHEWS A Critical Framework for Interactives: Examining the application of digital technology through cultural policy and Glasgow Life in museums and heritage
Supervisors: Lorna Hughes, David Stevenson, Queen Margaret University
Hye Lim NAM

Mental Models of the Organisation of Scholarly Information Across the Academy: Disciplinary Similarities and Differences
Aylwyn NAPIER

The Power of Paywalls: Financial barriers to entry within the Cultural Heritage sector
Eleanor O'LEARY

Valuing the Gaming Community: Preserving MMOs Through Co-Creation
Natalia OTTONELLO

The role of social media in the museum of the future. To what extent can social media shape memory after conflict: can the public now shape historical memory?
Bilyana PALANKASOVA Valuing festivals as incubators of digital creativity
Rhonda RATHBURN Not Participating, Not Included: Towards Inclusive Assessment Practices in the Scottish Library Sector
Azrina RINI Utilising digital resources: investigating Malaysian trainee teachers’ knowledge and practice of digital citizenship
Penny ROBERTSON Post pandemic Scottish Further Education (FE) libraries: exploring services, spaces, and collections
Alison SPENCE Restoring the materiality and context of digitised archival textile collections in the online environment
Amber WATTS Processing Analog Archives Remotely: Augmenting the Practicum Experience for Underserved Students

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Awarded PhDs in Information Studies

Franziska MUCHA (2022) Co-creative events for engagement with digital cultural heritage collections

Cassandra KIST (2022) Crafting museum social media for social inclusion work

Sarah GAMBELL (2022) A sustainable approach to threatened digital cultural heritage

Ahmed ALSHANQITI (2021) Exploring the concept of a digital Waqf library

Adele REDHEAD (2021) Archival memory, authenticity, and community. A comparative study of the archive and Eucharist

Lorna HUGHES (2021) Critical digital heritage: creation, use and re-use of surrogates from memory institutions

Rebecca WHITING (2021) Archives, conflict and power: Iraqi archives displaced to the United States during the Gulf Wars

Zoe BARTLIFF (2021) The application of textual encoding for a data-driven analysis of the medieval Welsh legal tradition, Cyfraith Hywel

Amy CURRIE (2021) Format, materiality and value: an examination of DIY music cassette tapes in archives

Christopher LOUGHNANE (2020) Body, environment, technics: An ethological approach to information

Maribel HIDALGO URBANEJA (2020) Towards a definition of digital narratives in art museums

Christopher CASSELLS (2019) An Auto-analysis of an actant rhizome ontology

Iraklis IOANNIDIS (2019) The other as the essence of existence: a journal of a philosophical passage to altruism

Gerard BRADY (2018) Transhumanism and the transformation of the experience and spectacle in the art of boxing. 

Matthew BARR (2017) Learning by accident: what have commercial video games taught the gaming generation

Rosemary SPOONER (2016) Close encounters: international exhibitions and the material culture of the British Empire, c.1880-1940. 

Louise BOYD (2016) Art, sex, and institutions: defining, collecting, and displaying Shunga.

Wachiraporn KLUNGTHANABOON (2015) Stakeholder Participation in Metadata Management of University-based Institutional Repositories in Thailand 

Delaina SEPKO (2015) Curating Music Curation 

Will YOUNG(2014) From hobby to necessity: the practice of genealogy in the Third Reich 

Louise CAMERON (2012) Time, truth and accountability in information control and dissemination

Rory CRUTCHFIELD (2012) 'I saw America changed through music': An examination of the American collecting tradition

Paul LIHOMA (2012) The impact of administrative change on record keeping in Malawi

David MACKNET (2012) Decisions to delete: subjectivity in information deletion and retention

Anthony ROSS (2012) Correspondents theory 1800/2000: philosophical reflections upon epistolary technics and praxis in the analogue and digital

Craig GAULD (2010) The fantasy of the corroborative and transformative archive: the authority of archival beginnings

James GIRDWOOD (2010) A hermeneutics of the ontology of time and technology

Hannah LITTLE (2010) Genealogy as theatre of self-identity: a study of genealogy as a cultural practice within Britain since c. 1850

Mat Isa AZMAN (2009) Records management and the accountability of governance

Leonidas KONSTANTELOS (2009) Digital art in digital libraries: a study of user-oriented information retrieval

For more, select PhD dissertations going back to 1986 are now available online through the Glasgow Theses Service of the University of Glasgow Library.

Awarded MPhil by Research in Information Studies

Laura Molloy (2017) Digital curation in UK performing arts contemporary professional practice

Lindsey Short (2011) Shattering the silence: the exclusion of women from the archive

Gerard Brady (2010) The ethical problems associated with the creation of a synthetic consciousness