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Dr Mark Hepworth
Reader
Chair of Teaching and Learning
Leader, People centred design and capability building research group
Interests and experience
People, organisations and communities are often constrained by their lack of knowledge and their inability to manage knowledge, data and information. I am, therefore, particularly interested in how we can help to develop peoples’ capabilities in exploiting knowledge and information both as individuals and also within an organisational or community context.
My research reflects this interest and includes: information literacy; e-literacy; information needs analysis; people’s information seeking and use behaviour; learning and pedagogy; people centred design; participative design; community engagement.
I teach in the areas of: information needs; information literacy; people centred design; the delivery of people centred services; information retrieval; the evaluation of information systems and services.
Current research
Current PhD/Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) supervision
An investigation of information management capabilities of local government staff: developing an information and knowledge management culture (KTP)
Developing a monitoring and evaluation framework for information management
Information needs and seeking behaviour of doctors in Libya
Factors contributing to community participation and engagement in the information service context
Factors influencing reader development among children in Turkey
A historical analysis of the evolution of school libraries in Singapore
Information needs of children with a parent with cancer in Malaysia
Recently completed PhD research supervision:
Young people's perceptions of information
Library support for distance learners in Saudi Arabia
ICT needs for information professionals in Kuwait
Developing an information literacy programme for library staff, educators and students in Tanzania.
Developing a new blended approach to fostering information literacy
Academics' knowledge and use of electronic information resources (EIR) at the University of Bahrain
Government Informatics: towards the successful implementation of ICT projects in Kenya
Web-based personalisation technologies for information provision
Developing information literacy programmes for public libraries in Tanzania: a case study of the University of Dar-Es-Salaam.
School library media (SLMCs): developing secondary libraries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Organising Committees
2011
International programme committee member, i3 (information: interaction and impact) conference, Aberdeen, Scotland
2010
Program Committee member for American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIS&T) 2010, Information Behaviour track, Pittsburgh
Organising Committee World Library Information Congress: International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, Göteborg, Sweden (information literacy satellite event)
2005
Committee member of the Chartered Institute for Librarians and Information Professionals National Information Literacy Group
Invited speaker
2011
Keynote speaker, CILIP Scotland, Mitchell Library, Glasgow
2010
Keynote speaker and chair, SCECSAL conference, information literacy satellite event, Botswana, organised by the Institute of Development Studies, funded by Dfid.
Keynote speaker, World Information Library Congress, International Federation of LIbrary Associations (IFLA) conference, Göteborg, Sweden
2009
Invited speaker, World Library Information Congress: International Federation of Library Associations (IFLA) conference, Milan, Italy (information literacy track) (topic: designing information literacy interventions)
Awards & Research Grants
2010
Enterprise grant to develop innovative and knowledge management and digital asset management learning resources, £21,000
Santander grant to develop collaborative work with University of Brasilia including joint supervision of a PhD investigating people's information behaviour using participative methods, £1,500
2009
PhD studentship, funded by Leicestershire County Council, exploring the impact of information and knowledge management on organisational outcomes £25,500
Investigation of information and knowledge management capabilities of staff and the development of an information and knowledge management culture within Leicestershire County Council, KTP, £117,000
2008
Emerald Literati prize for best paper 'Knowledge of information behaviour and its relevance to the design of people-centred information products and services', Journal of Documentation,
Reviewer
2000
Reviewer for JISC, Arts & Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), Higher Education Academy research funding bids.
1998
Reviewer for Journal of the American Society of Information and Technology; Journal of Library and Information Science; Information Research; Journal of Information Literacy
External activities
External examiner
2011
External PhD examiner, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
External PhD examiner, University of Pretoria, South Africa
2010
External PhD examiner, University of Sheffield
2008
External PhD examiner, University of Malaya
2007
External PhD examiner, City University
Selected publications
- Tavares, R. Hepworth, M. DeCosta, S. "Investigating citizens, information needs through participative research: A pilot study in Candangolandia, Brazil", Information Development, 27(2), 2011. (accepted for publication)
- Walton, G.and Hepworth, M. " A longitudinal study of changes in learners' cognitive states during and following an information literacy teaching intervention. Journal of Documentation, 67(3), 2010. (accepted for publication)
- Hepworth, M. and Walton, G., Teaching Information Literacy for Inquiry Based Learning, Woodhead Publishing Ltd, Cambridge, 2009, pp200, ISBN: 1-84334-441-6.
- Hepworth, M., ''Knowledge of Information Behaviour and its Relevance to the Design of People-Centred Information Products and Services'', Journal of Documentation, 63(1), Jan 2007, pp 33-56.
- Smith, M and Hepworth, M., ''An investigation of factors that may demotivate secondary school students undertaking project work: implications for learning information literacy'', Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 39(1), 2007, pp 3-15.
- Hepworth, M., ''A Framework for Understanding User requirements for an Information Service: Defining the Needs of Informal Carers.'' , Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(8), Mar 2004, pp 695-708.
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Contact details
Tel: +44 (0) 1509 223039
Fax: +44 (0) 1509 223053
Email: M.Hepworth@lboro.ac.uk
Blog: http://markhepworthsblog.blogspot.com
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