Professor Hazel Hall

Director of CSI

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Professor Hazel Hall is Director of the Centre for Social Informatics in the Institute for Informatics and Digital Innovation at Edinburgh Napier University. Between 2009 and 2012 she led the implementation of the UK Library and Information Science Research Coalition.

Hazel's main research expertise and teaching interests lie in information sharing in online environments within the context of knowledge management. Other themes in which she maintains an active interest include social computing/media, online communities and collaboration, the education and training of information professionals, and library and information science research. She welcomes enquiries from potential PhD students who would like to undertake research in any of these areas. Please e-mail h.hall@napier.ac.uk

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  • Internet Technologies & Society
    Internet Technologies & Society
    The technologies that help us to organise and share information on the internet are changing the way we live and work. This information society or knowledge economy people affects is in all kinds of new ways – as individuals, groups and organisations.
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+44 (0)131 455 2760

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Merchiston Campus
10 Colinton Road
Edinburgh
EH10 5DT

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    PhD Project Involvement

    Second Supervisor
    Hannah Rudman (PhD 2011-)
    Getting IT: action learning as an approach for the successful digital development of the cultural sector.
    Director of Studies
    Robert Irvine (PhD 2004-)
    Success factors for organisational information systems development projects: a Scottish suppliers' perspective. The very idea that a modern day organisation might operate effectively without computerised information systems seems almost absurd. Yet, the projects that provide these systems have an unenviable...
    Second Supervisor
    Lynn Killick (PhD 2013-)
    The census: information, ethics and policy.
    Second Supervisor
    David Jarman (PhD 2011-)
    Festivals in the Networked Society. An escalation in communications technologies, which can be accessed by event producers and audiences 24 hours a day, connects festival communities in real time across a city and around the globe –...
    Director of Studies
    Louise Rasmussen (PhD 2003-)
    Evolution of knowledge working in a public sector agency. The research is concerned with the evolution and trajectory of knowledge networking (the ‘Knowledge Working’ (KW) initiative) in a public sector agency (PuSA) in lowland Scotland.
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    Recent Publications

    Auernhammer, J., Hall, H. (2013, ). New knowledge creation within manufacturing: a pattern analysis of behaviours and interactions that underpin knowledge creation and innovation in a large German automotive manufacturer. Paper presented at Information: interactions and impact (i3) 2013, Aberdeen.

    Cooke, L., Hall, H. (2013). Facets of DREaM: a Social Network Analysis exploring network development in the UK LIS research community. Journal of Documentation, 69, (6), .

    Brettle, A., Hall, H., Oppenheim, C. (2012, ). We have a DREaM: the Developing Research Excellence and Methods network. Paper presented at 4th International Conference on Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Libraries, Limerick, Republic of Ireland.

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    Keywords: knowledge management, social computing