Responsibilities

• Level 6 Tutor (with Richard Eskins and Jonathan Willson)
• Level 6 Project and Dissertation Coordinator (with Richard Eskins and Jonathan Willson)
• Masters Dissertation Coordinator

Teaching

• Information, Systems and Organisational Life (Level 4)
• Human and Financial Resources Management (Level 6)
• Library Resources Management (Level 6)
• Managing Contemporary Organisations (Level 6)
• Research and Practice (Level 7)

Office Hours*

• Mondays  9.30-10.30, 1.00-1.30 , 4.00-4.30
• Tuesdays  10.00-11.00, 12.30-1.30

(*in term time (teaching weeks))

Background

Research Interests

• Information (library) systems
• Organisational analysis
• Student motivation and performance

• Masters and Doctoral supervision and examination
  • Principal areas of supervision and examining include: library service, resource and system provision, development and management; and information / knowledge management.

Biography

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
• Associate member of CILIP (the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals)
• Research Fellow, HARMONISE project, CERLIM. The HARMONISE project aim was to determine the feasibility of developing a model library system specification
• Part-time lecturer, DIC - Teaching Management and Library Systems.
• Full-time Research Student - PhD title - The application of Soft Systems Methodology to library management system design: a case study of a law firm.
• Information Officer, DIC.

Publications

PROWSE, A. and DELBRIDGE, R.  "I can’t be arsed": a small-scale exploration of student motivation on entry in the light of their subsequent progression and achievement.  [under review]

SEBA, I., ROWLEY, J. and DELBRIDGE, R.  Knowledge sharing in the Dubai Police Force.  Journal of Knowledge Management, 2012, 16 (1), pp.114-128.

DELBRIDGE, R. PROWSE, A. and LAMBERT, S.  Make them eat their greens?: reshaping teaching, learning and assessment of a first year undergraduate unit.  [Online] Learning and Teaching in Action LTiA Online 2011.  Available at: <http://www.celt.mmu.ac.uk/ltia/ltia_online_articles/1_delbridge.pdf >  [Accessed 28 September 2011]

ARMSTRONG, L. and DELBRIDGE, R. Final year undergraduate student plagiarism: academic staff and student perceptions. Learning and Teaching in Action, 2009, 7 (3), pp. 16 - 20.

DELBRIDGE, R.  An illustrative application of soft systems methodology (SSM) in a library and information service context: process and outcome.   Library Management, 2008, 29 (6/7) pp. 538 – 555.

DELBRIDGE, R. and FISHER, S.  The use of soft systems methodology (SSM) in the management of library and information services: a review.  Library Management, 2007, 28 (6/7) pp. 306 – 322.

KENDALL, M., WAKEFIELD, N. and DELBRIDGE, R.  Enhancing the library and information management curriculum through reusable learning objects.  Italics, 2007, 6 (2).

KENDALL, M., WAKEFIELD, N. and DELBRIDGE, R.  Enhancing the library and information management curriculum through reusable learning objects.  7th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy for Information and Computer Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin, 29th - 31st August 2006.

DELBRIDGE, R.  The application of soft systems methodology to library management system design: a case study of a law firm. PhD thesis.  Manchester Metropolitan University, 2003.

FISHER, S., DELBRIDGE, R. and LAMBERT, S.  Towards a model system specification for the procurement of library management systems: results of a feasibility study.  Program,  2001, 35 (4) pp.339-354.

FISHER, S., DELBRIDGE, R. and LAMBERT, S.  Harmonising the process of procuring library management systems: a feasibility study.  London: Resource: The Council for Museums, Archives and Libraries, 2001.  (Library and Information Commission research report 99).