Responsibilities

MA/MSc Course Leader

Teaching

• Information and its context. Level 1/M.
• Literature and its readers (with Margaret kendall)
• Information in the Health Service. Level 2/3/M
• Information and Society. Level 3

Background

Professional Interests

• The politics and sociology of information.
• Information in the Health Service.

Biography

I have worked for the Department of Information and Communications at the Manchester Metropolitan University since 1990. Prior to that I was Librarian at the Chester and Wirral School of Nursing and Midwifery. I have also worked in public libraries in Sefton and usersordshire.

Research Interests

• Teaching and assessing in higher education.
• The politics and sociology of information.

Recent research and scholarly activities include:

• November 1994. Chair of the Information for the Management of Healthcare study day.
• Health Promotion Information : A user needs analysis. Consultancy for Wirral Health Authority. 1997. (With J.S. Lambert)
• EduLib Workshop 8. Difference, culture and disability. 15.4.97. (With M. A. Kendall)
• 1999 July 1 Library Association UmbrelLA 5 The Joy of Learning. Address. (With Jonathan Willson)

Publications

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