People in Department

Dr Graham Walton
Honorary Research Fellow

Interests and experience

I have been involved in research into health information for consumers, professionals and students for over 10 years. My areas of research interest and experience include delivery of hybrid academic library services/ impact of digital provision along with developing collaborative library and information service frameworks. Prior to working at Loughborough I was Assistant Director in the Information Management Research Institute at Northumbria University. I am currently Service Development Manager Loughborough University’s Library.

Current research

I am involved with the following current projects in an advisory capacity:

• Provision of Health Information for the public in the NE of England.
• Evaluating the National Library for Health’s framework

Past research includes:

Developing a process for implement INSPIRE in the North East of England. Examination of the potential for mobile technologies in delivering learning material to health students. Identification of barriers to e-learning and how they can be overcome. Exploration of the use of learning resources by students on clinical placement in the NHS

External activities

• Member of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals (CILIP)
• Advisor to the East Midlands Inpsire Implementation Group
• Ex officio member of the Health Libraries Group (HLG) of the CILIP
• Member of the SCONUL E learning Task and Finish Group
• Council member, Library and Information East Midland (LIEM)
• Editor of the ‘Health Information and Libraries Journal’
  

Selected publications

• G. Walton & A. Booth (jt. eds) “Exploiting information in health services”, 2004, London, Facet Publishing.
• Walton, G., Thompson, J. and Trayhurn, D. “Effective work based learning across professions and the impact on roles of library and information services” In Genoni, P. and Walton, G. (jt. eds) Continuing professional development: preparing for new roles in libraries: a voyage of discovery, Saur, 2005, pp 148 – 156.
• Edwards, C. & Walton, G., "Change and conflict in the academic library", Library Management, vol. 21 (1 and 2), 2000, pp. 35-41.
• Walton, G. & Edwards, C., "Joint ventures to support innovation: lessons from the HyLife Project", New Review of Information and Library Research, 4, 1998, pp. 34-42

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Contact details

Tel: +44 (0) 1509 222355
Fax: +44 (0) 1509 223993

Email: Graham.Walton@lboro.ac.uk