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Dr Mark Hepworth
Senior Lecturer
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 research supervision:
Young people: An investigation into their perceptions of information
Creative collaboration and public libraries
The Role of Academic Libraries in Supporting Distance Education in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Christian churches and the internet in the UK
Historical development of Malay school libraries in Singapore
Information needs of children with parents with cancer
Extent of exposure, awareness and utilisation of knowledge management philosophies, systems and strategies by libraries in Kuwait and Bahrain.
Recently completed PhD research supervision:
Developing a new blended approach to fostering information literacy
Information Personalisation using XML Technology
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.
An Investigation of Web-based Personalisation Technologies for Information Provision.
Developing information literacy programmes for public university libraries in Tanzania: a case of the University of Dar-es-Salaam.
School library media (SLMCs): developing secondary libraries in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
Funded research:
An investigation of the staff development issues relating to i-skills development (JISC)
Information needs of people with multiple sclerosis (MSTrust)
Information seeking behaviour of hospital social workers (Leicestershire, Northamptonshire and Rutland Strategic Health Authority (LNRSHA))
Information needs of informal carers (Leicestershire County Council/NHS) Academics in Bahrain.
External activities
Speaker World Library and Information Congress: 75th IFLA General Conference and Assembly (2009)
Consultant in information literacy, Institute of Development Studies (2008)
Invited participant Locating the Power of In-between Conference, Pretoria, South Africa (2008)
Speaker How to compete with Google - JIBS User Group Meeting (2008)
Speaker Council for Learning Resources in Colleges (COLRIC) Conference (2007)
Workshop Effective Market Research for Information Services, ALIEP-2006 conference on Library Leadership at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (2006)
CILIP Information Literacy (IL) SIG committee member
Chartered Member CILIP
Member of the editorial board for Information Research Journal and the Journal of Information Literacy.
Reviewer for Journal of Information Science, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Journal of Documentation.
Reviewer for AHRC, ESRC and JISC project proposals and reports.
Head of Knowledge and information Management Research Group, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University
Member of the Information Development for Empowerment Advocacy and Sustainability (IDEAS) Research Group
Member of the Information, Technology and Society research group, Department of Information Science, Loughborough University
Selected publications
- 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.
- Hepworth, M., Harrison, J. and James, N., ''Information Needs of People with Multiple Sclerosis and the Implications for Information Provision Based on a National Survey'', Aslib Proceedings , 55(5/6), 2003, pp 290-303.
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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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