Anne retired in December 2013 from the Centre for Information Management, Loughborough Business School, Loughborough University. Prior to joining the Centre in September 2013, she was Deputy Head in the Department of Information Science. She has also held posts of Director of Research and Director of Academic Studies within the Department. From 2004 to 2012 she was the Senior Academic Advisor for the Higher Education Academy for Information and Computer Science Subject Centre. For a number of years, Anne was the Director of Postgraduate Research Training in the Faculty of Science (2001 – 2005).
Since retiring, she has maintained links with the University, for example, supervising PhD students and moderating projects.
- System usability
- Public libraries
- User evaluation of information systems
- Information/digital literacy
- User information seeking behaviour
- Research Methods
- Research Consultant to Department of Library & Information Science, Faculty of Computer Science & Information Technology, University of Malaya
- PhD examiner: University of Pretoria, University of Malaya