My research areas cover User aspects of electronic information; electronic journals; electronic books and digital libraries.
My current research is a repertory grid study of author popularity.
- Founding Editor, Journal of Digital Information
- Chartered Psychologist
- Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society
- Grimshaw, S., Dungworth, N., McKnight, C. and Morris, A. "Electronic Books: Children's reading and comprehension." British Journal of Educational Technology, 38(4), 2007, pp 583-599.
- Pickton, M and McKnight, C. "Research Students and the Loughborough Institutional Repository." Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 38(4), Dec 2006, pp 203-219.
- Dorney, C. and McKnight, C., "Music Provision in UK public libraries", Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 36(1), 2004, pp 7-26.
- Ahmed, SMZ, McKnight, C and Oppenheim, C. "A study of Users' Performance with Web of Science IR Interface." Journal of Information Science, 30(5), 2004, pp 459-468.
- McKnight, C. and Dearnley, J.A., "Electronic Book Use in a Public Library", Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 35(4), Dec 2003, pp 235-242.