Current PhD Students


  • David Brazier - Understanding and Improving the Querying Performance of Marginalised Users (EE/DRFMAT7P/61950; primary supervisor)
  • Lara Dodd - Using social media to capture the information seeking behaviour of aspiring undergraduates (secondary supervisor)

  • Master's students


  • Lynsey Blandford (2016) - Discovery Tools and Online Guides

  • Michael Jones (2015) - Social media: How effective is it as a marketing tool for sixth form and FE college libraries?
    Published as a journal article in JOLIS (Jones and Harvey 2016)
  • Rachel Mitchell (2015) - Email as a Record: A study to confirm the perceived lack of improvement in treating email as part of an organisation's corporate record
  • Jason Balmforth (2015) - User motivation and engagement with information management systems and processes - a case study

  • Mirka (Hissu) Hyvärinen (2014) - Building psuedo query logs from Twitter data using generative models (at USI)

  • Bachelor's project students:


  • Jamie Cockerton (2017) -
  • Michael Muress (2017) -
  • Tom Green (2017) -
  • Lee Beckett (2016) - Design and Development of a GPS-enabled Smartwatch Application for Proctor & Gamble's SuperSavvyMe Portal to Enable Personalised In-store Redemption of Product Promotions
  • Michael Carey (2016) - Augmented Reality (AR) Technologies as Presentation Aids for Lecturers in Education: Understanding the Opinions and Needs of Current Practitioners
  • Rosie Cuthbertson (2016) - The development of a CRM dashboard to deliver a KPI-oriented view of Nissan customer behaviour
  • Laura Petch (2016) - The Development of a Social Data Dashboard to Assist Organisations in Achieving Key Business Strategies and Goals
  • Lee Wallace (2016) - What Impact Does Copyright Infringement Have on the Copyright Holder with Regards to Web 2.0 Businesses?
  • Jamie Woods (2016) - Development of a Proof-of-Concept, Web-Based Customer Relationship Management System, to be Implemented and Gyms and Leisure Facilities, Focusing on Initial Customer Retention

  • Manuel Müller (Diplomarbeit, 2013) - Extraktion, Zuordnung und Normierung der Arbeitsschritte einer grossen, heterogenen Rezeptdatenbank (Extraction, Mapping and Normalisation of the Work Tasks of a large, heterogeneous Recipe Database)

  • Manuel Müller (Studeinarbeit, 2012) - Automatisierte Berechnung von Nährwerten einer grossen, heterogenen Rezeptdatenbank (Automatic Calculation of the Nutritional Values of a large, heterogeneous Recipe Database)
  • Mario Amrehn (Bachelorarbeit, 2012) - Design und Implementierung eines auf Benutzerbewertungen basierenden Vorschlagssystems zur Ernährungsplanung (Design and Implementation of a User Ratings-based Recommender System for Diet Planning)