Dr Pauline Rafferty MA(Hons), MSc, PhD, PGCED, MCLIP - Postgraduate Schemes Coordinator and Senior Lecturer, Department of Information Studies.
Pauline joined Aberystwyth’s Information Studies in 2007. Before that she taught in City University, London, the University of Central England, Birmingham, and her first teaching post was in the University of Northumbria. Before moving into teaching Pauline worked in information research and media librarianship. Pauline currently teaches digital information, knowledge and information architectures, knowledge organisation, communication studies, collection management and qualitative research methods. Pauline serves on the committees of several scholarly journals and her current research and scholarly interests are in two main areas:
- Information management and access: particularly the representation of knowledge and information, metadata, knowledge organisation, information architecture and access to digital documentation;
- Critical information and communication studies: particularly philosophies and assumptions underpinning knowledge organisation systems (KOS), information critique, the cultural history of KOS, and approaches to subject analysis, interpretation, and semiotics.
Pauline's publications include:
- Disrupting the Metanarrative: A Little History of Image Indexing and Retrieval. Rafferty, P., 2019, In : Knowledge Organization.46, 1, p. 4-14.
- Tagging: Reviews of concepts in Knowledge Organization Rafferty, P., 2018, Knowledge Organization, 45, 6, p. 500-516.
- Tagging Rafferty, P., 2017, ISKO Encylopedia of Knowledge Organization.Nomos.
- Managing, searching and finding digital cultural objects: putting it in context Rafferty, P., 2016, Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery and retrieval. Foster, A. & Rafferty, P. (eds.). London: Facet Publishing, p. 3-23.
- Managing Digital Cultural Objects: Analysis, discovery and retrieval Foster, A. (ed.) & Rafferty, P. (ed.), 2016, London: Facet Publishing.
- More publications on the Research Portal
