Dr Anoush Simon

Lecturer
BA, MSc, PhD Photograph of Dr Anoush Simon.

Contact

Email: ads@aber.ac.uk
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622145
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622190

Responsibilities

Departmental Director of Undergraduate Studies.

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Teaching

Foundations of Information Studies; Social contexts of information studies; Information sources: access, use and evaluation; Information sources: access, use and evaluation; Information and Society; Information and Society. Dissertation supervision

Postgraduate Teaching

Information and Society; Information and Society. Dissertation supervision

Research

My research and teaching interests centre on the impact of technology on society and in particular the information profession, and include information society theory; social exclusion and the digital divide; ICT and community, gender and IT; library workers - careers and motivations.

Biography

I have been a member of the Dept since 2003, and completed my PhD in 2004. Before this, I worked in the library at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and also worked in the book trade for several years. Between completing my MSc (Sheffield University) and commencing my PhD studies, I worked at the North West Film Archive in Manchester and for BBC Information and Archives in London. I have an enduring interest in film and photo archives. 

Additional Interests

Professional Activities

Member of CILIP; Career Development Group

Staff Publications

Simon, A., Taylor, M., Nelson, J. and Lithgow, S. (2011) ‘Distance learning, e-learning and the digital divide’, in Gaskill, A. and Mills, R. and Tate, A. eds. Internationalisation and Social Justice: the role of open, distance and e-learning(Cambridge, September 25-28 2011), pp3-11. Available: http://www.cambridgedistanceeducation.org.uk/authorsStoZ&Workshops.pdf

Simon, A. and Taylor, M. (2011) ‘Career History and Motivations for Choosing LIS: a case study at Aberystwyth University’ in Library Review, 6 (9)

Harris, N. and Simon, A. (2009) ‘Still barriers to overcome’ in Public Library Journal, Vol. 24 (4), pp25-27. Available: http://www.cilip.org.uk/get-involved/special-interest-groups/public/journal/24/Documents/PLJWinter09Harrispp25-27.pdf

Simon A. and Horton, S. (2009) 'Evaluating library development in Wales'; in Public Library Journal, Vol 24 (1), pp 24-27

Simon A. and Horton, S. (2008) 'Evaluation of @ your library: an initial strategic library development programme’ in Y Ddolen, Spring 2008 (48), pp14-15

Simon, A. and Horton, S.  (2007) Evaluation of '@ your library: an initial strategic library development programme 2005-7: Final Report, Aberystwyth: CyMAL

Simon, A.  (2006). "Women's perceptions of technological change in the information society." Aslib Proceedings, 58(6), 476-487.

Simon, A.  (2006). "A complex view of technological change in the UK." In Eileen M. Trauth, (ed) (2006), Encyclopedia of Gender and Information Technology  (pp116-121), Idea Group Reference Publishing.

Simon, A. (2005) ‘Perceptions of Access and Exclusion in the Information Society’, in Consalvo, Mia and Kate O’Riordan (eds.) (2005), Internet Research Annual, Volume 3, pp11-23 New York: Peter Lang Publishing, pp 12-21.

Simon, A.  (2005). ‘Women’s perceptions of new technologies in the Network Age’ in Archibald, Jacqueline et al, 6th International Women into Computing Conference (WIC 2005), [Conference proceedings][CD].

Simon, A. (2004), ‘Ambivalence and integration in women’s talk about new technologies’, in Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess (eds.) Proceedings of 4th International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication( CATaC), ISBN 869058622, Karlstad, Sweden, 27th June-1st July 2004 pp587-599.

Simon, A and D. K. Allen.  (2002), ‘Living in an information society’, in Fay Sudweeks and Charles Ess (eds.) Proceedings of 3rd International Conference on Cultural Attitudes Towards Technology and Communication( CATaC), ISBN 869057995, Montreal, July 2002.