Prof. David Ellis

Professor
BA, MA, PhD, MIinfSc Photograph of Prof. David Ellis.

Contact

Email: dpe@aber.ac.uk
Office: 103
Phone: +44 (0)1970 622170
Fax: +44 (0)1970 622190

Responsibilities

Member of the Departmental Strategy Committee.

Teaching Areas

Undergraduate Teaching

Knowledge Management

Postgraduate Teaching

Knowledge Management, Information Management, Research Methods

Research

Information and knowledge management; information needs; user studies; information retrieval; academic communication; communication in organizations; non-technical aspects of information systems; information policy and strategy; information and communication audits.

Biography

I graduated with a BA from Durham University and an MA and PhD in Information Studies from the University of Sheffield. I was first lecturer and then senior lecturer in the Department of Information Studies in Sheffield from 1984 to 2000. I took up the post of Professor in the Department of Information and Library Studies, Aberystwyth University in 2000.

I enjoy travel and sunshine, and first came to Aberystwyth as an external examiner in the mid 1990s. I was very impressed by the collegial atmosphere of the Department and quality of the work here, and so was pleased to have the opportunity to join the staff of the Department in 2000.

Additional Interests

Professional Activities

  • Member of the international conference committee of the Conceptions of Library and Information Science Conferences 1998-
  • Member of international conference committee of the Information Seeking in Context Conferences 1998- 
  • Member of the AHRB Peer Review Panel for Archives Library and Information Science 2000-
  • Member, Editorial Board, Aslib Proceedings, 2000- 
  • Member, Editorial Board, New Review of Information Behaviour Research, 2000-
  • Member, Editorial Board, New Review of Document and Text Management, 1993-
  • Member, Editorial Board, International Journal of Information Management, 1985-
  • External Examiner for several Departments of Information Studies in the UK

Research Group

Knowledge Management

Staff Publications

Ellis, D. The emergence of conceptual modelling in information behaviour research, In. Spink, A. and Heinstrom, J. eds. New Directions in Information Behaviour, Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Bingley, 2011, 17-35.

Ellis, D. Social science literatures and their users, In. Bates, M. ed. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Sciences, 3rd Edition, London: Taylor and Francis, 2010, 48-56.

Ellis, D and Vasconcelos, A. Knowledge management, In: Bidgoli, H. ed. Handbook of  Technology Management, volume 1, Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley. 2010, 132-143.

Fahey, R., Vasconcelos, A. C., & Ellis, D. (2007). The impact of rewards within communities of practice:  a study of the SAP online global community.Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 5, 186-198.

Ellis, D. & Urquhart C. (2006). "Research in the Department of Information Studies, University of Wales Aberystwyth: an overview." Aslib Proceedings, 58(6), 469-475.

Andrews, A. M. and Ellis, D.  "The changing nature of work in library and information services in the UK:  an analysis."  Education for Information, 23 (1/2), 2005, pp 57-77.

Ellis, D.  "Ellis’s model of information-seeking behaviour."  In:  Theories of information behaviour  (eds K E Fisher, S. Erdelez,&  L.. McKechnie) pp 138-142. Information Today Inc (Published for the American Society of Information Science and Technology).  Medford, New Jersey (2005).

Ellis, D. and Oldman, H.  "The English literature researcher in the age of the Internet."  In: Journal of Information Science, 31, 2005, pp 29-36.

Eillis, D, Oldridge, R and Vasconcelos, A. "A Community and virtual community." Annual Review of Information and Science and Technology.Chronin, B. Published on behalf of the American Society for Information Soceity Technology. Medford, New Jersey. Information today inc, 2003, 2003. 145-186.

Ellis, D, Wilson, T D, Ford, N J, Foster A & Spink A. "Information Seeking and mediated searching: Part V User-Internediary interaction." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53 (2002): pp728-735

Spink, A, Wilson, T D, Ford, N J, Foster, A & Ellis, D. "Information seeking and mediated searching: Part III Successive searching." Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53 (2002): pp716-727

Spink, A, Wilson, T D, Ford, N J, Foster, A & Ellis, D. "Information seeking and mediated searching: Part I Background and research design."Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53 (2002): pp695-703

Wilson, T D, Ford, N J, Ellis, D, Foster, A & Spink, A. "Information seeking and mediated searching: Part II Uncertainty and its correlates."Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology 53 (2002): pp704-715

Allen, D and Ellis, D. "The paradigm debate in information systems research." Information Systems Review 1 (2000): pp21-28

Ellis, D and Vasconcelos, A C. "The relevence of IR research for the evaluation of the Internet." Impact and evaluatin of the Internet. (eds Nicholas D and Rowlands I). London Aslib, 2000.

Ellis, D and Vasconcelos, A C. "The relevence of facet analysis for subject organisation and retrieval on the World Wide Web." Internet searching and indexing: the subject approach. (eds Thomas, A R and Shearer, J R) New York: Howarth Press 2000. Also published simultaneously in the Journal of Internet Cataloguing 2, 2000. pp97-114.