Dr Pauline Rafferty

MA (Hons)(Glasgow); MSc (Strathclyde); PhD (Nottingham); PGCED (Northumbria); MCLIP

I joined the Department in January 2007. Before that I taught in the Department of Information Science, City University, London, and in the School of Information Studies and Department of Media and Communication at the University of Central England, Birmingham. My first teaching post was in the University of Northumbria. Before moving into teaching I worked in information research and media librarianship.

I read H.G. Wells, George Orwell, Roland Barthes, and golden age detective fiction. I listen to Steely Dan, The Blue Nile, Capercaillie and anyone singing Cole Porter, and I love the night train from London to Scotland, particularly when I end up in Kilchattan Bay.

Professional Activities

Member of CILIP and ISKO

Joint Editor of Journal of Information Science

Module Coordinator

• ILM5320 - Information Organisation and Retrieval
• ILM8220 - Collection Management
• DS33320 - Research Methodology
• DSM7820 - Information Organisation and Retrieval
• DS24110 - Human Communication
• DS32620 - Marketing of Services
• DSM8010 - Collection Management
• DS33410 - School Libraries and Learning Resources
• DSM8810 - Focus on the Child : Reading and Libraries
• DS30810 - Focus on the Child:Reading and Libraries
• IL10520 - Effective Communication

Coordinator

• IL10520 - Effective Communication
• ILM5320 - Information Organisation and Retrieval
• ILM8220 - Collection Management

Tutor

• ILM2220 - Digital Collection Development
• ILM8220 - Collection Management
• ILM1460 - Dissertation
• ILM8620 - Knowledge and Information Architecture
• ILM5320 - Information Organisation and Retrieval

Lecturer

• IL30220 - Creativity and Serendipity: theories and digital applications
• IL30420 - Knowledge and Information Management
• IL10120 - Foundations of Information Studies
• IL33920 - Local Studies and Community Heritage
• ILM1620 - Archive Management: Archive Services
• ILM2320 - Digital Preservation
• ILM2410 - Archives and Records - Practical Project
• ILM5120 - Information and Society
• ILM5220 - Studies in Management
• ILM9020 - Information Systems in Organisations
• IL11120 - The Archival Inheritance
• ILM1720 - Study of Records: Creators and Users
• ILM1820 - Medieval and Post -Medieval Palaeography and Diplomatic
• ILM2220 - Digital Collection Development
• ILM2720 - Media Archives
• ILM8120 - Rare Books and Special Collections
• ILM2520 - Recordkeeping Process and Practice
• ILM2610 - Recordkeeping Theories and Contexts
• ILM8220 - Collection Management
• ILM8620 - Knowledge and Information Architecture
• ILM5320 - Information Organisation and Retrieval
• ILM2120 - Collections Care
• IL10320 - The Cultural Heritage Landscape
• IL10520 - Effective Communication
• ILM2020 - Access, outreach and advocacy
• ILM1460 - Dissertation
• ILM3220 - Digital Information Literacy
• ILM4120 - Post Medieval Palaeography and Diplomatic
• ILM5420 - Information Services: Planning for Delivery

My current teaching and research interests are in the areas of image analysis, multimedia information retrieval and indexing, social tagging, and critical communication and information studies, particularly subject analysis, interpretation and semiotics; representations of knowledge, and classification theory; structuralist and semiotic approaches to modelling culture as "human sciences". I am also interested in critical theory approaches to popular culture.