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

Module Coordinator

• ILM5320 - Information Organisation and Retrieval
• DSM7820 - Information Organisation and Retrieval
• DS24110 - Human Communication
• DS33410 - School Libraries and Learning Resources
• IL10520 - Effective Communication

Coordinator

• IL10520 - Effective Communication
• ILM5320 - Information Organisation and Retrieval

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

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.