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

• DS24110 - Human Communication
• DS32620 - Marketing of Services
• DS33410 - School Libraries and Learning Resources
• DSM7820 - Information Organisation and Retrieval
• DS31020 - Collection Management
• IL10520 - Effective Communication
• DSM8810 - Focus on the Child : Reading and Libraries
• DSM8010 - Collection Management
• ILM5320 - Information Organisation and Retrieval
• DS33320 - Research Methodology
• DS30810 - Focus on the Child:Reading and Libraries

Coordinator

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

Tutor

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

Lecturer

• IL10120 - Foundations of Information Studies
• IL30420 - Knowledge and Information Management
• IL30220 - Creativity and Serendipity: theories and digital applications
• ILM2520 - Recordkeeping Process and Practice
• ILM2610 - Recordkeeping Theories and Contexts
• ILM5320 - Information Organisation and Retrieval
• ILM8120 - Rare Books and Special Collections
• ILM9020 - Information Systems in Organisations
• ILM8620 - Knowledge and Information Architecture
• ILM2020 - Access, outreach and advocacy
• ILM2320 - Digital Preservation
• ILM5220 - Studies in Management
• ILM8220 - Collection Management
• IL10320 - The Cultural Heritage Landscape
• IL11120 - The Archival Inheritance
• ILM2120 - Collections Care
• ILM4120 - Post Medieval Palaeography and Diplomatic
• ILM5120 - Information and Society
• IL10520 - Effective Communication
• ILM1820 - Medieval and Post -Medieval Palaeography and Diplomatic
• ILM2220 - Digital Collection Development
• ILM2410 - Archives and Records - Practical Project
• IL33920 - Local Studies and Community Heritage
• ILM1460 - Dissertation
• ILM2720 - Media Archives
• ILM3220 - Digital Information Literacy
• ILM5420 - Information Services: Planning for Delivery
• PGM4820 - Orientation in Professional Research

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.