Dr Morgan Harvey (he/him)
BSc (Strathclyde), PhD (Strathclyde)
Information School
Senior Lecturer in Data Science


+44 114 222 6337
Full contact details
Information School
Room C229
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I am a Senior Lecturer in data science and information retrieval here at the Information School of the University of Sheffield. I hold a PhD in Information Science from the University of Strathclyde, which I completed in 2011, and since then have worked in academic roles in the UK, Germany and Switzerland. Before coming to Sheffield, I was a senior lecturer at Northumbria University in Newcastle and a research associate at the University of Lugano in Switzerland and the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg in Germany.
To date, I have published more than 60 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles in the fields of information retrieval, information behaviour and recommender systems. I have successfully acquired over £250,0000 in research funding to support my research, including a recent AHRC grant on using machine learning techniques to support the transcriptions and linking of historical records from the US civil war.
University Responsibilities
- Programme Coordinator of BSc Data Science
- Research interests
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My work aims to bridge the gap between “systems” and “user-centred” Information Retrieval and Recommender Systems. I conduct research in the fields of information retrieval, information behaviour, recommender systems and in the wider area of information and data science and have published more than 60 peer-reviewed conference papers and journal articles. Although my research is applied in a broad array of different contexts, at its core is the idea of helping to connect people to the information they need or want.
Recent work includes:
- Using recommender systems and nudging techniques to help people to eat more healthily and in a more sustainable manner.
- Understanding and mitigating the effects of everyday interruptions and distractions on mobile search.
- Investigating the information behaviour and information literacy of people when engaging with digital council services and when thru-hiking.
PhD Student Supervision
I am interested in supervising PhD projects in any research topics related to my aforementioned areas of interest and experience. I am particularly interested in supervising work on recommender and assistance systems and how they can be applied to promote nutritious and sustainable eating.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Greetings from the CHIIR 2024 General Chairs. CHIIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, III-IV.
- E-Government information search by English-as-a Second Language speakers: the effects of language proficiency and document reading level. Information Processing and Management, 59(4). View this article in WRRO
- The effects of simulated interruptions on mobile search tasks. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 73(6), 777-796. View this article in WRRO
- A day at the races : using best arm identification algorithms to reduce the cost of information retrieval user studies. Applied Intelligence, 52(5), 5617-5632. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding the costs and challenges of the digital divide through UK council services. Journal of Information Science. View this article in WRRO
- Whither wilderness? An investigation of technology use by long-distance backpackers. Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 72(6), 683-698. View this article in WRRO
- Understanding in-context interaction: An investigation into on-the-go mobile search. Information Processing and Management, 56(6). View this article in WRRO
- Library 2.0: the effectiveness of social media as a marketing tool for libraries in educational institutions. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 51(1), 3-19. View this article in WRRO
- Kochen im Kontext – Am Alltag orientierte Empfehlung von Gerichten. Information - Wissenschaft & Praxis, 63(5).
Chapters
- An Analysis of Classification Approaches for Hit Song Prediction Using Engineered Metadata Features with Lyrics and Audio Features, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (pp. 303-311). Springer Nature Switzerland
Conference proceedings papers
- What's interrupting your search?. Information Research, Vol. 27(Special Issue). Berlin, Germany, 26 September 2022 - 29 September 2022. View this article in WRRO
- Conducting Information Science research during pandemics: Experience and Reflections of the Information Retrieval Research Group in Sheffield. Information Science Trends - ASIS&T European Chapter Series, 9 June 2021 - 11 June 2021. View this article in WRRO
- Effective learning and resilience in first year undergraduate computer science. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Conference on Innovation and Technology in Computer Science Education (pp 19-25). New York, NY, United States, 15 June 2020 - 15 June 2020. View this article in WRRO
- Conversational agents for recipe recommendation. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval (pp 73-82). Vancouver BC, Canada, 14 March 2020 - 18 March 2020. View this article in WRRO
- The Long Term Effects of Search Query Examples on the Search Behaviours of Non-native Users of Government E-Services. Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval
- Learning by Example: training users with high-quality query suggestions. Proceedings of the 38th International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval (pp 133-142). New York, NY, United States, 9 August 2015 - 13 August 2015. View this article in WRRO
- Finding Participants in a Chat: Authorship Attribution for Conversational Documents. 2013 International Conference on Social Computing, 8 September 2013 - 14 September 2013.
- The Barriers to Online Clothing Websites for Visually Impaired People: An Interview and Observation Approach to Understanding Needs. Proceedings of Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS)
Theses / Dissertations
Preprints
- Greetings from the CHIIR 2024 General Chairs. CHIIR 2024 - Proceedings of the 2024 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, III-IV.
- Research group
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I am a member of the iSchool’s Information Retrieval Research Group.
Current PhD students
- Amnah Alluqmani: Assisting Visually Impaired and Blind People in Online Shopping
- Aisha Alshammri: Exploring and Understanding Factors that Affect the Adoption of Personal Health Records Among Healthcare providers and patients in Saudi Arabia
- Khalid Fallatah: An Investigation of Health Information Encountering and Seeking Behaviours on Social Media Platforms
- Mengjyisong “Sookie” Zhao: Context-aware Healthy Food Recommender Systems
- Teaching interests
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I am a fellow of the Higher Education Academy and have been teaching in various academic roles since 2008 in the UK, Germany and Switzerland. I teach on a wide range of data and information science-related topics, including: information retrieval, databases, data mining, recommender systems, business intelligence, data analytics and programming.
I currently teach on three modules at the Information School: Data Mining (INF6028), for which I act as module coordinator; Database Design (INF6050) and Database Design and Data Management (INF6505); and Information Retrieval- Search Engines and Digital Libraries (INF6060).
- Teaching activities
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INF212 - AI and Machine Learning for Advanced Analytics
INF216 - Responsible Data Science Lab 1
INF6060 - Information Retrieval: Search Engines and Digital Libraries
- Professional activities and memberships
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Membership of professional bodies
- Fellow of the Higher Education Academy
Committee and advisory group membership
Member of the technical programme committees of major conferences in the field of information retrieval, including:
- SIGIR
- CHIIR
- ECIR
- CIKM
- SIGCHI
Journal and conference reviewing
Reviewer for several international journals, including:
- Information Processing and Management (IP&M)
- Transactions on Information Systems (TOIS)
- Journal of Librarianship and Information Sciences (JOLIS)
- Pervasive and Mobile Computing (Elsevier Journal)
- The International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
- Information Retrieval Journal (Springer)
Invited presentations
- Invited keynote speaker at RESULTS workshop on Recommender Systems for Engaging Users with Healthy Living Habits 2019, Bristol, UK
Other roles
- Doctoral Consortium Mentor at CHIIR 2019, Glasgow, UK and CHIIR 2020, Vancouver, Canada
- Senior PC member for ECIR 2017, 2019 and 2020
- Proceedings chair of IIiX 2014 in Regensburg
- Organiser of Searching for Fun workshop in 2012 and 2014
- Examiner of PhD dissertations submitted to the University of Regensburg and Northumbria University