Dr Melanie Benson Marshall
BA (Nottingham), MA (Sheffield), PhD (Sheffield)
Information School
Post-Doctoral Researcher
Full contact details
Information School
Room C600
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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After completing my BA, I worked for a major academic publisher for several years in acquisitions and project management, across several areas of Engineering and Computer Science, before moving to Sheffield to undertake the MA Librarianship course. I then completed a PhD in the Information School, in the area of migration and information behaviour, and have since been teaching and working on a range of research projects in the School.
I am currently working as a Postdoctoral Fellow on VOICES: The Value of Openness, Inclusion, Communication, and Engagement for Science in a post-pandemic world. The project seeks to investigate and share new empirical evidence of the value of opening science, to other scholars and to the public, during and beyond the pandemic. Employing a combination of quantitative and qualitative methods from social and information sciences, the project explores the long-term value of openness, inclusion, and equity in the communication of science. My work particularly examines how the pandemic has affected the discourse and debates on openness among key stakeholders in science, including academics, publishers, policymakers, the media, and the public.
Committee membership:
- EDI Operations Group (Research Staff Rep)
- Research interests
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My research focuses on information behaviour in migration; my PhD thesis examined the role of information in the migration experience of young Polish women in the UK. I have also undertaken or contributed to research in the areas of space and place, including use of academic libraries and other campus learning spaces; library design, architecture, and spatial considerations; and the use of visual and creative methods.
- Publications
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Journal articles
- The pandemic has brought opportunities for greater inclusion in science: A thematic analysis of documents on open science practices. RDBCI: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação, e023015-e023015.
- Mapping the campus learning landscape. Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 30(2), 149-167. View this article in WRRO
- European Union librarians on the move? An exploration of potential impacts of Brexit on workforce diversity. New Review of Academic Librarianship, 27(4), 402-422. View this article in WRRO
- The role of information in the migration experience of young Polish women in the UK. Journal of Documentation, 76(4), 849-868. View this article in WRRO
- Visual methods and quality in information behaviour research: The cases of photovoice and mental mapping. Information Research, 22(2).
- Visual and creative methods and quality in information behaviour research. INFORMATION RESEARCH-AN INTERNATIONAL ELECTRONIC JOURNAL, 19(4). View this article in WRRO
- The Information School at the University of Sheffield, 1963-2013. Journal of Documentation, 70(6), 1141-1158.
- The impact of COVID-19 on the debate on open science: a qualitative analysis of published materials from the period of the pandemic. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 11(1).
- Pandemia trouxe oportunidades para mais inclusão na ciência [Pandemic brought opportunities for more inclusion in science: a thematic analysis of documents on open science practices]. RDBCI - Digital Journal of Library and Information Science.
Conference proceedings papers
- Visual and creative methods and quality in information behaviour research. Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, Vol. 19(4)
Reports
- Drivers of the use of SCONUL member libraries View this article in WRRO
Preprints
- The impact of COVID-19 on the debate on open science: An analysis of expert opinion, Center for Open Science.
- The pandemic has brought opportunities for greater inclusion in science: A thematic analysis of documents on open science practices. RDBCI: Revista Digital de Biblioteconomia e Ciência da Informação, e023015-e023015.
- Teaching activities
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I teach primarily on modules within the Librarianship and Library and Information Services Management programmes, as well supervising postgraduate dissertations.
- INF6005 Management for Library and Information Services
- INF6031/INF6531 Public and School Libraries
- INF6041 ICTs, Innovation and Change
- INF6340 Research Methods and Dissertation Preparation
- INF6501 Personal and Professional Development Portfolio
- INF6511 Information and Knowledge Management
- INF6513 Leadership, Strategy and Change