Professor Amanda Spink has been appointed to a Chair in Information Science at Loughborough University, England.

She joins the Department of Information Science from the Queensland University of Technology in Australia, where she was Research Capacity Building Professor of Information Science.

Professor Spink’s research focuses on developing theories, models and empirical studies of information behaviour.  She has over 330 publications and six books.  Her most recent book, ‘Information Behaviour: An Evolutionary Instinct (Springer)’, provides a new evolutionary and interdisciplinary theoretical and research framework for understanding information behavior.

Professor Spink has been noted as an intellectual leader for Library and Information Science and for having the second highest citation h-index in the field. She has also recently been appointed Editor of the Emerald Library and Information Science book series.

Speaking about her appointment, Professor Graham Matthews, Head of Loughborough’s Department of Information Science, said: “The Department is extremely pleased to have appointed Professor Spink, a renowned scholar in the field. Her international reputation for research in information science goes before her. Colleagues are looking forward to working with her when she takes up her appointment in September. We are looking for her to make considerable impact.”

Loughborough’s Department of Information Science is ranked as the top institution in the UK to study Library and Information Management (Times Good University Guide - June 2009) and has consistently achieved very high ratings in the National Student Survey and the Research Assessment Exercise.

The Department offers a range of programmes at undergraduate and postgraduate level within the broad area of Information Science, including: Information Management and Business Studies, Information Management and Computing, Publishing with English, Web Development and Design; Information and Knowledge Management, Information and Library Management and Information Management and Business Technology.

Graham Matthews

Professor of Information Management

Head, Department of Information Science

Loughborough University

Ashby Road

Loughborough

Leicestershire

England

LE11 3TU

Tel: +44 (0)1509 223051

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