About Hazel Hall

Professor Hazel Hall is Professor of Social Informatics at Edinburgh Napier University, UK, Docent of Information Studies a Åbo Akademi, Finland.

Addressing the research-practice gap: Facet publishes Research, evaluation and audit

Posted on October 25, 2013 by Hazel Hall

An on-going concern of many professions, such as policing, social work, psychology, nursing, and teaching, is the “research-practice gap”, and the corresponding distance between researchers and practitioners within each community. Much of my work with the Library and Information Science (LIS) Research Coalition, and its associated projects Developing Research Excellence and Methods (DREaM) and the Research in Librarianship Impact Evaluation Study (RiLIES), sought to address the gap within LIS between 2009 and 2012.

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Social Network Analysis (SNA) and LIS research: newly-published article in the Journal of Documentation

Posted on October 23, 2013 by Hazel Hall

My co-author: Dr Louise Cooke of Loughborough University

Last year Dr Louise Cooke of Loughborough University and I worked on a research project that explored the applicability of Social Network Analysis (SNA) to Library and Information Science research. The novelty of this work was in its assessment of the value of SNA in the context of the development of researcher networks. The findings from our empirical work, which we wrote up for publication as a research paper, indicate the potential of a methodology that could be used as a replicable framework for further development of networks in other contexts.

The manuscript of our paper was accepted for publication in the Journal of Documentation (JDoc) in December 2012. JDoc is one of the top international information science journals and regularly achieves the highest citation ratings in ISI for comparable titles.

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An afternoon of advice from Thesis Whisperer Dr Inger Mewburn

Posted on October 7, 2013 by Hazel Hall

The home page of the Thesis Whisperer web site

What do you do when you hear that the Thesis Whisperer, Dr Inger Mewburn, is coming to town? If you’re my colleague Karen Strickland, you do all you can to tempt her onto the Edinburgh Napier University campus to share with colleagues her enthusiasm for social media as a means of marketing academic research.

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Organisational culture in knowledge creation, creativity and innovation: towards the Freiraum model

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Hazel Hall

My colleague Dr Jan Auernhammer and I were pleased to learn this week that an article on knowledge management and organisational culture that we submitted to the Journal of Information Science in July has been accepted. The full text of the version accepted for publication is available.

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The academic year and the academic’s year (or “how I spent my summer vacation”)

Posted on September 16, 2013 by Hazel Hall

An unwelcome question

At a party recently another guest kindly asked me how I felt about “returning to work in the autumn” after my “long summer vacation”. I held my breath for a few seconds, then carefully replied that my annual leave entitlement is 27 days plus 14 fixed/public holidays. (This may be fewer than his – I didn’t ask). To get the conversation back on track, I then enthused about my fabulous two-week holiday in the far north west of Scotland in August, and the events that I managed to catch during the Edinburgh Festival and the Fringe. In response he told me about his own summer break. We were both able to enjoy this pleasant, yet insignificant, conversation ending on a happy discussion of the best British summer weather in years.

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Connect WordPress site launch

Posted on August 28, 2013 by Hazel Hall

In early July I wrote a blog post about Macedonian intern student Dushko Staneoski. Dushko joined us over the summer 2013 to design, implement and evaluate a WordPress site for Connect, the network for women studying computing, engineering and the built environment at Edinburgh Napier University.

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A day at i3: information, interactions and impact #i3rgu

Posted on July 23, 2013 by Hazel Hall

Every two years information science researchers gather in Aberdeen for the i3: information, interactions and impact conference hosted by the Department of Information Management at Robert Gordon University (RGU). The most recent i3 conference was held at the end of last month, running from Tuesday 25th until Friday 28th June.

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Invitation to the Girl Geek Scotland summer start-up party, 30th August 2013

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Hazel Hall

Girl Geek Scotland is hosting a dinner event on Friday 30 August at Summerhall, Edinburgh. The evening starts at 17:30 with networking, followed by a panel conversation over dinner with five high profile female panellists from Silicon Valley: Suzanne Doyle-Morris; Wendy Lea; Hedi Roizen; Ann Winbald; and Karen White.

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Hazel Hall

Emeritus Professor, Edinburgh Napier University

Author Archives: Hazel Hall

About Hazel Hall

Addressing the research-practice gap: Facet publishes Research, evaluation and audit

Organisational culture in knowledge creation, creativity and innovation: towards the Freiraum model

The academic year and the academic’s year (or “how I spent my summer vacation”)

Connect WordPress site launch

A day at i3: information, interactions and impact #i3rgu

Invitation to the Girl Geek Scotland summer start-up party, 30th August 2013