Nordic Research School in Library and Information Science


A large number of international and Nordic scholars have agreed to contribute to NORSLIS and they will appear as visiting Prof.s, guest lecturers, road show participants and they are also potential advisors for PhD-projects. Note: The lists will change and grow!

International scholars contributing to NORSLIS

Prof. Keith van Rijsbergen, Glasgow U.

Information Retrieval; Computer science

Prof. Alan Smeaton, Dublin UC

Multimedia (video) retrieval and evaluation

Prof. Ronald Rousseau, Catholic School for Higher Education Bruges-Ostend Belgium

Bibliometrics; Webometrics

Dr. Wolfgang Glänzel, Leuven University, Belgium

Bibliometrics; Informetrics

Prof. Helge Rønning, Oslo University

Media & Communication; Cultural mediation & transfer

Dr. Jane Klobas, University of Bocconi, Milan

Research design; Knowledge management

Dr. Jussi Karlgren, SICS, Sweden

Language processing; Computer linguistics

Dr. Peiling Wang, University of Tennessee, USA

Web searching; Longitudinal studies and research methods

Prof. W Boyd Rayward, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Historical aspects of LIS; documentation and librarianship

Prof. Michael Buckland, School of Information Management & Systems, University of California, Berkeley

Information management; conceptual developments in LIS

Prof. Carol Kuhlthau, Rutgers univ, USA

Information seeking in context

Prof. Elisabeth Davenport, Napier Univ, UK Research methods; organisational and social informatics
Dr. Ian Ruthven, Univ of Strathclyde, UK Interactive Information Retrieval
Dr Bernd Frohmann , University of Western Ontario, Canada
Documentation, discource analysis
Dr Matthew Rimmer , The Australian National University, Australia Intellectual Property, Media and IT Law
Dr. Martin Meyer, Leuven University, Belgium Science and technology studies; patents

Nordic LIS scholars
contributing to NORSLIS

Main contact persons at the 15 NORSLIS departments
 
Prof. Peter Ingwersen, RSLIS, Copenhagen Interactive IR; informetrics; webometrics
Prof. Pertti Vakkari, Univerity of Tampere Information seeking in context
Prof. Mariam Ginman, Åbo academy Information management; user studies
Dr. Terttu Kortelainen, Universitry of Oulu Informetrics; evaluation of libararies
Prof. Ragnar Audunson, Oslo Univ college Library development; Library policies
Prof. Niels Winfeld Lund, University of Tromsø Documentation
Prof. Ingeborg Torvik Sølvberg, NTNU Trondheim Digital libraries
Prof. Olle Persson, University of Umeå

Bibliometrics; Sociology of science

Prof. Lars Höglund, Univ of Gothenburg/Borås Information management; user studies
Prof. Louise Limberg, Univ of Gothenburg/Borås Information seeking and learning
Dr. Birgitta Olander, University of Lund Information behaviour; expert systems
Dr. Olof Sundin, University of Lund Information seeking, discourse analysis
Dr. Janne Backlund, University of Uppsala Information theory; pedagogy
Prof. Aira Lepik, Tallin Pedagogical University Llibrary marketing; librarianship
Prof. Baiba Sporane, University of Latvia Library development; Library policies
Dr. Audrone Glosiene, University of Vilnius Library science; book research

More persons engaged as lecturers and supervisors
 
Prof. Diane Sonnenwald, Univ of Gothenburg/Borås Research methods; collaboration studies
Prof. Irene Wormell, Univ of Gothenburg/Borås Information management; informetrics
Dr. Katriina Byström, Univ of Gothenburg/Borås Information needs/seeking/use
Dr. Sándor Darányi, Univ of Gothenburg/Borås Information retrieval and knowledge organization
Fl. Magnus Torstensson, Univ of Gothenburg/Borås Library history
Prof. Geir Vestheim, Univ of Gothenburg/Borås Cultural policies and institutions
Dr. Eva Hemmungs Wirtén, Univ of Uppsala Intellectual property rights; cultural policy
Dr. Rickard Danell, Univ of Umeå Bibliometrics, science studies
Dr. Ingrid Schild, Univ of Umeå Innovation studies; patents
Dr. Peder Karlsson, Univ of Umeå Sociology of science; bibliometrics
Dr. Jofrid Karner Smidt, Oslo Univ college Sociology of literature
Dr. Nils Pharo, Oslo Univ college Research methods; information retrieval
Dr. Robert W. Vaagan, Oslo Univ college Information management, information ethics, multiculturalism
Dr. Ragnar Nordlie, Oslo Univ college Information retrieval; information seeking
Dr. Trond Aalberg, NTNU Trondheim Digital Libraries, Information Management
Dr. Heri Ramampiaro, NTNU Trondheim Databases, Information Retrieval
Prof. Birger Hjørland, RSLIS, Copenhagen Knowledge organisation; theory of science
Mag. Niels Ole Pors, RSLIS, Copenhagen Research methods; digital libraries
Prof. Beth Juncker, RSLIS, Copenhagen Childrens culture and literature
Dr. Pia Borlund, RSLIS, Copenhagen Interactive information retrieval
Dr. Birger Larsen, RSLIS, Copenhagen Information retrieval; polyrepresenations
Dr. Lennart Björneborn, RSLIS, Copenhagen Webometrics; small world phenomena
Dr. Marianne Lykke Nielsen, RSLIS, Copenhagen Knowledge oirganisation;thesauruses, taxonomies
Dr. Trine Schreiber, RSLIS, Copenhagen Library development; knowledge management
Prof. Sara von Ungern-Sternberg, Åbo academy Information and learning; bibliometrics
Prof. Kalervo Järvelin, Univerity of Tampere Information retrieval; document databases
Dr. Sanna Talja, University of Tampere Knowledge organisation and management
Prof. Reijo Savolainen, Univerity of Tampere Information seeking
Prof. Eero Sormunen, Universty of Tampere Information retrieval
Prof. Jaana Kekalainen, University of Tampere IR experiments and evaluation
Dr. Vesa Souminen, Universitry of Oulu Knowledge organisation
Dr. Jesper Scheider, RSLIS, Aalborg Thesaurus construction & bibliometrics
Dr. Gunilla Widén-Wulff, Åbo academy  
Dr. Stefan Ek, Åbo academy  
Dr. Kristina Eriksson-Backa, Åbo academy  
Prof. Maija-Lena Huotari, University of Oulu Information management; information seeking

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