Citation
(2004), "Awards for Excellence", Journal of Documentation, Vol. 60 No. 6. https://doi.org/10.1108/jd.2004.27860faa.002
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2004, Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Awards for Excellence
Allen Foster University of Wales, Aberystwyth, UKand Nigel Ford University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
are the recipients of the journal's Outstanding Paper Award for Excellence for their paper
"Serendipity and information seeking: an empirical study"
which appeared in Journal of Documentation, Vol. 59 No. 3, 2003
Allen E. Foster is lecturer in Knowledge Management and Electronic Information with the Department of Information Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Prior to this he spent several years as research associate, teaching assistant, and PhD research student. Since 2002 he has lectured in the areas of Information Literacy, Information Retrieval, and Research Methods, at the Department of Information Studies, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Born in 1968 in Doncaster, Yorkshire, England, a place well-known as a market town, for coal mining and the St Leger horse race, he has extensive experience in the private sector covering legal, administrative, computing, and management roles. Degrees and higher degrees were awarded by the University of Sheffield beginning with a BA (Hons) in Social History (1994), an MSc in Information Management (1996), which drew together many interests and encouraged his interest in research, and led to several research contracts, and ultimately to a PhD ("Interdisciplinary information-seeking behaviour: a naturalistic inquiry" (2003)) from the University of Sheffield, and a lectureship at the University of Wales Aberystwyth.
Nigel Ford is Professor of Information Science in Sheffield University's Department of Information Studies. He has researched and published extensively in the field of information seeking, focusing particularly on the effects on strategic behaviour and resultant outcomes of individual differences including gender, cognitive style and levels of experience, and of affective, attitudinal as well as cognitive factors. He has directed a number of funded reseach projects in the area of information seeking, and is currently directing an AHRB project investigating the development of Internet-related information literacy in schools.