Research

My primary research interests lie in the areas of information behaviour, information and digital literacy, knowledge management, career development and lifelong learning. More broadly, I am interested in interdisciplinarity, mixed methods research and creative research methods.

Doctoral work

My doctoral research is concerned with young people’s career information literacy, and with their career information use for the purposes of career decision-making in an everyday context. My current work is guided by two objectives: (1) understanding young people’s career information behaviour and (2) developing tools to support their career information literacy.

Publications

• Capturing career information use in everyday life: introducing the CIEL conceptual framework (accepted for publication in Information Research, due 9/2022)
• A participative approach to understanding the hidden curriculum
• Research in times of crisis: Adaptations of research due to the COVID-19 pandemic
• A sequential explanatory methodology for the study of young people’s career information literacy and career information behaviours
• New information literacy horizons: Making the case for career information literacy
• The role of information in career development
• The socio-material nature of careers work: an exploration of knowledge co-creation amongst career practitioners