Profiles of PhD Students and Alumni
Profiles of Gateway PhD Students and Alumni
The Gateway PhD program is a global research program. We invite you to learn more about our current doctoral students and the alumni.
Gateway PhD Program Current Students
Gateway PhD Students with QUT
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Proposal Title: The necessity for academic libraries to become strategic business partners: The case of the University of the West Indies |
Gateway PhD Students with MMU
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Proposal Title: The effects of research & library anxiety on secondary students’ information literacy behaviours in the research process |
Proposal Title: Information-seeking Behavior, Perceptions of Citation and Plagiarism and Its Variation Between Community College Students and Instructors |
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Proposal Title: Examination of a comprehensive model for fake news and misinformation |
Proposal Title: What are we measuring and what does it tell us?: Data metrics for impact assessment – Federal agencies |
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Proposal Title: Artist Residencies in Library Spaces: Examining Mechanisms of Impact and Gauging Effectiveness |
Proposal Title: Indigenous Control of Information and Indigenous Community Identity Formation |
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Proposal Title:Academic Libraries and the Use of Institutional Research Data |
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Gateway PhD Program Alumni
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Stephen Abrams (2023)
Dissertation Title: A Communicological Framework for Evaluating Digital Preservation Efficacy |
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Walter Butler (2022)
Dissertation Title: Changing in the Open: OER Textbooks, Online Communities, and the Management of Academic Libraries |
Lettie Conrad (2022)
Dissertation Title: Managing Academic Information: A Grounded Theory Model of the Student-Researcher Information Experience |
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Pat Sandercock (2022)
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Information Choices of Technical College Students |
Richard Okumoto (2021)
Dissertation Title: Digital Storytelling in Higher Education Improves Student Learning Objectives Retention |
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Cherry-Ann Smart (2021)
Dissertation Title: Towards Transformative Engagement: The International and Foreign Student Stakeholders in the Academic Library: A View from the Subaltern |
Salvador Barragan (2020)
Dissertation Title: Appraisal and Retention of Information in the Private Sector: A Case Study |
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Karen Kaufmann (2019)
Dissertation Title: Socio-cognitive Relevance of Information Literacy: The Impact on Student Success |
Nilo Sarraf (2019)
Dissertation Title: Mapping the Neurophysiological and Affective Dimensions of the Information Search Process Model |
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Hongbo Zou (2019)
Dissertation Title: Understanding the Role of Social Media in Enhancing Participatory Services in Public Libraries |
Shelly Buchanan (2018)
Dissertation Title: The lived experience of middle school students engaged in student-driven inquiry: A phenomenological study. |
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Africa Hands (2018)
Dissertation Title: Doctoral Student Motivation: An Exploratory Study of Motivating Factors for Earning the PhD |
Kim Morrison (2018)
Dissertation Title: Counter-story as Curriculum: Autoethnography, Critical Race Theory, and Informed Assets in the Information Literacy Classroom |
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Laura Anderson (2016)
Dissertation Title: Information Sharing in Virtual Collaboration: A Software Engineering Perspective |
Melissa Fraser-Arnott (2016)
Dissertation Title: Personalizing Success: The Professional Identity Experiences of LIS Graduates in Non-Library Roles |
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Clarence Maybee (2015)
Dissertation Title: Informed Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom: The Role of Information Experiences in Shaping Outcomes |
Maria Otero-Boisvert (2015)
Dissertation Title: Funding the Academic Library: An Ethnography |
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Mary‑Jo Romaniuk (2014)
Dissertation Title: Developing Emerging Leaders in the Library Profession: Program Content, Self-efficacy and Leadership |
Tina Inzerilla (2013)
Dissertation Title: Community College Faculty’s Teaching Social Networks and Their Implications for Librarians |
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Virginia Tucker (2013)
Dissertation Title: Acquiring Search Expertise: Learning Experiences and Threshold Concepts |
Mary Ann Harlan (2012)
Dissertation Title: Information Pathways: The Information Practices and Experiences of Teen Content Creators |
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Cheryl Stenström (2012)
Dissertation Title: Factors Influencing Funding Decisions by Elected Politicians at the State/Provincial Level: A Case Study of Public Libraries in Canada |
Diana Wakimoto (2012)
Dissertation Title: The History of Queer Community Archives in California Since 1950 |
Mary Ann Harlan
Mary Ann was a teacher librarian for 10
years, after she learned that the library is where all the fun
learning was taking place. Previously she taught English in a
middle school. She is an active member of California School
Library Association and the American Association of School
Libraries, and has served on the Board of Directors for both
organizations, as well as serving on the Quick Picks committee
for YALSA. Her joy in working with adolescents is instrumental in
her research, which allows her to continue to work with
teenagers.
Tina Inzerilla
Tina graduated from San José State
University in 2005 and works as the Library Coordinator at Las
Positas College, a community college in California. She is well
aware of the opportunities for collaboration between community
college instructors and librarians especially around
incorporating information literacy into community college
curriculum. Her doctoral research will focus on who influences
faculty in their teaching and determining how the librarians can
be more integral to the teaching social networks of faculty.
Karen Kaufmann
Karen Kaufmann is a Research and
Instruction Librarian with a focus on public relations and
marketing the library at Seminole State College of Florida.
Before joining the Seminole State College Library faculty, she
worked at Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida as a prospect
researcher for the Crummer Graduate School of Business and in the
Office of Foundation Relations. Kaufmann’s experience
includes working in the financial services sector as a financial
advisor, investing and financial planning.