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 |
Krista McCracken
Krista McCracken is an award winning
public historian and archivist. They work as a
Researcher/Curator at Algoma University’s Shingwauk Residential
Schools Centre, in Baawating (Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario) on the
traditional territory of the Anishinaabe and Métis people.
Kim Morrison
Kim Morrison is a critical educator whose
interests center on critical information literacy, student agency
and the use of assets-based Critical Hip Hop Pedagogy in the
development of student agency and academic achievement with
college students. She teaches library research courses engaging
her students lived experiences by exploring themes such as Tupac,
rap and hip-hop and the images of black women in through
literature, film and music.
Richard Okumoto
Richard Okumoto has been a Lecturer in
the Lucas Graduate School of Business and College of Business at
San Jose State University for the past six years. He currently
teaches two classes in the MBA program in addition to a large
format online undergraduate course in financial literacy. Richard
also teaches undergraduate Strategy and Policy capstone courses
at California State University Long Beach.