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Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Recipients

The recipients of the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship are:

Year

Recipient

2026

Nayana Kirasur
Tracing Documents through Information Infrastructures of Welfare Governance in India

2025

Erin Canning
Novel application of computational approaches in addressing problematic terminology and descriptions within V&A Museum catalogues

2024

Joann Cattlin
Enabling societal impact of research: exploring the information behaviour of academics and professional staff

2023

Helena Häußler
Trust in Search Engines

2022

Nilavra Bhattacharya
A Longitudinal Study to Understand University Students’ Searching as a Learning Process

2021

Rongqian Ma
Bridging Sight and Insight: Visualization in Action among Digital Humanists

2020

Saguna Shankar
Caring for Information Practices: An Inquiry into Visions of Data, Digital Technologies, and Migration

2019

Adèle Paul-Hus
Beyond funding: What can acknowledgements reveal about credit attribution in science?

2018

Sarah Polkinhorne
Food and Information: Embodied Practices in Everyday Life

2017

Leslie Thomson
Investigating Information Creating and Informal Information Providing: A Grounded Theory Study of the Information Practices and Role of Serious YouTuber

2016

Jesse David Dinneen, Analyzing File Management Behaviour

2015

Matthew Willis
Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management

2014

Tiffany Chao
Methods Metadata: Curating Scientific Research Data for Reuse

2013

Kaitlin Costello
Investigating Information Seeking and Disclosure in Online Support Groups for Chronic Kidney Disease

2012

Lori McCay-Peet
At the Intersection: Investigating the Qualities of the Serendipitous Digital Environment and the Serendipity-Prone Person

2011

Amber Cushing

2010

Jaime Snyder

2009

Heather Piwowar

2008

Christina Finneran

2007

Phillip M. Edwards

2006

Phillip M. Edwards

2005

Svetlana Symonenko

2004

Meng Yang

2003

Jiangping Chen

2002

Joan Bartlett

2001

Alesia Zuccala

1999

Brian Detlor

1998

R. David Lankes

1996

Abby Goodrum

1995

William E. Moen

1994

Corinne Jorgensen

1993

Sam-Gyun Oh

1992

Deborah L. Gillaspie

1991

Diane H. Sonnenwald

1990

Cynthia L. Lopata

1989

Ingrid Hsieh-Yee

1988

Stephanie W. Haas

1987

Barbara M. Wildemuth

1986

Elizabeth D. Liddy

1985

Gail E. Thornburg

1984

Danny P. Wallace

1983

Barbara A. Rapp

1982

Susan Bonzi