Grants
My external grants fall into two arenas: research and student support. My internal grants fund a variety of research projects and travel for presentation at peer-reviewed, national conferences. If you have any interest in working together on grant applications, please let me know. My current research focuses on: identifying the information-interactions of people in crisis, as well those who support them; developing measurable assessments of information-support efficacy for personal crisis communities; design of digital environments to support information generation, community development, and interactive problem-solving for people in personal crisis situations. I am particularly interested in joint applications with colleagues working with digital library design, usability, criminal justice system analysis, domestic violence agency analysis, and information retrieval.
A few recent examples of my grant end-products are listed below.
- Summer Research Assignment, University of Texas, $10,000
- Understanding Crisis Information Needs in Context: The Case of Intimate Partner Violence Survivors. Library Quarterly. 78 (3): 237-261. 2008. [Winner of 2008 Jesse Shera Research Award]
- Crisis Information Concerns: Information Needs of Domestic Violence Survivors. Information Processing and Management. 45 (1): 98-114. 2009.
- Progressive Information Engagement Model: Service Implications of Using and Losing Information in Crisis Situations. American Library Association Conference at the Library Research Round Table Research Forum. June 28, 2008.
- Temple Teaching Fellowship, University of Texas School of Information, $5,000
- Information Myths and Intimate Partner Violence: Sources, Contexts, and Consequences. Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology. 60 (4): 826-836. 2009.
- Stepping Up Grant, Institute of Museum and Library Services, $744,366
- Four management workshops completed
- Four students graduated
- Sixteen students continuing to matriculate; no withdrawals
- Four students taken to the 2009 American Library Association conference