David Brazier
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Dr David Brazier

Lecturer

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  D.Brazier@napier.ac.uk

  

Biography

David is a Lecturer within the Applied Informatics Group. He gained his PhD in information science from Northumbria University investigating the information interactions of English as second language users in an e-Governmental context.
This was preceded by a BSc (hons) in Applied Computing from Newcastle College and a MSc from Northumbria University in Business Information Systems Management with a dissertation on the effects privacy concerns have on perceived acceptance and use of the 'Internet of Things'.

He has research interests in interactive information retrieval, information behaviours and literacy and user experience with a particular focus on the impact digitalisation of services has on equality of access.

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Conference Organising Activity

  • Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval Programme Committee Member
  • Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval (SIGIR) Conference Programme Committee Member

 

Grant Funding Panel Member

  • SGSSS UoA 34 representative
  • SGSSS pathway rep for Information Science

 

Membership of Professional Body

  • Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy
  • Association of Computing Machinery Professional Member
  • Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group in Information Retrieval
  • Association for Computing Machinery Student Member

 

Reviewing

  • Reviewer: Library & Information Science Research
  • Reviewer: Information Processing & Management
  • Reviewer: Journal of Information Science
  • Workshop on Recommender Systems for Human Resources (RecSys in HR 2021), programme committee member
  • European Conference of Information Retrieval Programme Committee Member

 

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An investigation into Scottish teenagers鈥 information literacy and search skills

Journal Article
Brazier, D., Walton, G., & Harvey, M. (2019)
An investigation into Scottish teenagers鈥 information literacy and search skills. Information Research, 24(1),
Introduction. This paper presents the results of a study investigating the information literacy and search skills of young people in Scotland. Method. The participants, secon...

A Comparative Study of Native and聽Non-native Information Seeking聽Behaviours

Conference Proceeding
Brazier, D., & Harvey, M. (2018)
A Comparative Study of Native and聽Non-native Information Seeking聽Behaviours. In Advances in Information Retrieval. , (237-248). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76941-7_18
The proliferation of web-based technologies has led most national governments to begin transitioning to a so called 鈥渆-service,鈥 where provision is made through purely digital...

E-Government and the Digital Divide: A Study of English-as-a-Second-Language Users鈥 Information Behaviour

Conference Proceeding
Brazier, D., & Harvey, M. (2017)
E-Government and the Digital Divide: A Study of English-as-a-Second-Language Users鈥 Information Behaviour. In Advances in Information Retrieval. , (266-277). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56608-5_21
Internet-based technologies are increasingly used by organisations and governments to offer services to consumers and the public in a quick and efficient manner, removing the ...

Strangers in a Strange Land: A Study of Second Language Speakers Searching for e-Services

Conference Proceeding
Brazier, D., & Harvey, M. (2017)
Strangers in a Strange Land: A Study of Second Language Speakers Searching for e-Services. In CHIIR '17 Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, (281-284). https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3022133
While the recent trend of digitisation of government and related services offers many advantages, it could introduce problems for those who are less information literate or wh...

The Long Term Effects of Search Query Examples on the Search Behaviours of Non-native Users of Government E-Services

Conference Proceeding
Brazier, D. (2017)
The Long Term Effects of Search Query Examples on the Search Behaviours of Non-native Users of Government E-Services. In CHIIR '17 Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Conference Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, (417-419). https://doi.org/10.1145/3020165.3022175
Interacting with information in an on-line capacity is common place for the majority of people nowadays. However, there still remains a considerable section of society whose s...

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Non-Napier PhD or MSc by Research supervisions

  • PhD Supervision: Rhonda Rathburn