Postgraduate research students

My doctoral project addresses a gap in our understanding of how academic disciplines influence users’ expectations of how a library discovery system should work. The study draws upon library ethnography and library UX techniques to explore how researchers’ mental models of knowledge in their own fields vary across disciplines, and it investigates the connections between disciplinary culture and information-related behaviour. 

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• Professor Paul Gooding
• Professor Lorna Hughes

External supervisors

Dr Frankie Wilson (Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford)

Information Seeking in Context (ISIC), August 2024 - Short paper: 'Situating complexity: information behaviour in the contact zone'

International Society of Knowledge Organisation UK (ISKO UK), July 2023 - Doctoral research showcase: 'Exploring scholarly perceptions of knowledge organisation across disciplines'

Library Assessment Conference (LAC), online, November 2022 - Poster: 'Mental Models of the Organization of Scholarly Information: A Theoretical Framework'

Joy has a BA in German Studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (USA), an MA in Transcultural Studies from the Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg (Germany), and an MSc in Information Management and Preservation from the University of Glasgow (UK). Her dissertation for the MSc degree explored the use and accessibility of the GeoCities web archive. Joy previously worked in the archive and library of the European Molecular Biology Laboratory in Heidelberg, Germany, where she developed an interest in the theory and discourse that underpins practice in the library and information sector.