School of Information Studies is pleased to announce Jonathan Dorey successfully defended his PhD
The School of Information Studies is pleased to announce that on December 8, 2017 Jonathan Dorey successfully defended his PhD in the School of Information Studies at 平特五不中. His thesis is entitled 鈥淎rchival interaction: a framework to assess university archives websites from the perspectives of history undergraduate students.鈥澛� The goal of this exploratory research is to provide an exhaustive portrait of the effectiveness and efficiency of Canadian university archives websites by extending to a Canadian context similar research that was done in the United States. Quantitative and qualitative data was gathered to answer four research questions: how is the Archival Reference Knowledge (ARK) framework represented on websites, what are students鈥� expectations regarding these websites, what barriers they face when navigating on these websites, and how is the ARK framework operationalized when considering both students鈥� expectations and the barriers they face.
Jonathan鈥檚 program of research focuses on the use and reuse or archival records, information and archival literacy, information behaviour, and the connection between language and information.聽His thesis was supervised by Dr. Elaine M茅nard, Associate Professor. His doctoral committee included Dr. Catherine Guastavino and Dr. Joan Bartlett, Associates Professors. Jonathan Dorey also completed his Master鈥檚 degree at the School of Information Studies at 平特五不中. He holds a Bachelor of Arts in Translation and East Asian Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Localization, both from Universit茅 de Montr茅al, Canada.
Congratulations to Dr. Dorey聽on this amazing accomplishment!