Professor Shachak’s research and teaching is mainly in the area of health informatics. His work seeks to improve usage and help realizing the potential benefits of information systems, especially in health care and biomedicine. This includes the study, design, and evaluation of educational interventions, tutorials and user manuals, user interfaces, and end-user support.

I am interested in the complex and dynamic relationships between museums and source communities, the interconnections between memory and material culture, theoretical aspects of repatriation, and generating new modes for understanding post-colonialism in the museum context.

Professor Choo conducts research in the areas of knowledge and information management, information seeking behaviour, and organizational learning. A current project looks at organizations as epistemic communities; another examines information seeking and use in early warning systems.

Professor Yu’s research focuses on the analysis and design of information systems and services in social contexts, and knowledge management. His projects include designing for security and privacy, agile software development, and business modeling for business intelligence.

Professor MacNeil is currently working on a SSHRC-funded research project examining archival description as rhetorical genre in traditional and web-based environments. Her research interests include theory and methodology of archival arrangement and description, and issues of authenticity in traditional and digital environments.

Professor Mai’s scholarship questions the conceptual foundation of classification research and practice and his most recent papers draw attention to the challenge of designing and maintaining systems that are transparent and trustworthy.

Professor Teather’s research includes the history of Canadian museums, contemporary issues in national and international museum development, and the training of museum professionals. She is working on a project with Professor Roger Simon on difficult history and museums by examining the exhibition, "Without Sanctuary: Lynching Photographs in America."

Professor Ratto is developing critical making methodologies that blend scholarly reflection on critical information issues with hands-on material work. His SHHRC-funded project examines changing notions of labor and expertise in relation to 3D printing and rapid prototyping technologies.

Dr. Sara M. Grimes researches and teaches in the areas of children's digital media culture(s), digital game studies, critical theories of technology and play. Her current research tracks the growing phenomenon of child-generated digital content in digital games and online environments, focusing on what this development means for children's cultural rights, existing regulatory frameworks and industry standards of practice.

Professor Stevenson investigates the working conditions within the information economy, particularly at public libraries. She developed a model that attempts to capture the dialectic between the ascendancy of library consumer-producer identity and the diminishment of the public librarian as a skilled, waged, and unionized public service worker.

My book based on an ethnographic study of software development in Brazil is expected to come out in the fall of 2012. The book looks at software development as a case of a modern high-tech work and at how globalization is experienced and constructed in such a context.

I am currently working on a new project exploring the communities of people enaged with preservation of old software.