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Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Recipients

The Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship, a $1,000 cash award sponsored by ASIS&T, fosters research in information science by encouraging and assisting doctoral students with their dissertation research.  Established in 1981, the scholarship recognizes outstanding proposals for doctoral dissertations submitted by graduate students who have completed the course work for their doctoral degrees.

The recipients of the Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship are:

Year

Recipient

2024

Joann Cattlin, Enabling societal impact of research: exploring the information behaviour of academics and professional staff

2023

Helena Häußler, Trust in Search Engines

2022

Nilavra Bhattacharya, A Longitudinal Study to Understand University Students’ Searching as a Learning Process

2021

Rongqian Ma, Bridging Sight and Insight: Visualization in Action among Digital Humanists

2020

Saguna Shankar, Caring for Information Practices: An Inquiry into Visions of Data, Digital Technologies, and Migration

2019

Adèle Paul-Hus, Beyond funding: What can acknowledgements reveal about credit attribution in science?

2018

Sarah Polkinhorne, Food and Information: Embodied Practices in Everyday Life

2017

Leslie Thomson, Investigating Information Creating and Informal Information Providing: A Grounded Theory Study of the Information Practices and Role of Serious YouTuber

2016

Jesse David Dinneen, Analyzing File Management Behaviour

2015

Matthew Willis, Patient Sociotechnical Assemblages: The Distributed Cognition of Health Information Management

2014

Tiffany Chao, Methods Metadata: Curating Scientific Research Data for Reuse

2013

Kaitlin Costello, Investigating Information Seeking and Disclosure in Online Support Groups for Chronic Kidney Disease

2012

Lori McCay-Peet, At the Intersection: Investigating the Qualities of the Serendipitous Digital Environment and the Serendipity-Prone Person