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