Profiles of PhD Students and Alumni

Overview

Profiles of Gateway PhD Students and Alumni

The Gateway PhD program is a global research program. We invite you to learn more about our current doctoral students and the alumni.

Gateway PhD Program Current Students

Gateway PhD Students with MMU

Melissa Cardenas-Dow

Melissa Cardenas-Dow

Proposal Title: TBD

Elizabeth Dill

Elizabeth Dill

Proposal Title: A Conceptual Framework for Librarian Professional Hesitancy

Natalie Wells

Natalie Wells

Proposal Title: Best Practices in Academic Libraries for Helping Neurodivergent (ID) Students in the United States of America and the United Kingdom

Samuel Chiang

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Proposal Title: The effects of research & library anxiety on secondary students’ information literacy behaviours in the research process.

Susie Kopecky

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Proposal Title: Information-seeking Behavior, Perceptions of Citation and Plagiarism and Its Variation Between Community College Students and Instructors

Andrew Weiss

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Proposal Title: Examination of a comprehensive model for fake news and misinformation

Andrea Medina-Smith

Andrea Medina-Smith

Proposal Title: What are we measuring and what does it tell us?: Data metrics for impact assessment – Federal agencies

Tommy Vinh Bui

Proposal Title: Artist Residencies in Library Spaces: Examining Mechanisms of Impact and Gauging Effectiveness

Krista McCracken

Proposal Title: Indigenous Control of Information and Indigenous Community Identity Formation

Rebecca Bryant Penrose

Proposal Title:Academic Libraries and the Use of Institutional Research Data

Gateway PhD Program Alumni

Jennine Knight (2024)

Dissertation:

Transforming academic libraries through strategic partnerships: The Caribbean case of the UWI.

Stephen Abrams (2023)

Dissertation Title: A Communicological Framework for Evaluating Digital Preservation Efficacy 

Walter Butler (2022)

Dissertation Title: Changing in the Open: OER Textbooks, Online Communities, and the Management of Academic Libraries

Lettie Conrad (2022)

Dissertation Title: Managing Academic Information: A Grounded Theory Model of the Student-Researcher Information Experience

Pat Sandercock (2022)

Dissertation Title: Understanding the Information Choices of Technical College Students

Richard Okumoto (2021)

Dissertation Title: Digital Storytelling in Higher Education Improves Student Learning Objectives Retention

Cherry-Ann Smart (2021)

Dissertation Title: Towards Transformative Engagement: The International and Foreign Student Stakeholders in the Academic Library: A View from the Subaltern

Salvador Barragan (2020)

Dissertation Title: Appraisal and Retention of Information in the Private Sector: A Case Study

Karen Kaufmann (2019)

Dissertation Title: Socio-cognitive Relevance of Information Literacy: The Impact on Student Success

Nilo Sarraf (2019)

Dissertation Title: Mapping the Neurophysiological and Affective Dimensions of the Information Search Process Model

Hongbo Zou (2019)

Dissertation Title: Understanding the Role of Social Media in Enhancing Participatory Services in Public Libraries

Shelly Buchanan (2018)

Dissertation Title: The lived experience of middle school students engaged in student-driven inquiry: A phenomenological study.

Africa Hands (2018)

Dissertation Title: Doctoral Student Motivation: An Exploratory Study of Motivating Factors for Earning the PhD

Kim Morrison (2018)

Dissertation Title: Counter-story as Curriculum: Autoethnography, Critical Race Theory, and Informed Assets in the Information Literacy Classroom

Laura Anderson (2016)

Dissertation Title: Information Sharing in Virtual Collaboration: A Software Engineering Perspective

Melissa Fraser-Arnott (2016)

Dissertation Title: Personalizing Success: The Professional Identity Experiences of LIS Graduates in Non-Library Roles

Clarence Maybee (2015)

Dissertation Title: Informed Learning in the Undergraduate Classroom: The Role of Information Experiences in Shaping Outcomes 

Maria Otero-Boisvert (2015)

Dissertation Title: Funding the Academic Library: An Ethnography

Mary‑Jo Romaniuk (2014)

Dissertation Title: Developing Emerging Leaders in the Library Profession: Program Content, Self-efficacy and Leadership

Tina Inzerilla (2013)

Dissertation Title: Community College Faculty’s Teaching Social Networks and Their Implications for Librarians

Virginia Tucker (2013)

Dissertation Title: Acquiring Search Expertise: Learning Experiences and Threshold Concepts

Mary Ann Harlan (2012) 

Dissertation Title: Information Pathways: The Information Practices and Experiences of Teen Content Creators

Cheryl Stenström (2012) 

Dissertation Title: Factors Influencing Funding Decisions by Elected Politicians at the State/Provincial Level: A Case Study of Public Libraries in Canada

Diana Wakimoto (2012)

Dissertation Title: The History of Queer Community Archives in California Since 1950