Audrey Marshall

Senior Lecturer

contact:
Computing, Engineering and Mathematics
Moulsecoomb
Brighton
BN2 4GJ

Telephone: +44 (0)1273 642420

Email: A.M.Marshall@brighton.ac.uk

Biography

Audrey Marshall is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Brighton.  Audrey began her professional career in public libraries, moved into professional advisory work with the Library Association (now CILIP) and then into the health sector, working at the Kings Fund and the Health Education Authority.  She is an active member of CILIP and is on the committee for the South East Branch and CILIP in Sussex. 

Qualifications

MA in English Language and Literature, University of Edinburgh (1975)
Postgraduate Diploma in Librarianship, University College Wales, Aberystwyth (1977)
MA in Information Management, University of Brighton (2000)
MCLIP (1978)

Teaching

Audrey is Course Leader for the MA in Information Studies.  She teaches Collection Development, Library and Information Service Management and the Management of Change.

Research

Audrey has a particular interest in health information literacy and community participation.  Her major research projects include:

• Net.Weight. This project was funded by the Department of Health and examined the potential of ICTs for providing information and support to people trying to manage their weight.  More information is available on http://research.cmis.brighton.ac.uk/netweight/
• Informing Health.  A project which was funded by the Community University Partnership Programme at the University of Brighton and which explored how public libraries and other health information providers can work more closely with local communities to support health information needs more effectively. 
• Health Information in the Public Library.  A project with Brighton and Hove City Library Service investigating how public library users look for health information in the public library and the experiences of users and library staff in accessing health information.
• A project for the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) to investigate the potential of digital technologies in care homes for the elderly.  The study explored the feasibility of ICTs to support the communication and information needs of staff using a mix of questionnaire, field studies and participative workshops.
• A workforce planning study of the museum, library and archive sector in the South East Region for the then SEMLAC (subsequently MLA South East).

Publications

• Marshall, A., Henwood, F., Carlin, L., Guy, E.S., Smith, H.  2010.  In the balance: report of a research study exploring information for weight management.  Libri 60 pp 142-152.
• Marshall, A., Henwood, F., Carlin, L., Guy, E.S., Sinozic, T., Smith, H. 2009.  Information to fight the flab: findings from the Net.Weight Study. Journal of Information Literacy. 3 (2) pp 39-52
• Henwood, F., Harris, R., Burdett, S., and Marshall, A.  2008.  Health intermediaries? Positioning the public library in e-health discourses.  In: Wathen, C.N., Wyatt, S. and Harris, R. (eds) Mediating health information: the go-betweens in a changing socio-technical landscape.  Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008, pp 38-55
• Marshall, A. and Henwood, F. 2007.  Informing Health: a participative approach to health information provision.  Library and Information Research 31 (99) pp 26-40
• Pemberton, L., Marshall, A. and Banks, L. 2006.  Using digital media to access information and good practice for paid carers of older people.  London: SCIE
  Available URL http://www.scie.org.uk/publications/reports/report15.pdf
• Marshall, A. 2004. ICTs for Health Promotion in the community: a participative approach. In Day, P and Schuler, D (eds) Community practice in the network society. London: Routledge.

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