UKeiG is pleased to announce that the winner for 2016 is Hazel Hall, well-known international teacher and scholar.

Hazel's major contributions are in both the theory, where her main contributions have been in advancing knowledge and understanding of information sharing in online environments, and the practice of Library and Information Science… evident in a number of original initiatives, such as her creation of a UK network for LIS researchers and researcher practitioners. Hazel Hall’s work has also raised the awareness of the value of information in the workplace, as evident in the number of business organisations that have drawn on her research outputs in their own practice. In addition, her contributions have influenced the strategic direction of a number of professional bodies, and research funders. 

Since the early 1990s Hazel has enjoyed numerous high profile and prestigious appointments, invitations and prizes from research councils, professional bodies, publishers, conference programme committees, and universities worldwide. Her work on information sharing in online environments has led to the generation of new knowledge and understanding across a range of themes including: power relations in knowledge management; the agency of non-human actors in technology implementations; co-operation and collaboration in online communities; knowledge creation processes and innovation; and knowledge management as management innovation. She is committed to sharing her knowledge and expertise and perhaps her strongest legacy is found in those she has generously mentored over the years. a legacy which applies equally to the LIS students and the practitioners and academics who have encountered her, whether this be in person or through her published work.

Hazel will be presented with her award at the Internet Librarian International Conference, which UKeiG sponsors, on Wednesday 19 October at 12.15 in the Auditorium.


** There is still time to book for the FREE Strix Annual Lecture, which takes place in London on 31st October ** see: http://www.cilip.org.uk/uk-einformation-group/events/strix-annual-lecture