Sara Kjellberg

I am a teacher and researcher in Library and Information Studies and defended my thesis about scholarly blogging in October 2010.

In my PhD thesis I investigated how the increased access to digital scholarly information influences scholarly communication practices.

I am very interested in digital communication, social media and information practices.

I am a member of the research group "Information practices: Communication, Culture and Society" at Lund University

Research

• Research group
• Information Practices: Communication, Culture and SocietyHow can we understand peoples' dealing with information? What are the consequences of the emerging network society for our information practices and memory ...
• Present projects
• Creating trust: scholars, self-representations and online environments (research leader)This project is about researchers representations online and how they are used as ways to construct trust. More specifically, the study will address the ...
• Knowledge in a Digital World: Trust, Credibility and Relevance on the WebKnowledge is central in today's society and yet the conditions for acquiring knowledge has changed radically. The researchers involved will study how ...
• Completed projects
• Science in InteractionThe project Research in Interaction explores consequences of new interactive technologies for the ways in which researchers cooperate, access information ...
• Scholarly communication practice and the use of weblogsWhy do researchers blog? There are blogs written by researchers from a wide variety of disciplines. I am studying what motivates researchers to keep a ...

• Publications

Other tasks and qualifications

Selected Presentations

• Social Media and Libraries, panel at the Book Fair in Göteborg, 23 September 2010.

• Changing research communication – does the blog change the boundaries? (Forskningskommunikation i förändring – flyttar bloggen gränserna?) Seminar arranged by the Communications Office at Lund University, 12 March 2010

• Being a Blogging Researcher, Digitising Lives – of People, Places, Facts and Things Workshop, Maastricht, 8 April 2009

• Scholarly blogging practice as situated genre:a theoretical framework, Science, technology and gender seminar, University of Tampere, 25 April, 2008

• The use of blogs in scholarly communication practice, Doctoral Forum CoLIS6, Borås, 13 August 2007

• Scholarly communication and new electronic communication arenas: the use of weblogs in the research practice, The London LIS Research Seminars, Department of Information Science at City University, London, 7 November 2006

• Panel discussion about researchers and new media (”Nya medier, nya möten – forskare – journalister – allmänheten”), arranged by the organisation Public and Science (Vetenskap och allmänhet), Stockholm, 10 November 2005

• The role of libraries in scholarly communication, Biblioteksdagarna – Bibliotek i samhälle och samverkan, Swedish Library Association, Karlstad 7 May 2004

• LU:research, establishing an institutional archive at Lund University, Onlinegruppen (DFID), Århus, Danmark 20 November 2003

• DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals, eIFL General Assembly, Cagliari, Italien, 19-21 October 2003

Selected pedagogical and administrative qualifications

• Responsible teacher, Web management for students in humanities and social sciences, (15 ECTS), 2007, 2008

• Responsible teacher, Mediating Knowledge 3 (9 ECTS), Library and Information Science, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007

• PBL-supervisor (Problem Based Learning), Library and Information Science, 2004-2007

• Course about metadata for librarians, ”Metadata Makes the World Go Around”, BTJ, September 2004 och May 2005

• Workshops with researchers at Lund University about electronic publishing, 2003-2004

Interviews/Assignments/Connections

…in no particular order

* Guest doctoral student with STINT scholarship, visiting professor Paul Wouters at Virtual Knowledge Studio (VKS) in Amsterdam, spring 2009: http://www.virtualknowledgestudio.nl/fellows.php

* Guest doctoral student visiting professor Sanna Talja at Department of Information Studies, University of Tampere, Finland in April 2008

* Interview about scholarly blogging in “Naturvetaren”, “Svenska naturvetare bloggar sällan”, no 2, pp 14, 2008
http://www.naturvetareforbundet.se/www/sn/Natur_CMS.nsf/NV_2-08-s.12-15_vad_betyder_internet_for_forskare-vetenskapsman.pdf

* Member of HEX (Humanistic EXperimental group) at Lund University
http://www.hex.lu.se/

* PhD student representative in the reference group of the humanities laboratory at Lund University 2008

* Guest doctoral student at Napier University, Visiting Professor Elisabeth Davenport, Edinburgh Oct-Nov 2006

* Interview in DN (national newspaper) about the master in Library and Information Science, September 2006: http://www.dn.se/DNet/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=1058&a=573861

* Interview in NordForsk Magasin about the Nordic Research School in Library and Information Sceince, December 2006: http://www.nordforsk.org/

* Interview about scholarly blogging in “Impuls”, “Välkommen in i forskarvärlden”, no 3, p 21, 2007:
http://www.impuls.nu/

* Interview about scholarly blogging in “Universitetsläraren”, “Att blogga kan vara marknadsföring”, no 10/11, 2006:
http://www.sulf.se/templates/CopyrightPage.aspx?id=5033

* Interview about scholarly blogging in “Allt om vetenskap”, “De bloggar om vetenskap”, no 10, 2006:
http://www.alltomvetenskap.se/index.aspx?article=943

* Co-organizer/lecturer at NORSLIS Ph.D. Conference, Uppsala, 21-22 October 2005

* Interview in Swedish Radio (SR) about new ways of scholarly communication, 25 July 2005

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