Citation
(2003), "The Emerald Research Fund Awards", Kybernetes, Vol. 32 No. 9/10. https://doi.org/10.1108/k.2003.06732iaa.003
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Copyright © 2003, MCB UP Limited
The Emerald Research Fund Awards
The Emerald Research Fund Awards
As part of our commitment to recognise and reward the scholarly research community's contribution to Emerald journals, we have pledged to use a proportion of the fees received from copyright organisations to fund research which increases the effectiveness of the knowledge creation and transmission process.
The Research Fund Awards committee consider proposals based on the objective of increasing the effectiveness of the scholarly knowledge creation and transmission process. We particularly encourage projects which relate to initiatives in the developing world. Dissemination of knowledge for social good, with a specific orientation towards benefit for the developing world, reflects Emerald's policy towards corporate social responsibility.
Following on from the 2002 launch of the Research Fund Awards, the company is delighted to be able to announce the winners of the Awards in 2003.
Emerald is to provide funding for the following projects.
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Mr Mike Thelwall (University of Wolverhampton, UK)Factors influencing web citations of journal articles will generate a random sample of web-based citations to articles from a range of journals and then analyse these using qualitative (content analysis) and quantitative approaches. The purpose of the project is to identify factors influencing web citations in order to inform writers and publishers.
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Dr Judith Broady-Preston and Dr Barbara Hull (Universities of Aberystwyth and Hull, UK, respectively)Evaluation of the role of information literacy skills in combating social exclusion aims to facilitate changing practices to underpin autonomous learning, following the development of literacy standards and the construction and testing of a toolkit to assess the durability and depth of learning in two universities (Aberystwyth and Teesside, UK).
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Dr Linda Ashcroft and Samuel Jimba (John Moores University, Liverpool, UK and the Office of the Executive Governor, Lafia, Nigeria, respectively)An investigation into the effective provision of electronic resources in developing countries: initiatives, barriers and solutions proposes to investigate electronic resource initiatives in a developing country, and identify both existing barriers to effective provision and processes for alleviating those barriers.
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Dr Beverly Wagner and Mrs Suzanne Horne (University of Stirling)Information and communication diffusion: a network analysis of an international humanitarian aid agency will pilot the use of diaries to obtain relevant quantitative data as inputs to network analysis of communications within and between an humanitarian aid agency and its stakeholders.
For further details, visit our Web site: www.emeraldinsight.com/researchregister/err_fundawards.htm