Clare Thornley

Biography

In September 2013 Clare took up the position of Research Fellow with the Innovation Value Institute. Clare’s research interests include new ways of measuring research impact and its influence on policy and practice; information management for improved performance; knowledge management; information ethics and the philosophy of information. Clare started her career working in the UK voluntary sector where she was information officer for The Volunteer Centre UK, a national centre for researching, collecting and disseminating best practice information and policy guidance on volunteering. After her PhD she moved into an academic career and was a lecturer at University College Dublin and Dublin Business school where she taught on the MSc in Information and Library Management. She was principal investigator on a Science Foundation Ireland funded project examining the scholarly impact and technological innovations arising from international video retrieval benchmarking research (TRECVid). Her work on information ethics was a collaboration the University of Strathclyde, the University of Canberra and the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics in Australia examining the new ethical issues in policy and practice that emerging technologies are bringing to information science. Just before joining IVI she had completed a project funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation with CIBER Research Ltd and the University of Tennessee on changing patterns of scholarly communication in light of the digital transition.

Research Interest

Information Technology