Edward Gillbard
iPhD Web Science
Our students are carrying out research in a wide range of fields related to Web Science, including archiving, geospatial data, hypertext, health technologies, information dissemination, legislation, MOOCs, scholarly communication, semantic web and social media.
You can find out more about some of our students below.
Our CDT student research booklet includes our students' current MSc research interests and PhD posters.
2016-2020 Cohort
iPhD Web Science
My research interests are in investigating the sociological behaviours that are developed online through technological processes.
I use provenance metadata and machine learning to study volunteered geographic information.
My research focuses on developing a comprehensive methodology for engineering privacy by design into IoT devices and systems.
2015-2019 Cohort
My research considers the extent to which processes of self-fashioning are being governed by the technology of recommender systems, in particular music recommender systems.
iPhD Web Science
iPhD Web Science
My research focuses on the role libraries play in the archiving of web content, alongside the notion of a potential ‘digital dark age’, and investigating archival best practice.
This course has opened my eyes to the future possibilities and capabilities of utilising the web in our every day lives, from the semantic web to social networks.
I aim to build expert knowledge in the topic of scholarly knowledge communication system and perspectives of it's development in the future.
The Web is a unique environment for studying social and technological evolution.
My research focuses on how we can create a more meaningful Web through a balanced digital diet and management of our technology consumption.
My research looks at measuring cognitive skills demonstrated in serious educational online games environments.
2014-2018 Cohort
Graduated 2018
My research is extracting thematic narrative information from social media VGI and points of interest to understand social use of space.
iPhD Web Science
iPhD Web Science
iPhD Web Science
Graduated 2018
I am examining the impact of digital platforms on entrepreneurship in Trinidad and Tobago
Researching the effects of online participation processes in the Green Party Germany.
I am researching how music streaming services and recommendation technologies are performing as ‘cultural intermediaries,’ shaping taste and consumption practices.
2013-2017 Cohort
iPhD Web Science
Graduated 2018
iPhD Web Science
Graduated 2018
iPhD Web Science
Graduated 2018
iPhD Web Science
My PhD is focused on web archival practice itself and how ‘the doing’ of web archives shapes what is known about the Web.
Graduated 2018
iPhD Web Science
My PhD examines the role of social media in UK emergency management, specifically, how emergency responders integrate social media into practice and their attitudes towards it.
iPhD Web Science
iPhD Web Science
Graduated 2017
Graduated 2018
iPhD Web Science
I am researching how doctors could use data from consumer health technologies, like Fitbit and Apple Healthkit.
iPhD Web Science
I’m involved in developing and researching online learning, particularly the Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) in HE, and the roles and practices of those involved in making them.
2012-2016 Cohort
Graduated 2018
iPhD Web Science
My PhD research is focussed on Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs).
2011-2015 Cohort
2010-2014 Cohort
Graduated 2016
Graduated 2016
Graduated 2015
Graduated 2016
Graduated 2017
Graduated 2016
Graduated 2015
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Graduated 2015
Graduated 2015
Graduated 2016
2009-2013 Cohort
Graduated 2013
Graduated 2016
Graduated 2015
Graduated 2013
Graduated 2013
Graduated 2014
Graduated 2015
Graduated 2016