Primary supervisor
Reuben KirkhamFreedom of Information is an important tool for investigating a public authority or organisation. Subject to certain conditions, it creates an obligation to provide recorded information, provided an organisation is a public authority.
I am interested in supervising projects that make use of Freedom of Information as a tool for investigating information management practices within public-sector organisations. For example, this might include information security, policies around information retention, or any other topic that can be investigated using Freedom of Information.
Student cohort
URLs/references
Walby, Kevin, and Alex Luscombe, eds. Freedom of information and social science research design. Routledge, 2019.
Kirkham, Reuben. "How long is a piece of string? The appropriateness of search time as a measure of ‘burden’in Access to Information regimes." Government Information Quarterly 35.4 (2018): 657-668.
Required knowledge
An interest in conducting qualitative research using FOI.
This project can be done without having technical skills, so is likely to be ideal for an MBIS student.