Speakers’ Profiles
Fiona Emberton Fi Emberton is based in Brisbane Australia and in the UK working in the areas of culture change and innovation as director of Embervision. She has been working as a trainer and business advisor with government agencies and small/ medium businesses here and overseas and before that was a government executive in Australia. Her early years were spent with Marks and Spencer and in local government.Her passion lies in libraries and information services and she is currently working on a range of projects ranging from leadership programmes in Wales, innovation in Ireland and RFID implementation.She was educated at Edinburgh University and Strathclyde Business School.www.embervision,cc fiona@embervision.cc
Sue Hill has been prominent in the information field as a recruiter for over twenty years. Her background in information supply led her neatly to recruitment within the sector and she is currently the Managing Director of the largest independent recruitment agency for information and knowledge managers. Sue has an excellent overview of all aspects of information work and the many issues that arise for both employers and practitioners. She is passionate about encouraging individuals to attend to their CPD.
Laura Muir, The Robert Gordon University Dr Muir is a Lecturer in the Information Management department of Aberdeen Business School. Her subject interests include information systems design, development & evaluation, information systems usability and information accessibility. Her PhD research was ‘Content-prioritised video coding for British Sign Language communication’. Dr Muir’s research is included in the ‘Information and Society’ theme of the Information Management department. She is also a member of the research team at the Centre for Video Communications (School of Engineering) and contributed to the Computer Science and Informatics Unit of Assessment in the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise.
Dr Miles K Oglethorpe is Head of Policy Liaison and Modernisation within the Inspectorate at Historic Scotland, the Agency within the Scottish Government responsible for safeguarding and promoting the historic environment. Whilst completing his PhD at the University of Glasgow, he joined the Scottish Industrial Archaeology Survey at Strathclyde University, transferring to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) in 1985, where he specialised in the recording of historic industrial and engineering heritage. He is a member of the English Heritage Industrial Archaeology Panel, and is steering group secretary of Capturing the Energy, an initiative that is attempting to record the extent and achievements of the UK offshore oil and gas industries. He is also the British national representative on and a Board member of The International Committee on the Conservation of the Industrial Heritage (TICCIH), and has edited, authored and co-authored a number of books and papers relating to industrial heritage. The latest is a book entitled, ‘Scottish Collieries’, published by RCAHMS in 2006, which is an account of the growth and decline of Scotland’s coal industry in the last decades of the 20th century.
Neil Paterson, Elmwood College I am a late starter in the library profession, having previously worked in Royal Mail, Aberdeenshire Council’s Education Service and the Department of Work and Pensions. I have been employed at Elmwood College in Fife as a Learning Resource Centre Assistant since June 2005. I also work part-time in the retail profession and for the last 10 years I have been working with WH Smith in Banchory. I now duty manage the store on a Sunday each week. I returned to university study with the Robert Gordon University in 2003 and completed my Pg Dip in Information and Library Studies in 2006. I followed this with an MSc in Information and library Studies in 2007 incorporating a research investigation into what has become my signature area: customer services. It is from my retail experience that my customer services interest stems and has been developed through my university studies and my employment in the library sector. I am currently collating material and gathering evidence of professional practice for my Chartership application with the aim of submitting my portfolio in late 2009.
