Professor of Social Informatics, Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland
Hazel Hall PhD MA BA FRSE FHEA FCLIP is Professor of Social Informatics within the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University. She is also Docent in Information Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences, Business and Economics at Åbo Akademi, Finland. Hall is active world-wide in Library and Information Science research, with her main research expertise and interests lying in information sharing in online environments within the context of knowledge management. Other themes in which she maintains an active interest include social computing/media, online communities and collaboration, research impact, and the library and information science professions. Hall is currently a Panel Member for the UK Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021 Unit of Assessment 34 (Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management). Fuller profiles are available in a Wikipedia entry at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazel_Hall_(information_scientist) and on the Edinburgh Napier University web site at https://www.napier.ac.uk/people/hazel-hall