About
The LIS Research Coalition was established on 2 March 2009 by its founding members.
The broad mission of the LIS Research Coalition is to facilitate a co-ordinated and strategic approach to LIS research across the UK. The Coalition aims to bring together information about LIS research opportunities and results; encourage dialogue between research funders; promote LIS practitioner research and the translation of research outcomes into practice; articulate a strategic approach to LIS research; and promote the development of research capacity in LIS. The Coalition provides a formal structure to improve access to LIS research, and maximise its relevance and impact in the UK.
The Coalition is governed by a Board of Directors comprising a representative of each member organisation. In August 2009 Dr Hazel Hall was appointed to implement the plans of Coalition. Dr Hall took on the role as a part-time secondment, while maintaining her position as Professor and Director of the Centre for Social Informatics in the School of Computing at Edinburgh Napier University.
Details of the work that went into the establishment of the Coalition between 2006 and 2009 are available on the Coalition history page.
In March 2010 the LIS Research Coalition published a report to review the activities of its implementation from August 2009 to the end of February 2010.
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