The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) recently became a partner to the EIUI research initiative in a three-year research project supported by funding from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Seven other governmental, intergovernmental, and non-governmental organizations are also partners in this project, which is studying the communication […]
Grey Literature
EIUI Participation in 14th International Conference in Grey Literature, Rome
The 14th International Conference on Grey Literature, hosted by the Italian National Research Council, brought over 100 researchers and librarians from eighteen countries to Rome on 29-30 November 2012. “Tracking innovation through grey literature” served as the theme of the conference. The opening keynote addresses by Dr. Carlos Morais-Pires of the European Commission (Belgium) and […]
Doctoral Student wins a Student Writing Award
Suzuette Soomai received the Nova Scotian Institute of Science (NSIS) 2012 Graduate Student Writing Award for a paper entitled “The Use and Influence of Scientific Information in Environmental Policy Making: Lessons Learned from Nova Scotia”. Based on a multi-disciplinary literature review and research related to the release of The 2009 State of the Nova Scotia […]
Participation in the 14th International Conference on Grey Literature
Members of the EIUI research team will participate in the upcoming 14th International Conference on Grey Literature (GL14) to be held at the National Research Council, Rome, Italy, 29-30 November 2012. To see the conference program please click here. (logo courtesy of www.textrelease.com)
Participation in the Planet Under Pressure Conference in March 2012
The EIUI participated in the Planet Under Pressure Conference, 26-29 March 2012, London, UK. This conference is a precursor meeting to the upcoming 2012 United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20). Suzuette Soomai presented a poster: Understanding the interaction between marine information production and policy-making processes.“
Participation in the International Studies Association Annual Conference in April 2012
Elizabeth De Santo will present two papers at the upcoming International Studies Association Annual Conference in San Diego, 1-4 April, 2012: (1) “Towards an understanding of the role of marine environmental information in policy-making addressing crises in ocean health” and (2) “Linking biology, technology and society: the need for and difficulty of an interdisciplinary approach to scenario-building.”
Completion of the Study to Determine Awareness and Use of the State of the Gulf of Maine Report
In June 2011, the EIUI research initiative, in partnership with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans Canada, completed a study to determine the awareness and use of the State of the Gulf of Maine Report: The State of the Gulf of Maine Report: An Initial Study on Awareness Use and Influence. The Report was released by […]
Participation in the 9th Bay of Fundy Science Workhop in September 2011
The EIUI research team partcipated at the 9th Bay of Fundy Science Workshop, September 27 – 30, 2011 in Saint John, NB. Suzuette Soomai presented the results of two recently concluded case studies: “Measuring Awareness, Use and Influence of Marine Environmental Information – Results of Two Case Studies from Coastal Nova Scotia and the Gulf of […]
EIUI Releases a Report of an Initial Study of the Awareness and Use of The 2009 State of Nova Scotia’s Coast Report
The EIUI research initiative has concluded a study in collaboration with the Government of Nova Scotia that assessed the initial use and influence of the State of Nova Scotia’s Coast Report, released in December 2009. Using a combination of interviews and questionnaires, web analytics, media scans and citation analysis, the study examined the effectiveness of the […]
Book Chapter Released
The EI:UI research team has written a chapter “The Use and Influence of Information Produced as Grey Literature by International, Intergovernmental Marine Organizations – Overview of Current Research”, in Grey Literature in Library and Information Studies edited by D.J. Farace and J. Schopfel, and published by De Gruyter Saur, Berlin. Our work appears as Chapter 11 in the […]