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Information School Represented at ISHIMR 2015

The Information School has been well represented at this year's ISHIMR 2015 conference.

This year's conference is taking place in York between 25 and 26 June, and focuses on the theme of "Health Informatics for Enhancing Health and Well-Being".  ISHIMR 2015 has been jointly organised by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at York St. John University and the Information School, University of Sheffield.

A number of staff and students have presented at the conference:

  • PhD students Tom Poulter, Eliza Mazlan, Wasim Ahmed, Catherine Ebenezer, Jean Stevenson, Adelina Basholli and Tomi Dimitrovski
  • MSc Health Informatics alumni Paul Warner
  • Professor Peter Bath and Dr Julie Ellis, who are presenting a poster on the ESRC-funded 'A Shared Space and a Space for Sharing' project 

More information is available on the ISHIMR 2015 website.
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