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Dr. Jamshid Beheshti Principal investigator Professor Beheshti has taught at the School of Information Studies for more than 30 years, where he was appointed as the Director of the School for six years.  He was also appointed as the Interim Dean and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Education for five year.  In collaboration with his colleagues, over the past three decades he has obtained more than five million dollars in research funds from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, Canadian Heritage, and CIDA (merged with Global Affairs Canada). His publications have appeared in the Journal of the Association for Information Science & Technology, Information Processing & Management, Library and Information Science Research, and proceedings of numerous international conferences.  He has been a consultant on several projects with various institutions, including the National Library of Canada, the Institutes of Higher Education in Indonesia, Kuwait University, and the University of West Indies.  His area of expertise is on the information behaviour of children and the millennials. Click here to read more about Dr. Beheshti.

Dr. Joan Bartlett Co-investigator Dr. Joan Bartlett is Associate Professor in the School of Information Studies at McGill University, and a member of the McGill Centre for Bioinformatics. Her research focuses on information behaviour, information interaction, and the impact of information use, particularly in the biomedical domain. She teaches in the areas of health sciences information, bioinformatics and information literacy. Click here to read more about Dr. Bartlett.

Research Assistants

• Anna Couch (PhD candidate)
• Cynthia Kumah (PhD candidate)
• Kayley McLeod (MISt candidate)
• Peymon Montazeri (PhD student)