Lecturer in Business Information Systems
Operations and Information Management
Phone +44 (0)121 204 3707
Email v.uren@aston.ac.uk
Room ABS268
For further information please visit Dr Uren's website.
Education
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Swansea University, BSc Chemistry (2:1) (1988)
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University of Sheffield, MSc Information Science (1989)
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University of Portsmouth, PhD, Computer Science, (2001) Thesis title: Combining Text Categorizers
Background
Dr Victoria Uren has worked at Aston University since September 2011. Before joining Aston she worked as a senior researcher on several collaborative projects and as an Information Scientist. Her research concerns the ways in which the use of structured metadata, including semantic web approaches, can support the provision of rich contextualized knowledge services. The work encompasses semantic search and semantic annotation, in particular the design and evaluation of retrieval systems. This work has been applied in a wide range of contexts including engineering and scientific knowledge.
May 2009 to August 2011, Senior Research Fellow in the OAK (Organizations, Information and Knowledge) research group, Department of Computer Science.
2001-2009, Research Fellow at Knowledge Media Institute (KMi), The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.
1991-1997, Information Scientist, The Welding Institute (TWI), Abington, Cambridge, UK.
1989-1992, Technical Editor, Cambridge Crystallographic Data Centre (CCDC), Cambridge, UK.
Research Interests
Taught Modules
BN2234 IT and Web Development
BN3320 World Wide Management of IT
BN3369 Advanced Business Computing
BNM806 Information Systems Management
BN3372 eBusiness Systems Development
