Liverpool John Moores University

Increasing the effectiveness of the scholarly knowledge creation and transmission process in a developing country

Investigating electronic resource initiatives in a developing country (Nigeria), and identifying both existing barriers to effective provision and processes for alleviating those barriers.

Contact: Linda Ashcroft, Reader of Information Management, [email protected].
Dates: May - February 2003

Increasing the effectiveness of the scholarly knowledge creation and transmission process in a developing country

Investigating electronic resource initiatives in a developing country (Nigeria), and identifying both existing barriers to effective provision and processes for alleviating those barriers.

Contact: Linda Ashcroft, Reader of Information Management, [email protected]
Dates: May - October 2002

Skills Plus: Curriculum design for self-efficacy and strategic approaches

A consortium of Lancaster, Manchester, Liverpool John Moores and Manchester Metropolitan universities, in collaboration with the North West Development Agency. Sixteen departments in these universities worked on curriculum design to promote educationally sound curricula that make for employability.

Contact: Janet Farrow, Team Leader Centre for Information and Library Management, [email protected]
Dates: August 2000 - June 2002
Funding: DfEE Innovation Fund (administered by HEFCE)

Teaching Company Scheme (TCS)

To develop a cost-effective, business-wide information framework with supporting systems, to produce clear management information to support quotation for new contracts and work scheduling.

Contact: Jack OFarrell, Lecturer, [email protected]
Dates: July 2000 - July 2002
Funding: Teaching Company Directorate

Teaching Company Scheme (TCS)

Support academic for TCS project with rapidly expanding software house.

Contact: Mike Swain, Lecturer, [email protected]
Dates: June 2002 - May 2004
Funding: Teaching Company Directorate