User:Thomas D. Wilson

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Professor Wilson has worked in the information sector since 1951, holding positions in the public sector, industry, colleges and universities. He has been a visiting professor at the Universities of Maryland and North Carolina in the USA, at McGill University, Canada, Curtin University, Perth, Western Australia and at Tallin Pedagogical University, Estonia. He was Head of the Department of Information Studies, University of Sheffield for fifteen years and in 2000 he was awarded the ALISE Professional Contribution Award for his services to education. Following his retirement he was awarded the title of Professor Emeritus and is now a Visiting Professor at Leeds University Business School, Visiting Professor at the Swedish School of Library and Information Science, Högskolan i Borås, Sweden and Professor Catedratico Convidado in the Faculty of Engineering, University of Oporto, Portugal. He is Publisher and Editor in Chief of the electronic journal, Information Research. He founded and edited the print journals, Social Science Information Studies and The International Journal of Information Management. He was awarded an honorary doctorate by Gothenburg University in 2005