School of Design - Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design
- BIOGRAPHY
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Dr Macaulay started out as a news analyst for a large UK media corporation, spent a bit of time working in the community and overseas aid sectors (probably as an antidote to said large media corporation experience) and then got involved in IT consultancy - most memorably by leveraging her not very good PERL programming skills into a successful small business in the 'gold rush' days of the web (mid-90s). Catriona has always been interested in information as a concept - what it means to people, how they create, use and are affected by it, and of course the technologies (digital and analogue) that go with it. Allied to that she is interested in how we go about designing digital technologies to support ‘information behaviours’. So when in 1997 she got the chance to spend three years doing a PhD in information seeking amongst journalists, a year of which was spent in the newsroom of a national daily newspaper, she jumped at it (and into an academic career). Catriona could never decide if she wanted to be an engineer or a sociologist when she grew up; she has a BA in Communication Studies, an MSc in Information Systems and a PhD in Computing (but which was really a sociological study of journalists). Luckily the world of academe caught up with her and she now represents that new breed - the inter-disciplinary academic.
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- Email: catriona@computing.dundee.ac.uk
- Tel: 01382 386522
