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Sue Beer
Research Student
Email: prs.beer@rgu.ac.uk
A Mathematics graduate from Aberdeen University, Sue completed an MSc in Information Analysis at the School of Information and Media in 1997, where her research topic was "The rural information need of the Shetland Islands Citizens Advice Bureau".
Sue then set up and ran a business information service for Shetland Enterprise, before returning to the School of Information and Media (now the Department of Information Management) to take up a research studentship in 2001. The topic of her PhD is "The relationship between access to information and the effects of peripherality (in the context of the Northern and Western Islands of Scotland)".
Sue also holds a Diploma in Local Economic Development from the University of Glasgow; she was President of the RGU Research Students' Association 2004-5 and is Vice Chair of the Shetland Islands Citizens Advice Bureau.
Sue is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Librarians and Information Professionals, and a member of the International Rural Network and the Regional Studies Association.
Publications
Beer, Susan F., Marcella, Rita and Baxter, Graeme. Rural citizens' information needs: a survey carried out on behalf of the Shetland Islands Citizens Advice Bureau. Journal of Librarianship and Information Studies, 30 (4), 1998, pp. 223 - 240.
Beer, Sue. Representational Information Flow between Remote Communities and Local/Regional/National Government and/or Public Organisations. Paper presented at the ‘Taking Charge’, International Rural Network Conference, Inverness, June 2003. Published in the conference proceedings, (please click on link below).
- Representational Information Flow between Remote Communities and Local/Regional/National Government and/or Public Organisations
Beer, Sue. Peripherality and information flow in remote island areas of Scotland. Paper presented at the ‘Europe at the Margins: EU Regional Policy, Peripherality and Rurality', Regional Studies Association Conference, Angers, France; April 2004. Published in the conference proceedings, (please click on the link below).
Beer, Sue. Information flow and peripherality in remote island areas of Scotland. Libri, 54 (3), September 2004, pp. 148 - 157.
Beer, Sue. Information on the edge. Information Scotland, 2 (3), October 2004, pp. 11 - 12. Also available online (please click on link below).
Conferences
Second College of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Conference: "Moving Forward", the University of Aberdeen, 23rd - 24th June 2005. Methodology and networking session: 'Some of the Pitfalls and Benefits of Using an Unstructured Approach to Data Collection.'
First College of Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Research Conference: "Shifting Boundaries", the University of Aberdeen, 24th - 25th June 2004. Communication, industry and technology session: 'Peripherality and information flow in remote island areas of Scotland'.
Citizens Advice Scotland Conference 2004, Dundee, 18th - 19th August 2004: rolling presentation on 'Peripherality and information flow in remote island areas of Scotland' at the Internet Cafe room.
Awards
Award for the best paper by a student submitted in 2004 to Libri, for 'Information flow and peripherality in remote island areas of Scotland', (see publications, above).
