Owen Stewart-Robertson

Contact Information
Email address: 
owen.stewart-robertson [at] mail.mcgill.ca
Degree(s): 

Master of Science, Information and Library Science (music librarianship concentration), University at Buffalo.
Master of Musis, Jazz Performance, McGill University.
Bachelor of Music, Jazz Studies, St Francis Xavier University.

Current research: 

Research Areas: Information practices; Sound studies; Archival studies

Information from Sound: Investigating the Practices of Field Recording (PhD proposal in-progress)
Precarity and information marginalization: Exploring how academic casualization complicates workplace information practices (PI, Prof. Rebekah Willson)

Selected publications: 

Stewart-Robertson, O. (2022). Embracing theories of precarity for the study of information practices. Journal of Documentation, 78(6), 1353–1370. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-04-2021-0084

Nesset, V., Davis, E. C., Stewart-Robertson, O., & Bible, J. B. (2022). Bonded design in the virtual environment: The transition of a participatory design methodology. Journal of Documentation, 78(3), 513–528. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-05-2021-0095

Conference presentations:
Willson, R., Stewart-Robertson, O., Julien, H., & Given, L. (2022). Academic casualization, precarity, and information practices: A scoping review. Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 59, 833–836. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.742 [Poster]

Nesset, V., Vanderschantz, N., Stewart-Robertson, O., & Davis, E. (2022). Action partnership research design: A new research methodology. iConference 2022. https://www.ideals.illinois.edu/handle/2142/113745 [Poster]

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