ABOUT
About Kalpana
Kalpana Shankar is a Professor of Information and Communication Studies at University College Dublin. She joined the School of Information and Communication Studies in 2011 from Indiana University-Bloomington’s School of Informatics and Computing. Her research and teaching focus on research and scholarly infrastructures, data management and sharing, peer review, and data repositories. She has been a Principal Investigator on projects funded by Science Foundation Ireland, the Irish Research Council, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, and the US National Science Foundation studying these and other topics.
Contact Kalpana
Telephone number: (353) 17168359
Email address: kalpana.shankar(at)ucd.ie
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UCD School of Information and
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UCD School of Information and
Communication Studies
UCD profile
Twitter handle:
dublin_kshankar
RESEARCH
My research broadly examines how data and documentation practices and systems reflect and shape the larger society, culture, and institutions where they are enacted. Drawing on perspectives from information studies and Science, Technology, and Society (STS), I am particularly interested in what is often called “research on research”. My current research projects focus on the sustainability and longevity of data archives (2015-2018) and peer review at Science Foundation Ireland (2018-2022).
I am also co-director with Professor Eugenia Siapera of the UCD Centre for Digital Policy
Studying Peer Review in Grants
Sustainability of Social Science Data Archives
Centre for Digital Policy
TEACHING
I regularly teach classes across stages (first year through PhD) including classes on information and society, organisation and retrieval of information, research methods, data and society, and research data management. I am currently the programme coordinator of the newly launched MSc and Graduate Diplomas in Digital Policy , the Professional Certificate in Digital Policy , and the PhD in Information Studies.
I am currently accepting applications from potential PhD students in the following topics. If you are interested in PhD supervision, please feel free to contact me:
- Critical data studies, especially social and cultural intersections with digital data
- Communication with and about data and data management
- Open Data
- Research evaluation/peer review
MSc Digital Policy
ProfCert Digital Policy
PhD Programme
Other Activities
Like all scholars, I’m involved in many other activities that support and benefit the profession. Here are a few:
I am co-editor in chief with Eugenia Siapera of the journal Online Information Review
I have been appointed as a representative of the Royal Irish Academy to the National Open Research Forum (NORF) Working Group on FAIR Data. I am also a co-opted member of the Social Sciences Committee of the RIA.
From 2014-2018, I served as one of the Irish representatives to the EU funded COST Action, New Frontiers in Peer Review (PEERE). Take a look at the Website for some of our outputs and ongoing activities and publications.