Profile
| Title: | Dr |
|---|---|
| First Name: | Konstantina |
| Surname: | Martzoukou |
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 263916 |
| Email: | k.martzoukou@rgu.ac.uk |
Role and Responsibilities
Dr Konstantina (Dina) Martzoukou is a lecturer in Information Management and course leader for the MSc in Information and Library Studies. She leads the Information Studies module and is the module coordinator for Information Literacy and for Research Methods (on the part-time BA Management).
Prior to joining the department she was a Research Fellow in the Institute of Education at the University of Stirling, examining the early development of e-literacy among pre-school children (funded by the ESRC's e-Society Programme). She has also worked as a tutor of Modern Greek language for the Aberdeenshire Council.
Research Interests
Dina is a member of the Information & Communication theme research group within the Institute for Management Governance and Society (IMAGES) Research Institute. Her research interests are centred on web information seeking behaviour (especially holistic user-based approaches), user-system interaction and information literacy.
Public Output
Journal Articles
Patterson, L. & Martzoukou, K. 2012. Canadian Information Professionals' involvement in information synthesis and analysis. Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 44(1).
Martzoukou, K. 2008. Students' attitudes towards Web search engines: increasing appreciation of sophisticated search strategies. Libri, 58 (43), pp.137-210.
Martzoukou, K. 2007. Making an impact. Information Scotland, 5(5), p.17.
Martzoukou, K. 2005. A review of Web information seeking research: considerations of method and foci of interest. Information Research, 10(2) paper 215 [Available from http://InformationR.net/ir/10-2/paper215.html]
Book Reviews
Martzoukou, K. 2006. Improving Internet Reference Services to Distance Learners (book review). Library Review, 55 (8)
Conferences
Martzoukou, K. 2007. That's me! Trial-and-error...I'll find that later! An investigation of students' perception of search tactics when using Web search engines". I3 Information: Interactions and Impact. 25-28th June 2007. The Robert Gordon University. Aberdeen. Scotland.
Martzoukou, K. 2004. Methodological Considerations in Research Foci of Current Web Information Seeking Research. ISIC 2004: the 5th Information Seeking in Context Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 1-3 September, 2004.
Newton, R. & Martzoukou, K. 2002. The development of an holistic model of information seeking behaviour of students in higher education, encompassing use of Internet search engines. Doctoral Workshop of the 4th conference in Information Seeking in Context (ISIC), Lisbon: Portugal, 2002.