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Nigel Ford is affiliated with the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom and specializes in research within the Health Professions, with a particular focus on General Health Professions.

Their recent research output includes papers published in prominent journals. These include:

  • Information seeking amongst informal caregivers of people with dementia: a qualitative study (2022, Journal of Documentation)
  • Scholarly communication between health informatics and information systems: A bibliometric study (2024, Health Informatics Journal)

The research topics of Nigel Ford span multiple areas within health and information domains. Key topics covered in their publications are:

  • Dementia and Cognitive Impairment Research
  • Patient-Provider Communication in Healthcare
  • Health Literacy and Information Accessibility
  • Big Data and Business Intelligence
  • Electronic Health Records Systems
  • Mobile Health and mHealth Applications

They also contribute to various subfields of study, including:

  • General Health Professions
  • Psychiatry and Mental Health
  • Management Information Systems
  • Health Information Management

Among frequent co-authors collaborating with Nigel Ford are Sarah Hargreaves, Laura Sbaffi, Angela Lin, and Peter Willett. This suggests interdisciplinary cooperation spanning health, information systems, and communication research.

Their work has been published primarily in venues such as the Journal of Documentation and Health Informatics Journal, reflecting engagement with both library and information science as well as healthcare informatics fields.

Best Publications

  • Serendipity and information seeking: an empirical study

    Allen Foster;Nigel Ford

  • Matching/mismatching revisited: an empirical study of learning and teaching styles

    Nigel Ford;Sherry Y Chen

  • Individual differences, hypermedia navigation, and learning: an empirical study

    Nigel Ford;Sherry Y. Chen

  • The role of individual differences in Internet searching: an empirical study

    Nigel Ford;David Miller;Nicola Moss

  • Information seeking and mediated searching. Part 4: cognitive styles in information seeking

    Nigel Ford;T. D. Wilson;Allen Foster;David Ellis

  • Information seeking and mediated searching. Part 2: uncertainty and its correlates

    T. D. Wilson;Nigel Ford;David Ellis;Allen Foster

  • Gender differences in Internet perceptions and use

    N. Ford;D. Miller

  • Cognitive styles and virtual environments

    Nigel Ford

  • Information-seeking and mediated searching. Part 1: theoretical framework and research design

    Amanda Spink;T. D. Wilson;Nigel Ford;Allen Foster

  • Web search strategies and human individual differences: Cognitive and demographic factors, Internet attitudes, and approaches

    Nigel Ford;David Miller;Nicola Moss

  • Learning Styles and Strategies of Postgraduate Students

    Nigel Ford

  • Using the Internet in Teaching: The Views of Practitioners (A Survey of the Views of Secondary School Teachers in Sheffield, UK).

    Andrew D. Madden;Nigel Ford;David Miller;Philippa Levy

  • COGNITIVE STYLES AND SEARCHING

    Nigel Ford;Frances Wood;Christina Walsh

  • Introduction to Information Behaviour

    Nigel Ford

  • Countering method bias in questionnaire-based user studies

    Genevieve Gorrell;Nigel Ford;Andrew D. Madden;Peter G. Holdridge

  • Hypertext and learning styles

    David Ellis;Nigel Ford;Frances Wood

  • Modeling cognitive processes in information seeking: from popper to pask

    Nigel Ford

  • Levels and types of mediation in instructional systems: an individual differences approach

    Nigel Ford

  • Information Skills, Searching Behaviour and Cognitive Styles for Student-Centred Learning: A Computer-Assisted Learning Approach

    Frances Wood;Nigel Ford;David Miller;Gill Sobczyk

  • Modelling User Navigation Behaviours in a Hypermedia-Based Learning System: An Individual Differences Approach

    Sherry Y. Chen;Nigel J. Ford

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom Wilson
Tom Wilson University of Sheffield
Mark Stevenson
Mark Stevenson University of Melbourne
Andrew Booth
Andrew Booth University of Sheffield
Sherry Y. Chen
Sherry Y. Chen National Central University

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