To date, research from this project has been published in the following prestigious international journals, and presented at the following international conferences:
Buchanan, S., & Jardine, C. (2020) The complex information needs of disadvantaged young first-time mothers: insights into multiplicity of needs. Journal of Documentation. In press. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-07-2019-0142
Buchanan, S., Nicol, E. (2019) Developing health information literacy in disengaged at-risk populations: insights to inform interventions. Journal of Documentation, 75 (1), pp. 172-189. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2018-0086
Buchanan, S., Jardine, C., & Ruthven, I, (2019) Information behaviours in disadvantaged and dependent circumstances and the role of information intermediaries. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 70 (2), pp. 117-129. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24110
Buchanan, S., Nicol, E. (2019) Developing Health Information Literacy in disadvantaged and dependent and circumstances: the everyday role of family nurses. In: Kurbanoğlu S., Boustany J., Špiranec S., Unal Y., Huotari M., Grassian E., Mizrachi D., Roy L. (eds) Information Literacy in Everyday Life. 6th European Conference on Information Literacy (ECIL 2018), Oulu, Finland. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 989, pp. 124-135. Springer, Cham, Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13472-3_12
Ruthven, I., Buchanan, S., & Jardine, C. (2018) Isolated, overwhelmed and worried: young first-time mothers asking for information and support online. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 69 (9), pp1073-1083. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24037
Ruthven, I., Buchanan, S., & Jardine, C. (2018) Relationships, environment, health and development: the information needs expressed online by young first-time mothers. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 69 (8), pp. 985-995. https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24024
Buchanan, S., Jardine, C., & Ruthven, I. (2018) Developing Informaiton Literacy in dependent and disadvantaged circumstances: a transitional approach in the digital health context. In: Kurbanoğlu S., Boustany J., Špiranec S., Grassian E., Mizrachi D., Roy L. (eds) Information Literacy in the Workplace. ECIL 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science, 810, 409-418. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74334-9_43
Our work defining an important human information intermediary role in health and social care professionals, which also identifies a core set of intermediary competencies, has also been adopted and published by the Scottish Government as part of Action Two of their Making it Easier: a Health Literacy Action Plan for Scotland 2017-2025. The plan can be downloaded here.