Dr Peter Stordy
BEd (Manchester), MSc (Essex), PhD (Sheffield), Senate Award Fellow
Information School
Senior University Teacher
Full contact details
Information School
Room C231
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Having spent 16 enjoyable years as a deputy head teacher, advisory teacher and school teacher, I retrained as a software engineer and spent the next 4 years working for two leading software companies. During this time, I developed two well-known educational applications: BlackCat Logo and BlackCat Designer. In 2003 I was awarded an Information School PhD scholarship and in 2005 I joined the Information School as a University Teacher. In 2015 I was promoted to Senior University Teacher.
Information School and Faculty Responsibilities
- Year Tutor (Level 1) for the BSc Data Science degree
- Module Coordinator of:
- Database Design (Postgraduate)
- Introduction to Programming (Postgraduate)
- Data Modelling and Storage (Undergraduate)
- Research interests
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My main research areas include Internet, digital and information literacies, school and HE pedagogy, Appreciative Inquiry (AI), Inquiry-based Learning (IBL), primary education. learning styles and Personal Development Planning (PDP). During my PhD (completed 2012), I explored information management undergraduates’ and their teachers’ perceptions of being Internet literate, of Internet literacy and their Internet-related practices, with the aim of identifying implications for information departments’ pedagogy and curriculum. In particular, it explores the extent to which popular digital native narratives surrounding students’ use of the Internet, coincide with the outcomes of this study.
I am a member of the Libraries and Information Society Research Group.
I am no longer accepting new PhD students
- Publications
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Journal articles
- Taxonomy of Literacies. Journal of Documentation, 71(3). View this article in WRRO
- Taxonomy of literacies. Journal of Documentation, 71(3), 456-476.
- Teaching our grandchildren to suck eggs?: Introducing the study of communication technologies to the 'Digital generation'. View this article in WRRO
- Inquiry-based learning in the first-year information management curriculum. Italics, 7(1). View this article in WRRO
- An exploration of the information literacy experiences of home educating families. Library and Information Research, 39(120), 8-28. View this article in WRRO
Conference proceedings papers
- Integrating fate/critical data studies into data science curricula: Where are we going and how do we get there?. FAT* 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (pp 425-435) View this article in WRRO
- Teaching Mechanical Engineering students to suck eggs: a successful approach to teaching information skills. Proceedings of 6th International Symposium for Engineering Education (pp 173-181), 14 July 2016 - 15 July 2016. View this article in WRRO
Posters
- Deliberation Day: An I-School Educational Project. iConference 2016: Partnership with Society.
Theses / Dissertations
- Undergraduates' Internet Literacies. View this article in WRRO
Other
- Review of 'Information Obesity', by Whitworth, A..
- Designing and Sharing Inquiry-based Learning Activities: A LAMS Evaluation Case Study, 19-23.
- The REAL way to approach PDP (Information Studies).
- A REAListic Approach to PDP: 'Reflection, Employability And Learning'. View this article in WRRO
- Taxonomy of Literacies. Journal of Documentation, 71(3). View this article in WRRO
- Research group
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Current PhD students
- Victoria Edwards: Quality Control of Library e-Book Metadata
I am no longer accepting new PhD students
- Teaching activities
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Excellence in student satisfaction
- Academic Award winner 2015: ‘Best Student-Staff Committee’
- Pivotal in raising the Information School’s NSS ratings from 68% to a University leading 95% (2014)
- Academic Award nomination 2010: ‘Personal Tutor of the Year’
Excellence in teaching & learning
- Consistently high student evaluation module ratings
- Senate Award for Teaching Excellence (2012)
Led major programme and module level innovations that promote ‘The Sheffield Graduate’ attributes:
- Designed and developed four new and innovative modules with inquiry and information literacy at their core
- Created novel assessments methods that foster ‘deeper’ learning and engagement
- Developed innovative pedagogies to teach IT to technical and non-technical students
Pioneered the effective use of new teaching technologies and communicated findings outside of the department:
- First in the University to use Blackboard e-Portfolio to facilitate PDP and in assessments
- First in the University to use LAM as a teaching tool
- Used a Blackboard VLE journal to promote deeper learning
Spearheaded innovations in supervision and support
- Instigated/contributed to seven successful departmental Teaching Assistant training ‘Away Days’
- Transformed students’ attitudes towards learning academic writing skills and learning IT skills
Promoting information management beyond the University of Sheffield’s Information School
- Presented ‘Reinventing Exams’ at the Faculty TESS Conference (March, 2015)
- Regular contributor to the English Language Centre’s Spring and Summer School lecture series
- First in the University to run promotional sessions at Sheffield International College
- Coordinated and conducted four ‘outreach’ initiatives