Quality information for social care
Monday
23rd February
King’s Fund, London
10am - 4pm
Speakers Biographies
Alan Gomersal,
Centre for Evidence Based Policy and Practice
Alan qualified as a
mechanical engineer in 1963 and went to work for the English Electric Co Civil
Nuclear Power and Engineering Research Laboratories in Leicestershire. After
five years he joined Leeds Polytechnic School of Librarianship where he lectured
on the first B.Sc course in Information Science. In 1974 he joined the Greater
London Council as Head of the Research Library where he developed and managed
the Acompline and Urbaline local government databases which were provided
through the European Space Agency Information Retrieval Service. When the
Council was abolished in 1987 he joined the British Library as Director of
Science and Technology services and collections where he was responsible for the
publishing of a series of reviews on evidence based medicine, scientific
deception, quality of life in cities and the use of animals in research. He also
launched the Science and Technology Policy journal and chaired its editorial
board.
In 2000 with Professor Ken
Young he successfully bid for the ESRC Evidence based Policy and Practice
project. He is responsible for the development and content of the Evidence
Network website and carries out database searches for the Network nodes, as well
as running workshops on database awareness and advanced information retrieval.
He published in 1968
Thesaurofacet: a Classification and Thesaurus for Engineering for the English
Electric Co. and has published a number of papers on information retrieval in
science technology and social science. He has also produced a number of major
bibliographies on robot welding technologies, traffic noise and social science
topics. For several years he was on the editorial board of the Institute of
Local Government Studies Inlogov Informs series of narrative reviews and is
currently chairman of the Innovation Policy Review editorial board.
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