Curriculum Vitae

Dr. Richard Stevens

Amsterdam School of Communications Research (ASCoR)
Universiteit van Amsterdam
Oude Hoogstraat 24
1012 CE Amsterdam
Netherlands

Telephone: +31 20 525 3130/3680 (work)
Fax: +31 20 525 3681 (work)
Email: stevens@pscw.uva.nl
Web links: http://www.pscw.uva.nl/ascor
http://www.emtel2.org

Date of birth: 22 September 1965
Nationality: British (EU)

Research

Research Fellow (postdoctoral), ASCoR, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Jan 2001- Dec 2002.

"ICT, participation and citizenship",

The project involves a partnership between ASCoR and TNO (Delft) in examining how citizens use the web to participate in the development of their cities. It uses a comparative analysis of websites and citizens in Manchester and Amsterdam, focusing on the consultation process in major construction projects.

PhD Sociology of the Internet, University of Salford, UK, 1996-2000.

"Developing effective health websites: a participative approach".

Salford’s GEMISIS 2000 project brought 30 doctoral researchers, local government and industry partners together to investigate the role of ICT in the regeneration of Greater Manchester. My project focused on the role of citizen participation in Internet content development for public health.

MSc. Information Management, University of Sheffield, UK. 1991-92.
BSc. (2: ii) Sociology and Politics, University of Salford, UK. 1985-88.

Publications

STEVENS, RJ (2000) Eat the view: promoting sustainable local produce. Report: Newsletter of the UK Public Health Organisation. Issue 5 p7.

STEVENS, RJ (2000) Developing effective health websites: a participative approach. PhD thesis, University of Salford, Salford, UK.

STEVENS, RJ (1999) A stakeholder matrix for effective web design. Journal of Medical Internet Research 1 (1) Supp 1 1999 - Proceedings of Mednet99 World Conference of the Internet in Medicine, Heidelberg, Germany, September 18-21.

STEVENS, RJ (1998c) Effective access to healthcare research evidence in the new information media. Proceedings of WebNet98 World Conference of the WWW, Internet and Intranet. Orlando, Florida, USA, November 7-12 1998. Published by Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education (AACE), Charlottesville, Virginia, USA.

STEVENS, RJ (1998b) Health information for clinicians and community. University of Manchester/Salford Royal Hospitals NHS Trust R&D Conference: A celebration of Achievement and Potential through Research and Development. Hope Hospital, 8-9 September.

STEVENS, RJ (1998a) Health information for clinicians and community: the Salford Diabetes Care WWW project. Advances in Clinical Knowledge Management, British Medical Informatics Society/Health Libraries Group, University College London, 15 May.