Charlie Mayor

Research Student

Charlie Mayor
Room: A304
Information Science
School of Informatics
City University
London EC1V OHB

charlie.mayor.1@city.ac.uk

My research

Hello! I'm a PhD student supervised by Professor David bawden in the Department of Information Science. I started in October 2008 and I am funded by a City University studentship.

I am interested in classification, and more specifically the classification of ideas, objects and data in biology.

Does objective knowledge exist in biology?
Can we say that ontologies in biology are 'true'?
How can biological knowledge be represented to aid information storage and retrieval?
Should classifications in biology be built by consensus?
What kind of classification structures does e-science need?
Can machines be biologists?

My background

My academic background is a mixture of the life sciences (I have a Masters in the Life Sciences from Edinburgh University) and librarianship (I graduated from the MSc in Information Science course at City University in 2008).

Professionally, I have done wet lab work in biomedical research, patent research for the pharma industry, information literacy support in the Civil Service and cataloguing in university libraries.

Find out more

If you want to find out more about what I'm doing, please check out my personal website @ vkwn.com

I also keep track of lots of what I read on Citeulike, so take a look at my Citeulike page.

Or, if you want to see the kind of websites I'm interested in, see my Delicious links below.

Thanks for reading!

[Last updated 01 October 2009]