ANDREA KAMPEN

My research explores the information-sharing practices of artist-researchers. I’m interested in learning about how artist-researchers perceive and engage with research-creation—an approach that brings together creative and academic research practices–to conduct and share research.

Curriculum Vitae

Education

Doctor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia, School of Information, Vancouver, B.C. (September 2019 – present)
Supervisor: Dr. Heather O’Brien

Master of Library and Information Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. (September 2013—May 2015)

Bachelor of Arts // Double major Film and German studies, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, MB
(September 2009 — October 2013)
Thesis title: The Cultural Identifiers in Remakes: An Exploration of German Remakes of Hollywood Films

Research Experience

Research Associate, Emily Carr University of Art and Design, Vancouver, B.C., Conducting Creative Research (February 2023—present)
As part of an interdisciplinary team including Lois Klassen (Research Ethics Board), Hillary Webb (librarian) I am conducting a literature regarding issues regarding ethics and creative research.

Research Assistant, University of University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Phone Me (October – December 2021)
Supported the development of onboarding material for a place-based poetry mobile application called PhoneMe (Principle Investigator Kedrick James, Amelia Cole and Andrea Hoff). Contributed by researching, designing, and presenting UX principles in a Digital Humanities context.

Research Associate, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. Virtual Online Community for Aging Life Experience (VOCALE)
(January 2020 – July 2021)
In collaboration with Dr. Annie Chen (University of Washington) and Dr. Heather O’Brien I developed and analyzed qualitative coding (using Nvivo) regarding the representation and lived experience through the data collected through the Virtual Online Communities for Aging Life Experience (VOCALE). Navigated data sharing agreements and ethics submissions, and engaged initerative process of establishing research topic and goals.

Research Assistant, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C, Supporting Transparent & Open Research Engagement & Exchange (STOREE)
(August 2020- October 2021)
Conducted literature review of arts-based research in library and information studies. Analyzed and synthesized findings in the form of a forthcoming journal article with Heather De Forest.

Research Assistant, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C, Bipolar Bridges
(October 2020-August 2020)
As part of an interdisciplinary team of psychologists, designers and people with lived experience completed literature reviews that culminated in a published position paper to situate user engagement in the e/Health/m/Health discipline.

Research Associate, Queen’s University, Kingston, Ont. Monetary Appraisal of Born-Digital Records (September 2018 – present)
Developed questionnaires in Qualtrics which was distributed to archivists, conservators, and appraisers to determine possible models for assigning monetary value to digital records, and to develop criteria to evaluate digital records. Transcribed and analyzed interviews to establish themes. Completed literature review and environmental scan of institutional policies.

Research Associate, University of British Columbia Engagement Lab, Vancouver, B.C. Effects of Domain Knowledge Interest and Difficulty on Searching, Learning and Engaging with Digital Libraries
(November 2018 – May 2020)
Collected data through screen capture using Morae and Qualtrics to examine the relationship of users’ domain knowledge and perceptions of search difficulty while using a digital library. Plan and modify research techniques, procedures, tests, equipment and monitor software management following pilot testing. Schedule, organize, and report on status of research activities.

Research Assistant, Social Media Lab (SML), Toronto Metropolitan University, Toronto, Ont.
(November 2013 – May 2016)
Developed a tutorial and taught Netlytic (social media analysis tool) to researchers. Created original promotional video for Social Media Lab using Adobe Premier. Researched and presented findings on Instagram visualization tools to the SML team (Principle Investigator Dr. Anatoliy Gruzd). Edited submissions for Social Media and Society conference publication.

Research Assistant, Centre for Pediatric Pain research, Halifax, N.S. Evaluation of Social Media about Pediatric Pain (September 2015 – December 2016)
Collaboratively analyzed how pediatric pain is discussed on social media as part of a team of academics and health professionals (Dr. Michelle Tougas and Dr. Christine Chambers). Advised the research team in the use of Netlytic (social media analysis tool). Screened social media content and worked with team members to establish inclusion and exclusion criteria. Presented preliminary findings at Information without Borders conference.

Research Assistant, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. Evaluation of Digital Scholarship in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSHRC) (February 2015 – June 2016)
Conducted literature review of digital pedagogy best practices for SSHRC. Analyzed the use of digital tools in Humanities and the Social Sciences. Synthesized data into a written report which was submitted to SSHRC.

Teaching Experience

Research Methods, LIBR 507, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (January-April 2025)

Sociotechnical Perspectives for Information Systems Design, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (September 2024-December 2024)

Research Methods, LIBR 507, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (September 2023–December 2023)

Information Practices in Contemporary Society, LIBR 508, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (January 2021—April 2021)
Facilitated and supervised seminar discussions. Provided one-on-one consultations regarding assignment topics. Graded assignments according to rubrics and provided written feedback.

Information Visualization and Visual Analytics, LIBR 514 School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (May – Junes, 2020)
Oversaw and wrote summaries of online discussions. Supported setting up and organizing course content on Canvas. Monitored and responded to FAQ. Helped troubleshoot technical issues with Tableau Software.

Human Information Interaction, LIBR 506, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (January 2020 – April 2020)
Graded assignments according to rubrics and provided written feedback.

Guest Speaker

Information Visualization and Visual Analytics, LIBR 514/INFO 419, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (June, 2020; April 2021; September 2021)
Title: Show Me the Story

Human Information Interaction, LIBR 506, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (Fall, 2020)
Title: User Experience

Information Retrieval Concepts and Practices, LAIS 557, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (Fall, 2020)
Title: Beyond clicks: Bringing the IRL and AFK to user experience

Issues in Scholarly Communication and Publishing, LIBR 559L, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (Fall, 2020)
Title: Show Me the Story in Scholarly Communication

Information Practices in Contemporary Society, LIBR 508, School of Information, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C. (November, 2019)
Career talk

Information Architecture, INFO 6620, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S.
Title: Applying Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) to Archival Material

Marker

Information Sources, Services, and Retrieval, INFO 5530, School of Information Management, Dalhousie University, Halifax, N.S. (September 2018 – December 2019)

Employment Experience

Researcher, Writing Short is Hard, Vancouver, B.C.
(January 2022–present)
Developed and facilitated focus group and usability testing for a text analysis tool (Writing Well is Hard). Analyzed and reported findings. Wrote annotated bibliographies for a variety of topics including Equity, Diversity and Inclusion statements and granting decisions.

Junior Policy Analyst, Library and Archives Canada (LAC), Ottawa, Ont.
(June 2017 – June 2018)
Created and executed research strategies according to requests about archives, libraries and information management and presented findings to senior management through in person presentations, research reports and briefs.

Archival Assistant, Library and Archives Canada (LAC), Ottawa, Ont.,
(October 2016 – June 2017)
Appraised, created disposition criteria, arranged, processed and wrote Rules of Archival Description compliant description for the textual records as well as audiovisual materials. Compiled descriptions in LAC content management system, MISACS (https://bit.ly/2PSB0cW).

Archival Assistant, Dalhousie University Archives, Halifax, N.S.
(September 2015 – May 2016)
Appraised, created weeding criteria, and developed finding aid for textual, born-digital (including emails and datasets) for Ransom Myers description project (https://findingaids.library.dal.ca/ransom-myers-fonds). Answered research and reference inquiries from patrons.

Archival Assistant, Dalhousie University Archives, Halifax, N.S.
(November 2013 – May 2015)
Appraised, created retention criteria, weeded, and described the Center for Art Tapes fonds (approximately 15 meters of material). Published finding aid after migrating finding aid from Archivist Toolkit and Access to Memory (AtoM) (https://memoryns.ca/centre-for-art-tapes-2).

Publications & Presentations

Journal Articles

Klassen, L., Webb, H., & Kampen, A. (submitted). Conducting creative research: Teaching research ethics and research conduct in Art and Design. Research Ethics. [literature review, writing]

Kampen, A., and De Forest, H. (2023). Gathering Residue: A literature review of Art-based research in Library and Information Studies. Journal of Critical Library and Information Studies.

O’Brien, H., Roll, I., Kampen, A., Davoudi, N. (2022). Rethinking (Dis) engagement in human- computer interaction. Computers in Human Behavior, 128. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2021.107109

O’Brien, H., Morton, E., Kampen, A., Michalak, E., Barnes, S. (2020). Beyond clicks and downloads: A call for a more comprehensive approach to measuring mHealth app engagement BJPsychOpen. doi10.1192/bjo.2020.72

Tougas, M.E., Chambers, C.T., Corkum, P., Robillard, J.M., Gruzd, A., Howard, V., Kampen, A., Boerner, K.E., Hundert, A.S. (2019). Social media content about children’s pain and sleep: Content and network analysis. JMIR Pediatr Parent, 1(2). doi: 10.2196/11193

Kampen, A. (2015). Copyright issues in archives. Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management, 12. doi: 10.5931/djim.v12.i1.6170

Book Chapter

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., & Kampen, A. (2021). A How-to for using Netlytic to collect and analyze social media data: A case study of the use of Twitter during the 2014 Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine. In The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods. California: SAGE.

Gruzd, A., Mai, P., & Kampen, A. (2017). A How-to for using Netlytic to collect and analyze social media data: A case study of the use of Twitter during the 2014 Euromaidan revolution in Ukraine. In L. Sloan & A. Quan-Haase (Eds.), The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods (pp. 513-529). California: SAGE.

Conference Proceedings

O’Brien, H., Cole, A., Kampen, A., Brennan, K. (2022). The effects of domain and search expertise on learning outcomes in digital library use. In Proceedings CHIIR ’22: ACM SIGIR Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, 202-210. https://doi.org/10.1145/3498366.3505761

O’Brien, H., Kampen, A., Cole, A., & Brennen, K. (2020). The role of domain knowledge in search as learning. In CHIIR ’20: Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, March 14-17, Vancouver, B.C., 313-317. https://doi.org/10.1145/3343413.3377989

Presentations

Kampen, A. (2025). Vibes + Friends (and saying f*ck it). Threads, Student Speaker Series, The University of British Columbia, School of Information. 

Kampen, A. (2025). Can this part count? A sticky exploration of arts-based autoethnography. School of Information Research Day, Vancouver, British Columbia.

Kampen, A. (2025). Understanding information-sharing of artist-researchers. iConference, Doctoral Colloquium, Bloomington, United States of America.

Kampen, A. (2024). Understanding information-sharing of artist-researchers. Information Seeking in Context, Doctoral Colloquium, Aalborg, Denmark.

Kampen, A. (2024). Emergent and exploratory: Understanding information sharing of artist-researchers, Society for Social Study of Science (4S), Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Kampen, A. (2024). Crafting connections: Art kits as a form for processing experiences and ideas in Library and Information Studies. School of Information Research Day, Vancouver, British Columbia

Kampen, A., & De Forest, H. (2023). Gathering Residue: Doing a literature review “otherwise”. Keeping it Real Conference [online].

Kampen, A. (2023).Emergent and exploratory: Understanding information sharing of research-creation practitioners. Association for Information Science & Technology Doctoral Colloquium, London, United Kingdom.

Kampen, A. (May, 2023). Exploratory and emergent: Understanding information sharing of research-creation practitioners. CAIS Student Research Forum.

Kampen, A. (January, 2020). Navigation: Where is here? Threads Student Speaker Series, School of Information, University of British Columbia.

Kampen, A., & Tougas, M. (February 2016). A systematic evaluation of posts shared over social media about pediatric pain. Presentation at Information Without Borders Conference, Halifax, N.S.

Kampen, A. (October 2015). Wherever you go, there you are: Mapping psychogeography using GIS. Digital Earth. Poster presentation at 9th Symposium of the International Society for Digital Earth, Halifax, N.S.

Kampen, A. (February 2014). “The most elaborate of human constructions”: An examination of identity and memory in social network sites. Poster presentation at Information Without Borders Conference, Halifax, N.S.

Kampen, A. (August 2014). Centre for Art Tapes: Archiving multimedia. Presentation at Summer Shine Series, School of Information Management, Halifax, N.S.

Honours & Awards

  • Public Scholars Initiative, University of British Columbia (May 2023-May 2024)
  • Doctoral Award, Social Science and Humanities Research Council (May 2023-May 2024)
  • Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, University of British Columbia (September 2021- August 2022) $17, 342
  • iSchool Travel Award, School of Information, (2020)
  • Northern Telecom Graduate Fellowship (2020) $6750
  • President’s Academic Excellence Initiative, University of British Columbia (2020;2021; 2022) $288; $577; $450; $470)
  • Faculty of Arts Graduate Award, University of British Columbia (2019) $5000
  • British Columbia Graduate Scholarship, University of British Columbia, (2019) $15000
  • Reel Heritage Symposium, Toronto International Film Festival, (November 2018)
  • Leadership Award, School of Information Management, (May 2015)
  • Outstanding Service Award, School of Information Management Student Association, (May 2015)
  • John Edwin Bisset Scholarship, Manitoba Library Association, (October 2014)
  • Student to Canadian Library Association Award, Canadian Library Association, (June 2014)
  • Ambassador of Switzerland Book Prize, University of Manitoba, (2010)

Service & Leadership

Leadership

  • President, Doctoral Student Association (DSA), School of Information, University of British Columbia, (May 2020 — December 2021)
  • DSA Representative, Library and Archival Student Association (LASSA), School of Information, University of British Columbia, (March 2020 — April 2021)
  •  PhD Representative, Doctoral Studies Committee, School of Information, University of British Columbia (August 2020 — August 2021)
  • Secretary, Doctoral Student Association (DSA), School of Information, University of British Columbia, (November 2019 — May 2020)
  • Co-Chair, School of Information Management Student Association (SIMSA), Dalhousie University, (April 2014 – May 2015)
  • Technical Chair, Dalhousie Journal of Interdisciplinary Management (DJIM), (September 2013 – May 2015)

Professional Service

  • National Archival Appraisal Board – Committee on Monetary Appraisal of Born Digital Records, (November 2019 — August 2020)
  • Editorial Board – Social Media and Society Conference Journal
  • Planning Committee and Student to CLA Coordinator, Canadian Library Association Conference, (April 2015 – June 2015)
  • Metadata and Cataloguing Committee Member, Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), (September 2014- April 2015)

Volunteer

  • Archiving Assistant at Vivo Media Arts Centre (February 2019 – September 2019)
  • Archivist CKDU Dalhousie University Radio Station (December 2014 – April 2015)
  • Archiving Assistant (volunteer), Winnipeg Film Group (November 2011 – August 2012)
  • Metadata and Cataloguing Committee Member, Association of Moving Image Archivists (AMIA), (September 2014- April 2015)