Professional activities (2005-) / Gunilla Widén

Vice head of School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi, 2010-

Member of the board of School of Business and Economics, Åbo Akademi, 2010-

Member of the board of Åbo Akademi University Library (vice chairman) 2005-2009

Member of the board of Finnish Union of University Professors local committee, 2010-

Member of the board, University Network for Communication Sciences, 2006-

Chairman of the Finnish Association of Information Studies  2005-2006

Workshop group leader, Knowledge management group in the Socrates project: Library and Information Science Education in Europe: Joint Curriculum Development and Bologna Perspectives 2005

Member of the advisory board of the DREaM project (Developing Research Excellence and Methods) http://lisresearch.org/dream-project/

Member of the editorial advisory board, The Electronic Library, 2009-

Member of the editorial board of Finnish Information Studies (FIS), 2005- 

External examiner

- Docentships (University of Tampere, Uiversity of Lund, University of Helsinki)

- Professorships (University of Oslo, University of Växjö, University of Uppsala, University of Aarhus)

- LIS education in Sweden (commissioned by Swedish National Agency of Higher Education)

- Permission to give Doctoral education at Swedish School of Library and Information Science (commissioned by Swedish National Agency of Higher Education)

Reviewer

- Journal of Information Science

- Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology

- Organization Studies

- Information Processing & Management

Member of the Programming Committee

- Online Information London, 2004-2006

- CoLIS conference

- ISIC conference

- European Conference on Information Systems