Luanne Sinnamon

Luanne Sinnamon is an Associate Professor and former Director (2015-2020) at the University of British Columbia's School of Information, with prior affiliations to the Faculty of Arts. She holds a PhD from the University of Toronto's Faculty of Information, an MLS from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, an MA in Russian History from Carleton University, and a BA from the University of Toronto.

• Education:
  • PhD - Faculty of Information, University of Toronto
  • MLS - Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  • MA (Russian History) - Carleton University
  • BA - University of Toronto

Her research focuses on human-information interaction with emphasis on:

• Interactive information retrieval
• Digital reading and learning
• Contextual information access
• Digital document genres
• Climate crisis sensemaking
• Generative AI search systems

Recent publications examine search engine bias, open data initiatives, and digital document interaction. She leads the Digital Information Interaction Group (DiiG) and partners with UBC's Designing for People research cluster.

She has served as:

• Associate Editor of Information Processing & Management (2017-2019)
• General Chair of ASIS&T 2018 Annual Meeting
• Co-Chair of ACM CHIIR 2020

As an educator, she teaches:

• INFO 303 - Search Engines and Society
• LIBR 557 - Information Retrieval Concepts
• LIBR 504 - Information Organization Management

She supervises graduate research in climate crisis informatics and generative AI, currently limited by administrative duties. Notable research grants include:

• SSHRC Partnership Development Grant (Co-Investigator)
• Supporting Transparent & Open Research Engagement & Exchange
• NSERC Collaborative Research and Training Experience Grant