Web curriculum vitae

Under construction

Current activity:

: Postdoctoral research fellow in the Statistical Cybermetrics Research Group in the School of Computing and IT, University of Wolverhampton.
Current activity is centered on the Group's contribution to the WISER project.

Ph.D University of Bristol: Searching or surfing: how do students who use the Web locate information resources? 2002. [abstract].
M.Sc (Library and information management) University of Bristol: Dissertation - Information retrieval from the World Wide Web: an investigation into users' searching activities. 1998. [abstract]
Fellow of the Chartered Insurance Institute: Specialist area - marine and aviation insurance.
B.Sc (Pure mathematics) University of St Andrews

ESRC studentship full scholarship in respect of Ph.D studies at the Graduate School of Education, University of Bristol.
Galloway Prize, the Library Association (now CILIP) annual prize for the best Bristol M.Sc student.

Cothey (2004) Web-crawling reliability. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 55(14), pp 1228-1238. [abstract]
Cothey (2003) Web-crawling reliability. ISSI2003: Ninth international conference on scientometrics and informetrics, Beijing, August 25-29, International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics.
Cothey (2002) Longitudinal study of World Wide Web users' information searching behavour. Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 53(2), pp 67-78. [abstract]
Paper awarded sixth place in the ALA's "LIRT top twenty" bibliographic instruction articles of 2002.
Bailey & Cothey (2001) Social impact of rapid development in the Web's underlying technological infrastructure. Cultures of learning conference, Bristol, April 19-22, University of Bristol.
Cothey (2000) Are Web surfers born or do users learn to surf? WWW9 workshop on Web measurement, metrics and mathematical models: World Wide Web conference, Amsterdam, May 15-19, WWW Consortium.

You can contact me at viv.cothey@wlv.ac.uk