Research & Scholarship at the Information School

Rigorous research, scholarship, and creative work are the foundation of the UW Information School. Our community is collaborative and interdisciplinary, bringing together a variety of social, design, information, and management sciences. Our ultimate goal is to produce research on the interrelationships between people, information, and technology that has a meaningful impact on people's everyday lives.

Most of our research addresses topics in the following broad categories

• Access to Information
• Ethics and Information
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Information Assurance and Security
• Information in Everyday Life
• Information Literacy
• Information Management
• Knowledge Organization
• Personal Information Management

Centers, Institutes and Laboratories

• Center for Human-Information Interaction
• Center for Information Assurance & Cybersecurity
• Center for Information & Society
• DUB (design:use:build) Group (multiple departments)
• Information Behavior in Everyday Context
• Institute for Innovation in Information Management
• Institute for National Security Education & Research
• Value Sensitive Design Laboratory 

Research Artifacts

• Technical Reports and Working Papers
• Research Conversations