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BSLIS, MS (Information and Knowledge Studies), PhD (Information Systems) Niloofar Solhjoo received her Doctor of Philosophy in Information Studies from the School of Information Management at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand (2024). She developed an early passion for understanding others, expressed in childhood through writing letters to pen pals around the world and forming close connections with many nonhuman animals around her. Today, her research is organized around the question: What is the nature of information in a world that connects all living beings, humans, animals, and technologies? She investigates this question through the study of information phenomena in the more-than-human world. Her empirical research explores experiencing embodied, cognitive, and affective information within diverse multispecies relationships at ecological and social levels, while her theoretical work seeks to characterize the nature of information and information studies from multispecies perspectives. She has published on these topics in Journal of Documentation, Journal of Information Science, Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, Health Information and Libraries Journal and Information Research. She is also the editor of the volume Multispecies Information Science (2026). In the School of Information and Communication Studies, Dr Solhjoo teaches graduate students in the Library and Information Science concentration. Below is a list of her teaching subjects and writings on teaching. Masters Level Subjects Masters and bachelors level subjects taught less frequently Writings on teaching Multispecies Information Science (pp. 61–76). Routledge. Dr Niloofar Solhjoo studies how humans experience and design information alongside many others (animals, landscapes, and technologies) in their ecological and social life. She takes an interdisciplinary approach from and explores how the caring relationships shape the ways information is created, shared, and understood. She leads research that advances Multispecies perspectives as a paradigm shift in Information Studies, recognising animals as integral to the theories, methods, and practices of the discipline. This work is presented in the edited volume Multispecies Information Science (2026). Before focusing on multispecies research, Dr Solhjoo worked in health information, information literacy, and scholarly communication. Her current projects explore shared agency in human–AI relationships, collaborations between artists and libraries, and the idea of creating a reference library of animal behaviour. She enjoys using creative and visual research methods. Niloofar welcomes supervision of graduates and postgraduate research students in everyday information behaviour, health information studies, personal information management, information literacy, human–AI relationships, critical information studies, creative and qualitative research methods, and the role of information in care, wellbeing, and community life. Dr Solhjoo has collaborated with various international professional associations, including Association for information, Science and Technology, European association of Health information and Liabaries, the Association for Veterinary Informatics, and the Symposium on Exploring Multispecies Relations, and International Conference of Animal Health Information Specialists. Her current active professional membership and collaborations are:
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Dr Niloofar Solhjoo
Lecturer in Information Studies
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