PhD Student
Caifan Du’s research has revolved around the production and consumption of information in its various forms across society. In the past, she studied the production of scientific software and worked on developing sociotechnical interventions to enable the information infrastructure that supports the production and use of software for scientific research. Her current research examines how creativity emerges from scholarly knowledge production when scholarly work encounters its audience. She is broadly interested in the humanistic, cognitive, psychological, behavioral, and social dimensions of information and conducts qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods inquiries to investigate her phenomena of interest. Before embarking on an academic journey, she was a data analyst in the airline industry.
B.Ec. Economics, Xiamen University, China
B.A. French, Xiamen University, China
Human and social dimensions of information