Research Areas
Faculty members research a wide range of topics and often collaborate together in interdisciplinary research areas:
- Artificial Intelligence
- Creative, Making and Artistic Practices
- Critical Theory and Social Critique
- Cultural Memory and Heritage
- Data and Society
- Design Studies
- Digital Humanities
- Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums
- Gender, Race and Sexuality
- Global, Transnational and Comparative Studies
- Health Informatics
- Human-Computer Interaction
Research News
‘Not on the Exam’ with Prof Huili Chen
In this ongoing series, we ask our professors not just about their work, but also to tell us about their favourite cuisine and whether they prefer cats or dogs. This latest installment features Assistant Professor Huili Chen, who arrived at the Faculty of Information last January from Princeton University where she was a Presidential Postdoctoral Research Fellow. What courses are you teaching? I […]
Prof. Shion Guha’s project selected for Future Skills Centre PIAAC research initiative
The Human-Centered Data Science Lab at the Faculty of Information, led by Prof. Shion Guha, has been selected as one of 10 research teams funded through a Future Skills Centre initiative supported by the Government of Canada. The project, Adult Skills, Skill Use, and Productivity: Lessons for Canada from PIAAC, will examine how Canadian adult […]
EduCHI comes to U of T as AI reshapes the UX classroom
EduCHI, an international symposium devoted to education in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), will open this year with a question that has moved from theoretical to urgent: What should HCI educators be teaching at a time when students are already designing, researching, prototyping and learning alongside artificial intelligence? This year’s symposium, sponsored by the Faculty of Information and hosted […]
Preserving a true record of the internet
Is the Internet’s most powerful preservation tool in danger? The TVO show “Big [If True] interviewed Associate Professor Evan Light to discuss the importance of the Internet Archive and their World Wide Web backup tool, the Wayback Machine. Light’s interview starts two minutes and thirty seconds in. He emphasizes that public archives and libraries are […]
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Research Newsletter
Research Spotlight is the Faculty of Information’s research newsletter, published three times a year. This newsletter focuses on new developments in the Faculty of Information’s key research areas.
Issue No.1: December 2025
Issue No.2: April 2026
Research Institutes
The Faculty of Information is home to three interdisciplinary research hubs – the Knowledge Media Design Institute (KMDI), the Digital Curation Institute (DCI), and the Centre for Culture and Technology (CCT). These institutes are advancing our understanding of the complex relationship between information and society: from KMDI’s pursuit of social justice through human-centered design to CCT’s critical and arts-based approaches exploring how contemporary media shape the human experience to DCI’s investigations of the principles, theories, technologies, and tools related to the creation, management, and preservation of digital resources for future use. Visit the individual institute pages to find out more.
Research Partnerships
Along with the unique opportunities for interdisciplinary research offered within the Faculty of Information, the Faculty, as well as its professors and students, are affiliated with a wide range of academic initiatives, networks and institutes at the University of Toronto. These include:
Faculty of Information researchers also collaborate with a wide range external partners and community organizations. A few examples are:
Student Research
Recent Doctoral dissertations and Master’s theses reflect how graduate students take advantage of the interdisciplinary nature of the Faculty of Information. The wide variety of student research is also reflected in the profiles of current PhD students