Isto Huvila is Professor of Information Studies and Director of the doctoral programme in Information Studies at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Studies and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden and is docent (~adjunct professor) in information management at Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland. His major areas of research include information and knowledge management, information work, knowledge organisation, documentation, research data, and social and participatory information practices.
The contexts of his research range from archaeology and cultural heritage to archives, libraries and museums, social media, virtual worlds and extends to information issues in healthcare and public and private sector organisations.
Huvila’s work has been funded, among others, by the European Research Council, the Swedish Research Council and the Academy of Finland and he has given numerous invited talks and published broadly on the topics ranging from information work management, archaeological information management, social media, virtual reality information issues to archival studies and museum informatics.
Huvila received a MA degree in cultural history at the University of Turku in 2002 and a PhD degree in information studies at Åbo Akademi University (Turku, Finland) in 2006.