(né Isto Vatanen)
Consultancy, education and research in information, knowledge and communication process management, digital and social media and visual design.

PD, docent, forskarassistent
(Ph. D., associate professor, post-doc research fellow)
Department of ALM
Uppsala University
Sweden

Dr. Isto Huvila, Ph.D., docent, is an associate professor and post-doc research fellow (forskarassistent) at the Department of ALM (Archival Studies, Library and Information Science and Museums and Cultural Heritage Studies) at Uppsala University in Sweden, a docent in information studies (information management) at the School of Business and Economics, Department of Information Studies, Åbo Akademi University in Turku, Finland, and an independent consultant. His primary areas of research include information work and information management, knowledge organisation, documentation, and social and participatory information practices. The contexts of his research ranges from archaeology and cultural heritage, archives, libraries and museums to social media, virtual worlds and corporate and public organisations. Huvila 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, ancient history and archaeology. He 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.