{"id":183,"date":"2026-04-15T23:28:31","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T23:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/?p=183"},"modified":"2026-04-17T22:45:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T22:45:58","slug":"ina-fourie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/ina-fourie\/","title":{"rendered":"Ina Fourie"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Conversation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Episode 15 Ina Fourie<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Retired Professor, Head of Department, and Chair of the School<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In conversation with Ina Fourie, who retired as a Full Professor from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has been Head of Department of Information Science and Chair of the School of Information Technology. She talks about growing up in apartheid South Africa, her work in health information behavior including cancer, grief, and palliative care, how personal experiences shaped her scholarly direction, with meaning, compassion and human connection being central to it all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Trailer (1:00)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Trailer - In Conversation E15 Ina Fourie\" width=\"443\" height=\"788\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/6vpn8z4SSG4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Interview (1:50:56)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\nhttps:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Timecodes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>0:57 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=57s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3:49 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=229\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Early Life<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>15:23 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=93s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Africa<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>27:06 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=1626s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Career<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>36:39 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=2199s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Turning Points<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>42:31 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=2551s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Autoethnography<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>48:17 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=2897s\">Serendipity<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>55:18 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=3318s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Information Science<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:02:26 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=3746s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Influences<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:11:55 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=4315s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Husband<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:19:36 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=4776s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Influential Books<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:21:36 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=4896s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Key Skills<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:27:12 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=5232s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Biggest Successes<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:30:28 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=5428s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Hardest Periods<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:34:34 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=5674s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Personal Conflict<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:37:47 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=5867s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uncertainty<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:46:33 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=6393s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Goals<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>1:48:02 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/b_hqFI3Uei8?t=6482\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mentoring Advice<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This interview was supported by the iSchools Research Grant 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>More about Ina Fourie <a href=\"https:\/\/www.up.ac.za\/information-science\/prof-ina-fourie-bio\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">University of Pretoria<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/scholar.google.com\/citations?user=O4cg9vcAAAAJ&amp;hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Google Scholar<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/ina-fourie-1371044\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Conversation Episode 15 Ina Fourie Retired Professor, Head of Department, and Chair of the School In conversation with Ina Fourie, who retired as a Full Professor from the University of Pretoria, South Africa. She has been Head of Department of Information Science and Chair of the School of Information Technology. She talks about growing &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/ina-fourie\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Ina Fourie&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,61,58],"tags":[24,132,130,25,135,29,129,133,126,31,2,35,67,134,6,131,128,127],"class_list":["post-183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-interviews","category-information-science","category-leadership","tag-advice","tag-apartheid","tag-chair-of-school","tag-childhood","tag-compassion","tag-happiness","tag-head-of-department","tag-health-information-behavior","tag-ina-fourie","tag-influences","tag-information-science","tag-mentoring","tag-naresh-agarwal","tag-palliative-care","tag-professor","tag-school-of-information-technology","tag-south-africa","tag-university-of-pretoria"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":192,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183\/revisions\/192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/slis.simmons.edu\/projectonenessworld\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}