ITNR - Information and Telecommunications Needs Research
People
Professor Don Schauder
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Don is Chair of ITNR, which is a joint venture of the Caulfield School of Information Technology, Monash University and the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University. He is Professor in the Caulfield School of Information Technology at Monash University. One of his previous positions was as Chief Librarian of RMIT University Library. His research interests are wide ranging and have included electronic publishing and users of all types. He is also interested in the 'disability' field and has undertaken research focussing on library users with disabilities. Recently he has been involved in research focussing on knowledge transfer for the International Olympic Committee and the development of a Civil Society Statement to supplement materials developed by the Australian Government for the World Summit on the Information Society(WSIS). |
Dr Kirsty Williamson
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Kirsty is the Director of ITNR and is employed as a Senior Research Fellow by Monash and Charles Sturt Universities. Her PhD was on Older Adults and Information, Communication and Telecommunications. Her interests focus on a wide range of users of information and telecommunications, although an important specific interest has been the problems faced by disadvantaged people in adapting to technological change. Her recent projects have included breaking down barriers to Internet use for older people and people with disabilities; user needs for knowledge transfer for the International Olympic Committee; adoption or resistance to online banking; information issues for online investment; evaluating a national learning repository; developing a user-sensitive portal to breast cancer knowledge online; and building trusted archival systems for Indigenous oral memory. Two of her current ARC projects focus on information seeking in relation to online investment, and smart information use for the avoidance of plagiarism. |
Jen Sullivan
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Jen is Research Associate with ITNR. She managed the Department of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne until 2002. Since escaping from the wonderful world of administration, she has been enjoying the rarefied atmosphere of a part-time research associate. She is interested in user needs, and is particularly enjoying involvement in the writing aspect of the research process. |
Dr Steve Wright
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Steve is a Research Fellow in ITNR and a Lecturer in Caulfield School of Information Technology. His PhD concerned workers' responses to industrial restructuring in Italy during the sixties and seventies, and was recently published by Pluto Press in Britain. His research interests include information literacy, the place of information technologies and information management in social movements, online access and equity, and social theory. |
Dr Graeme Johanson
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Graeme is a Senior Research Fellow in the ITNR, and Director of a companion group, the Centre for Community Networking Research, in Caulfield School of Information Technology. His recent research projects have included evaluating a national learning repository, researching the links between theory and practice in community informatics in Australia, developing a national academic library network, studying knowledge transfer in an international sporting organisation, undertaking a national survey of the use of information and communications technologies in third sector organisations, co-ordinating the development of a Civil Society Statement to supplement materials developed by the Australian Government for the World Summit on the Information Society(WSIS), and defining criteria for describing the sustainability of community infrastructures. |
Marion Bannister
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Marion recently retired as a lecturer at Charles Sturt University. Previous to this, she had spent most of her career in senior management positions in both the public and TAFE library sectors in regional NSW. Her main research interest is in performance evaluation in libraries and previously joint use libraries. Recently she developed training modules as part of a research project on training issues for public librarians in searching databases. This study, in partnership with ITNR (Monash) was funded by State Library of NSW and National Library of Australia. She is now beginning a project about the impact of the retirement of baby boomers on public libraries, once again in conjunction with ITNR (Monash).
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Joy McGregor
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Joy is Senior Lecturer in Teacher Librarianship and Director of the Centre for Studies in Teacher Librarianship. She earned her PhD from Florida State University in 1993, in which she explored the nature of student information use. She was Associate Professor at Texas Woman’s University prior to coming to Australia to CSU. Joy’s research interests are related to school libraries and learning, focusing on such areas as mental models, thinking skills and information use; plagiarism and information use; strategies for promoting effective information use, such as flexible scheduling and collaboration; the teaching role of the teacher librarian; and inquiry-based learning. She was instrumental in organising the first Australian international research retreat in the area of teacher librarianship in Canberra in 2005.
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John Weckert
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John is Professor of Information Technology in the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University and a Professorial Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE), an ARC funded Special Research Centre. His main research interests are in the fields of the ethics of Information and Communication Technology and the ethics of Nanotechnology. Recent and current projects include: Risks of electronic corruption; the DigitalDivide; Stakeholders and software quality; Human relationships and trust on the Internet; Ethics and regulation in the ICT industry, Generating knowledge and avoiding plagiarism in secondary schools; Electronic monitoring in the workplace; the Precautionary principle in nanotechnology. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the journal Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale, published by Springer in The Netherlands.
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Yeslam Al-Saggaf
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Yeslam Al-Saggaf is a lecturer in the School of Information Studies and a Course Coordinator for the Bachelor of Information Technology (Partnerships) at Charles Sturt University, Australia. He is also a Research Fellow in the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics CAPPE), an ARC funded Special Research Centre. He holds a bachelor's degree in engineering (with honours) in computer and information engineering, from Malaysia, and a master of information technology and a PhD from Charles Sturt University, Australia. His research interests lie in the areas of online communities (both social and political) and the online public spheres in the Arab world. He has published in those areas in a number of international refereed journals as well as presenting at a number of international conferences. Yeslam is also a chief investigator in two ARC linkage projects: Ethics and regulation in the ICT industry and Generating knowledge and avoiding plagiarism in secondary schools.
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Alyson Archibald
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At the end of 2005, I retired from a full-time position as a secondary teacher specialising in the teaching of Senior English, Literature and English Language. The demands of preparation and correction consumed all of my non-teaching time, so I have embraced with alacrity the opportunity to be involved in 'The Plagiarism Project' as a research associate on a part-time basis. The methodology of the research keeps me at the coal-face of education and provides a rare opportunity to gain valuable insight into the thought processes of students as they go about their work. The devising of strategies to teach students how to avoid plagiarism and develop effective information seeking behaviours will be a most exciting outcome of the project, providing a vital tool fundamental to subjects across the curriculum.
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