The School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University (CSU) is very pleased to announce that, following an international search, Dr. Lisa Given has been appointed to the position of Professor of Information Studies, and will join the School in July.
Dr. Given is currently a Professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at the University of Alberta. She is a former Director, and now a Distinguished Scholar, of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, and holds research grants from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and other agencies. She has received numerous research awards and published widely on topics related to individuals' information behaviours and qualitative inquiry. Dr. Given also serves on the Board of Directors for the Canadian Institute for Research in Computing and the Arts. Recent projects include the SSHRC-funded studies, 'Participatory design for a visually-based drug information interface: Web usability in the context of consumers' health information behaviours' and 'Just what do they do? Studying the usage of online text analysis tools', as well as the CIHR-funded project, 'H1N1 knowledge translation for pregnant women & seniors'. Dr. Given has published more than 70 books, chapters and articles, and is editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (2008) and co-editor of Critical theory for library and information science: Exploring the social from across the disciplines (2010).
The School of Information Studies at CSU greatly looks forward to working with Dr. Given, who will be playing a key role in the continued development of its research capacity.