Yazdan is a senior lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University. Over the past 20 years, Yazdan’s research interests have been shaped around the cognitive and affective aspects of Human Information Behaviour (HIB) (HIB) in different contexts. Yazdan has been using Grounded Theory and other qualitative methods such as Phenomenology in his research since 2003, when he was a PhD student at the University of Sheffield. Yazdan is Co-Chair of Charles Sturt University’s Grounded Theory Research Group.