Research Expertise
Staff in the School of Information Studies have expertise in a broad range of areas in the information science field.
| Name | Content Expertise | Methods Expertise |
|---|---|---|
| Afzal, Dr Waseem | Human information behaviour; Information and extremism; Electronic commerce | Structural equation modelling; Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses |
| Carroll, Dr Mary | Information infrastructure; Access and equity; Education in work place; Vocational education and higher education; Libraries and their role in the community; Libraries as social and cultural institutions; Impact of outside agencies particularly philanthropic agencies on the Australian education landscape | Historical research and analysis |
| Garrison, Dr Kasey | Teacher librarianship; Children and youth services; Children's and young adult literature; Collection development; Cultural diversity in children's and youth literature; Metacognition in the school library; Guided inquiry | Qualitative methods |
| Hider, Prof Philip | Information organisation; Information retrieval; Information architecture; Online information behaviour; Informetrics; Valuation of library and information services; LIS education | Questionnaire surveys; Transaction log analysis; Usability/protocol analysis; Content analysis; Contingent valuation and choice modelling |
| Jamali, Dr Hamid R. | Human information behaviour; health information; Scholarly communication; scientometrics | Quantitative methods; Statistics; Mixed-methods design; Qualitative data analysis |
| Kennan, Dr Mary Anne | E-research; Data management; Scholarly communication; Information openness; E-participation; Informed participation | Interpretivist approaches; Qualitative research methods; Actor-network theory; Content analyses |
| Liu, Dr Ying-Hsang | Interactive information retrieval; Organisation of information and knowledge resources; User-centred design and evaluation of information retrieval systems | Information retrieval experiments; Quantitative research design; Social media data analysis |
| Lymn, Dr Jessie | Collections; especially zines and other DIY and community collections; Archival practices; LGBTQI+ considerations in information studies; Research data management | Qualitative research methods; Ethnography & autoethnography; Discourse analysis; Narrative; Queer theory & scavenger methods |
| Mansourian, Dr Yazdan | Human information behaviour; Information seeking and sharing in serious leisure; Information visibility/invisibility; Information access; Information literacy; Inquiry-based learning | Grounded theory; Phenomenology; Ethnography; Thematic analysis, Discourse analysis; Action research; Case studies; Mixed methods |
| Qayyum, Dr Asim | Human computer/document interaction; Digital libraries; Information and knowledge management; User needs; Information practices | Qualitative data collection and analysis; Video analysis |
| Yi, Dr Zhixian(George) | Management and leadership for information professionals; Change management; Knowledge management; Marketing techniques; Information needs and use; Digital libraries; Information technology use | Quantitative and qualitative data analysis |