Research Overview

The School of Information Studies engages in a wide range of research activities in the information science field. Its staff are active as part of research centres and groups, both locally ind internationally, and as individuals. The broad range of areas of expertise among the researchers in the School of Information Studies are:

• Documenting society including archives, records, documents and data management; data curation; collection management; institutions and repositories, material culture and cultural heritage; conservation and preservation; the history of archives, library and information science.
• Educational information services including teacher librarianship; academic libraries and libraries in educational settings; children’s and youth literature; storytelling; e-learning and information literacies in educational contexts (schools and higher education), educational informatics.
• Human information behaviour including information behaviour; information use; information seeking; information literacy; information behaviour in specific contexts (e.g. human computer interaction, health informatics); information decision-making; web usability.
• Information organisation and knowledge representation including organisation of knowledge; information resource description; bibliographic control (incl. cataloguing and classification); indexing; metadata; information retrieval; information architecture; document modelling (incl. information repurposing and reuse); digital library organisation and knowledge representation systems.
• Information and knowledge management including knowledge management; library management; digital library management; information services; content management systems; information systems (incl. specialised information systems and environments e.g. e-Commerce, business, health and government information systems).
• Information communities including social informatics, social contexts and the social shaping of information and communication; social issues in information infrastructure and information management (e.g. digital divide, equity); community organisations and information use; community and the public domain; information access, information ethics, information policy and information privacy.

Doctoral Studies

The School has a large number of research students, most of whom are enrolled in our PhD program. Staff are available to supervise students in the topic areas listed above. People interested in doing a PhD here should read this page about the application process.

Inquiries about the School's PhD program and/or research in Information Studies should be made to:

Professor Philip Hider
School of Information Studies
Charles Sturt University
Locked Bag 588
Wagga Wagga, NSW 2678, Australia
Email: phider@csu.edu.au
Telephone: (02) 6933 2733 (from within Australia)
+61 2 6933 2733 (from outside Australia)