Professor Lisa M. Given, FASSA
Enabling Impact Platform Director, Social Change
Details
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College: Research & Innovation Capability
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Department: Research & Innovation Capability
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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lisa.given2@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0003-1840-6175
Open to
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision
About
Lisa Given is Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform and Professor of Information Sciences in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies and the School of Computing Technologies
Professor Lisa Given is an interdisciplinary researcher in human information behaviour whose work brings a critical, social research lens to studies of technology use and user-focused design. Her studies embed social change, focusing on diverse settings and populations, and methodological innovations across disciplines. A former President of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Prof Given has served on the Australian Research Council’s (ARC’s) College of Experts. She holds numerous grants funded by ARC, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, working with university and community partners across disciplines. She is lead author of the forthcoming 5th edition of Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs and Behavior, author of 100 Questions (and Answers) about Qualitative Research (2016), and editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (2008).
Professional interests:
- Editor-in-Chief, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Professor Lisa Given is an interdisciplinary researcher in human information behaviour whose work brings a critical, social research lens to studies of technology use and user-focused design. Her studies embed social change, focusing on diverse settings and populations, and methodological innovations across disciplines. A former President of the Association for Information Science and Technology, Prof Given has served on the Australian Research Council’s (ARC’s) College of Experts. She holds numerous grants funded by ARC, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, working with university and community partners across disciplines. She is lead author of the forthcoming 5th edition of Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs and Behavior, author of 100 Questions (and Answers) about Qualitative Research (2016), and editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (2008).
Professional interests:
- Editor-in-Chief, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology
Supervisor projects
- Narratives of value in online learning through contexts of life (as part of Interdisciplinary PhD Scholarship in Human Experiences of Technology)
- 3 Oct 2024
- EDUCATING FOR ACTIVE DIGITAL CITIZENRY – A LIBRARY'S ROLE
- 29 Aug 2024
- Assembling a Record of the Australian Internet: Tracing the Emergence and Evolution of a Nation’s Web Archives
- 28 Feb 2023
- Technology In Feminized Spaces: Gender and Information Practice
- 16 Jun 2022
- Enabling societal impact of research: Exploring information behaviours of academics and professional staff
- 31 Mar 2022
