Lisa M. Given, FASSA, FASIS&T

Lisa Given is Director & Co-Founder, Centre for Human-AI Information Environments; 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. A Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the international Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), her studies embed social change, focusing on diverse settings and populations, and methodological innovations across disciplines. A former President of ASIS&T, 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 5th edition of Looking for Information: Examining Research on How People Engage with Information (2023) author of 100 Questions (and Answers) about Qualitative Research (2016), and editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (2008).

 

Selected current grants:

 

2025-2030 Australian Research Council, Industrial Transformation Research Hub. $4,750,000 (AUD). Co-Investigator (Lead, Program 1: Socially Responsive, Ethical Design to Support User Adoption of Innovations). “ARC Research Hub for Intelligent Contaminant Sensing in Complex Environments (IC-SensE Hub).” Lead Investigator (ITRH Director): Prof Sumeet Walia, RMIT University. Co-Investigators (Program 1): Prof Rachel Ankeny, University of Adelaide; and, Prof Priya Rajagopalan & Dr Saffron Bryant, RMIT University.

  2025 eSafety Commission, Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women, Grants Program, round 2. $371,000 (AUD). Co-Investigator. “Gendered Norms and Gaming Influencers: Promoting Positive and Respectful Gaming for Tween Boys.” Lead Investigator: Assoc/Prof Lauren Gurrieri (RMIT University); Co-Investigators: Dr Melissa Wheeler, Dr Lukas Parker, Dr Dave Micallef, Prof Emma Sherry (RMIT University).

Selected awards

 

2021-2025 Stanford University/Elsevier’s Top 2% Most Cited Researchers Globally

2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Award, RMIT University – Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision
2025 RMIT University, Media & Communications – Media Hall of Fame Award

2024 Australian Higher Education/Future Campus – Best University Communications Campaign, RMIT’s Taylor Swift Fanposium 2024 Canadian Association for Information Science – Career Achievement Award 2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Engagement Award, Swinburne University of Technology – Community Engagement Team Award (with Dr Wade Kelly) 2021 Association for Information Science and Technology, SIG-USE – Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award 2015 Charles Sturt University, Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Supervision Excellence

 

Selected scholarly appointments:

- Editor-in-Chief, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

- Member, Science and Methodology Committee, International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)

- Distinguished Member, Association for Information Science and Technology

- College of Experts, Social, Behavioural and Economics Panel, Australian Research Council