Past Projects

Research Grants – External Competitive Funding

2013-2014 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Knowledge Synthesis Grant. $99,986 (CDN). Co-investigator. “A systematic review of social media for children and youth with mental health conditions.” Principal Investigator: Dr Lisa Hartling, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta. Co-Investigators: Dr Shannon Scott, Faculty of Nursing and Dr Mandi Newton, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta.
2013-2014 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Priority Announcement for First Nations, Inuit and Métis Health. Co-applicant. “Engaging Aboriginal Youth in Tobacco Prevention Using Social Media.” $100,000 (CDN). Nominated Principal Applicant: Dr Cindy Jardine, School of Public Health, University of Alberta. Co-Applicants: Drs. Candace Nykiforuk, School of Public Health, University of Alberta and Tracy Friedel, Curriculum & Pedagogy, University of British Columbia.
2012-2013 Fullbright Senior Specialist Program. Applicant. “Bringing research into the Information Studies classroom: Developing capacity for knowledge translation between academic staff and students.” Application to host Dr. Lynn Westbrook (Associate Professor, University of Texas, Austin) at the School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.
2012-2013 Canadian Institutes of Health Research, Priority Announcement for First Nations, Innuit and Métis Health. $100,000 (CDN). Co-applicant. “Engaging Aboriginal Youth in Tobacco Prevention Using Social Media.” Nominated Principal Applicant: Dr Cindy Jardine, School of Public Health, University of Alberta. Co-applicant: Dr. Candace Nykiforuk, School of Public Health, University of Alberta.
2011-2014 Australian Research Council (ARC). $463,971 (AUD). Collaborator. “Interacting with knowledge, interacting with people: Web searching in early childhood.” Co-investigators: Prof. Susan Danby, Early Childhood, Faculty of Education, Queensland University of Technology; Prof. Karen Thorpe, Faculty of Health, Queensland University of Technology; Dr. Christina Davidson, School of Education, Faculty of Education, Charles Sturt University.
2011-2015 Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada (NCE), Knowledge Mobilization. $1.6million (CDN). Co-investigator. “TREKK: Translating emergency knowledge for kids.” Principal Investigator: Dr Terry Klassen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba. Co-Investigators: Drs. Shannon Scott, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta; David Johnson, Pediatrics, Pharmacology & Physiology, University of Calgary; Mona Jabbour, Pediatrics, University of Ottawa; and, Lisa Hartling, Pediatrics, University of Alberta.
2011-2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Insight Development Grants Program. Co-investigator. $50,567 (CDN). “The role of social media in management of knowledge in non-profit organizations (NPOs).” Principal Investigator: Dr Dinesh Rathi, School of Library and Information Studies, University of Alberta.
2011 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Knowledge Synthesis Grant. $50,000 (CDN). Co-investigator. “A Scoping Review of Social Media in Health Care.” Principal Investigators: Drs. Lisa Hartling, Department of Pediatrics, University of Alberta & Terry Klassen, Faculty of Medicine, University of Manitoba. Co-Investigator: Dr. Shannon Scott, Faculty of Nursing, University of Alberta.
2011 American Society for Information Science & Technology (ASIST), Lecture Series Award. $4,000 (USD). Principal Applicant. “Dr. Gloria Leckie, Visiting Scholar.” Co-applicant: Dr. Ying-Hsang Liu, School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.
2011-2014 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant. Co-investigator. $164,022 (CDN). “Just what do they do? Studying the usage of online text analysis tools.” Principal Investigator: Dr Geoffrey Rockwell, Humanities Computing, University of Alberta.
2010 QSR International, NVivo 9 Teaching Grant. $5,000 (USD). Principal Investigator. “Qualitative analysis software for in-class use: LIS 597/697 Seminar in Advanced Research.”
2010 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Meetings, Planning & Dissemination Grant: Knowledge Translation Supplement. $33,917 (CDN). Principal Applicant.  “Knowledge translation for risk communication & uncertainty.” Nominated Principal Applicant: Dr. Cindy Jardine, School of Public Health, University of Alberta; Co-Principal Applicant: Dr. S. Michelle Driedger, University of Manitoba.
2010 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Operating Grant: Health Systems Research on H1N1. $99,989 (CDN). Principal Applicant. “H1N1 knowledge translation for pregnant women & seniors.” Nominated Principal Applicant: Dr. Cindy Jardine, School of Public Health, University of Alberta; Co-Principal Applicant: Dr. Tania Bubela, School of Public Health, University of Alberta.
2009-2011 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Aid to Scholarly Journals Program. $89,800 (CDN). Associate Editor. International Journal of Qualitative Methods. Editor-in-Chief: Dr. Cynthia G. Jardine, Rural Economy, University of Alberta.
2008-2009 Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR), Strategic Initiative/RFA Synthesis Grant: Knowledge Translation. $100,000 (CDN). Co-principal investigator. “Systematic review of the literature on environmental health risk communication.” Co-principal investigators: Drs. Cynthia G. Jardine, Rural Economy, University of Alberta, and Michelle Driedger, Community Health Sciences, University of Manitoba.
2007-2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant. $169,626 (CDN). Principal investigator. “Participatory design for a visually-based drug information interface: Web usability in the context of consumers’ health information behaviours.” Co-investigator: Dr. Stan Ruecker, Humanities Computing, University of Alberta.
2007-2009 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Research Ethics Assistance Grant. $11,000 (CDN). Principal investigator. “Qualitative research in the context of the TCPS.” Co-investigators: Drs. Will van den Hoonaard, Sociology, University of New Brunswick and Patrick O’Neill, Psychology, Acadia University.
2005-2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Image, Text, Sound and Technology – Summer Institute, Workshop and Conference Grants. $37,887 (CDN). Collaborator. “Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) 2005: Digital text technologies – tools, methods, solutions.” Principal Investigator: Terry Butler, Arts Resource Centre, Faculty of Arts, University of Alberta.
2004-2005 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Research Ethics Assistance Grant. $8,200 (CDN). Co-investigator. “Research participants’ perspectives on research ethics.” Principal Investigator: Dr. Michelle McGinn, Faculty of Education, Brock University. Co-investigator: Ted Palys, Criminology, Simon Fraser University.
2003-2007 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Standard Research Grant. $90,681 (CDN). Principal investigator. “The university as information space: Exploring undergraduates’ information behaviours.”
2003-2010 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Community-University Research Alliances (CURA) Program. $1 million (CDN). Collaborator. “Otipimsuak – the free people: Métis land and society in Northwest Saskatchewan.” Principal Investigator: Dr. Frank Tough, School of Native Studies, University of Alberta. Co-collaborator: Dr. Hope A. Olson (School of Information Science, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee).
1999-2000 Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC), Doctoral Fellowship. $16,000 (CDN). Dissertation entitled “The social construction of the ‘mature student’ identity: Effects and implications for academic information behaviours”.

Research Grants – University Competitive Funding

2016 Faculty of Education, Charles Sturt University, CSU-Hosted Research Events and Activities Funding Scheme. $14,438 (AUD). Co-applicant: “Relevance 2020: How LIS research can help sustain and develop library and information services across Australia.” Applicants: Assoc Prof Philip Hider,
Dr. Mary Anne Kennan, Sigrid McCausland, Jessie Lymn, George Yi, and Barbara Combes, School of Information Studies; Sue McKerracher, Australian Library and Information Association.
2016 Faculty of Education, Charles Sturt University, CSU-Hosted Research Events and Activities Funding Scheme. $2710 (AUD). Applicant: “Exploring crowdfunding to support research activities.” Co-applicant: Wade Kelly, School of Information Studies.
2015 Charles Sturt University, Global Alliance Grant. $9,243 (AUD). Applicant: “A CSU strategy for developing qualitative research expertise.”
2012 Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Education Research Program Funding. $60,000 (AUD). Co-applicant: “Research program funding for the Technology in Education Research Program.” Co-applicants: Assoc. Prof. Barney Dalgarno, Prof. Alan Bain and Dr. Christina Davidson.
2012 Faculty of Education, Charles Sturt University, New Staff Establishment Grant. $5,000 (AUD). Applicant. “Research Activities 2012.”
2011 Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Education Research Program Funding. $62,000 (AUD). Principal Applicant: “Research program funding for the Information Practices Research Program.” Co-applicants: Drs. Mary Anne Kennan, Annemaree Lloyd, Kim Thompson, Asim Qayyum and Ms. Suzanne Lipu, School of Information Studies.
2010 University of Alberta, Small Operating Grant Program. $7,000 (CDN). Collaborator. “Narrative for knowledge translation in child health: A scoping exercise of tools and approaches to assess consumers’ information needs.” Principal Investigator: Dr. Shannon Scott, Faculty of Nursing. Co-collaborator: Dr. Lisa Harting, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry.
2009-2012 Teaching and Learning Enhancement Fund (TLEF), University of Alberta. $100,000 (CDN). Principal applicant. “Making the transition from high school to university: Assessing students’ information literacy experiences.” Co-applicants: Dr. Heidi Julien, School of Library and Information Studies, Kathleen De Long, University of Alberta Libraries, Anne Carr-Wiggin, University of Alberta Libraries, and Susan Barker, Secondary Education.
2006 Roger K. Smith Undergraduate Research Award, University of Alberta. $5000 (CDN). Support to hire an undergraduate student as a research assistant on a project entitled “Exploring undergraduates’ information behaviours.”
2005 Support for the Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) Fund, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Operating Grant. $6,000 (CDN). “Qualitative coding and analysis: Book proposal project.”
2004 Humanities, Fine Arts and Social Sciences Research (HFASSR), University of Alberta, Operating Grant. $7,000 (CDN). “Usable interface design for seniors: Can similarity clustering of drug images enhance accessibility?”
2001 Support for the Advancement of Scholarship (SAS) Fund, Faculty of Education, University of Alberta. Released time awarded for Fall 2002 to prepare a SSHRC grant application.
2001 Endowment Fund for the Future (EFF), Special Capital Equipment Fund, VP Academic, University of Alberta. $1530 (CDN). For the purchase of research equipment and software.

Research Grants – Contracts & Consultancies

2015-2016 Graham Centre for Agricultural Research Innovation, Charles Sturt University. $25,000 (AUD). Principal Investigator. “Social media strategies in agriculture.” Co-investigator: Ms Toni Nugent.
2015 Australian Grape and Wine Authority. $21,400 (AUD). Principal Investigator. “Information seeking and research adoption.” Co-investigator: Prof Alain Deloire.
2013-2014 Department of Industry, Innovation, Climate Change, Science, Research and Tertiary Education. $50,000 (AUD). Principal Investigator & Consultant. “Investigating qualitative assessment for research impact case studies.”
2009-2010 Alberta Education (Canada). $40,000 (CDN). Consultant. “Data analysis for Inspiring Education – Conversations with Albertans.”
2007 University of Toronto, Mississauga (Canada). $5,000 (CDN). Consultant. “Redesigning academic library and campus study areas – addressing users’ needs.”
2003-2005 E-Learning and Knowledge Network (E-NET) Program for South East Europe (Balkan Region, Bosnia and Herzegovina), International Office, University of Alberta. $20,000 (CDN). Consultant. “Knowledge management and web usability.”