Yearly Archives: 2015


New Project Funded: Information practices in non-profits

I’m thrilled to announce that I received a Discovery Project grant from the Australian Research Council for “Information practices in non-profits: Knowledge management & technology use.” This project, to be conducted in collaboration with Associate Professor Dinesh Rathi (University of Alberta), aims to study the potential for non-profit organisations to…


vice-chancellor award

Award for Research Supervision Excellence

On Wednesday, 5 August I was honoured to receive the Charles Sturt University Vice-Chancellor Award for Research Supervision Excellence. This award recognises an exceptional record supervising higher degree by research students, measured in terms of feedback from students and/or graduates, time for completion, research publications of current and previous students,…


New Article: Visual traffic sweeps (VTS): A research method for mapping user activities in the library space

My new article (with co-author Heather Archibald), published in Library and Information Science Research, presents a new technique for spatial analysis to map patterns in user behaviour. This visual traffic sweeps approach combined traditional observational methods for assessing library space with geographic information system visualization techniques. By demonstrating the power…