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It’s with great pleasure that we announce that Sylvia Edwards has been awarded a Carrick Award for University
Teaching in the area of physical sciences and related disciplines. Well done Sylvia! (Dec 2006)
Congratulations to Helen Partridge, who has been awarded a QUT Teaching Fellowship for 2007. Helen will be working
on the Enhancing the First Year Student’s Transition into the QUT Information Environment: The Reflective Online
Searching Skills (ROSS) Environment project. (Nov 2006)
More congratulations, this time to Hilary Hughes who joins other members of QUILT as a recipient of a teaching
excellence award. Hilary will receive an QUT award for excellence in reflective practice at a ceremony in December 2006.
Christine Bruce's visit to exotic locales in Finland from 2nd to 10th November 2006 included:
Delivered a keynote address for the information literacy conference on Friday 3 November. Her address was titled Information literacy and diversity of experience: reflecting on bringing about curriculum integration.
Visited libraries, including the National Library and Learning Centre Aleksandria on Monday 6 November
Visited and lectured in the University of Tampere, Dept of Information Studies Tuesday 8 - Thursday 8 November
During these activities, Christine was interested to learn that as in the US, information literacy leadership in libraries is
coming strongly from the university librarian level, rather than bottom up as it largely is the case in Australia.
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Congratulations are in order to Christine Tilley on an outstanding result from her PhD thesis examination. Both
examiners have passed it without significant amendment. Both examiners have nominated the work for an outstanding thesis award.
To quote a couple of the most well deserved commendations:
It has been a pleasure to examine this extremely interesting thesis which shows evidence of sound scholarship and
admirable methodological skill in managing the vast quantities of data. The work is intellectually sound and superior in
its ambitious scope and careful execution. (Examiner One)
The thesis culminates in a powerful and ground-breaking explanatory model, and a set of clear feasible recommendations
for action by a range of stakeholders. These outcomes, in addition to the data and analysis leading up to them, constitute
a highly original contribution to knowledge and practice. The thesis shows masterly grasp of the literature of disability
in relation to the social appropriation of ICT, .... The candidate demonstrates utmost skill in her elicitation of meanings
from the participants in the study the analysis of these meanings through hermeneutic deconstruction, and the assessment of
their congruence or otherwise with understandings from the literature...The significance of the contribution cannot be
overstated...As regards quality the work is excellent in every respect. (Examiner Two)
Congratulations also go to Gill Hallam and Helen Partridge, who recently received promotions to Associate Professor and Senior Lecturer, respectively (August 2006).
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The Information Use Research Group was well represented at the 2006 Lifelong Learning Conference in Yeppoon
(June 2006). Christine Bruce, Sylvia Edwards and Mandy Lupton’s workshop "Six Frames for Information Literacy Education: A
Workshop" proved very popular on the first day of the conference. Christine, Sylvia and Mandy, with the addition of
Hilary Hughes (who was also session co-convenor with Helen Partridge), then each played their parts in the lively
Information Literacy panel discussions on the 3rd day.
Another popular session was Helen Partridge's presentation (with Lynn McAlister and Helen Hall) of the paper "Developing a lifelong learning community: The West End Connect Project". Sylvia Edwards' paper "Teaching users how to find that needle in a haystack: Enabling end user information literacy" generated a lot of interest.
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