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NZCS (Otago Poly); BIT (Hons 1 st Class), PhD, QUT.

Senior Lecturer, School of Information Systems, Faculty of Information Technology

Email: kj.nelson@nospam.qut.edu.au
(remove the nospam. from the address when emailing)

Phone: +617 3138 1950

Post: QUT School of Information Systems,
        GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 4001

Address:
QUT School of Information Systems
2 George Street Brisbane
QLD, Australia, 4000

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About | Current Research | Professional Milestones | Publications | Professional Portfolio

About

Karen has been a staff member within the School of Information Systems at QUT since 2000. She has more than 25 years experience in the management of organisational information in various roles including medical and clinical research and strategic information management. She has held a number of information focused roles in various organisations. Before commencing with QUT, Karen was employed as an Information Management Consultant and IT Project Manager for a large Australian financial institution.

Her research interests fall within a broad field explained as the management and utilization of organisational information and knowledge, and includes applications such as information & knowledge policy and strategy, information & knowledge mapping, and information and knowledge utilisation within university environments.

She has published in the areas of information management, has consulted to private and public organisations on information and knowledge management, is a member of the QLD KM forum (with the local IKM practitioners) and is involved with research grant development and implementation.

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Current Research

Karen's present interests include:

  • Integrated IKM within organisational contexts.
  • Information provision and utilisation to manage student's transitions into University environments.

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Professional Milestones

  • 2004 QUT Large Teaching and Learning Development Grant
  • 2005 QUT Institutional Advancement in Learning and Teaching Award
  • 2006 Nominee to Carrick Awards for Australian University Teaching

Publications

Referred publications, including full text when available, are available from the QUT ePrints database .

A complete list of publications is available by contacting Karen.

 

Professional Portfolio

A detailed CV may be obtained by contacting Karen.

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