John BURKE
CIRCIT, 300 Flinders Street, Level 14, Melbourne Vic 3000
tel: (613) 9248 1177
email: jburke@circit.vut.edu.au
Current Position
John is the Director of CIRCIT (Centre for International Research in Communication and
Information Technology).
Marina CAVILL
CIRCIT, 300 Flinders Street, Level 14, Melbourne Vic 3000
tel: (613) 9248 1177
email: mcavill@circit.vut.edu.au
Mari DAVIS PhD (Monash), MLib (Monash), BA (Melb)
InfoKnowledge Research, 99 Mount Street, Kew Vic 3101
tel: (613) 9817 2561
email: marsid@vicnet.net.au
Current Position
Mari is Director of InfoKnowledge Research, a consultancy service. She has been
involved in information service issues over many years having worked in a number of
research environments where she was responsible for policy direction and maintenance
of communication and publication systems, and library and electronic information
services.
Research Interests
Her main research interests are the growth and structure of disciplines, the development
of interdisciplinarity, disciplinary migration, information retrieval, and information
services for research.
Her doctoral thesis, "The Structure and Composition of Family Studies in Australia",
examined the disciplinary composition of the emerging field of family studies and how
family researchers develop the interdisciplinarity required for their research.
Publications
She has published in the Australian Library Journal, Australian Special Libraries News,
Australian Academic and Research Libraries,
LASIE (Aust.), Research Evaluation (UK), and Online Review (US).
She presented a paper to the Symposium in 1996 entitled
Interdisciplinarity as Sense-Making: Knowledge and
Information Use Patterns in Family Studies. This paper was revised later as
Interdisciplinarity in Journal Choices and Reading Patterns in Family Studies and published in the
Proceedings of COLIS2 (Conceptions of Library and Information
Science) Conference, Denmark, October 1996.
Gail-Marie HART
Swiss ReInsurance
tel: (613)
email: GailMarie_Hart@Swissre.com
Graeme JOHANSON PhD (Monash)
address
tel: (613)
email: graemej@disinformation.bf.rmit.e du.au
Current Position
Graeme is Lecturer in Information Studies at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
During 1997, he is at the Centre for Australian Studies at Monash University as a post-doctoral
fellow.
Publications
Graeme opened the Symposium's discussions in 1996 with a review paper titled "Information, knowledge and research".
He gave a second paper in 1997 titled "The Information Infrastructure for Humanities Scholars in Australia".
Suzanne KELL
address
tel: (613)
email: edusmk@luff.latrobe.edu.au
Publications
Suzanne's paper to the Symposium (October 1996), "Perspectives on cultural continuity
and change in an independent school for girls", was a position paper from her PhD work (in progress).
Liddy NEVILE
address
tel: (613)
email: liddy@rmit.edu.au
Publications
Liddy gave a presentation in November 1996 to the Symposium based on her experience
in introducing new communication technologies to the management team of a large academic
institution.
Diane NORTHFIELD
CIRCIT, 300 Flinders Street, 14 Level, Melbourne Vic. 3000
tel: (613) 9248 1177
email: dnorthfield@circit.vut.edu.au
Evelyn RICHARDSON
CIRCIT, 300 Flinders Street, 14 Level, Melbourne Vic. 3000
tel: (613) 9248 1177
email: erichardson@circit.vut.edu.au
Juliet RISELEY
address
tel: (613)
email: jriseley@tps.vic.edu.au
Annette RYAN
Trust for Young Australians
357 City Road, Southbank Victoria 3006
tel: (613) 9645 7977
fax: (613) 9690 9713
email: alryan@iaccess.com.au
Current Position
Annette is Executive Officer of the Trust for Young Australians.
Mary SANDOW QUIRK
Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, 207 Bouverie Street, Level 4, Parkville Vic
3052
tel: (613) 9344 9247
email: mary.sq@dis.unimelb.edu.au
Current Position
Mary teaches in the University of Melbourne's Department of Information Systems. She is
currently researching intelligence gathering systems for her doctoral thesis.
Publications
Mary's paper to the Symposium during 1996 was based on her doctoral research (in progress)
on intelligence systems in the police system.
Cherryl SCHAUDER
address
tel: (613)
email:
Don SCHAUDER PhD
Department of Librarianship, Archives and Records, Monash University, Clayton Vic 3168
tel: (613)
email: dschauder@vicnet.net.au
Current Position
Don is Professor of Librarianship, Archives and Records at Monash University.
Tania SEWARDS
CIRCIT, 300 Flinders Street, 14 Level, Melbourne Vic. 3000
tel: (613) 9248 1177
email: tsewards@circit.vut.edu.au
Supriya SINGH PhD (La Trobe), MA (Drew), MA (Delhi), BA (Hons) (Delhi)
CIRCIT, Level 14, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne Vic. 3000
tel: (613) 9248 1175
email: ssingh@circit.vut.edu.au
Current Position
Supriya is Principal Research Fellow at CIRCIT, Melbourne where she has worked since 1990.
Research Interests
Her doctoral thesis, submitted in 1994, was titled "Marriage, Money and Banking: Australian Consumers' Use of Banks ".
She analysed the meanings of money in marriage and banking, empirically demonstrating the intimate interrelationship
between the economic and non-economic aspects of social and cultural life.
She was awarded the Jean Martin Award by the Australian Sociological Association for the best social science
thesis in Australia for 1993-1995. At present, Supriya is working on the use of information and communication
technologies in the home and in small business. Her emphasis is on the use of electronic money across cultures.
Publications
Supriya's dissertation is being published by Allen & Unwin (Sydney) in 1998, entitled
Marriage Money. Her previous books are: On the Sulu Sea, 1984,
(Angsana Publications, Kuala Lumpur); Bank Negara Malaysia, 1984 (Bank Negara Malaysia, Kuala Lumpur); The Bankers: Australian bankers talk of banking today, 1991 (Allen & Unwin, Sydney).
She has published in The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Sociology, Marriage and Family Review, Sociological Bulletin and The Journal of Consumer Policy.
In 1996 and 1997, Supriya has presented papers at the Telecommunications
Policy Research Conference in Maryland, USA; Department of Sociology, Princeton University;
Centre for International Affairs, Harvard University and the Pacific Telecommunications Conference,
Honolulu, USA.
She presented a paper to the Symposium on the Information Process in June 1996 titled "Ritual Information: Blocking Questions and Fixing Meaning".
Claudia SLEGERS
CIRCIT, Level 14, 300 Flinders Street, Melbourne Vic. 3000
tel: (613) 9248 1177
email: cslegers@circit.vut.edu.au
Paula SWATMAN
address
tel: (613)
email: paula.swatman@is.monash.edu.au
Kerry TANNER MLib (Inf. Mag't) (UNSW), BA (Melb), DipEd (Melb), DipLib
(RMIT), AALIA
27 Youlden Street, Kensington, Vic. 3031
tel: (613) 9376 0237 (home)
email: email: tanner@vicnet.net.au
Current Position
Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Information Management, RMIT. Teaching areas
include information management, management of information services and
research methods.
Research Interests
Current PhD research: "Organisational information processing - Enhancing
corporate information flows within a university".
Previous research projects/ interests in the areas of:
professional development needs of information professionals; stress and
stress management; tertiary students' library usage habits; human
dimensions of organisational information processing; evaluating
information delivery and the information needs of generalist managers;
impacts of the VCE on library usage; resource adequacy of libraries for
the VCE; a library user survey; outsourcing of information services &
information technology.
Andrew TRELOAR
Deakin University, Computing and Maths
tel: (613)
email: andrew.treloar@deakin.edu.au
Current Position
Senior Lecturer in Information Management in the School of Computing and
Mathematics at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia.
For more information on Andrew, please link to: WWW:http://www.deakin.edu.au/~aet/
Kirsty WILLIAMSON PhD (RMIT) MLib (Monash) BA (Monash) Grad Dip Lib
(Melbourne State College) TTC (Sydney Teachers College) AALIA
Telecommunications Needs Research Group, Department of
Communication Studies, Building 6, RMIT City Campus, GPO Box 2476V,
Melbourne, Vic. 3001 and
School of Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, NSW.
tel: (613) 9660 3146 (Work) (613) 9870 4736 (Home)
Fax: (613) 9870 4985
email: kirstyw@rmit.edu.au
Current Position
Kirsty is Director of the Telecommunications Needs Research Group
at RMIT. The Group, of which she has been a member for six years, is
involved in research, consultancy and teaching in the field of
telecommunications, with emphasis on social and cultural aspects. She
is also Research Fellow at the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University
(CSU) where she is involved in research activities related to
'information seeking' and 'telecommunications', which have a 'rural'
emphasis. She also supervises a number of students who are undertaking
higher degrees at CSU and Monash University (Department of
Librarianship, Archives and Records).
Research Interests
Her main research interests are in the field of information-seeking
behaviour and its relationship to the use of telecommunications,
media, library and information services. Her PhD thesis, `Older
Adults: Information, Communication and Telecommunications' examined
the information-seeking behaviour of people aged 60 and over.
Although all information sources and services were included, a
particular focus was the use of the telephone, other
telecommunications and the media - in relation to information seeking.
Her recent research has been in the field of older people and the
Internet.
Publications
She has published in a number of journals including the Australian
Library Journal, Australian Academic and Research Libraries,
Prometheus and the Australian Journal of Communications. She has
given numerous conference papers, in both Australia and overseas. Most of these have been published in refereed conference proceedings.
Two papers (in different years) were presented at Pacific
Telecommunications Council conferences, which are held annually in
Honolulu, Hawaii. In June 1997 she will speak at the Global
Networking Conference in Calgary, Canada. The paper presented to the
Information Symposium, "
Found by Chance : the Role of Incidental
Information Acquisition in an Ecological Model of Information Use", is
similar to a paper presented at the international conference,
`Information Seeking in Context' which was held in Tampere, Finland in
August 1996. The latter paper, 'The Information Needs and
Information-Seeking Behaviour of Older Adults : an Australian Study'
is shortly to appear in a publication by the London publisher, Taylor
Graham.
Michael VITALE
Department of Information Systems, University of Melbourne, 207 Bouverie Street, Level 4, Parkville Vic
3052
tel: (613)
email: m.vitale@dis.unimelb.edu.au
Current Position
Michael is Professor of Information Systems at the University of Melbourne.