RESEARCH STUDENTS

As Principal Supervisor I work/have worked with:

Current:

• Christine Tilley (PhD) Thesis topic area: Virtual Communities for the Disabled [status: approaching submission]
• Michael Middleton (PhD) Thesis topic area: Information Management [status: data gathering and analysis]
• Hilary Hughes (PhD) Thesis topic area: Cultural factors influencing information retrieval success [status: confirmed]
• Mandy Lupton (PhD) Thesis topic area: The relationship between information literacy and learning [status: data gathering and analysis]
• Andrew Salleh (PhD) Thesis topic area: Learning abstract concepts in internetworking [status: stage two]
• Ian Stoodley Thesis topic area: IT ethics [status: stage two]

Under Examination:

• NIL

Completed:

• Sylvia Edwards (PhD) Thesis topic: Learning to search the internet [completed August 2005]
• Natalie Cuffe (MIT Research) Thesis topic: Levels of information literacy attained by law undergraduate students [ completed June 2003]
• Sylvia Edwards (MIT Research) Thesis topic: Commercial Information Services [completed December 1998]
• Helmut Klaus (MIT Research) Thesis topic: Conceptions of Thesauri [completed July 1998]

As Associate Supervisor I work/have worked with:

Current:

• Peter Birbeck (PhD) Thesis topic area: The relationship between organizational culture and IT innovations [status: data gathering and analysis]
• Alan Wheeldon (PhD) Thesis topic area: Improving human computer interaction in intelligent tutoring systems [status: write up]
• Andrew Magub (Built Environment and Engineering PhD) Thesis topic area: Effective use of the internet for information sharing on construction projects [Status: approaching submission]
• Helen Partridge (PhD) Thesis topic area: Social efficacy and the digital divide [status: analysis and write up for submission]
• Joseph Komarmy (MIT) Thesis topic area: Intelligent tutoring systems [status: confirmed]
• Mandy Lupton (University of Canberra, Research Masters) Thesis topic area: Students' conceptions of information literacy [status: approaching submission]

Under Examination:

• NIL

Completed:

• Johan Nel (PhD) Thesis topic area: IT investment evaluation and measurement methodology: a case study and action research [status: completed 2005]
• Helmut Klaus (PhD) Thesis topic area: Managerial perpectives on information and expertise for complex IT innovations [status: completed 2004]
• Roy Chan (PhD) Thesis topic area: Knowledge management [status: completed 2004]
• Bob Snoke (PhD) Thesis topic area:  Information Systems Curriculum  [Status: completed 2003]
• Mandy Lupton (University of Canberra, Research Masters) Thesis topic area: Undergraduate students' conceptions of information literacy [status: completed September 2003]
• Glenn Stewart (PhD) Thesis topic area: IT Leadership [completed September 2001]
• James Keogh (MEd) Thesis topic ares: Science teachers' and students conceptions of learning [Competed 1995]
• Lee-Anne Hearder (MEd Res) Thesis topic area: Conceptions of the out of class experience [Completed 1994]

THESES EXAMINED

• (2005) How information retrieval systems impact on designers searching strategies. Master Applied Science (Research). Faculty of Built Environment and Engineering, QUT.
• (2005) The readiness of public libraries in South Africa for Information literacy education: the case of Mpumalanga province. PhD thesis. University of Cape town.
• (2003) Conceptions of generic graduate attributes. PhD Thesis. University of Technology Sydney.
• (2003) Oral assessment from the learners’ perspective: the experience of oral assessment in postcompulsory education. PhD Griffith University.
• (2002) First Year University Physics Students Experiences, Understandings and Focal Awareness, PhD La Trobe University.
• (2002) Evaluation of intergration of IL skills into selected first year tertiary business courses, Ed D Thesis, Flinders University of South Australia.
• (2001) Doctoral Research and Scholarly Communication, PhD Thesis, Deakin University.
• (2000) Educationally critical aspects of teaching information systems, PhD Thesis, La Trobe University.
• (1998) Honours thesis. School of Communication and Information Studies, University of South Australia.
• (1997) Conceptions of Myocardial Infarction. School of Nursing QUT. October 1997.
• (1995) Women's conceptions of domestic violence during childbearing years. Master of Nursing Dissertation, QUT.