Professor Christine Bruce

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Biography
Professor Christine Bruce is a senior member of the School of Information Systems, in the Science and Engineering Faculty at QUT. She is a member of the European Association of Research into Learning and Instruction. Christine is presently Convenor of the QUT Higher Education Research Network; and Academic Program Director - Research Training for the Science and Engineering Faculty. She undertook an ALTC Fellowship in 2009 on HDR supervision. Christine's research focus is information literacy, spanning the information and learning research domains. Christine also has an extensive record of higher education research and publishes in high impact journals such as Studies in Higher Education and Higher Education Research and Development. She has experience in leadership and mentoring of staff developing higher education research and scholarship trajectories, including ALTC grant holders, excellence award holders and citation winners. Between 2001 and 2006 she was Director and Assistant Dean, Teaching and Learning for the Faculty of Information Technology. This work involved significant curriculum transformation, especially in the first year experience, and attention to assessment and learning outcomes. During that time she also built a group of staff focussed on higher education research and scholarship, a group which became formally part of the faculty’s research centre. Christine's research focuses on higher education teaching and learning, including information technology learning, graduate capabilities, and research study and supervision. She is presently working with colleagues and research students on topics around generic skills and graduate capabilities, threshold concepts and other aspects of student learning. Christine’s research in higher education teaching and learning has been recognised through a) nomination by the University of Tampere for the Finnish Distinguished Professor Program in 2007 b) appointment to the Board of Directors of the US National Forum for Information Literacy in 2008 and c) appointment to the International Advisory Board for the University of Gothenburg’s Linnaeus Centre for Research on Learning, Interaction and Mediated Communication in Contemporary Society in 2009.d) An award in 2010 for contribution to information literacy research and practice from the Qld State Library Board. In 2017 Christine was appointed Eminent Visiting Scholar to the University of Southern Queensland. Christine holds a Bachelor of Arts from Queensland University, Masters in Research (Education) from QUT, a PhD from University of New England.Personal details
Keywords
Hdr Supervision, Health Information Literacy, Higher Education, Information Literacy, Information Research, It Education, It Researchers, Learning, Phenomenography, Qualitative Research
Discipline
Library and Information Studies, Specialist Studies in Education, Information Systems
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Ph.d (University of New England)
- MEd (Queensland University of Technology)
- GradDip(LibSc) (Queensland Inst. of Technology)
- BA (University of Queensland)
Professional memberships and associations
Teaching
Research Methods
Information Literacy
Users Experiences
Professional Practice
Christine also works extensively with doctoral students, in both internal and external modes.
Experience
Selected publications
- Bruce C, Partridge H, Davis K, Hughes H, Stoodley I, (2014) Information experience: approaches to theory and practice [Library and Information Science, Volume 9], Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
- Bruce C, Stoodley I, (2013) Experiencing higher degree research supervision as teaching, Studies in Higher Education, 38 (2), pp. 226-241.
- Maybee C, Bruce C, Lupton M, Rebmann K, (2013) Learning to use information: Informed learning in the undergraduate classroom, Library & Information Science Research, 35 (3), pp. 200-206.
- Gunton L, Bruce C, Stoodley I, (2012) Experiencing religious information literacy: Informed learning in church communities, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 61 (2), pp. 119-132.
- Yates C, Stoodley I, Partridge H, Bruce C, Cooper H, Day G, Edwards S, (2012) Exploring health information use by older Australians within everyday life, Library Trends, 60 (3), pp. 460-478.
- Bruce C, Hughes H, Somerville M, (2012) Supporting informed learners in the Twenty-first century, Library Trends, 60 (3), pp. 522-545.
- Harlan M, Bruce C, Lupton M, (2012) Teen content creators: Experiences of using information to learn, Library Trends, 60 (3), pp. 569-587.
- Bruce C, Hughes H, (2010) Informed learning: A pedagogical construct attending simultaneously to information use and learning, Library & Information Science Research, 32 (4).
- Bruce C, (2008) Informed learning, American Library Association.
- Bruce C, Pham B, Stoodley I, (2004) Constituting the Significance and Value of Research: Views from Information Technology Academics and Industry Professionals, Studies in Higher Education, 29 (2), pp. 219-238.
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Christine, explore their research in QUT ePrints (our digital repository).
Awards
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Re-appointment to Board of Directors for US National Forum for Information Literacy 2012-2015
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- International Advisory Board member for SJ SLIS Research Center for Information and Innovation
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Workshops on 6 Frames for Informed Learning for the Purdue Academic and Library Community.
- Type
- Advisor/Consultant for Industry
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- facilitating strategic developments around building Auraria Library as an informed learning workplace
- Type
- Appointment to State/National/International Reference Group or Government Committees
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Re- appointed to International Advisory Board for LinCS, Linnaeus Research Center, University of Gothenburg, 2012-2015
- Type
- Assessor, Examiner or Supervisor Role
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Assessor for ARC
- Type
- Committee Role/Editor or Chair of an Academic Conference
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Convenor, Higher Education Research Network, QUT
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Higher Degree Research Supervision workshops for Australian Early Childhood Network of Researchers.
- Type
- Membership of Learned Societies
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Member, Australian Learning and Teaching Fellows Network.
- Type
- Keynote Speaker/Expert Panel Member/Invited Speaker for a Conference
- Reference year
- 2011
- Details
- Visiting Scholar and Speaker on Doctoral Supervision, Charles Sturt University
Research projects
- Title
- Building the basis for evidence-based library and information practice: a qualitative study
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP130102710
- Start year
- 2013
- Keywords
- evidence based library and information practice; library and information studies; qualitative research
- Title
- Understanding Health Information Literacy in Australia's Ageing Population: A Qualitative Study
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- LP100100292
- Start year
- 2010
- Keywords
- Health Education and Prevention; Information Literacy; Population Health; Health Information; Ageing
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Acquiring Search Expertise: Learning Experiences and Threshold Concepts (2013)
- Information Practices of Teen Content Creators: The Intersection of Action and Experiences. A Grounded Theory Study (2012)
- Queer Community Archives in California Since 1950 (2012)
- Integrating Information Literacy into Higher Education Curricula: An IL Curricular Integration Model (2011)
- IT professionals' experience of ethics and its implications for IT education (2009)
- International students using online information resources to learn (2009)
- Information literacy and learning (2008)
- A Conceptual Framework for Information Management: Formation of a Discipline (2007)
- Establishing the Human Perspective of the Information Society (2007)
- "A Sense of Control": a Model of a Virtual Community for People with a Mobility Impairments (2006)