Adjunct Professor
Helen Partridge

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Biography
Dr Helen Partridge is an Adjunct Professor in the Information Systems School at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT), Australia. She is a member of QUT’s Information Studies Group; a research team with a multi-disciplinary focus crossing the boundaries of people, information, and technology. The group has established an international reputation for its unique qualitative work exploring people’s information experiences, and has recently released an edited book, Information Experience: Approaches to Theory and Practice. From 2007 to 2013 Helen coordinated QUT’s library and information science (LIS) education programs. She has published widely in the area of teaching and learning and has received a number of teaching awards including a Teaching Fellowship in 2008 from the Australian Learning and Teaching Council (ALTC) that explored the impact of social media on the LIS profession and its education. Helen was later commissioned by the ALTC to produce a Best Practice Report on Blended Learning that could be used to guide the future of higher education teaching and learning in Australia. She is an active member of the Australian and international library and information profession. She has twice been elected to the Board of Directors of the Australian Library and Information Association, and was appointed a Fellow of the Association in 2012. Helen has been the secretary for the Library Theory and Research Standing Committee of the International Federation of Library and Information Associations, and coordinated the committee’s recent project, Research Librarian Partnership, a mentoring program aimed at helping new professionals in the library sector develop their knowledge, skill and experience in undertaking research. Helen has received over $1.27million in research funding; her work focuses on the interplay between information, learning and technology. From 2009 to 2011 she worked with 11 Australian educational institutions on a project that established a framework for the education of the information professions in Australia for the twenty-first century. She has been a visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford (2011) and the Berkman Center for Internet and Society and Society, Harvard University.Personal details
Keywords
evidence based library and information practice, higher education teaching and learning, information experience, information literacy, library & information studies education, professional education, qualitative research, online or blended learning
Discipline
Library and Information Studies
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology)
Teaching
Selected publications
- Yates C, Partridge H, Bruce C, (2012) Exploring information experiences through phenomenography, Library and Information Research, 36 (112), pp. 96-119.
- Partridge H, Yates C, (2012) A framework for the education of the information professions in Australia, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 61 (2), pp. 81-94.
- 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.
- Bunce S, Partridge H, Davis K, (2012) Exploring information experience using social media during the 2011 Queensland floods: A pilot study, Journal of the Australian Library and Information Association, 61 (1), pp. 34-45.
- Nguyen L, Partridge H, Edwards S, (2012) Towards an understanding of the participatory library, Library Hi Tech, 30 (2), pp. 335-346.
- Partridge H, Lee J, Munro C, (2010) Becoming 'Librarian 2.0': The skills, knowledge, and attributes required by library and information science professionals in a Web 2.0 world (and beyond), Library Trends, 59 (1 - 2), pp. 315-335.
- Partridge H, Edwards S, Thorpe C, (2010) Evidence-based practice: Information professionals' experience of information literacy in the workplace. In A Lloyd & S Talja, Practising Information Literacy, Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University, pp. 273-298.
- Partridge H, McAllister L, Hallam G, (2008) Community ICT projects: do they really work? Reflections from the West End Connect project one year on, CIRN Conference 2007. Community informatics: prospects for communities and action, pp. 1-9.
- Partridge H, (2007) Redefining the Digital Divide: Attitudes do Matter!, Proceedings of the 70th American Society for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) Annual Meeting, Volume 44, pp. 1-27.
- Spink A, Partridge H, Jansen B, (2006) Sexual and Pornographic Web Searching: Trend Analysis, First Monday, 11 (9), pp. 1-7.
QUT ePrints
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Awards
- Type
- Membership of Learned Societies
- Reference year
- 2012
- Details
- Professor Helen Partridge was appointed as Fellow of the Australian Library and Information Association. This peer nominated appointment is one of the association's highest honours. The Association's "Board of Directors confer the distinction of Fellow and the post-nominal FALIA on a member who, in the opinion of the Board, has reached an exceptionally high standard of proficiency in library and information science and has made a distinguished contribution to the theory or practice of library and information science. The award was presented at the ALIA Biennial conference held in Sydney.
Research projects
- 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
- 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
- Evidenced-based approach to the design and redevelopment of inclusive technology enhanced learning environments
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- ID13-2685
- Start year
- 2014
- Keywords
Supervision
Completed supervisions (Doctorate)
- Educating Cultural Heritage Information Professionals for Australia's galleries, libraries, archives and museums: A Grounded Delphi study (2015)
- Funding the Academic Library: An Ethnographic Study (2015)
- The Information Experience of New Mothers in Social Media: A Grounded Theory Study (2015)
- A participatory library model for university libraries (2014)
- Information Literacy and the Serious Leisure participant: variation in the experience of using information to learn (2014)
- Knowledge Ecosystems of Early Career Academics: A Grounded Theory of Experiencing Information Use for Learning in Developmental Networks (2014)
- Understanding the information literacy experiences of EFL (English as a Foreign Language) students (2014)
- Web Professionals: How Do They Experience Information Literacy? (2014)
- Informed for Health: Exploring variation in ways of experiencing health information literacy (2013)
- Untangling the evidence: teacher librarians and evidence based practice (2013)