[Asis-l] QUT - Loughborough Information Behaviour Research Receives ARC Funding

[Amanda Spink]

QUT - Loughborough research project exploring information behaviour has been funded by a 3-year $463,971 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery Grant. The project CI's are Prof Amanda Spink (Loughborough Information Science), Profs Susan Danby (QUT - Early Childhood) and Karen Thorpe (QUT - Psych and Dr Christina R Davidson (CQU - Education).

Titled - Interacting with Knowledge, Interacting with People: Web Searching in Early Childhood - the study investigates the extent of pre-school children's Web searching, what they access and in what social contexts.

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Professor Amanda Spink
Chair in Information Science
Editor - Emerald LIS Book Series
Department of Information Science
Loughborough University
Ashby Road, Leicestershire LE11 3TU
United Kingdom
Email: a.spink at lboro.ac.uk<mailto:a.spink at lboro.ac.uk>
New Book - Spink, A. (2010). Information Behavior: An Evolutionary Instinct. Springer.
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