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Dist. Professor

Lisa M. Given, FASSA, FASIS&T

Enabling Impact Platform Director, Social Change

Research & Innovation Capability

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  • Enabling Impact Platform Director, Social Change
    Research & Innovation Capability
  • City Campus, Australia

BIO

Lisa Given is Director & Co-Founder, Centre for Human-AI Information Environments; Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform and Professor of Information Sciences in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies and the School of Computing Technologies.

Professor Lisa Given is an interdisciplinary researcher in human information behaviour whose work brings a critical, social research lens to studies of technology use and user-focused design. A Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and of the international Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T), her studies embed social change, focusing on diverse settings and populations, and methodological innovations across disciplines. A former President of ASIS&T, Prof Given has served on the Australian Research Council’s (ARC’s) College of Experts. She holds numerous grants funded by ARC, Canadian Institutes for Health Research, and Canada’s Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, working with university and community partners across disciplines. She is lead author of the 5th edition of Looking for Information: Examining Research on How People Engage with Information (2023) author of 100 Questions (and Answers) about Qualitative Research (2016), and editor of The Sage Encyclopedia of Qualitative Research Methods (2008).

 

Selected current grants:

 

2025-2030 Australian Research Council, Industrial Transformation Research Hub. $4,750,000 (AUD). Co-Investigator (Lead, Program 1: Socially Responsive, Ethical Design to Support User Adoption of Innovations). “ARC Research Hub for Intelligent Contaminant Sensing in Complex Environments (IC-SensE Hub).” Lead Investigator (ITRH Director): Prof Sumeet Walia, RMIT University. Co-Investigators (Program 1): Prof Rachel Ankeny, University of Adelaide; and, Prof Priya Rajagopalan & Dr Saffron Bryant, RMIT University.

 
2025 eSafety Commission, Preventing Tech-based Abuse of Women, Grants Program, round 2. $371,000 (AUD). Co-Investigator. “Gendered Norms and Gaming Influencers: Promoting Positive and Respectful Gaming for Tween Boys.” Lead Investigator: Assoc/Prof Lauren Gurrieri (RMIT University); Co-Investigators: Dr Melissa Wheeler, Dr Lukas Parker, Dr Dave Micallef, Prof Emma Sherry (RMIT University).


Selected awards:

 

2021-2025 Stanford University/Elsevier’s Top 2% Most Cited Researchers Globally

2025 Vice-Chancellor’s Award, RMIT University – Excellence in Graduate Research Supervision
2025 RMIT University, Media & Communications – Media Hall of Fame Award

2024 Australian Higher Education/Future Campus – Best University Communications Campaign, RMIT’s Taylor Swift Fanposium
2024 Canadian Association for Information Science – Career Achievement Award
2021 Vice-Chancellor’s Engagement Award, Swinburne University of Technology – Community Engagement Team Award (with Dr Wade Kelly)
2021 Association for Information Science and Technology, SIG-USE – Outstanding Contributions to Information Behavior Research Award
2015 Charles Sturt University, Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Research Supervision Excellence

 

Selected scholarly appointments:


- Editor-in-Chief, Annual Review of Information Science and Technology

- Member, Science and Methodology Committee, International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)

- Distinguished Member, Association for Information Science and Technology

- College of Experts, Social, Behavioural and Economics Panel, Australian Research Council (2011-2014)

- President (elected), Association for Information Science & Technology (2016-2019)

- Panel Member, Canada’s Interagency (SSHRC, CIHR, NSERC) Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (2010-2012)

- Panel Member, Council of Canadian Academies, Expert Panel on Research Integrity (2009-2010)

- President (elected), Canadian Association for Information Science (2005-2008)

 

RMIT UNIVERSITY RESEARCH GROUPS MEMBERSHIP

  1. Centre for Human-AI Information Environments (CHAI)
    Research Centre
  2. Social Equity Research Centre
    Research Centre

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Director & Co-Founder, Centre for Human-AI Information Environments
    RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia2024 - present
  • Director, Social Change Enabling Impact Platform
    RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia2022 - present
  • Professor of Information Sciences (cross-appointment), School of Global, Urban & Social Studies (Social Equity Research Centre) & School of Computing Technologies
    RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia2022 - present
  • Dean, Research and Development & Professor of Information Science
    Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Australia2017 - 2022
  • Professor of Information Studies
    Charles Sturt University, School of Information Studies, Bathurst, Australia2011 - 2017
  • Associate Dean, Research
    Charles Sturt University, Faculty of Education, Bathurst, Australia2014 - 2016
  • Professor (Asst/Prof to 2004; Assoc/Prof to 2010)
    University of Alberta, School of Library & Information Studies, Edmonton, Canada2000 - 2011
  • Director
    University of Alberta, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, Edmonton, Canada2007 - 2009
  • Graduate Coordinator
    University of Alberta, School of Library and Information Studies, Edmonton, Canada2003 - 2006

AVAILABILITY

  • Masters Research or PhD student supervision
  • Media enquiries
  • Collaborative projects
  • Industry Projects
  • Membership of an advisory committee