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Christine Bruce

Christine Susan Bruce (born September 18, 1962) is a retired Australian higher education researcher, and now an independent scholar, who specialises in the scholarship of learning and teaching, information literacy and doctoral study and supervision. She is known for developing the relational view of information literacy and informed learning.

Education and Career

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Christine Bruce was born in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia and then migrated with her parents and brother to Brisbane, Australia in January 1975. She attended schools in England, Malaysia and Australia, before completing a Bachelor of Arts at the University of Queensland, Australia in 1983. Her other qualitfications include: Graduate Diploma Library Science, Queensland Institute of Technology (QIT) in 1988; Master of Education (Research), Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in 1992; and PhD, University of New England in Armidale, Australia in 1997.

Her professional and academic career spanned:

  • 1988-1995: Various professional roles at the QIT/QUT Library, where she founded the Advanced Information Retrieval Skills program for higher degree research students; and led professional development for librarians as information literacy educators.
  • 1995-2018: Educator, researcher, doctoral supervisor, and Faculty and University leadership roles, QUT.
  • 2007: Awarded personal promotion to Professor at QUT.
  • 2018-2022: Professor, and Dean Graduate Studies at James Cook University.

Bruce has published over 250 scholarly publications, many of which are widely cited. She is frequently engaged as a consultant, and invited as a keynote speaker at international conferences in the Higher Education, and Library and Information Science fields.

Throughout her academic career, Bruce has led and modelled a collaborative approach to learning and research, drawing together groups of co-researchers with shared interests in information use and learning across library and information science, education, management, health, engineering and technology disciplines. As a higher degree (Masters and Doctoral) supervisor at QUT Bruce has supported the education and successful completion of over 50 Masters and Doctoral candidates. Currently, as an independent scholar, Bruce continues to mentor, research and write with established and emerging colleagues from Austalia and around the world.

Research

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In her doctoral research (QUT, 1997), Bruce undertook a phenomenographic study to explore higher educators' varying conceptions of information literacy. Through this work, she proposed the relational view of information literacy as an alternative to the then prevailing skills-based behavioral focus of information literacy. Bruce defines the relational view as 'experiencing different ways of using information to learn' which she represents as seven faces (or categories), namely: Information technology, Information sources, Information process, Information control, Knowledge construction, Knowledge extension and Wisdom. Bruce elaborates this original research and theorisation in her award-winning book The seven faces of information literacy (1997).[1] In this and her subsequent research, Bruce has established the relational model as 'a phenomenography of information literacy' that has influenced the work of many other researchers.

Building on the relational model of information literacy, Bruce developed the construct of informed learning. This approach fosters the experience of using information to learn - effectively, crtically, creatively and wisely - across different education, workplace, professional and community contexts. The underlying concepts and practice applications of this approach are presented in her book Informed learning (1988)[2] and the Spanish translation El aprendizaje informado produced by the Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios (2013)[3].

Bruce also contributes to ongoing exploration of information experience as an object of study and research territory.[4]

Academic Leadership and Awards

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Bruce has gained an international reputation as researcher, speaker and consultant. Her academic leadership and awards include:

Selected writings

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  • Gasson, Susan, Blacker, Jillian, Stoodley, Ian, Winter, Abbe, & Bruce, Christine (2023). Confident supervisors: Creating independent researchers. Townsville: James Cook University.
  • Maybee, Clarence, Gasson, Susan, Bruce, Christine & Somerville, Mary (2022). "Faces of informed research: Enabling research collaboration". "Faces of informed research: Enabling research collaboration." Journal of Information Literacy, 16(1), pp. 91-107.
  • Bruce, Christine, Partridge, Helen, Davis, Kate, Hughes, Hilary, & Stoodley, Ian (Eds.) (2014) Information experience: Approaches to theory and practice. [Library and Information Science, Volume 9]. Bingley: Emerald.
  • Bruce, Susan Christine (2013). "El aprendizaje informado. [Informed learning. Translated by Cristóbal Pasadas Ureña]". Chapters 1-5 Boletín de la Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios, 105 (Enero-Junio), pp. 92–111. Chapters 6-12 Boletín de la Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios, 106 (Julio–Diciembre), pp.101–198.
  • Bruce, Christine (2008). Informed learning. Chicago: American Library Association.
  • Bruce, Christine, Edwards, Sylvia & Lupton, Mandy (2006). "Six frames for information literacy education". Innovations in Teaching and Learning in Information and Computer Sciences, 5(1), pp. 1-17.
  • Bruce, Christine (2003). "Information literacy as a catalyst for educational change: A background paper." In UNESCO (Ed.) International Information Literacy Conferences and Meetings.
  • Bruce, Christine S., Candy, Philip C. & Klaus, Helmut (Eds.) (2000). Information literacy around the world : Advances in programs and research. Vol. 1. Occasional Publications Series, 1. Wagga Wagga: Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.
  • Bruce, Christine S. (1997). The seven faces of information literacy. Adelaide: Auslib Press.

References

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  1. ^ Bruce, Christine Susan (1997). The seven faces of information literacy. Adelaide: AusLib Press.
  2. ^ Bruce, Christine Susan (2008). Informed learning. Chicago: ALA.
  3. ^ Bruce, Susan Christine (2013). "El aprendizaje informado. [Informed learning. Translated by Cristóbal Pasadas Ureña]". Chapters 1-5 Boletín de la Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios, 105 (Enero-Junio), pp. 92–111. Chapters 6-12 Boletín de la Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios, 106 (Julio–Diciembre), pp.101–198.
  4. ^ Bruce, Christine Susan, Davis, Kate, Hughes, Hilary, Partridge, Helen & Stoodley, Ian, Eds. (2014). Information experience: Approaches to theory and practice. Bingley: Emerald.
  5. ^ Bruce, Christine, Buckingham, Lawrence, Hynd, John, McMahon, Camille, Roggenkamp, Mike, Stoodley, Ian & Knight, Linda. "Ways of experiencing the act of learning to program: A phenomenographic study of introductory programming students at university". Journal of Information Technology Education, 3(January), pp.143–160.
  6. ^ Thompson, Spenser & Cody, Jill. (2003). Information literacy meeting of experts, Prague, the Czech Republic September 20-23, 2003: Report of a meeting sponsored by the US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS) and the National Forum on Information Literacy (NFIL) with the support of the United Nations Education, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).
  7. ^ Bruce, C., Candy, P. & Klaus, H. (Eds.). (2000). Information literacy around the world : Advances in programs and research. Vol. 1. Occasional Publications Series, 1. Wagga Wagga: Centre for Information Studies, Charles Sturt University.
  8. ^ Bruce, C.S. (1999). "Workplace experiences of information literacy." International Journal of Information Management, 19(1), pp. 33-47.
  9. ^ Bruce, Christine Susan (1997). The seven faces of information literacy. Adelaide: AusLib Press.
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