Simon Park meets South Korean President
Simon Park, Undergraduate Programme Manager in the School of Information Management had the opportunity to meet South Korean President Geun-Hye Park at a conference in South Korea recently.
2014 news archive
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Enterprising concept seeks to eradicate outlawed tradition
A business proposal to make low cost sanitary pads to eradicate the rural Nepal social practice of banishing menstruating women from family life has won the top award in a global business competition.
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Research assistant wins Loman Friedlander Award
Alex Clark, who works with Dr Brenda Chawner as a research assistant, has won the Loman Friedlander Award for his paper 'Enclosing the public domain: exploring the restriction of public domain books in a digital environment'.
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Professor Sid Huff awarded status of Emeritus Professor
Professor Sid Huff has been awarded the status of Emeritus Professor. Sid joined Victoria as Professor in Information Systems in 2001. He was immediately appointed as the Ericsson Professor of Information Systems, a chair he occupied till 2004.
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Many home computer users "too lazy" to protect online security
Around 80 percent of home computer users who admit that they don’t take measures to protect their online security cite laziness as the reason, a PhD study from Victoria Business School has found.
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Best Paper Award to Dr Gillian Oliver
Dr Gillian Oliver has won the Records Management Journal Award for the Outstanding Paper of 2013 for her paper "Recordkeeping informatics: re-figuring a discipline in crisis with a single minded approach".
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Dr Sydney Shep Awarded National Teaching and Learning Initiative Grant
Dr Sydney Shep has been awarded one of the eight national Teaching and Learning Research Initiative grants for her project: “Moving beyond the threshold: Investigating digital literacies and historical thinking in New Zealand universities”.
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Simon Park Awarded Queen's Service Medal
We are very proud to announce that Simon Park, Undergraduate Programme Manager, has been awarded a Queen's Service Medal for Services to the Korean community and education. The Queen's Service Medal recognises voluntary service to the community and elected or appointed public office. Simon received the Medal at the investiture which took place on 18 March 2014.
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Announcing Two Books
The School of Information Management is very proud to announce the publication of two books by two of our staff members, Gillian Oliver and Tony Hooper.
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New iConferencing Platform: Saba
We are pleased to announce the launch of a new iConferencing platform for Information Studies classes. From the start of Trimester 1, 2014 we will begin using a new system (Saba).