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- SIM Graduate Wins FCA Award
- 3-Minute Thesis Competition Success
- Vacancy for Lecturer at SIM
- Summer Scholarship Success
- Wai-te-ata Press Celebrates a Rich 50 Year Legacy
- ISACA Awards Presented to Top INFO 301 Students
- Visitors to the School
SIM Graduate Wins FCA Award
17 May 2012
Dr Hartmut Hoehle, one of a record number of six PhDs graduating from SIM in May 2011, has received a Dean's Award for his research.
The Dean’s Award for Doctoral Achievement was instituted in the Faculty to recognise excellence in the quality of research and writing in the very best of our doctoral theses each year. The awards are made on the recommendations of the Post-Graduate Degrees committee, based on nominations from the School Research Degrees Committees and thesis examiners’ reports.
The full list of award winners for 2011 are:
Hartmut Hoehle
Consumer Intentions to Use Electronic Banking Channels: The Role of Task Channel Fit
Wan Adibah Binti Wan Ismail
Earnings Quality, Family Influence and Corporate Governance: Empirical Evidence from Malaysia
Khairul Anuar Bin Kamarudin
Assessment of Earnings Conservatism in Malaysian Financial Reporting
Rebecca Suzanne Bednarek
Strategizing for Legitimacy in Pluralistic Contexts: New Zealand's Science Sector
Binh Thanh Bui
Strategy-Driven Implications for the Management Control Systems of Electricity Generators Due to Government Climate Change Policies
3-Minute Thesis Competition Success
7 May 2012
Congratulations to SIM PhD student Balsam Al-Dabbagh, who won the FCA round of the Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition on Monday 7 May.
The idea of the 3MT is to express the purpose and significance of your research in three minutes, using only one static slide and no props. Judging criteria is based on comprehension, engagement, and communication style.
Balsam's win is fantastic news and we wish her all the very best as she prepares to compete against the winners from other Victoria faculties on 5 June. She has a chance to win first prize of $3000 and a trip to compete against international students in Australia.
Congratulations also to fellow participants Marta Vos and Nicole Gaston; it's great to see the School's PhD programme so well-represented in these events.
Vacancy for Lecturer at SIM
3 May 2012
This is an exciting opportunity for a person to research and teach in Information Studies, in particular in Archives & Records Management. The School of Information Management is based at the Pipitea Campus in downtown Wellington.
Applications close on Friday 15 June, 2012
Position Overview
SIM is seeking a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Information Studies to teach and conduct research of high quality, and to assist in programme development, particularly for the Master of Information Studies and the Postgraduate Certificate/Diploma in Information Studies programmes.
While we are interested in applications across the entire Library Studies and Information Management spectrum, we are particularly interested in candidates able to teach and research in the following areas:
- Management
- Managing archives
- Records management
- Preservation in the context of libraries and archives
A completed or nearly completed PhD in a relevant domain is required.
Purpose Statement
The role of Lecturer or Senior Lecturer in Information Studies is to undertake teaching and research of high quality, to assist in programme development where appropriate, and to contribute to the effective management of the School, including relationships with practitioner communities.
Applications must be made by June 15 through the Victoria University vacancies website, using the reference A110-12H.
Summer Scholarship Success
12 April 2012
Congratulations to SIM Summer Scholar Alex Clark, who won the best poster prize in the Faculty of Commerce and Administration Summer Gold Poster competition.
Alex’s project, Reclaiming New Zealand’s Digitised Heritage, examined the practices of New Zealand and overseas repositories which digitised early New Zealand books. Exactly half of a sample of 100 New Zealand books published before 1890 had been digitised in at least one repository, but 98% of these (49) were made available under licences which restricted their use in some way.
The results of the project show that New Zealanders’ access to heritage items in overseas repositories is often restricted, particularly for books published after 1870, and the processes used to determine the copyright status of digitised books vary between repositories. Dr Brenda Chawner supervised the project.
Wai-te-ata Press Celebrates a Rich 50 Year Legacy
22 March 2012
Dr Sydney Shep, pictured with an 1813 Stanhope Press
A space to explore books and print in all their myriad forms, the Wai-te-ata Press boasts a collection of 15 working printing presses dating from 1813 to 1963. Originally located in two garages on Wai-te-ata Road, the Press moved to Victoria University’s main Library on the Kelburn Campus in 2008.
Dr Sydney Shep, Senior Lecturer in Print and Book Culture and Director of Wai-te-ata Press, says the Press is a place to make books as well as study them.
"Our students really respond to getting their hands on something tangible and making something that looks like nothing else out there."
The first acquisition by Wai-te-ata Press was an 1813 Stanhope Press which remains on indefinite loan from Cambridge University Press, UK and takes pride of place. One of only 16 left in the world, it is the oldest printing press in New Zealand and is still being used.
Wai-te-ata Press was founded in 1962 by Professor Emeritus D. F. McKenzie, and has provided generations of students with the opportunity to learn the process of hand printing and fine design. It thrives on a rich legacy of preserving historic printing equipment, teaching the intricacies of print, communication and culture, undertaking special printing and publishing commissions, and as a centre for traditional and digital historical research.
Several significant New Zealand’s writers including Alistair Campbell, Vincent O’Sullivan and Bill Manhire were first printed and published by Wai-te-ata Press during the 1960s and 1970s, a key period for the development of New Zealand literature. The Press is also used by professional designers wanting an aesthetic edge to their designs.
Most recently the lead designer of Te Papa’s exhibition Oceania visited Wai-te-ata Press to photograph individual wooden types which were then digitised and reassembled for the exhibition displays.
"I cannot wait to see how new technology and print continue to evolve side by side for the next 50 years," Dr Shep says.
Invitation to Public Lecture
On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Wai-te-ata Press, you are invited to attend a lecture in honour of its founder, Professor Emeritus Donald F. McKenzie. The lecture delivered by Professor Leslie Howsam pays homage to McKenzie’s contributions to international book history scholarship. D.F. McKenzie
- When: 6pm, Thursday 22 March
- Where: Hunter Council Chamber, Level 2, Hunter Building, Gate 1 or 2, Kelburn Parade, Wellington
Digital History Workshop
This inaugural invitation-only Digital History Workshop, sponsored by the Marsden Fund and Wai-te-ata Press, provides a space to share new frameworks for, approaches to, and methods of historical research. It brings together seasoned practitioners, cultural heritage specialists, information managers, keen students, and emergent digital historians to talk about challenges and opportunities for the twenty-first century and beyond. You are encouraged to participate fully, bring your projects and puzzles to the table, and take away new ways of looking and knowing.
- When: 23-24 March 2012
- Where: Room 103, Alan MacDiarmid Building, Gate 6/7, Kelburn Parade, Victoria University of Wellington
ISACA Awards Presented to Top INFO 301 Students
10 February 2012
ISACA award winners Rhys McIlwaine, Indrani Roy, and Stephanie Isaac, with ISACA Branch President Vaughan Harrison and INFO 301 coordinator Dr Jocelyn Cranefield
Top-performing INFO 301 student Indrani Roy's project to explore and predict the possible future impact of biometrics in the hotel industry has been recognised with an ISACA award.
Indrani, along with fellow students Rhys McIlwaine and Stephanie Isaac, received cash prizes for project work which applied frameworks from INFO 301 to explore the impact of a new or emerging technology in a novel business situation that they invented. These students, along with family, friends, and staff at the School of Information Management, attended the function at SIM on Friday 10 February to acknowledge the winners.
Vaughan Harrison, President of the Wellington chapter of ISACA (Information Systems Audit and Control Association), noted that these awards would be a great help to the students when they were trying to stand out in the job market further down the track.
"The ISACA Wellington Board of Directors is pleased to support Victoria University's INFO 301 Strategic Information Systems Management course, which focuses on the strategic importance of information systems within organisations," said Mr Harrison.
"The related research essays demonstrate the skill sets learned by students that will enable them to successfully contribute to the current information system change agenda."
ISACA's other prizes acknowledged the high quality of reports by INFO 301 students from the 2011 cohort. Rhys investigated the potential benefits and issues of the use of RFID sensor tags by Progressive Enterprises within an automated ordering system; and Stephanie's project investigated the issues surrounding the use of RFID chips in patient's wristbands in hospitals. (Note: details of these projects attached here.)
ISACA, an international professional association that deals with IT Governance, established these awards to assist and encourage students studying in the areas of Information Systems audit, control, security and governance.
Visitors to the School
13 January 2012
SIM is pleased to host a number of visiting academics in 2012. Professor Bob Allen (US) is a Visiting Professorial Fellow this year and will be teaching on the IST Programmes; Dr Gordon Hunter (Canada) and Dr Elfi Furtmeuller (Netherlands) will be teaching undergraduate courses in T1; and Dr Przemyslaw Polak (Poland) is here during January to explore opportunities for collaboration in systems analysis and design.
More about our Visiting Scholars »