Draft:Christine Susan Bruce

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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

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

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).: 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) and the Spanish translation El aprendizaje informado produced by the Asociación Andaluza de Bibliotecarios (2013).

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

Academic Leadership and Awards

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

• 2008: Appointed Fellow of Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
• 2015: Appointed Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (now Advance HE) (UK).
• 2012-2018: International Advisory Board Member of the Center of Information Research and Innovation, San Jose University (USA).
• 2009-2015: Five-year term on the International Board of Directors for Linnaeus Center for Research at University of Gothenburg (Sweden).
• 2004: Awarded Best Education Research Article in an Open Access Journal in 2004, by Communication of Research Special Interest Group of the American Educational Research Association for: Bruce et al., 2004, "Ways of experiencing the act of learning to program
• 2003: Participant at the international Meeting of Information Literacy Experts, sponsored by the US National Commission on Libraries and Information Science (NCLIS), the National Forum on Information Literacy (NFIL) and UNESCO. The meeting produced the Prague Declaration: Towards an information literate society.
• 2001: Nominated for Publication of the Year 2001, by the American Library Association College and Research Libraries Instruction Section for: Bruce et al., 2000, Information literacy around the world.
• 1999: Listed in Top 20 Journal Articles of 1999, by American Library Association Library Instruction Round Table for: Bruce, 1999, "Workplace experiences of information literacy."
• 1997: Publication of the Year 1997, American Library Association College and Research Libraries Instruction Section for: Bruce, 1997, Seven Faces of Information Literacy.

Selected writings

• 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.