Christine Susan Bruce is presently Professor in the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT, and an associate fellow of the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.

Christine has been working in the area of information literacy and information literacy education since 1989, as a library practitioner, as a research, educator, developer and consultant. Her interest in the area began as a practitioner through designing curriculum integrated instruction across all levels of civil engineering curriculum and a for-credit course to serve research students across all disciplines.

Between 1995 and 2000 Christine continued her interests in information literacy through engaging in research, especially into people’s experience of the phenomenon. She developed curriculum strategies for LIS education, including a masters level subject on information literacy education. During this time she also developed the Seven Faces of Information Literacy, and the relational model of information literacy education.

Between 2000 and the present, Christine has presented numerous keynote address at conferences, for example in Australia, Taiwan, the UAE, the UK, New Zealand, Sweden, Hong Kong, Her interests in academic information literacy has also broadened to incorporate community and workplace settings. She was a member of the group of experts convened in Prague, by NFIL and UNESCO.

Christine spent six years, 2001–2006, as Assistant Dean Teaching and Learning in the Faculty of Information Technology at QUT. In that role, her primary responsibilities were improving the quality of teaching and learning across many sub disciplines. Her approach to improving quality was grounded in fostering a scholarly and research-based approach to teaching and course development. The large cohort of award-winning teachers and teaching and learning grant holders that she built over that time is a clear testament to the success of that approach. Together with Dr Sylvia Edwards and Dr Mandy Lupton she developed the Six Frames for Information Literacy Education, which was published in 2006.

In 2008 Christine was awarded a prestigious associate fellowship by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council. The fellowship was awarded to allow her to focus on helping research advisors work with higher degree research candidates.

Christine presently  has extensive research interests in higher education teaching and learning, spanning the domains of doctoral study and supervision, information literacy, and information technology. She leads a research group with special focus on the interrelationship between information use and learning. Christine and her colleagues have published widely on information literacy. She has authored or edited five titles including The Seven Faces of Information Literacy, Information Literacy Around the World, and Transforming IT Education: Promoting a Culture of Excellence, and most recently Informed Learningto be published by the American Library Association. Christine speaks and consults regularly on information literacy and information-literacy education.

Publications of the QUT information literacy research team are readily available from, or pointed to by, the QUT eprints archive: http://eprints.qut.edu.au

Individual researchers with publications in the archive include Christine Bruce, Judy Peacock, Sylvia Edwards, Mandy Lupton, Hilary Hughes and Helen Partridge.