Associate Professor Sylvia Lauretta Edwards is Assistant Dean, Teaching & Learning with the Faculty of Information Technology at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) in Brisbane. She is the recipient of a prestigious Carrick Australian Award for University Teaching in 2006. She has also received numerous QUT teaching performance and leadership awards including the QUT Outstanding Academic Achievement Award 1999, the Vice-Chancellor's Distinguished Teaching Award, and was the recipient of an inaugural 2002 QUT Teaching Fellowship. Since commencing with QUT in 1995, Sylvia has taught postgraduate and undergraduate students in the fields of web content management, information management, web design, and information systems. She specialises in applying her research findings in practice, and her work has significantly contributed to the graduate capability agenda at QUT. Sylvia's research contributions include the development of The Net Lenses model: a relational model of students' internet searching experiences (http://www.netlenses.fit.qut.edu.au/), the co-development of the Six Frames for Information Literacy Education (Bruce, Edwards & Lupton, 2006), and the widely published Reflective Model for Internet Searching (Edwards & Bruce, 2002). Sylvia researches information searching behaviour and information literacy. She has published over 40 refereed publications, delivered over 40 academic and industry presentations, and she regularly conducts staff development workshops and seminars in information literacy and internet searching. A number of her publications are readily available from the QUT eprints archive at http://eprints.qut.edu.au/view/person/Edwards,_Sylvia.html.