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Poster Sesion:

Pedagogy in LIS Degrees

Presenters:
Emma Gerts, Simon Wakeling 
Workshop Date:
Tuesday 12 May | 12:30pm – 1:00pm 

Presentation Description:

This poster presentation will show the results of our research on the inclusion of pedagogical training and teaching skills in LIS degrees in Australia, the UK, USA, Canada and NZ, and discuss the correlation we found between clear guidance from accreditation bodies and inclusion of pedagogical units in LIS degrees. We will discuss with delegates their own experiences delivering teaching and their educational journey, and how this training gap could be addressed in the future, to better prepare LIS graduates for the workforce.

 

Emma Gerts

Senior Academic Engagement Librarian, University of New South Wales Canberra City Campus

Presenter Bio

Emma is the Senior Academic Engagement Librarian at the University of New South Wales Canberra City Campus. Emma is also a Sessional Academic in the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University. Emma studied a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology, Philosophy and Religion at Western Sydney University in 2013, then completed a Master of Information Science at Charles Sturt University in 2016. She completed her Master of Human Rights at Curtin University in 2021.Prior to her current position at UNSW, Emma previously worked as an Academic Liaison Librarian for the Business School at the University of Sydney and as Information Access and Training Officer at the Australian National University. Emma is particularly interested in the educative role of Librarians in all sectors, education practices for supporting Indigenous education, and the role of Librarians in higher education.

 

 

 

Simon Wakeling 

Associate Head of School and Senior Lecturer, School of Information and Communication Studies, Charles Sturt University. 

Presenter Bio

Simon is Associate Head of School and Senior Lecturer in the School of Information and Communication Studies at Charles Sturt University. He received his PhD from the University of Sheffield’s Information School in 2015, having previously completed an MSc in Electronic and Digital Library Management. He also holds a BA in English Literature from Durham University (1999) and an MA in American Literature from the University of Sheffield (2006). Before joining CSU in 2019 Simon was a post-doctoral researcher at the University of Sheffield’s Information School, and prior to that he held various project and operations management roles in the telecoms and vocational training industries.
Simon’s research focuses on equality of access to information. There are two main strands to his work. The first focuses on the area of scholarly communication, and open access (OA) – the principle that research outputs should be freely available to anyone who wants to read them. His work in on this has included the publication of a book on the theory and practice of OA. The second strand of research relates to the role and function of public libraries, including responses to the COVID-19 crisis, the value of public library buildings, and the ways in which community needs can be understood and incorporated into public library design processes.