A/ProfTheresa Anderson
Adjunct Fellow
Learning and Curriculum
- Adjunct FellowLearning and Curriculum
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- University of Technology, Sydney, Connected Intelligence Centre, 2 Blackfriars Street, Chippendale, NSW, 2008, Australia
BIO
Dr Theresa Dirndorfer Anderson is Course Director of the Master of Data Science and Innovation in the UTS Connected Intelligence Centre.
In her teaching and her research, Theresa engages with the ever-evolving relationship between people and emerging technologies, conceptually engaging with notions of risk, uncertainty and creativity. As a socio-technical researcher, she applies a transdisciplinary approach and value-sensitive participatory methods to explore human entanglements with emerging technologies and information practices.
As an information ethicist, she is particularly interested in the interaction between creative and analytic thinking and doing and in examining ways information systems and institutional policies might better support both creative and analytic activities. Internationally she is leading discussion about these issues as chair of the Information Seeking in Context international research community and founder of the Human-Centred Data Science Network.
Her research builds on her PhD thesis (“Understandings of relevance and topic as they evolve in the scholarly research process”), which in 2005 was awarded the 1st Annual Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (Information Science category) in recognition of the innovative approach taken.
Particularly intrigued by the creativity at the heart of scholarly work, she has been digging deeper into the role that intuition, insight and serendipity play in idea generation and scholarship through a series of installations (Playing with Pauses) based on her ongoing ethnographic and anthropological engagement with the question: where do ideas come from? At the heart of this exploration is a proposition that there are four distinct but inter-related phase states critical for nurturing an innovative culture -- collectively referred to as the 4Ps (see http://playnpause.org/). Keen to explore ways that everyday creativity emerges through our ongoing engagements with various technologies, she is currently working with school and university libraries to explore ways that the interplay of artful and analytical engagements with information can nurture our creative intelligence.
In her teaching and her research, Theresa engages with the ever-evolving relationship between people and emerging technologies, conceptually engaging with notions of risk, uncertainty and creativity. As a socio-technical researcher, she applies a transdisciplinary approach and value-sensitive participatory methods to explore human entanglements with emerging technologies and information practices.
As an information ethicist, she is particularly interested in the interaction between creative and analytic thinking and doing and in examining ways information systems and institutional policies might better support both creative and analytic activities. Internationally she is leading discussion about these issues as chair of the Information Seeking in Context international research community and founder of the Human-Centred Data Science Network.
Her research builds on her PhD thesis (“Understandings of relevance and topic as they evolve in the scholarly research process”), which in 2005 was awarded the 1st Annual Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Award (Information Science category) in recognition of the innovative approach taken.
Particularly intrigued by the creativity at the heart of scholarly work, she has been digging deeper into the role that intuition, insight and serendipity play in idea generation and scholarship through a series of installations (Playing with Pauses) based on her ongoing ethnographic and anthropological engagement with the question: where do ideas come from? At the heart of this exploration is a proposition that there are four distinct but inter-related phase states critical for nurturing an innovative culture -- collectively referred to as the 4Ps (see http://playnpause.org/). Keen to explore ways that everyday creativity emerges through our ongoing engagements with various technologies, she is currently working with school and university libraries to explore ways that the interplay of artful and analytical engagements with information can nurture our creative intelligence.
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Course DirectorUniversity of Technology Sydney, Connected Intelligence Centre, Sydney, Australia3 Nov 2014 - present
- Senior LecturerUniversity of Technology Sydney, Arts and Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia2 Jul 2007 - present
- LecturerUniversity of Technology Sydney, Humanities and Social Sciences, Sydney, Australia1 Jul 2002 - 2 Jul 2007
- Affiliate InstructorUniversity of Washington, The Information School, Seattle, United States3 Jul 2006 - present
- Associate Lecturer and TutorUniversity of Technology, Sydney, Sydney, Australia1 Jul 1997 - 3 Jul 2000
NON-ACADEMIC POSITIONS
- Information ConsultantManly Environment Centre, Manly, Australia4 Jul 1994 - 1 Jul 1997
- DiplomatUnited States Department of State, Washington DC and Berne, Switzerland, United States6 Jul 1987 - 2 Jul 1990
- Researcher and TranslatorMiddle East Research Institute, Philadelphia, United States4 Jul 1983 - 1 Jul 1985
DEGREES
- PhDUniversity of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia1 Nov 2004
- Master of Arts (Information)University of Technology Sydney, Sydney, Australia4 Nov 1996
- Master of Arts (International Relations and Security StudiesUniversity of Lancaster, Lancaster, United Kingdom3 Nov 1986
- Bachelor of Arts (Honours) (Diplomatic History & Russian/Soviet Studies)University of Pennsylvania, United States4 Nov 1985
LANGUAGES
- GermanCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
PROFILE TYPE
- Academic
AVAILABILITY
- Masters Research or PhD student supervision