QUT | Staff Profiles | Hilary Hughes

Name

Associate Professor Hilary Hughes

Position(s)

Research Assistant
Science and Engineering Faculty,
Civil Engineering and Built Environment,
Construction and Project Management

Research Project Leader
Faculty of Education,
School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Adjunct Associate Professor
Faculty of Education,
School of Teacher Education and Leadership

Discipline *

Curriculum and Pedagogy, Library and Information Studies

Phone

+61 7 3138 3336

Email

h.hughes@qut.edu.au

Location

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Identifiers and profiles

Qualifications

Doctor of Philosophy (Queensland University of Technology), Master of Arts in Librarianship (University of Sheffield), BA(CombHons) (University of Birmingham)

Professional memberships and associations

Associate Member of the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA)
Member of School Library Association of Queensland

Keywords

International student experience, Learning space design, Higher education pedagogy, Informed learning, Connected learning, Teacher-librarianship, School libraries, Cultural diversity, Information experience, Information literacy

* Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008

Dr Hilary Hughes is Associate Professor and Coordinator of Master of Education (Teacher-Librarianship) at Faculty of Education, QUT. She has been a full-time academic at QUT since November 2004. Hilary is a passionate-educator researcher who promotes innovative practice that addresses the needs and contexts of contemporary learners. Her qualifications include:

PhD (QUT)
Master of Librarianship (University of Sheffield, UK)
BA Combined Honours in Spanish and Romance Linguistics (University of Birmingham, UK)
NAATI accredited translator (Spanish-English)
Cert IV Workplace training & Assessment (Northpoint Institute of TAFE, Brisbane).
AALIA (Associate of Australian Library and Information Association)

Awards

2010: Fulbright Scholar in Residence at University of Colorado, Denver
2014, 2012, 2009, 2008: QUT Vice-Chancellor’s Performance Fund Award
2013, 2012: QUT Education Faculty teaching award (individual)
2006: QUT Education Faculty teaching award (for an individual teacher who has shown personal development and outcomes through reflective practice in teaching)
2006: QUT OLT innovative teaching award (nominated by students).

Research (ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5123-1552)
Hilary’s interdisciplinary research interests include:

Learning space design
School libraries and teacher-librarianship
International student experience
Information literacy and informed learning
Information experience

Hilary’s doctoral study (2009) about international students using online information led to her Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence award at Colorado University Denver, USA in 2010. Building on this work, she advances the theory and practice of inclusive informed learning through her research and teaching. Recognising the influence of environment on information use and learning, her related research explores the design of learning spaces, especially in school and academic libraries.
She has particular expertise in the following research methodologies:

Expanded critical incident technique (Hughes, 2012)
Qualitative case study
Qualitative interviewing
Thematic analysis

She is an active member of the following research groups at QUT:

Higher Education Research Network
Information Studies Research Group

Professional experience
In her teaching and research Hilary draws upon professional experience as librarian and information literacy educator at:

Central Queensland University (Brisbane International Campus)
QUT
Education Queensland Corporate Library
Northpoint Institute of TAFE (Brisbane)
Glenden Town Library (Nebo Shire, Queensland)
Longlands College of Further Education (Middlesbrough, UK).

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Hilary Hughes.

Teaching: My innovative, student-centred, scholarly approach to learning and teaching has been recognised by several QUT teaching awards and consistently high student evaluations. I promote connected learning pedagogy across physical and virtual spaces, mediated by contemporary technologies. The units I teach include:

LCN600 Connected Learning (Coordinator & lecturer)
LCN601: Designing Spaces for Learning (Coordinator & lecturer)
LCN615: Learning Hubs (Coordinator & lecturer)
CLN617: Personalised Language Development (Coordinator & lecturer)
EDB006: Learning Networks (Tutor)
EDB001: Teaching in New Times (Tutor)

HDR supervision: As a Level 3 Supervisor, I am privileged to supervise students conducting HDR research across Education, Learning environment and Information Science disciplines.

Successfully completed HDR students and their topics:

Kylie Andrews, 2016, MEd Research (Principal supervisor) – Learning space experience, school students
Kate Davis, 2015, PhD (Associate Supervisor) – Information experience of new mothers in social media
Tashi Gyeltshen, 2015, PhD, (Associate supervisor) – Academic leadership in Bhutan
Katherine Howard, 2015, PhD (Associate Supervisor) – Professional education of GLAM information professionals
Nicole Johnston, 2014, PhD (Associate supervsior) -Information literacy of EFL students in UAE
Ann Gillespie, 2013, PhD (Associate supervisor) – Teacher-librarians as evidence based practitioners – scholarship
Sonal Nakar, 2013, MEd Research (Principal supervisor) – Dilemmas of TAFE teachers working with international students
Yaxing Zhang, 2012, PhD (Associate Supervisor)– Academic learsership in China -Faculty thesis award
Li Wang, 2011, PhD (Associate Supervisor) – Information literacy integration model for HE
Xiong Xang, 2008, MEd Research (Associate Supervisor) – Academics’ use of CALL at a Chinese university

Current HDR students and their topics:

Vanessa Miller, EdD (Principal supervisor) – Learning space design, school teachers – scholarship
Kay Oddone, PhD (Principal supervisor) – Connected learning, personal learning networks, educators – scholarship
Yin Yue, (International), PhD (Associate supervisor) – Sociological study of Teach for China, TFC fellows’ experience
Lynn McAllister, EdD (Principal supervisor) – Reflective use of eportfolios in higher education

Scholarship of teaching
My research in the areas of informed learning and international student experience informs my teaching. It also underpinned my Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence program at Colorado University Denver, USA in 2010. Publications include: Hughes & Bruce (2013) ‘International students’ experiences of informed learning: A pedagogical case study’ and Bruce & Hughes (2010) ‘Informed learning: A pedagogical construct attending simultaneously to information use and learning’.
I continue to extend my pedagogical knowledge and experience as an active member of QUT’s Higher Education Research Network.

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Hilary Hughes.

In my teaching and research I draw upon extensive experience as information professional/librarian and information literacy educator, especially with international students and in culturally diverse higher education contexts.

This information has been contributed by Associate Professor Hilary Hughes.

Hughes HE, (2013) International students using online information resources to learn: complex experience and learning needs, Journal of Further and Higher Education p126-146
Hughes HE, (2010) International students' experiences of university libraries and librarians, Australian Academic and Research Libraries p77-89
Bruce CS, Hughes HE, (2010) Informed learning: A pedagogical construct attending simultaneously to information use and learning, Library and Information Science Research pA2-A8
Bruce CS, Hughes HE, Somerville MM, (2012) Supporting informed learners in the Twenty-first century, Library Trends p522-545
Hughes HE, Bruce CS, (2013) International students' experiences of informed learning: A pedagogical case study, International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning p106-119
Hughes HE, Bland DC, Willis JE, Burns RE, (2015) A happy compromise: collaborative approaches to school library designing, The Australian Library Journal p321-334
Hughes HE, Leigh T, Osborne M, Fraser S, Kahl C, Reynolds H, (2013) School libraries, teacher-librarians and literacy at Gold Coast schools: research findings, Synergy p1-9
Hughes HE, (2014) School libraries, teacher-librarians and student outcomes: Presenting and using the evidence, School Libraries Worldwide p29-50
Hughes HE, (2012) An expanded critical incident approach for exploring information use and learning, Library and Information Research p72-95
Hughes HE, (2014) Researching information experience: methodological snapshots, Information experience: Approaches to theory and practice [Library and Information Science Series, Volume 10] p33-50

For more publications by this staff member, visit QUT ePrints, the University's research repository.

Associate Professor Hilary Hughes

Grants and projects (Category 1: Australian Competitive Grants only)

Completed supervisions (Doctorate)

Completed supervisions (Masters by Research)