Dr Kirsty Williamson

School of Information Management and Systems

Monash University

email: kirsty.williamson@sims.monash.edu.au

Dr Kirsty Williamson is an internationally recognised researcher on information-seeking behaviour and telecommunications use, particularly using an interpretivist approach. As Director of Information and Telecommunications Needs Research, a joint venture of Monash and Charles Sturt Universities, she has led several industry collaborative projects including, most recently, research focussing on online services for people with disabilities, funded by the Commonwealth Department of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts. In  2001 she was also part of multidisciplinary Monash University team which undertook a knowledge management project for the International Olympic Committee. Kirsty has also written, taught and published on research methods, particularly in relation to the information management and systems fields.

Kirsty has overseen the pilot user needs study which preceded the Breast Cancer Knowledge Online and will continue to direct the user needs analysis component of this project.