Associate Professor Kathy Lynch
DipTeach Syd., BEd N.Territory, GradDipEd S.Aust., GradDipBus Deakin, MBusSys Monash, PhD Monash
Position: Associate Professor in ICT Research and Development
Office: B 1.14A
Tel: +61 7 5456 5506
Fax: +61 7 5456 4727
Email: kathy.lynch@usc.edu.au
Research areas
- Effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) in business and learning
- Emerging and convergence of interface technologies (including, location-based services and applications, mobile computing and virtual reality)
- Interface design and evaluation
- Graduate attributes (PhD research)
- Innovative learning environments
Profile
Associate Professor Kathy Lynch obtained her PhD in 2005 from Monash University, and is a cross-disciplinary academic – information technology, and education. She joined the University of the Sunshine Coast (USC) in 2007 as a researcher in the Teaching and Research Services unit.
Prior to joining USC, Dr Lynch was at Monash University (Melbourne) in the Faculty of IT between 1997-2006, and in the Faculty of Education 1995-1997. Previous to this she was in the Victorian TAFE sector, the Northern Territory, Queensland and the New South Wales secondary education sectors.
During her time in the university sector, Dr Lynch has been a founding director of the Centre for Educational Multimedia (Monash Education), a founding member of the Centre for Organisational and Social Informatics (Monash) and the Information Systems Development Research Group (Monash IT). She remains an associate researcher for each of these groups. Additionally, she is an honorary research associate in the Faculty of IT at the University of Technology Sydney and in the Faculty of Computing and IT at Makerere University (Uganda).
Dr Lynch is Editor-in-Chief of the Interdisciplinary Journal of Information, Knowledge and Management (http://ijikm.org/), and is an Associate Editor of the Interdisciplinary Journal of E-Learning and Learning Objects (http://ijklo.org/). She has also been a paper reviewer for ASCILITE, ACIS, AusWeb, ACE (Australian Computer Education Conference), ICTEV, HERDSA, ICCE (International Conference on Computers in Education), and the Hawaiian International Conference on Education. Dr Lynch was the co-track chair-Education at ACIS 2007, and is the track chair for ICT for Sustainablity at ICCIR 2009 (Uganda).
In 2005, Dr Lynch spent 5 weeks in Uganda, and since her return has established Aussie Friends of VOLSET a charity organisation that supports villagers in the Lake Victoria region of Uganda to build capacity, and improve their health and education.
Coordinator, committees and representative
- USC eidos coordinator and Research Fellow
- USC Human Ethics Committee
- USC representative on ACODE (Australasian Council of Open, Distance and eLearning).
Research supervision
- Conceptions of transnational education using IT. PhD, University of the Sunshine Coast (principal with Aspland). Current
- IT assimilation. PhD, University of the Sunshine Coast (principal with Kerr and Harker). Current
- A framework for instantiating learning objects applications for mobile and fixed communication systems. PhD, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, (co-supervisor with Lubega). Current
- The determination of presence in computer mediated environments. MIT (Research), 2007, Monash
- Single sign-on influencing password security and usability in information systems. Honours, 2006, Monash
- Wireless and mobile technology in the small business sector. Honours, 2006, Monash
- Convergence of mobile devices: An organisational perspective. Honours, 2005, Monash
- Influences on students' web usage. Honours, 2004, Monash
- Usability guidelines and web browsing on PDAs. MIT (Minor Thesis), 2003, Monash
- Direct manipulation in educational multimedia. MIT (Minor Thesis), 2003, Monash
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Publications
Many of Dr Kathy Lynch's publications are available from the USC Coast Research Database. For a complete listing that includes non-refereed conference papers, panels and posters, please email Dr Kathy Lynch.
Research grants
National competitive grants
- 2007-08 Reclamation of Victorian Indigenous languages: Using ICT to enable effective exchange between academics, educators and the Indigenous community. ARC Linkage. Lynch, Bowe (Linguistics/ Monash Faculty of Arts) (A$440,000 cash and in-kind).
- 2004 Colliers Charitable Research Grant (equipment). Lynch, Fisher (A$9,000)
- 2001 Colliers Charitable Research Grant: IT-enabled collaboration using desk-top Web video cameras. Lynch (A$2000)
- 2000 DEET. Professional Development for teachers of Science – online. Penna, Holkner, Lynch (A$150,000)
- 1999 DEET Professional Development for teachers of Science. Penna, Mitchell, Lynch (A$90,000)
- 1999 ANTA Toolbox – evaluation of Programmer’s Workbench. Creative Informatics, Swinburne Uni (TAFE div), Holkner, Lynch (A$4,000)
- 1998 CUTSD Legal Interviewing Skills. Morris, Lynch (A$56,000)
- 1998 Telstra Research Grant. New Frontiers, New Technologies, New Pedagogies. Rizvi, Walsh, Tsolidis, Holkner, Snyder, Lynch (A$160,000)
Other
- 2008 Push2Mobile. USC Seed Research grant (A$4,000)
- 2007 Choice of technology for e-Learning. USC internal Teaching grant (A$5,000)
- 2007 Visitor management: Fraser Island. USC internal Research grant (A$5,000)
- 2006 An exploratory study of development practices used in the development of small business web-based systems. Monash Small Grant. Lynch, Darke (Monash FIT) (A$15,000)
- 2005 A pilot web portal for online access to Australian historical archival records of Victorian Indigenous Languages. Monash Arts/IT Grant. Lynch, Bowe, Russell (A$10,000)
- 2005 Higher Degree by Research (HDR) Student tracker. Monash, SIMS Research Committee. Lynch (A$5,000)
- 2003 SIMS Research Grant: A cross sector investigation into models of teaching IT final projects. Lynch (Monash), Gould (Deakin University), Blaine (Holmesglen TAFE) (A$4,000).
- 2003 Monash University Unit Innovation Grant Scheme. Lynch (A$10,000)
- 2001 Monash FIT Teaching Innovation Fund: Learning resources for a virtual reality interface to computerised information systems. Lynch (A$40,000)
- 2000 ASCILITE. Evaluation of computer media resources. Lynch , Kennedy (A$2,000)
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