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Ms Libby Hobson

Position: Program Director
Division/Portfolio: Division of Business
School/Unit: School of Management
Campus: City West Campus
Office: EM4-17
Telephone: +61 8 830 20240
Fax: +61 8 830 20512
Email: Libby_dot_Hobson_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Libby.Hobson


Currently I am the Program Director for the Bachelor of Management (Administrative Management) degree, both onshore and offshore, as well as the Course Coordinator for Desktop Publishing for Business which I teach onshore in Adelaide and have taught offshore in Hong Kong previously. I also team teach Administrative Systems Management in Hong Kong and am the new Course Coordinator for Pharmacy Management Essentials. I have held a range of positions within the School of Accounting and Information Systems and the School of Management including Program Director, Course Coordinator and Lecturer in various undergraduate and postgraduate courses. I originally worked as a Cartographer, (assisting in the conversion from manual to digitalised systems) and have held a range of positions both here and overseas including Planning Officer (Fareham Borough Council UK), Production Controller (Seraphic) and Business Manager (SPD Transport).


I teach the following courses

PHAR 4014Pharmacy Management Essentials
INFS 2032Desktop Publishing for Business
BUSS 3056Administrative Systems Management


Professional associations

International Society of the Learning Sciences


Qualifications

BBus


Research interests

  • Business education
  • Desktop Publishing
  • Business documentation
  • IS education across the disciplines
  • University program quality

Research publications

Hobson, L & Joham, C (2006) 'Facilitating Group Learning in IT Higher Education', in Proceedings of the Information Resources Management Association International Conference, Idea Group Publishing, Washington DC, USA, pp. 565-566.

Hobson, L & Joham, C (2004) 'Can online enrolment systems survive the onslaught? - Reflection and experiences', in Proceedings of the IADIS International Conference Web Based Communities 2004, Lisbon, Portugal, pp. 520-524.

Hobson, L & Joham, C (2003) 'Problem based group learning in IT in higher education: Reflection and experiences', in Proceedings of the 2003 Informing Science and Information Technology Education Conference, Informing Science Institute, Pori, Finland, pp. 829-834. Accepted as a Best Paper and received a Best Paper award.

Joham, C & Hobson, L (2003) 'A Systemic Approach to IT Policy: A new perspective for developing countries', in Proceedings of the European Conference on Information Systems, Naples, Italy.

Metcalfe, M & Hobson, L (2001) ‘Concern solving not problem solving’, in Proceedings of the 12th Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Southern Cross University, Coffs Harbour, NSW, Australia, pp. 455-461.


Community Service

Organisation Name:   Friends of Parks Inc
Section:   Friends of Cleland Conservation Park
Type of Organisation:   Community organisation
Level of involvement:   Member since 1991
Comments:   Currently Editor of the FCCP newsletter.




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