Lisa M. Given

Lisa Mae Given is a Canadian-Australian information studies academic.

She is currently Director, Social Change Enabling Capability Platform and Professor of Information Sciences at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia.

She is Editor-in-Chief of the Annual Review of Information Science and Technology.

After a B.A. Hons in English, a B.Ed., and an MLIS from the University of Western Ontario, Given completed a PhD titled The social construction of the 'mature student' identity: effects and implications for academic information behaviours, also from UWO.

While in Canada, she served as Director, International Institute for Qualitative Methodology from 2007 to 2009, where she was awarded lifetime status as a Distinguished Scholar in 2010.

She also served as a Panel Member for Canada's Interagency Advisory Panel on Research Ethics (2010-2012) and a member of the Expert Panel on Research Integrity for the Council of Canadian Academies.

A former member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts (2011-2014), Given has served on several Boards of Directors, including: President of the Association for Information Science and Technology (ASIS&T) from 2017 to 2018; President of the Canadian Association for Information Science (CAIS) from 2006 to 2007; and Secretary/Treasurer for the Association for Library and Information Science Education (ALISE) from 2006 to 2009.

Given held multiple roles at University of Alberta and Charles Sturt University before moving to Swinburne University of Technology to serve as Dean, Research and Development from 2017 to 2021.

In 2022, she began in her current role as Director, Social Change Enabling Capability Platform and Professor of Information Sciences at RMIT University.