Faculty of Science and Information Technology

Professor Janet Aisbett

• PhD (University of Western Ontario)
• Master of Arts (University of Western Ontario)
• Graduate Diploma of Computer Science (Canberra College of Advanced Education)
• Bachelor of Science (University of New South Wales)

My recent research has been in 2 main areas:

• The first concerns representation and reasoning, with particular interest in modelling human cognition and from there, information structures.
• The second area concerns information systems strategy and evaluation, focussing on health systems, e-procurement and logistics.

Link to:
The Dampney Centre for Information Technology Applications (DCITA)

Teaching and Learning Grants:

• Attracting and Retaining Women in a Novel IT program Higher Education Equity Program funding $6780
• Development of “medical model” for teaching IT (J Aisbett, B Regan, R Fardell, R Herbert) Teaching Development Grant 2002 $10,000
• Development of an Information Services Centre with Teaching Responsibilities 2000 $99,000 (Commonwealth Government $50,000, NSW Government $39,000, CSC Australia $10,000)
• Report on Quality of Undergraduate Program B Engineering in Informatics Institute of Technology Bandung Indonesia, 2001, QUE Batch III project.

Research Grants:

• Invoking Consistency of Meaning in data Integration & Extraction for Electronic Health Records (K. Dampney, J. Aisbett, G Pegler) 2004-2006 ARC Linkage Grant with partner NSW Health
• Semantic Compliance in Complex Enterprise Information Systems (K. Dampney, J. Aisbett, G Pegler) 2003-2005 ARC Linkage Grant with partner NSW Health
• Palladium Based Mobile Agent System for Collaborative Environments (M. Miller, E. Chang, J.Aisbett, M. McMahon) 2003-2005 ARC Linkage Grant with industry partner CE-Solutions
• Prototype of global e-tracking system (E Chang, J Aisbett, M Miller) 2001 Kersley Group Ltd
• Prediction and scheduling in a livestock production chain with unexplained outcomes (J. Aisbett, G. Gibbon) 1999-2001 ARC SPIRT Grant with industry partner Bartter
• Investigation of Differences in Paediatric Hospital Costs (C Aisbett, J Aisbett, B Reid et al) 2002 Victorian Department of Health Services
• Matching of Hospital Data sets (C Aisbett, J Aisbett et al ) 2002-3 Victorian Department of Health Services
• Data analysis of General Practice and Emergency: Department interface Phase 1 (C Aisbett, J Aisbett, S Fields, M Foster, G Gibbon,T Ho, R Shureck,A Sprogis, B Reid, L Ridoutt) 2002 Department of Health & Aged Care

Extensive curricula design including lead role in 2 important programs at Newcastle: the Master of Information Technology in 1997, and the Bachelor of Information Technology in 2002. The former was novel for its incorporation of strands ranging from computer engineering through to electronic business taught across Faculties. The latter is groundbreaking in its use of problem based learning.

Teaching has covered a range of postgraduate and undergraduate courses including: digital technologies for media and entertainment; information systems strategy and evaluation; databases; health informatics.

• Currently co-supervising 4 PhD students on topics: representation and consistency; technology adoption theories; web search as information consumption; information systems effectiveness and its relationship to marketing effectiveness
• Completed 1 Masters and 2 PhD students on topics: increasing effective information systems use in primary industry; evaluation of structures for visual information presentation; analysis of very large datasets
• Honours students' theses include information systems evaluation and decision support systems for classification.

• 1997 - Professor of Information Systems, The University of Newcastle
• 1996 Professor of Computing, University of Tasmania
• 1988-1995 Principal Research Scientist, Defence Science & Tech Organisation (DSTO)
• 1985- 1988 Senior Research Scientist/Research Scientist DSTO
• 1983-1985 Senior Research Officer in Biomedicine, University of Queensland
• 1982 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Queensland
• 1981 Senior Research Assistant University of Queensland
• 1978-1980 Ph D Student and Tutor, University of Western Ontario
• 1976-77 Data Analyst, Australian National University
• 1974-75 Graduate Clerk, Australian Bureau Statistics