Mackay academic invited to work with researchers in South America
Published on 30 September, 2010
CQUniversity Mackay's senior lecturer in Multimedia Dr Steven Pace is off to South America this weekend after an "out of the blue" invitation to take part in an international research project...
Dr Pace said he had received a phone call from a professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra in Barcelona, Spain, seeking his involvement.
"The professor who invited me contacted me through my research publications. He is particularly interested in the grounded theory research method that I used for my doctoral study at ANU. You just never know who is reading your research publications," Dr Pace said.
The Mackay academic will leave on Saturday for a trip to Santiago, Chile. He will spend a week mentoring a team of researchers at Universidad Diego Portales who are working on a project entitled 'Women and new technologies in Chile'.
On the following Saturday, Dr Pace will fly to Buenos Aires, Argentina, for a week. He will mentor another team of researchers at Universidad Nacional de la Plata who are working on a project entitled 'The impact of public access to ICT on Argentine low-income urban youth'.
These two research projects are funded by the Amy Mahan Research Fellowship Program (www.upf.edu/amymahan) and are managed by Spain's Universitat Pompeu Fabra.
They are part of a larger international research project entitled 'The Global Impact Study of Public Access to Information and Communication Technologies' (www.globalimpactstudy.org/about), which is sponsored by Canada's International Development Research Centre (http://www.idrc.org/) and a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (http://www.gatesfoundation.org/).
The project aims to investigate the social and economic impact of public access to information and communication technologies, while simultaneously improving the quality of ICT research coming out of developing countries.
Santiago Chile with the Andes in the background