Philip Hider

Biography

Professor Philip Hider has been Head of the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University since 2008. He holds an Honours degree in Social Anthropology from the London School of Economics, a Masters of Librarianship from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, and a PhD from City University, London. Philip worked at the British Library from 1995-1997, and in Singapore from 1997-2003. He publishes and researches in the areas of information organisation, retrieval and architecture, and served on the Australian Committee on Cataloguing from 2004-2009. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals and an Associate Member of the Australian Library and Information Association. Philip served as the Acting Executive Dean of the Faculty of Education from June 2015 until July 2016, when the Faculty, and School, moved into the new Faculty of Arts and Education. Philip was also the inaugural Head of the CSU Virtual Campus from 2014-15, and seconded on a part-time basis to the Federal Government's Office for Learning and Teaching in 2016.

Research Interest

Philip Hiders researches in the areas of information organisation, retrieval and architecture, and served on the Australian Committee on Cataloguing from 2004-2009