Biographical note
Dr Amber Marshall is an Adjunct Researcher to The Cairns Institute. She is an early career researcher taking her city-based education to the bush! In June 2014 she (and her park ranger husband) relocated from Brisbane to Kings Canyon - a national park 350kms SW of Alice Springs - where she completed her PhD (Digital Communications) from UQ Business School via unreliable satellite internet. Her struggles to stay connected in the desert fuelled her passion for her current research track. More recently she lived in Chillagoe and Croydon (both in rural/remote Far North Queensland) where she built the networks necessary to undertake research on digital inclusion in regional, rural and remote Australia. Amber is also affiliated with the Digital Media Research Centre (Queensland University of Technology) where she is helping to develop a national research agenda for digital inclusion, particularly in rural and remote areas.
Research interests/expertise
Digital inclusion, internet connectivity, qualitative research, ethnography, sensemaking, process studies, organisation studies, virtuality.
Research Grants
Australian Communications Consumer Action Network (ACCAN) 2017-2018, Independent Grants Program - $36,000
Publications
Marshall, A. (2016). ‘Sensemaking in virtual settings: A practice-based approach’. Doctoral dissertation, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
Conference papers
Marshall, A. (2014). ‘Sensemaking in Second Life’. In: J. Paulo Cravino, Christian Gütl, Paulo Martins and J. Bernardino Lopes, Procedia Technology. SLACTIONS 2013: Research conference on virtual worlds – Learning with simulations (107-111). 21-23 November, 2013.
Marshall, A. & Sandberg, J. (2011) ‘Sensemaking in ‘real’ versus virtual environments: A comparison and challenge’. Paper accepted to 3rd International Symposium on Process Organisation Studies - Korfu, Greece.
Other publications
Dezuanni, M., Burgess, J., Thomas, J., Barraket, J., Marshall, A., Wilson, C., Ewing, S., MacDonald, T., (2017) ‘Measuring Queensland’s Digital Divide − The Australian Digital Inclusion Index 2017: Queensland’, RMIT University, Melbourne, for Telstra.