The Best of Times

School of Education and
 Communication, Jönköping University

I had a wonderful time in Sweden last week, which began at Jönköping University, where the Phenomenography and Variation Theory Conference (SIG 9) of the European Association of Research for Instruction and Learning (EARLI) was held. I presented the first morning with another doctoral candidate, Christine Yates, from Queensland University of Technology (QUT). Christine  presented the initial findings from her study of health information literacy of aging adults in Australia. I presented on the findings from my pilot (paper on this to hopefully be out soon), and my use of the methods to examine information use as part of overall learning. Christine is a full-time student at QUT in Brisbane AUS, and of course, I am in the Gateway (distance) part of the program, so we had never met. Our presentations both went off successfully and we had an interesting discussion after each. It was exciting, of course, to discuss my work with notable phenomenographers.