Research
Publications
Research and Publication
takes place in a number of ways in the Department.
One of the particular
strengths of the Department is the excellence of its postgraduate students, and
it is here that much of the research activities of the Department are to be
found.
Given the high teaching
workloads, it is commendable that staff members are seriously involved in
individual research, as well as supporting post graduate students. During the
last few years, a stronger research ethic is being built in the department with
the emphasis on urging staff members to improve their personal qualifications
and converting supervised student research in published research outputs.
The department's increase in research
outputs is clearly reflected in the publications list. This list is organised on
an annual basis rather than research topics or author because of our
internal processes and also in order to ensure consistency in coverage.
The following are the areas of specialization of the
various IS staff members. If you cannot get hold of a
research publication, you should try to contact the staff member directly.
- Associate Professor Irwin Brown:
strategic IS planning; IS theory development; systems thinking in IS; IS
effectiveness; end user technology adoption; global IT (cultural issues,
national development, digital divide)
- Dr Wallace Chigona:
community informatics; use of ICT as a tool for national development; and
information accessibility for illiterate adults
- Dr Eric Cloete: computer
architectures and software; information systems management; image
processing; electronic commerce
- Mr Mike Eccles: teaching
educationally disadvantaged students; object-oriented analysis and design;
information systems controls and security; e-learning; education and IS
- Professor Mike Hart:
strategic use of IS; key management issues in IS; perceptions of IS and the
digital divide; data mining; knowledge management; customer relationship
management; contact centres
- Mr Kevin Johnston: ICT
strategy and alignment; use of ICT in business; ICT management issues; OSS
- Associate Professor Michael
Kyobe: strategic IT planning; IT alignment; computer security and
utilisation of IT to leverage knowledge management
- Ms Jane Nash: computer
literacy; teaching IS; technology acceptance; IS staff retention
- Ms Elsje Scott:
object-orientated programming and methodologies; efficient teaching methods
for programming concepts; IS project management; with the specific focus on
student group projects
- Mr Kosheek Sewchurran:
problem structuring and sense making devices to support IS provision;
strategic planning for IS technology implementations; IS project and program
management; information and knowledge architectures
- Dr Lisa Seymour:
Enterprise IS; education and IS
- Professor Derek Smith:
information systems personnel management; project portfolio management;
project teams
- Mr Adrie Stander: data
communications; database design; human-computer interaction; culture and
information systems
- Associate Professor
Jean-Paul van Belle: adoption of information technologies; appropriate
ICTs; e-commerce and m-commerce; conceptual foundations of IS; enterprise IS
architectures; conceptual modelling
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