Visitors to SIM in 2012
Professor Gordon Hunter
Office: RH 419
Phone: 04 463 7436
Email: gordon.hunter@vuw.ac.nz
Dr Gordon Hunter, Professor of Information Systems in the Faculty of Management at the University of Lethbridge (Canada), will be teaching a courses at SIM in Trimester 1: INFO 321 Principles of Project Management.
Gordon has extensive experience as a systems analyst and manager in industry and government organisations in Canada, and has previously held academic positions at universities in Hong Kong, Singapore, and Canada.
Currently an Associate Editor of the Journal of Global Information Management, the International Journal on Innovation in the Digital Economy, and the International Journal of Sociotechnology and Knowledge Development, he is widely-published and has held visiting positions at universities in Australia, England, Germany, Monaco, New Zealand, Poland, Turkey, and the US.
Gordon's research interests in the information systems (IS) area include the effective management of IS with emphasis on the personnel component; the role of Chief Information Officers; and the use of IS by small business.
Dr Elfi Furtmueller
Office: RH 414
Phone: 04 463 6876
Email: elfi.furtmueller@vuw.ac.nz
Dr Elfi Furtmueller will be visiting the School from the University of Twente (The Netherlands) in the first half of 2012 and co-teaching ELCM 211 Foundations of e-Commerce in Trimester 1.
Elfi is on the Editorial Board of the British Journal of Management and has published in Information Systems, Service Management and HRM (e.g. European Journal of IS, Journal of Service Management).
Before joining academia, Elfi worked in communications, human resources and training in multinational (Siemens, National Bank of Upper Austria) and non-profit organisations (Red Cross, AmeriCorps) in Austria, Germany and the US. Previously, she conducted research at the University of California, Berkeley and has been Assistant Professor at the University of Twente since 2007.
Elfi's current research focuses on:
- Website service quality
- Customer commitment, retention and identification
- Service (re)design requirements
- e-HRM and e-Learning
Dr Przemyslaw Polak
Email: ppolak@sgh.waw.pl
Dr Przemyslaw Polak was based at the School during the first three months of 2012 in a visit arranged by Victoria International. Przemyslaw is an Associate Professor at the Warsaw School of Economics, teaching in the areas of Management Information Systems, Computer Networks, and Systems Analysis and Design. He is also an independent consultant in the area of Information Systems and Information Technology.
His visit was part of a project to develop a curriculum for Bachelor in Management program fully taught in English at the Warsaw School of Economics.
Przemyslaw's current research focuses on:
- Information systems integration in mergers and acquisitions
- The obstacles to implement business process approach in public administration
- Process approach in systems analysis
- The usage of Internet and traditional information sources by students
He is keen to explore opportunities for collaboration in these or related areas.
View a list of Dr Przemyslaw Polak's recent publications »
Previous Visitors
Professor Schubert Foo
SIM was pleased to welcome Professor Schubert Foo as a Visiting Scholar to our School during January and February 2011. Schubert, currently Associate Dean of the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University (Singapore), is a leading library and information science researcher in the Asia-Pacific region. His research interests include
- Internet technology
- multimedia technology
- multilingual information retrieval
- digital libraries
- information and knowledge management
Schubert has published extensively in these areas, is an active member of many boards and committees, and a regular keynote speaker at conferences.
Professor Wendy Duff
Professor Wendy Duff arrived in February 2011 to teach a special topic course in Trimester 1: INFO 560, Archives: Access Advocacy and Outreach.
Wendy is a Professor at the Faculty of Information, University of Toronto and Director of the Faculty's Digital Curation Institute, and a highly respected author and researcher with a focus on access to archival materials. Her research interests include user studies, archival metadata, and collaboration among libraries, archives and museums.
Wendy's current research focuses on
- the development of generic user-based evaluation tools
- the information seeking behaviour of archival users
- archival reference
- information technology needs of museum workers
INFO 560 Course Prescription (2011): Students will develop an understanding of theories and methods of serving the public and promoting archives. The course focuses on information-seeking behaviours in an archival context, and the principles, design and implementation of access and outreach services in an archive.