Research Projects at SIM
SIM staff are engaged in a many major research projects funded by grants such as the Marsden Fund and Victoria University Scholarship funds. Our current projects are listed below.
Current Marsden Grants
The Printers' Web: Typographical Journals and Global Communication Networks in the Nineteenth Century
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In 2009 Dr Sydney Shep received her second Marsden grant to investigate how the typographical journal print genre constructed a sophisticated global communication network called "the printers' web". Sydney will look at how printer-journalists adapted to differing local circumstances and colonial print shops, and how this affected their fundamentally trans-national journalistic habits. She aims to produce a book-length work investigating how the complex mesh of informational webs kept people together during a period of massive technological change and large-scale migration. Funded for $564,000 over 3 years, the project will also form a partnership with international institutions to digitise rare and significant typographical journals for preservation and access by students and scholars around the globe. Sydney's previous Marsden looked at "The problem with paper: NZ colonial paper and papermaking". Additional work arising from that has been an British Academy-funded project on NZ-Scottish migration, identity and print culture, looking at the Kinleith papermill in Tokoroa.
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Research Funding and Awards for SIM Staff and Students
Global Information Systems Success Measurement Model
Dr Mary Tate is part of an international team awarded a $125,000 Australian Research Council (ARC) Discovery grant to research a global Information Systems success measurement model.
What Factors Determine the Effectiveness of Tutors in Tutorials?
Undergraduate Programme Director Dr David Mason has been awarded funding by the University Teaching and Learning Strategy Committee for a research project into "What factors determine the effectiveness of tutors in tutorials?"
David will lead the research project, joined by Undergradute Manager Simon Park. Findings from this meaningful topic stand to benefit not only SIM's students but also all of us who use tutors on our courses, or who are responsible for their selection and training, as well as the tutors themselves.
Future Memory at Risk: Digital Preservation and Cultural Heritage
Dr Gillian Oliver's research project, Future Memory at Risk: Digital Preservation and Cultural Heritage, is being supported by a Vice Chancellor's Strategic Research PhD Scholarship, one of 16 selected in 2009. Future access to a trustworthy and meaningful national memory requires these institutions to identify, preserve and make accessible significant digital artefacts of society and also to capture the relationships of these artefacts to the contexts within which they were created and curated. This project's purpose is to investigate the varying responsibilities, and outcomes will include relevant strategies for a collaborative digital preservation programme to provide the foundation for our digital national memory.
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Current Staff Research
The table below gives a brief flavour of the many research areas and collaborations within the School of Information Management. Topic areas include:
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Researcher
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Strategy
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Sid Huff
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IS strategic alignment
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Val Hooper
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The impact of IS-organisational alignment on organisational performance in the public sector
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Val Hooper
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Using the Strategic Alignment model to explore alignment issues between business and IT in a large, financial services organisation in South Africa. Co-researchers: Kevin Johnstone and Farhad Sader, both of University of Cape Town, South Africa
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Val Hooper
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The contribution of IT to firm performance. Co-researcher: Benoit Aubert of HEC, University of Montreal, and Anne-Marie Croteau of Concordia University, Canada
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David Johnstone
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IT project governance
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Sid Huff
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IT governance
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Adoption & Utilisation
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Sid Huff
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IT adoption and utilisation
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Mary Tate
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The use of quantitative methods for research on user attitudes and perceptions towards technology
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ICT
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Alastair Smith
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Investigating the types of links made between websites, and reasons for linking, in order to have better understanding of web link counts as a measure of importance of websites
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Brenda Chawner
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Factors that influence participant satisfaction with free/open source software
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Mobile Technology
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Eusebio Scornavacca
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The influence of temporal, spatial and contextual work requirements on individuals' perceived need for mobile information systems
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Val Hooper
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The promotion of potentially harmful lifestyles to young adults via the Internet and mobile devices: A social marketing perspective. Co-researchers: Janet Carruthers, SMIB, VUW, and Derek Stephens and Janet Harrison of Loughborough University, UK
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Tiong Goh
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Affective and persuasive mobile learning support system (2010)
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Learning & Teaching
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Tiong Goh
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Peer-to-peer collaborative learning with e-book devices over 3G-wifi ad-hoc network (2010)
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Tony Hooper
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Gender, timing and life circumstances: The impact of tertiary management education on the career directions of mid-career students
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Tony Hooper
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New Zealand case studies in Information Management
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Sid Huff
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Knowledge transfer and knowledge management
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Information Systems
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Janet Toland
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Regional development and ICTs
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Janet Toland
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History of computing in New Zealand
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Tony Hooper
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Internet usage in lower-end SMMEs in South Africa
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Preservation and Records Management
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Rowena Cullen
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Institutional repositories in the New Zealand academic community. Co-researchers: Brenda Chawner
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Brenda Chawner
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Acceptability and use of institutional repositories in New Zealand. Co-researchers: Rowena Cullen
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Dan Dorner
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Digital preservation in New Zealand professional, trade and industry associations
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Gillian Oliver
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Information culture. Co-researchers: Dan Dorner and Mark Crookston of Archives New Zealand
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Tony Hooper
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E-mail records management: Exploring e-mail recordkeeping in the New Zealand public service. Co-researchers: Jacqui Kew of the University of Cape Town
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Identity & Privacy
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Brenda Chawner
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Factors that influence library and information managers use of social media and the ways they approach establishing personal and professional online identities
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Tony Hooper
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The use of privacy principles as a measure of business integrity
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Tony Hooper
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Social networking services, personal privacy and risky behaviour
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Emotions & Social Networks
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Tiong Goh
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Perceived emotion risk classification with support vector machine (2010)
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Val Hooper
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The development and influence of social norms in social networking sites. Co-reasearchers: Emma Short and Dora Dallas, both of the University of Bedfordshire, UK
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Tony Hooper
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Trust in electronic commerce. Co-researcher: Val Hooper
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Information Sharing
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Rowena Cullen
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The nature of discourse in online discussion
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Rowena Cullen
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Collaborate 2Innovate: Integrating telehealth into the continuum of care. Co-researchers: Greg Martin and Bronwyn Howell
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