Our PhD students and their research

Listed below are PhD theses completed by past Information Systems and Operations Management students from 2014 onwards, including the name(s) of the supervisor(s) involved.

2024

Student  Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Saima Qutab Emergence of a Crowdsourcing Ecosystem for Knowledge Curation and Creation in the Cultural and Heritage Sector

Michael Myers

Lesley Gardner

Neda Pourreza
Dynamic Server Assignment for Emergency Departments: Optimal Server Assignment During Non-Stationary Arrivals

Tava Olsen

 

Cameron Walker

Aida Shams Behavioral Enablers of Servers in Queueing Systems

Valery Pavlov

 

Tava Olsen

Sunny Kareem Adaptive Sustainable Supply Chains in a Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) Environment

Timofey Shalpegin

 

Julia Fehrer

Christina Stringer

John Cleveland Acuna Strategic metrics for Emergency Department performance. Dynamic target to ensure quality of care and guided actions

Tava Olsen

 

Valery Pavlov

2023

Student  Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Na Luo Reducing Food Loss and Waste in Supply Chain Operations- The Impact of Government Intervention and Consumer Behaviour

Tava Olsen

David Robb

Ruhi Bajaj Towards proactive and prescriptive health: Leveraging wearable technology for health monitoring
 
 

Fernando Beltran

 

Rebecca Meiring

2022

Student  Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Norah Al Subait Modelling and Monitoring Sustainable development Goals in Higher Education Institution: Proposing, Designing and Implementing a Holistic Strategic Framework

Tiru Arthanari

 

David Sundaram

Gabrielle Peko

Anson Li

Hadwyn Ming Xi Chen
Exploring the Soft Side of ERP Implementation— The Ren Wen Factor

Tiru Arthanari

 

Gabrielle Peko

David Sundaram

Shadi Esnaashari New Insights on Students’ Perceptions, Motivations, and Learning Strategy Use to Inform Learning Analytics - through Self-Regulated Learning and Activity Theory

Lesley Gardner

 

Michael Rehm 

Tiru Arthanari

Mahsa Boroushaki Sustainability and Supply Chain Trade-offs for Agro-based Products
 
 

Tava Olsen

 

Valery Pavlov

Mahmudul Hasan Fighting an Infodemic: Managing Virtual Communities during Times of Disaster
 
 
 

Michael Myers

 

Cecil Chua

Tien Nguyen Understanding Value-driven Consumption of UGC: UGC Values and UGC Perceived Helpfulness in The Online Marketplace
 
 

Arvind Tripathi

 

Ananth Srinivasan

2021

Student Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Hossein Chegini
Design and implementation of a Software System for Weed Monitoring and Clean-up

Fernando Beltran

Aniket Mehanti

Mengxiao Zhang
Design and Secure Implementation of Private Data Query Mechanisms for Data Marketplaces

Fernando Beltran

 
Khairulliza Binti Ahmad Salleh Security Determinants in the Adoption of Big Data Solutions

Lech Janczewski

Fernando Beltran

Mark Geoffrey Hoksbergen Illuminating and Bridging the Vortex between Tacit and Explicit Knowledge: Counterbalancing Asymmetric Information in High-Value Low-Frequency Transactions

David Sundaram

Gabrielle Peko

Johnny Chan

Shahab Bayati Understanding Socio-technical Aspects of Contributions in Online Open Source Community

Arvind Tripathi

Ami Peiris

Tianyou Hu Understanding the value of financial advice on social media 

Arvind Tripathi

Henk Berkman

2020

Student  Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Claris Chung Sustainable Transformation of Individuals and Families

David Sundaram

Max Rhode

Khairulliza Ahmad Salleh Security Determinants in the Adoption of Big Data Solutions

Lech Janczewski

Fernando Beltran

2019

Student  Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Yvonne Hong Blended Learning in Higher Education: Understanding First-Year Undergraduates' Experiences

Lesley Gardner

Don Sheridan

Mojtaba Mahdavi Supply Chain Strategy: Further Development on how to Match Product Type with Supply Chain Design

Tava Olsen

Valery Pavlov

Jose Arriola Ortiz The Political Role of Social Media in Emerging Democracies

 Arvind Tripathi

Michael Myers

Udayangi Muthupoltotage Understanding Informal Personal Learning Environments:  An Exploration of Technology-enhanced Self-regulated Learning in Higher Education

Lesley Gardner

Valery Pavlov

Andy Nguyễn Learning analytics information systems for higher education: Design, development and implementation

Lesley Gardner

Don Sheridan

Cameron Taylor System architecture for information visibility in humanitarian logistics: Innovative lateral information sharing in a low trust, high risk, volatile environment for coordination 

Tiru Arthanari

David Sundaram

Shandong Mou Real-Time Labour Allocation in Retail Stores

David Robb

Valery Pavlov

David Sundaram

2018

Student  Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Foad Marzoughi
Designing a Framework to Estimate Project Duration with Respect to Weather Risk and Creating a Navigational Support System in Benchmark Space: Applied in Construction Projects

David Sundaram

 
Hamidreza Shahbaznezhad
Customer and Firm Interaction on Social Media Platforms

Arvind Tripathi

Ananth Srinivasan

Sarah Sabbaghan The role of computer-adaptive survey (CAS) in extracting customer feedback

Lesley Gardner

Cecil Chua

Valeria Sadovykh Use of online social networks in decision making: the case of healthcare decision support networks

David Sundaram

Arvind Tripathi

Michael Myers

Xiaojing Liu Robustifying Supply Chains against Corruption Risk: A New Zealand Dairy Industry Study Using System Dynamics

Tiru Arthanari

David Robb

Ali Haji Vahabzadeh Optimal Allocation of Intensive Care Unit Nurses to Patient-At-Risk-Team

Valery Pavlov

Tava Olsen

2017

Student  Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Asfahaan Mirza Te Reo Maori Revitalization: A crowd sourced preservation, curation and learning approach using ubiquitous systems and devices

David Sundaram

Michael Myers

Manuka Henare

Gabrielle Peko Adaptive Enterprises: a roadmap, framework, architecture and implementation

David Sundaram

Michael Myers

Michelle Soakell-Ho Towards business intelligence in preoperative care: choice, care and communication

Michael Myers

Douglas Campbell

Karen Day

Martin Orr

Xiaoyan Qian Modelling Contracts and Incentives in Agricultural Cooperatives with an Emphasis on Quality and Financial Decisions

Tava Olsen

 
Radhouane Ben Neji Jrad Roadmaps for Upgrading Unupgradable Legacy Processes in Inter-Organisational Middleware Systems: Concepts, Framework, Architecture, and Implementations

David Sundaram

 

2016

Student  Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Leila Etaati A Journey from Chaos to Harmony: Design and Implementation of an Adaptive Tourist Recommendation System

David Sundaram

 
Quan Zhou

Managing the Medical Reserve for Emergency Response 

Tava Olsen

Arvind Tripathi

Andrea Herrera Resilient Organisations in the Cloud

Lech Janczewski

 
Parastoo Samiei Farahani

Understanding Online Reviews and Reviewers

Arvind Tripathi

 
Ruilin Zhu Pattern, Practice and Potency of Information Systems Security Research: A Methodological Perspective

Lech Janczewski

 

2015

Student Title Main supervisors(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Md Islam

Transport capacity improvement in and around ports: A perspective on the empty-container-truck trips problem

Tava Olsen

 
Koteswara Ivaturi

Social Engineering - Emerging attacks, awareness and impact on online user attitudes and behaviours

Lech Janczewski

Cecil Chua

Xiaoyan Bai Purposeful Visualization Systems

David Sundaram

 
Paul Braund Silicon Valley's Online, Social, Entrepreneurial Enterprise Startups (OSEES): A Critical Research Study

Michael Myers

David Sundaram

Ahmad Obidat Toward Improving the Usability of Course Management Systems for Blind Users

Don Sheridan

Ananth Srinivasan

Mali Senapathi Understanding Sustained Usage of Agile Methodologies

Ananth Srinivasan

Don Sheridan

Farhaan Mirza Agent-based Modeling for the Analysis of Technology Introduction and Competition in Telecommunication Markets: Case studies of Fiber Optic Broadband and Wireless Markets

Fernando Beltran

Lech Janczewski

Yu-Wei Hsu Service Provision in Online Auctions: Understanding Repurchase Behaviours

Lesley Gardner

Ananth Srinivasan

2014

Student Title Main supervisor(s) Co-supervisor(s)
Rizwan Ahmad A Cloud Governance Framework for Cloud Computing: An Information Security Governance Perspective to Protect Cloud Users

Lech Janczewski

Jairo Gutierrez

Shahper Vodanovich Digital Native Well-being and Development in Ubiquitous Spaces

David Sundaram

Michael Myers

Arzoo Atiq Consumer Provider Interactions in the Design of Technology-Enabled Services

Lesley Gardner

Anath Srinivasan

Yangyan Shi Third Party Purchase: Effectiveness of Value-added Services by Third-Party Logistics Providers

Alan Stegner

 
Brad McKenna An Exploration of Social Movements in Virtual Worlds

Michael Myers

Lesley Gardner

Max Erik Rohde The Missing Link: Towards Connected, Flexible, Open and Productive Systems for Knowledge-Driven Organizations

David Sundaram