2014 - PHIS-NZ Best Doctoral Thesis Award
The panel convened to award the 2014 PHIS-NZ Information
Systems Doctoral Thesis Award is pleased to announce the winner is:
Dr Brad McKenna
University of Auckland
for his research thesis "An Exploration of Social
Movements in Virtual Worlds"
Supervisors: Professor Michael Myers (primary) and Dr
Lesley Gardner
Comments from the panel about the research, an abstract
of the thesis, additional information about the award, etc are included in the
attached announcement.
The panel acknowledges the high quality of research
evident in the two other nominations:
Dr Sohaib Ahmed
Massey University
for his research thesis "Mobile Learning Ontologies:
Supporting Abductive Inquiry-Based Learning in the Sciences"
Supervisors: Associate Professor David Parsons (primary),
Associate Professor Hokyoung Ryu and Dr Mandia Mentis
Dr Lindsay Stuart
University of Canterbury
for his research thesis "The Effect of
Organisational Cultures and Subcultures on Enterprise System
Implementation"
Supervisors: Associate Professor Annette Mills (primary)
and Professor Ulrich Remus
The members of the award panel for 2014 are:
--Associate Professor Dennis Viehland, Massey University
(chair)
--Professor Stephen Cranefield, University of Otago
--Associate
Professor Val Hooper, Victoria University in Wellington
--Associate Professor
Annette Mills, University of Canterbury
The thesis summary can be downloaded via the link below:
