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Dr Dan Dorner, Research Degrees Programme DirectorRoom: Rutherford House (RH) 411

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How to Apply

The Faculty of Graduate Research (FGR) provides the first port of call for all students interested in enrolling in a PhD at Victoria. The FGR website provides application forms, application dates, and answers to a host of questions. You may submit an application at any time but applications will only be considered three times each year, in March, July, and November.

لیست انتخابی  پایان نامه ها و اساتید راهنما :

1- Effect of ICT connectivity on individual productivity

2- Organizational knowledge sharing on preservation management of traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) amongst cultural institutions in Sarawak, Malaysia

While preservation is essential in the aspiration of perpetual access to information, the GLAM's (galleries, libraries, archives and museums) sector focus of preservation management is more on the tangible documentary or artefacts heritage. Increasingly, there is a change towards preservation to include the intangible aspect of the tangibles. Preservation management of traditional cultural expressions (TCEs) has to be holistic, encompassing the cultural significance of a heritage object, which should not be separated from the preservation of traditions, oral history, community and identity. Among institutions responsible for indigenous cultural resources in Sarawak there are currently no common protocols or models for the identification, collection, documentation, preservation and appropriate dissemination of the Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions of Sarawak's indigenous people. An effective framework is essential to ensure the consistent, legal and ethical handling of the cultural resources involved and to facilitate consultation with the relevant communities, for whom the resources may be sensitive, sacred or restricted to certain groups. Does a Knowledge Management-based framework offer a practical and transparent method of ensuring the effective handling of Traditional Knowledge and Traditional Cultural Expressions?

Please contact me to discuss any aspects of this research [e-mail]

Supervisors: Dr Dan Dorner & Dr Jocelyn Cranefield

3- A contextual model for developing digital library education for Vietnamese library and information management practitioners

The need for digital library education (DLE) has increased significantly in the last two decades. During this time more information in libraries has become available only in digital form and many libraries have begun to create their own digital collections of important cultural heritage resources. Educating staff to establish and manage digital libraries has become a critical issue especially in developing countries such as Vietnam, where education programmes in library and information management (LIM) have lagged behind their counterparts in developed countries. The main objectives of this study are to identify and understand the factors affecting the development of DLE for LIM practitioners in Vietnam, and to use those factors as a foundation for establishing a contextual model that will help guide library practitioners and DLE providers in designing, implementing and facilitating DLE programmes.

This research will address the following research questions:

• What are the contextual factors affecting DLE for LIM practitioners in Vietnam?
• How do the factors affect DLE for LIM practitioners in Vietnam?
• What are the DLE needs of LIM organisations and practitioners in Vietnam?
• What are the main DLE priorities for LIM organisations and practitioners in Vietnam?

Please contact me to discuss any aspects of this research at [e-mail]

Supervisors: Dr Dan Dorner & Dr Philip Calvert

4- Knowledge interpretation and organizational context as influencers of employees' intention to contribute to electronic recordkeeping systems

Records have been at the foundation of civilisation since ancient times. Indeed, the word archive (Greek: archeion) describes the keystone of an arch. Metaphorically, the ancient Greeks considered the archive (and its records) as the keystone in the arch of government. In modern times, the importance of trustworthy records to the smooth running of society has grown, not diminished -- consider Enron and Worldcom. The majority of documents are now created electronically; however, an electronic document is not a trustworthy electronic record until it is under appropriate management to guard the key characteristics of its recordness, namely: authenticity, reliability, integrity, and usability.

With the Public Records Act 2005 now in force, this management is also a legislative imperative. Currently, only Electronic Document and Records Management Systems (EDRMS) are capable of capturing and maintaining the required metadata to make an electronic document into an electronic record. Given the detailed contextual knowledge required, the current technology also requires end users (not records managers) to be willing to lodge their documents, emails, and reports into the EDRMS. If they lack the intention to use the EDRMS, then their creations will not fall under formal management and will be lost.

The goal of this research is to determine what factors influence an employee's decision to use (or not) an EDRMS.

Please contact me to discuss any aspects of this research [e-mail]

Supervisors: Dr Val Hooper and Dr Gillian Oliver

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Information infrastructure and e-learning in Sri Lanka: Implementation and associated factors

Information is the key resource in the socio-economic development and technological advancement of a nation. In Sri Lanka, there is a lack of well trained information managers and their responsibilities have increased tremendously with the country's growing need to implement more robust information infrastructure. There is a high demand for e-learning in Information Management (IM) for students and learners among professional associations, government departments, authorities, statutory institutions, companies, etc. because Sri Lanka faces a number of issues, including:

• difficulty in travelling between the centre and peripheries for students and learners;
• lack of time; space and programmes leading to employment;
• difficulty in accessing and sharing training resources among library institutions;
• lack of knowledge, skills and experiences in implementing e-learning in IM among training staff;
• lack of well trained human resources in IM;
• lack of knowledge and research on the implementation of e-learning in IM among library institutions in Sri Lanka.

Therefore the proposed study is guided by the research questions:

1. Why an effective implementation of e-learning is necessary, as perceived by Library and Information Science teachers and lecturers in Sri Lanka?
2. What are the needs for e-learning in IM to students and learners among library institutions and other organisations in Sri Lanka?
3. What are the key components and associated factors in the implementation of e-learning in IM among library institutions and other organisations in Sri Lanka?
4. How does this implementation support the library institutions and other organisations in meeting the needs of e-learning in IM?

This research would have a direct impact on the development of IM education in Sri Lanka, which is being seriously affected by the lack of trained personnel in the field.

Please contact me to discuss any aspects of this research [e-mail]

Supervisors: Dr Chern Li Liew and Dr Jocelyn Cranefield

6-In 2012, Haibo will be co-teaching ELCM 211 Foundations of e-Commerce.

The adoption of cloud computing PaaS (Platform as a Service) and its impact on the management and practice of information system development

System Development has always been the "heart and soul" of both IS research and practice. The recent rapid growth of 'cloud computing' has meant that many new computer applications are being developed to run as cloud-based services. PaaS is a type of cloud-based service which offers IS developers an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), satisfying all their Software Development Life Cycle requirements (designing, developing, testing, implementing, monitoring, etc.). PaaS not only reduces environment administration efforts (which takes up to 30 percent of developers' working time), thereby helping them to stay focused on creative development activities; but more importantly, it provides a unified environment allowing developers to simultaneously execute their tasks which in the past had to be done sequentially at separated places. Furthermore, PaaS providers have also attempted to reduce the entry barriers for system development by enabling non-programmers to create business applications. The advent of PaaS is expected to challenge traditional IS development practices, lead to new development approaches and raise fresh management issues.

Haibo's research questions include:

• What are the factors influencing the adoption of Cloud Computing PaaS in information system development projects?
• How does PaaS change the practice and management of IS development?
• In what ways does PaaS enable End-User Application Development?

Please contact me to discuss any aspects of this research at [e-mail]

Supervisors: Professor Sid Huff & Dr Mary Tate

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