Centre news

• Dr Martin Sykora and Dr Suzanne Elayan have been working on a stream of ground-breaking research on social media analytics in public health, the digitization of health, the role of digital technologies, and social platforms in healthcare and mental wellbeing.
• The Centre for Information Management (CIM) is working in partnership with The Police Foundation as they host a special seminar about policing innovation on the 19th of May 2021.
• Professor Peter Kawalek and Dr Crispin Coombs explore shifting the focus from economics to well-being in the relationship between man and machine.
• Visiting Professor John Beckford has been analysing the comparative statistics for healthcare performance over the Covid-19 crisis.
• Professor Robert Galliers has had a paper published in the globally respected and highly ranked Journal of Management Studies: “Datification and the Pursuit of Meaningfulness in Work”.
• Dr Boyka Simeonova and Prof Mat Hughes held a workshop on June 4th: Tools for Enhancing Business Decision Making.
• Prof Tom Jackson and Dr Ejovwoke Onojeharho are leading on the TOXI-MOTIVE part of a large international multi-institutional research study called TOXI-TRIAGE, with recent field trials in Finland to test the various processes and technologies.
• Dr Silvia Masiero’s latest project pertains to datafication (the rendering into data of previously non-quantifiable aspects of the world), and seeks to understand its effects on the design and implementation of anti-poverty programmes. Beyond research, Silvia is a committed international volunteer in the fields of human rights and assistance to refugees, and has worked with vulnerable communities in Togo, Sierra Leone, India, Jordan, Lebanon and the West Bank of Palestine
• Professor Louise Cooke has been working on "The development of Guidelines on Public Internet Access", with the International Federation of Library Associations, IFLA.
• Dr Patrick Stacey, co-author of the paper “A Paradox of Progressive Saturation: The Changing Nature of Improvisation over Time in a Systems Development Project”, published by JAIS (Journal of the Association for Information Systems) in 2017, received the Senior Scholar Best Information Systems Publication Awarding recognition of the importance of the paper.
• CIM is pleased to announce a new Distinguished Speaker Series for 2019, starting with Steve Kuncewicz on 30 January 2019.
• New £20million research scheme led by Professor Alistair Milne and Professor Chris Holland is launched - investigating how AI can transform UK services.
• New PhD studentships on the topic of spreading of online misinformation and disinformation now available.
• Professor Tom Jackson and co-author Steven Lockwood have just published a new book on business analytics. It explores the importance of data in everyday situations and how it’s used effectively to drive outcome, improve performance and influence decision making. 
• Dr Martin Sykora, Dr Suzanne Elayan and Professor Tom Jackson contributed to the research report to British Parliament on the possible threats of online memes to the well-being of young people.
• Professor Tom Jackson is leading on the decision sciences segment of the TOXI-Triage research project, TOXI-Motive, which is seeking to tckle how emergency services deals with mass casualty disasters such as biological or nuclear attacks.
• CIM Director Peter Kawalek will give his inaugural lecture on October 17th at 5pm here on campus. The title: The Digital: Eating the World?
• A new research paper by recent CIM PhD graduate Josh Morton and Dr Patrick Stacey on strategic ability within executive IT leaders has been published by UC Berkeley's California Management Review. 
• Professor Louise Cooke is an editor of a new 22-page report filled with guidance and practical advice for librarians.