PhD graduates

Completed theses by PhD research students in the School of Information Management

Related Links of our students achievements

• Masters by Thesis (MCOM/MCA/MA)
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Most of these theses are available online via the Victoria University of Wellington Library.

PhDs completed in 2026

• Boni Adie
  Digital Leadership Competencies For Digital Government
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Mary Tate and Dr Wonhyuk Cho

PhDs completed in 2025

• Ishara Kandane Arachchige Don
  Supporting the Sensemaking and Adoption of Human-Ai Collaboration
  Supervisors:  Prof Alex Richter & AProf Mary Tate

• Bayu Nuswantoro
  Exploring the Role of Visibility in Hybrid Work 
  Supervisors: Prof Alex Richter

• Alison Day
  The Collecting and connecting experiences of LGBTQ+ communities, LGBTQ+ independent archives and the GLAMU sector in Aotearoa New Zealand
  Supervisors:  Dr Maja Krtalic &  AProf Chern Li Liew

PhDs Completed in 2024

• Prem Khanal
  Frugal Innovation and Digital Effectuation 
  Supervisors: Dr Jean-Gregoire Bernard,  Dr Mary Ellen Gordon

• Talitakuum Ekandjo
  Human-Ai Interaction in Regulating Productivity and Wellbeing
  Supervisors:  AProf Jocelyn Cranefield & Dr Yi-Te Chieu

• Niloofar Solhjoo
  Information Experience within Multispecies Families: Understanding shared life with companion cats and dogs
  Supervisors:  Dr Maja Krtalic & Prof Anne Goulding

• Ahmad Nadzri Bin Mohamad
  Exploring Open Data Affordances for Entrepreneurial Opportunity Recognition
  Supervisors:  Dr Allan Sylvester & Dr Jennifer Campbell-Meier

• Patricia Velasquez
  Exploring Academic Blended Libraries: A Study of Student Experiences 
  Supervisors:  Prof Anne Goulding & AProf Chern Li Liew

• Alfred Chikomba
  From Chaos to Control: Adapting Frameworks for Data Governance in Healthcare Crisis Response
  Supervisors:  Dr Allan Sylvester & Dr Jennifer Campbell-Meier

• Rebecca Mines
  Student Experiences in Technology-Infused Learning Contexts: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis Exploration
  Supervisors: Dr Allan Sylvester & Dr Louise Starkey

• Nancy Li
  Unveiling the Nexus of Science and Policy Communities: Studying the Science-Policy Interface Using Natural Language Processing and Network Science
  Supervisors: Prof Markus Luczak-Roesch & Dr Flavoa Donadalli

PhDs Completed in 2023

• Ngoc vu (An)
  Improving online recommendation systems - a user-centric approach
  Supervisors: Dr Mary Ellen Gordon & AProf Jocelyn Cranefield

• Ba Xuan Nguyen
  International Research Collaboration Measurement
  International Research Collaboration Measurement
  Supervisors: Prof Markus Luczak-Roesch

PhDs completed in 2022

• Yevgenia (Jane) Li
  Co-evolution of social media crises.
  Supervisors: Dr Jean-Gregoire Bernard and Dr Markus Luczak-Roesch

PhDs completed in 2021

• Kingsley Ihejirika
  Social Media Strategies for Marketing in University Libraries: Undergraduate User Attitudes and Motivation for Engagement
  Supervisors: Prof Anne Goulding & Dr Philip Calvert

• Cameron Pierson
  Factors influencing professional identity development and negotiation of public librarians in Aotearoa New Zealand
  Supervisors: Prof Anne Goulding & Dr Jennifer Campbell-Meier

• Rodreck David
  Formation of inter-organisational platforms.
  Supervisors: Dr Jean-Gregoire Bernard, Dr Markus Luczak-Roesch and Professor Benoit Aubert (HRA)

PhDs completed in 2020

• Kathryn Oxborrow
  “It's not just a professional development thing”: Non-Māori librarians in Aotearoa New Zealand making sense of mātauranga Māori
  Supervisors: Prof Anne Goulding & Associate Professor Spencer Lilley

• Iva Seto
  Expert advisory groups: Exploring the sensemaking process during a public health crisis response
  Supervisors: Dr David Johnstone & Dr Jennifer Campbell-Meier

PhDs completed in 2019

• Lauren Bennett
  Technology in the classroom: Exploring the experience of secondary students using activity theory
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Janet Toland & Dr Bronwyn Howell

• Winifred Bentil
  Electronic Resource Management and Usage in Academic Libraries: The Ghanaian Context
  Supervisors:  Dr Chern-Li Liew  & Dr Brenda Chawner

• Ijay Ushaka
  An exploratory design science study on theory testing using crowdsourcing
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Pedro Antunes & Dr David Johnstone

PhDs completed in 2018

• Rashidah Bolhassan
  Safeguarding Sarawak's intangible cultural heritage: A knowledge management approach
  Supervisors: Dr Dan Dorner & Dr Jocelyn Cranefield

• Chommanaad Boonaree
  Factors affecting reading for pleasure practices in Community Libraries in Thailand
  Supervisors: Professor Anne Goulding & Dr Philip Calvert

• Haibo Yang
  In a quest to solve Information System agility problems: A SaaS experience
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Pedro Antunes & Dr David Johnstone

PhDs completed in 2017

• U.G.D. Lakshila Dilhani Perera Abeysekara
  Business value of ICT for small tourism enterprises: The case of Sri Lanka
  Supervisors: Dr Janet Toland & Dr Christian Schott

• Arif Ali
  The development of the learning exchange School clusters in New Zealand: An actor network theory and complexity theory analysis
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong (HRA) & Dr Allan Sylvester
  Please contact Arif to discuss any aspects of this research at arifalih@gmail.com.

• Amitha Kumara Padukkage Don Kaushal
  The impact of environmental uncertainty on business–IT alignment: A study in Sri Lanka
  Supervisors: Dr Janet Toland & Associate Professor Val Hooper

• Syahida Binti Hassan
  Motivations for virtual community participation in social commerce: Customers and sellers in the Malay lifestyle blogging community
  Supervisors: Dr Janet Toland &  Associate Professor Mary Tate

• Kay Sanderson
  Digital materiality, heritage objects, the emergence of evidence, and the design of knowledge enabling systems
  Supervisors: Dr Sydney Shep & Dr Dan Dorner

PhDs completed in 2016

• Geetha Kanaparan
  Self-efficacy and engagement as predictors of student programming performance: An international perspective
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Rowena Cullen & Dr David Mason

• Fahimi Md Ali
  Cross-boundary information sharing by knowledge brokers during a disaster
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong & Dr Jean-Grégoire Bernard

• Quang Nguyen
  The relationship between enterprise resource planning (ERP) implementation and intellectual capital under moderating effect of organizational learning capability
  Supervisors:  Dr Philip Calvert  ; Professor Benoit Aubert & Associate Professor Mary Tate

• Thuan Hoang Nguyen
  Establish crowdsourcing as an organizational business process: A design science approach
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Pedro Antunes & Dr David Johnstone
  Thuan's personal page at Google Scholar

• Alireza Nili
  Digital service problems: Prevention and user persistence in solving them
  Supervisors: Dr David Johnstone; Associate Professor Mary Tate & Professor Guy Gable (HRA)

• Isaac Kenechukwu Ohaji
  Research Data Management: An exploration of the data librarian role in New Zealand research organisations
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong & Dr Brenda Chawner

• Edgar Pacheco
  Vision impairment and the transition to University education: The role of ICTs
  Supervisors: Professor Miriam Lips & Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong

• Nishanie Priyanga De Silva Senapathy Pereira
  Exploring the use of ICTs in non-profit sector organisations: Supporting the third act
  Supervisors: Dr Janet Toland & Emeritus Professor Rowena Cullen

• Ahmed Shuhaiber
  Factors influencing customer trust in B2C mobile payment: A cultural study of the United Arab of Emirates
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Hans Lehmann; Senior Lecturer Tony Hooper & Associate Professor Val Hooper

PhDs completed in 2015

• Balsam Nabil Al-Dabbagh
  The effect of ICT connectivity on individual work productivity: Investigating the influence of ICT self-discipline
  Supervisors: Dr Eusebio Scornavacca;  Dr Allan Sylvester  & Associate Professor Val Hooper (Victoria University of Wellington Supervisor)

• Hung Van Do
  Contextual factors affecting the development of Digital Library Education in Vietnam
  Supervisors: Dr Dan Dorner & Dr Philip Calvert

• Hugo Xiaoyi Gong
  E-campaigning: An empirical study of the utilisation of ICTs for election campaigning in the 2008 New Zealand General Election
  Supervisors: Professor Miriam Lips & Associate Professor Mary Tate

• Matthew Lewellen
  The impact of the perceived value of records on the use of electronic recordkeeping systems
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Val Hooper & Associate Professor Gillian Oliver

• Namali Suraweera
  E-learning in Information Management (IM) education in Sri Lanka: An examination of contextual issues
  Supervisors: Dr Chern Li Liew & Dr Jocelyn Cranefield

PhDs completed in 2014

• Jamal Al Salmi
  Electronic theses and dissertations programmes in the Arab Gulf States: Exploring factors affecting their adoption and development
  Supervisors:  Dr Chern Li Liew  & Dr Brenda Chawner
  Please contact Jamal to discuss any aspects of this research at alsalmij@squ.edu.om

• Eric Boamah
  Towards effective management and preservation of digital cultural heritage resources: An exploration of contextual factors in Ghana
  Supervisors: Dr Dan Dorner & Associate Professor Gillian Oliver
  Please contact Eric to discuss any aspects of this research at eaboamah@gmail.com

• Kévin Daniel André Carillo
  Participation in Free/Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities: An individual learning perspective
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Sid Huff & Dr Brenda Chawner

• Saidatul Akmar Ismail
  Factors affecting the implementation of information literacy education in Malaysian primary schools
  Supervisors: Dr Dan Dorner &  Associate Professor Gillian Oliver

• Van Tran Bao Le
  On the discovery of semantically meaningful SQL constraints from Armstrong samples: Foundations, implementation, and evaluation
  Supervisors: Professor Sebastian Link (HRA); Dr Flavio Ferrarotti (HRA) & Dr David Mason

• Nicole Kristine Henika Braun
  An exploration of the factors influencing home users' cybersecurity behaviors
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Val Hooper & Dr Dan Dorner

• Nicole Gaston
  Contextualising information behaviour: The example of Laos
  Supervisors: Dr Dan Dorner & Dr David Johnstone
  Please contact Nicole to discuss any aspects of this research at nicolegaston@gmail.com

• Marta Vos
  RFID on the boundary between the public and private sectors: An ANT/Institutional Theory
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Rowena Cullen & Dr Jocelyn Cranefield

PhDs completed in 2013

• Mohamed Kinaanath
  The use of ICT and e-Education in developing higher education for Small Island Developing States (SIDS): The case of Maldives
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Hans Lehmann & Senior Lecturer Alastair Smith

• Selenge Nergui
  Understanding the effectiveness of cross-cultural video-mediated communication
  Supervisors: Dr Brian Harmer & Senior Lecturer Alastair Smith

PhDs completed in 2012

• Diane Strode
  Coordination in agile software development projects
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Sid Huff & Associate Professor Sebastian Link
  Please contact Diane to discuss any aspects of this research at diane.strode@alumni.unimelb.edu.au

• Allan Sylvester
  An investigation into organisational learning by public officials creating and maintaining multi-channel service delivery information systems in the New Zealand public sector
  Supervisors: Dr Beverley Hope & Professor Miriam Lips

PhDs completed in 2011

• Hartmut Hoehle
  Consumer intentions to use electronic banking channels: The role of task channel fit
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Hans Lehmann & Emeritus Professor Sid Huff

• Carmel Joe
  Retaining the knowledge of older experts in an organisational context and the role of ICT
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong & Dr Brian Harmer

• Tony Thistoll
  A grounded theory of preneurial agency in technology creation
  Supervisors: Associate Professor Val Hooper & Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong

• Sally Jansen van Vuuren
  Inter-organisational knowledge sharing in the public sector: The role of social capital and information and communication technology
  Supervisors:  Professor David Pauleen & Emeritus Professor Sid Huff

PhDs completed in 2010

• Jocelyn Cranefield
  Online communities of practice and professional change: A three-tier view of the knowledge embedding process
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong & Emeritus Professor Sid Huff

• Maria Molina
  Digital genre: A mechanism for knowledge sharing and reuse in business clusters
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong & Associate Professor Hans Lehmann

• Florence Muinde
  Investigation of factors affecting the adoption of Information and Communication Technologies for communication of research output in research institutions in Kenya
  Supervisors: Professor Gary Gorman & Dr Chern Li Liew

• Silke Retzer
  Inter-organisational knowledge transfer among research and development organisations: Implications for information and communication technology support
  Supervisors:  Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong  & Associate Professor Val Hooper

• Julie Watson
  Transitioning Peer Consulting: A technology-in-practice approach
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong & Emeritus Professor Sid Huff

PhDs completed in 2009

• Lanthom Jonjoubsong
  An integrated knowledge management model for community enterprises: A case study of a rural community enterprise in Thailand
  Supervisors: Professor Gary Gorman & Dr Brian Harmer

• Hong Sinh Nguyen
  A contextual model for planning continuing education programmes for university library practitioners in Vietnam
  Supervisors: Professor Gary Gorman & Dr Dan Dorner

• Kate Thornton
  Blended action learning: Supporting leadership learning in the New Zealand ECE sector
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Pak Yoong & Professor Cedric Hall

PhDs completed in 2008

• Andreas Schroeder
  KM Governance: An exploratory study of the structures, processes and relational mechanisms which guide and direct organisational KM programs
  Supervisors: Professor David Pauleen & Emeritus Professor Sid Huff

PhDs completed in 2007

• Brent Coker
  Predicting internet product purchase intention: Theoretical reasoning and empirical results
  Supervisors: Dr Beverley Hope & Associate Professor Nicholas Ashill

• Pramila Devi
  An ICT-based distance education model: An evaluation of ICT-based modes at the University of the South Pacific
  Supervisors: Emeritus Professor Rowena Cullen & Dr Lex McDonald

• Lan Anh Tran
  Public Libraries and Community Information networks in New Zealand: An assessment and evaluation of practice
  Supervisors: Dr Dan Dorner & Dr Colin Jeffcoat

PhDs completed in 2006

• Young Mi Jeon
  Communication models of adolescent religious education on the internet in a global age
  Supervisors:  Emeritus Professor Rowena Cullen  & Dr Joseph Bulbulia