PhD research at SIM
Meet our multi-cultural cohort of current PhD thesis students at the School of Information Management, and learn about their research.
Dean's Doctoral Award Recipients
The following students were recipients of the Dean's Doctoral Award.
Masters by Thesis (MCOM/MCA/MA)
The following students completed their Theses through a Masters by Thesis
PhD graduates
Completed theses by PhD research students in the School of Information Management
Hassan Mustafa
Hassan's research is on platform power and politics of information in the global south
Nastaran Mohammadhossein
Nastaran's research is on the value of using augmented reality in organisational settings
Wanxuan Lin
Wanxuan is researching AI technology and team creativity
Chloe Latto
Chloe is exploring the impact of human-AI collaboration on organisational structures
Jingyu Zheng
Jingyu's research looks at how human-AI collaboration transforms innovation
Shafiqul Alam
Shafiqul's research looks at human and AI collaboration in manufacturing organisations
Bayu Nuswantoro
Bayu is exploring the role of visibility in hybrid work
Sadia Afroze
Sadia's PhD is focused on AI in academic libraries
Michael Miller
Michael's research is mathematically modelling Māori language revitalisation
Yao Zhang
Yao's research is on Human-AI collaboration and its impacts on sustainability
Nhung Le
Nhung's PhD is working towards a framework for corporate digital responsibility and corporate sustainability
Princess Solomon
Princess' research explores Human-AI collaboration in programme management
Ayelet Dagan
Ayelet is exploring the relationship between community archives and different community stakeholder groups
Hedi Bigham Sohanaki
Hedi is exploring how 'Digital Humans' influence consumer decision-making
Yanbin Jing
Yanbin is researching AI collaboration and its impact on the performance of organisations undergoing digital transformation
Md. Maidul Islam
Maidul's research explores how public libraries build social connection and inclusion to achieve sustainable development goals
Natalia Albert Llorente
Natalia is researching social cohesion in Aotearoa: does housing policy matter? A complex systems approach
Liana Bunting
Liana is exploring the integration of regenerative design principles into data governance in "smart cities"
Carlos Forero Medina
Carlos is conducting research on the impact of human-AI collaboration on leadership within hybrid teams
Mina Zarei Sanabadi
Mina's research looks at the role of avatars in facilitating collaboration between humans and AI in digital marketing
Ishara Sewwandi Hewa Kasakarage
Ishara Sewwandi is researching blended librarianship: exploring a concept to support teaching and learning in Sri Lankan universities in the digital era
Dianita Asni Supriyanto
Dianita's research is in records management and artificial intelligence
Dennis Pienaar
Dennis is exploring how self-efficacy, optimism bias, and trust in AI shape forecasting accuracy and human–AI collaboration in complex projects
Ghazaleh Kermani Moghaddam
Ghazaleh's research looks From human-led to agentic AI: trust, bias, and value alignment in human–AI collaboration
Belle Dang
Belle's research examines how humans and AI collaborate and learn together in increasingly hybrid digital environments
Paddy Power
Paddy is exploring how data catalogs, data inventories, and information asset registers are implemented in organizations and what makes them successful or not
Jarime Falana-Chaco
Jarime is researching information behavior and identity amongst Māori and Pasifika visual artists
Chibueze Nwangwu
Chibueze's research focuses on human-Ai collaboration and employee creativity and its implications for human flourishing
Thusitha Chamara Kuruppu Arachcige
Chamara is engaged in a phenomenographic study examining the variations in teachers experiences of digital information literacy practices