Permanent staff and their research interests

The research interests of permanent staff members are currently as follows:

Irwin Brown

Research interests: Information systems in the context of countries with developing economies. ICT-enabled development, Information systems theorising and theory development.

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Adheesh Budree

Research interests: Ecommerce, Information Management, Knowledge Management, Developmental Economics.

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Wallace Chigona

Research interests: ICT for Human Development, Mobile for Development.

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Tendani Chimboza

Research interests: ICT Policy, ICT4Social, Justice Social, Implications of Technology, Cyber resilience, Government digital transformation.

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Salah Kabanda

Research interests: Information Systems in the Context of Countries with Developing Economies with special interest in the adoption, use and unintended consequences of IS by individuals, public sector and government.

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Meke Kapepo

Research interests: ICT4D (Information and Communication Technology for Development, Academic development with focus on Information Systems curriculum, eHealth, Teaching with technology, e-learning.

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Mike Kyobe

Research interests: Information systems security, Alignment, IT governance, Mobile Bullying.

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Gwamaka Mwalemba

Research interests: ICT/Digital Skills, ICT for Development (ICT4D), Enterprise Systems, Business Intelligence, IS/ICT Education.

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Grant Oosterwyk

Research interests: Social (human decision-making), technological (big data tools), and the understanding of information, to build a theoretical lens to interpret the interplay between BDA and decision-making.

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Ayanda Pekane

Research interests: Adoption and use of Information Systems to aid efficiency, productivity and success in organizations in Africa.

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Ulrike Rivett

Research interests: ICT4D, Co-Design, Water and Sanitation, Education, Development.

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Zainab Ruhwanya

Research interests: Human aspect of information security and privacy, Cybercrime and society, Information security awareness, training and education research, Usability and dark patterns, Emerging technologies.
Cybersecurity and Privacy Research (CSPR) Group

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Lisa Seymour

Research interests: Include Enterprise system adoption, Business Process Management (BPM) and IS educational research, all with a developmental focus.

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Dirk Snyman

Research interests: Information security, Computational linguistics.

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Maureen Tanner

Research interests: Software Development (SD), software engineering issues, SD team collaboration and management, SD context, end-user perspectives, the impact of software solutions on people and society.

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Luzuko Tekeni

Research interests: Advancement of the field of Cybersecurity, Information Security, Network Security and Privacy, with a particular emphasis on understanding human behaviors and intents. 

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Pitso Tsibolane

Research interests: ICT4D, Grounded Theory Method, Gig Economy, IS Education, Indigenous, Theories, Critical Realism.

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Walter Uys

Research interests: Information Systems, Mobile Learning, Technology enabled learning, Research based-learning, Self-directed learning.

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Jean-Paul Van Belle

Research interests: Fair work in the platform economy, and the adoption of emerging technologies in developing world contexts including mobile, cloud computing, 4IR, AI, open and big data.

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Post-doctoral and research fellows

Laban Bagui

Research interests: eParticipation, e-Commerce, ICT in education, Cybersecurity.

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Moegamat Zane Davids

Research interests: Include ICT use in Education and Organisations, Social media, IT/IS and Strategy, Business Intelligence, Human aspects in AI, Data Science, Big Data, and Data Analytics.

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Sharon Geeling

Research interests: Information systems (IS) and society / individuals; ethical / social justice considerations in IS; cultural influences in IS; the practice of IS development; theory development using grounded theory methods; action research / grounded theory strategies of inquiry; interpretivist and critical realism-based research.

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Caroline Magunje

Research interests: Cybersecurity in Education, ICTs in education in developing contexts, Transformative e-learning academic development.

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Collaborators and alumni

Current PhD candidates