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Supriya Singh Leader, Banking, Personal Communications & Financial Decision Making Faculty of Business RMIT Supriya.singh@rmit.edu.au Professor Supriya Singh is a Senior Research Fellow with the Faculty of Business at RMIT University, specialising in the Sociology of Communications. Her research has focused on the use of information and communications technologies at home, in small business, government and corporations. Her emphasis has been on connecting the perspectives of users, providers and policy makers so as to encourage and facilitate more effective communication. Supriya is the author of Marriage Money: The Social Shaping of Marriage and Banking, published by Allen & Unwin, 1997. She is Past President of the Association for Qualitative Research; a member of the International Advisory Board, New Media and Society and a member of the Editorial Board, Qualitative Research Journal.
Liisa Von Hellens Senior Research Fellow Head, School or Computing and Information Technology Griffith University L.vonhellens@cit.gu.edu.au Associate Professor Liisa Von Hellens has over thirty years experience in the IT industry, as a programmer and systems developer and at university level in Australia and Europe. Her doctorate at Oxford University was about packaged software provision and use. Her subsequent research, publications and consulting activities have covered information systems development and use in organisations, strategic quality management of software development, and the management of IT human resources and the associated skills supply.Since 1995, Liisa has also carried out research with Sue Neilson into the influence of culture and gender on perceptions of IT education and work, and the factors affecting female participation in IT education and work, funded by the Australian Research Council. She is also involved in establishing an IT Mentoring Program for selected high schools in Brisbane, a project funded by Griffith University's Strategic Improvement Grant.
Jenine Beekhuyzen Senior Research Assistant School of Computing and Information Technology Griffith University Jenine@cit.gu.edu.au Jenine’s recent projects for the Smart Internet Technology include an investigation of Australia’s online banking trends and barriers, the policy issues of digital rights management (DRM), and the development of mobile computing to improve patient care within the Australian health sector. Jenine’s research also explores the issues facing particular disadvantaged groups: women, people with disabilities, young/elderly people, indigenous people, and small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
Margaret Jackson Leader, Identity Management & Impact of Changing Roles in E- and M-commerce Professor of Computer Law School of Accounting and Law RMIT University Margaret.jackson@rmit.edu.au Professor Margaret Jackson is the University’s Professor in Computer Law and is based in the School of Accounting and Law. She developed the e-Business Law course in the Master of E-Business, in online and face-to-face mode. She also lectures in Business Research Methods. Margaret is the author of Hughes on Data Protection in Australia, published by the LawBook Co in 2001, and has just completed a new book A Practical Guide to Protecting Confidential Business Information, due to be published by LawBook Co at the end of October 2003. Recent papers have been on ‘Internet Privacy’ and ‘Globalised Business Information: Can the Law Cope?’Margaret Jackson has been at RMIT since 1986, fulfilling a number of roles, including Sub Dean of the Faculty of Business, Head of the Faculty Research Development Unit, and Associate Dean (Research & Professional Development), RMIT Business. For three years, until April 2003, she was the Dean of RMIT Business. She has been Chair and now is Deputy Chair of the RMIT Education and Training Intellectual Property Committee.
Ron van Schyndel Research Fellow School of Computer Science and IT RMIT Ron.vanschyndel@rmit.edu.au Ron worked as a programmer in scientific research and technology areas for over 15 years before doing a Masters of Applied Science in Computer and Industrial Vision. He continued on to do his PhD and focused on Digital Watermarking.Most of Ron’s publications are on the topic of digital watermarking, but he recently decided to enlarge his research domain to cover such areas as Music and Video Indexing (from the audio/video file itself), usability and UCD (primarily from the disability-support side) and Bio-informatics (from computer simulation).
Dr Asha Rao Program Leader Information Security Programs School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences RMIT Asha.rao@rmit.edu.au Asha is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Mathematical and Geospatial Sciences at RMIT University, as well as the Program leader of the Postgraduate Information Security Programs at the university. Her research interests include the use of algebraic techniques to communications, coding, cryptomathematics and consequently in Information Theory and Information Security. She also has expertise in management and standardisation issues and information security policy, She is a member of the Standards Australia Committee IT-012-04 Working Party on Information Security Management.
Anuja Cabraal Research Assistant Business Portfolio RMIT University Anuja.cabraal@rmit.edu.au Anuja comes to us with a BA Hons in Anthropology and two years of experience with a finance company. We are already benefiting from her mix of expertise in discussions of the banking stream. She has commenced her PhD in the area of Microfinance in Australia.
Marita Shelly Research Assistant/Librarian Business Portfolio RMIT University Marita.shelly@rmit.edu.au Marita has a background in accounting and information management and is based within the School of Accounting and Law. Her research interest is in the area of copyright. She will be working on the identity management, privacy and security within SME’s and the wireless economy projects.
Gabriele Hermansson Research Fellow Business Portfolio RMIT University Gabriele.hermansson@rmit.edu.au Gabriele Hermansson completed her Masters of Industrial Organisation Psychology in 2005. Her research looked at the user experience and attitudes towards technology and their influence on human behaviour towards technological devices. Gabriele has worked with a number of businesses investigating user needs and user experience and specialised in Human Factors and User Centred Design. In 2004 she joined a large telecommunications organisation, working in usability and customer experience areas.
Hayley Seadon Research Assistant Business Portfolio RMIT University Hayley.seadon@rmit.edu.au Hayley previously worked in RMIT School of Accounting and Law in administration. She completed a Bachelor of Science with an Honours year in Physiology, then completed a Bachelor of Commerce, both at the University of Melbourne. She has a keen interest in research.
Julian Ligertwood Research Assistant Business Portfolio RMIT Julian.ligertwood@rmit.edu.au Julian Ligertwood was admitted as a Barrister and Solicitor of the Supreme Court of South Australia in 2003. He has have worked as a researcher for academics and legal practitioners for more than seven years, most recently at the Flinders University Law School in Adelaide. He is currently completing a Masters Degree in Legal Theory, and will be working closely with Margaret on identity management.
Jonathan O'Donnell Research Assistant Business Portfolio RMIT Jonathan.odonnell@rmit.edu.au Jonathan O'Donnell has worked in the University Research and Innovation office at RMIT helping people to secure Funding. As the Director of IT for the Faculty of Art and Design he has helped to develop Internet master-classes for the Sunrise Research Laboratory and as a Web developer for Nautilus at RMIT. Outside of RMIT, he has worked on Web server digital certificates at Melbourne IT and as project manager for the introduction of the public multimedia at the National Gallery of Victoria. His main interest is the Internet and the World Wide Web. He says that they remind him of "... the science fiction stories that I loved as a kid."
Mats Bjorklund Illustrator & Animator mats@magipics.com.au Mats Bjorklund has a background in science (PhD in Biotechnology) and illustration. For the past ten years, he has been working at the crossroads of these fields: scientific visualisation and communication, and operating his own business, "Magipics". The production primarily includes illustration and animation, but also interactive artistic design and other multimedia. At the Smart Internet technologies CRC, he is contributing thought-stimulating illustrations and interactive designs for the project.