Centre members

Centre Director Dr Marie Griffiths

Dr Marie Griffiths, Centre for Digital Business, University of Salford

Teaching areas: Emerging Technologies, Information Systems, Information Security, IT Strategies, UG dissertation, PG supervisions and PhD supervision.
Research Interests: Digital and social medias, Internet studies, young people and technologies, gaming, gender studies, Information Systems, organisational/business technologies (ERP, CRMs, CRNs), user resistance, privacy and surveillance.

Co-Director Dr Gordon Fletcher

Dr Gordon Fletcher, Centre for Digital Business, University of SalfordTeaching areas; Java and PHP/MySQL programming, Creating Emerging Technology, Advanced Web Design, Information Systems, IT Strategies, UG dissertation, PG supervisions and PhD supervision.
Research Interests: Impact of culture and digital technologies on organisations, digital and social medias, Internet studies, Information Systems, on-line communities, thana-networking, game-worlds and the principles of labour, online griefing and mourning, privacy and surveillance, defining and shape of digital footprints.

Co-Director Dr Aleksej Heinze

Dr Aleksej-Heinze, Centre for Digital Business, University of SalfordTeaching areas: E-Commerce, Search and Social Media Marketing,Information Systems, UG dissertation, PG supervisions and PhD supervision.
Research Interests: Search & Social Media Marketing, Enterprise 2.0 and Customer Relationship Networking (CRN), disruptive innovations, Digital and social medias, organisational/business technologies and Information Systems.

Dr Maria E Burke

Dr Maria E Burke, Centre for Digital Business, University of SalfordTeaching areas: Information Architecture and e-Commerce, Data-bases, Emerging Technologies, Information Systems, Knowledge Management, UG dissertation, PG supervisions and PhD supervision.
Research Interests: Digital and social medias, organisational/business technologies, Knowledge Management, Information Systems, TOTeM (Tales of Things and Electronic Memory), Quick Read Codes (QR Codes) and RFID (Radio Frequency Identification) technologies.

Dr David Kreps

Dr David Kreps, Centre for Digital Business, University of SalfordTeaching areas: Dynamic Web Development, Information Architecture and e-Commerce, Information Systems, UG dissertation, PG supervisions and PhD supervision.
Research Interests: Digital and social medias, Internet studies, Information Systems, Cyborgism, Web Accessibility, on-line communities and explorer into the philosophy of Virtuality, and Cultural Identity in the Socially Networked society.

Dr Maria Kutar

Dr Maria Kutar, Centre for Digtial Business, University of SalfordTeaching areas: Creating Emerging Technologies, Information Systems, Information Security, IT Strategies, Operations and Information Management, UG dissertation, PG supervisions and PhD supervision.
Research Interests: Digital and social medias, Internet studies, Information Systems, temporal aspects of interactive systems, psychology of programming, on–line trust and ethics, identity, privacy and surveillance, defining and shape of digital footprints.

Chris Procter

Chris Proctor, Centre for Digital Business, University of SalfordTeaching areas: Project Management both at UG and PG, Information Systems, UG dissertation, PG supervisions and PhD supervision.
Research Interests: Teaching and Learning, eLearning and work based learning, Project Management, Information Systems.

Dr Peter Reeves

Dr Peter Reeves, Centre for Digital Business, Univesrity of SalfordTeaching areas: Marketing, Information Systems, Strategic Marketing Management, Integrated Marketing Communications, UG dissertation, PG supervisions and PhD supervision.
Research Interests: Political marketing, (political) brand marketing, Strategic Marketing Management , creativity in higher education (teaching and learning).

Dr Yiannis Polychronakis

Dr Yiannis Polychronakis, Centre for Digital Business, University of SalfordTeaching areas: Operations, Logistics and Project Management, Chain Management, Managing Enterprise and Innovation, UG dissertation, PG supervisions and PhD supervision.
Research Interests: Operations Management and Operations Research, theoretical and empirical interactions between Supply Chains and Project Management in Hospitality, City Councils, Health Care, Heavy Manufacturing, Small Medium Enterprises.