Information Systems and Digital Business Technology

Research in Information Systems brings together a community of scholars who share an interest in the social and organisational aspects of information systems and information and communications technologies.

The establishment of our new Centre for Digital Business demonstrates that Information Systems (IS) is a strategic priority of Salford Business School, and the Centre will engage externally with IS businesses and IS in business.

Research itself at Salford has been consistently at the forefront of Information Systems over the last 20 years and was recognised in the last Research Assessment Exercises as being second in the country for its importance. PhD research areas may focus on the impact and consequences of technologies in the workplace such as ERP, CRM, enterprise 2.0, and mobile technologies and open-source software systems.

Research could examine the impact of technologies from the viewpoint of, for example, Project Management, Knowledge Management, outsourcing, learning, information governance/security or gender issues.

Digital media and social networking are real strengths at Salford, including areas such as social media marketing, search engine optimisation, on-line behaviour and ethical stances, virtual team working, collaboration and networking, cultural issues and trust.

We are active in teaching and learning research, with a focus on learning technologies such as Virtual Learning Environments, digital literacy and the role of social media in education. We have expertise in philosophical topics, including Dooyeweerd’s sphere of meaning, and poststructuralism.

Finally and more generally we can offer PhD supervision in business ethics, masculinity studies, e-government, Human Computer Interaction, aspectual analysis as a qualitative research method, disability and the web, digital media and age (youths and the aged), on-line health and organisational story telling.

Staff

• Professor Andrew Basden
• Dr Gordon Fletcher
• Dr Marie Griffiths
• Dr David Kreps
• Maria Burke
• Dr Aleksej Heinze
• Dr Maria Kutar
• Frances Bell

PhD Study

For more information on applying to do a PhD at the Business School, please see our Business PhD page.