Postgraduates

The ICT4D Collective (and the UNESCO Chair in ICT4D beforehand) has concentrated very much on supporting postgraduate teaching and research in the field of ICT4D, and thereby building an extensive network of trained researchers and practitioners in the field. The links below are to postgraduate students either withing the Collective/UNESCO Chair in their own right, or supervised by academics within the Chair and Collective.

In the spring term of 2017, we ran a series of informal discussions to support postgraduates, entitled Technology and Empowerment: Multidisciplinary Conversations which was open to all those interested. We welcome expressions of interest for a new series of such discussions.

Successfully completed PhDs include:

Omar Zakaria (PhD, 2007) Investigating Information Security Culture Challenges in a Public Sector Organisation: A Malaysian Case
Marije Geldof (PhD, 2010) Literacy and ICT: social constructions in the lives of low-literate youth in Ethiopia and Malawi
David Hollow (PhD, 2010) Evaluating ICT for Education in Africa
Meera Sarma (PhD, 2010) Innovation in Hacker Communities: Structure and Knowledge in the Process of Developing Open Source Software
Uduak Okon (PhD, 2011) ICTs and sustainable community development in the Niger Delta Region, Nigeria
Salma Abbasi (PhD, 2012) Women and ICT in Muslim Countries: Policies, Practices and Challenges
Paolo Brunello (PhD, 2015) Broken premises: towards an intercultural understanding of bilateral co-operation in ICTs for education in Burundi
Andrea Burris (PhD, 2015) Discourses of Creativity in Shanghai
Sammia Poveda (PhD, 2015) Conscientisation and Human Development: The case of digital inclusion programmes in Brazil.
Sinfree Gono (PhD, 2015) A Critical Analysis of Information and Communication Technology Adoption and Impact in South African Small and Medium Enterprises
Tony Roberts (PhD, 2015) Critical Agency in ICT4D: a case study of Zambian women’s use of participatory video to challenge gender inequality participatory video technology to challenge gender inequality
Fernanda Scur (PhD, 2016) Network Interaction Patterns within Brazilian ICT4D initiatives
Salman Khuralbet (PhD, 2017 ) The role of business model information system and human capital in the barriers to the growth of small and medium-sized enterprises (smes) in Kuwait
Caitlin Bentley (PhD, 2017) Bilateral donors and civil society organisations: technologies for learning and accountability
Márton Kocsev (PhD, 2017) – e-Capacity development: rethinking the linkages between capacity development and ICT promotion in Ethiopia and Egypt
Patrick Giwa (PhD 2018)Technology entrepreneurship in Nigeria
Matthew Nicolas Kreeger (PhD 2018), Exploring security verification processes in software SMEs – Thesis submitted, awaiting viva
Evronia Azer (PhD 2019) Information and communication technologies (ICT)-enabled collective action in critical context: a tudy of leadership, visibility and trust
Andreas Haggman (PhD 2019) Cyber wargaming: finding, desiging, and playing wargames for cyber security education.

Successfully completed MPhils include:

David Crespo (MPhil 2011) – Mobile ‘phones and rural health workers in Peru: the potential of m-health in isolated rural areas of Peru (also published in book form by Lambert)
Auchariya Yongphrayoon (MPhil 2010) Hedonic price models and GIS for mass land valuation in Thailand
Ugo Vallauri (MPhil 2015) ICTs, participatory video and farmer-led agriculture extension services in Machakos District, Kenya

Current research students and the topic areas of their research include:

Alex Hardy – Geopolitics and security of cyber enabled space
Claude Heath – Theory and techniques for participatory research in ICT
Nick Robinson – How to Backup Your ~~Files~~ Nation-State in the Digital Era: The Estonian Data Embassy
Nicola Wendt – Digitizing independence? Greenland, Denmark and the Fourth World
Francisca Sassetti – Migrants and digital technologies in Brazil.

Master’s students studying the ICT4D Stream in the Practising Sustainable Development Master’s programme in 2016-17 include: