Rosa Michaelson

Biography

Rosa Michaelson is a Senior Lecturer in Information Systems in the School of Business, University of Dundee, Scotland. She has worked in academia for over 30 years, with experiences as a research associate on a number of projects in different disciplines, including Electrical Engineering, Artificial Intelligence and Mechanical Engineering. Rosa also managed department computing systems before becoming a lecturer in computer science. She was a founder member of Women in Computing (1984 onwards), and had a 40% secondment as the SHFC Gender Equality co-ordinator from 2000-2003. In 2011 Rosa was awarded a PhD by the Institute of Education London; the topic was a socio-technical investigation of 30 years of educational technology adoption in higher education. She supervises postgraduates at both the masters and doctoral level.

External Affiliations

·        Member of the UK Association of Information Systems

• 1IS - Information Systems
• 2MS – Management & Information Systems
• 3BS – Business Systems
• 4MS – Advanced Management & Information Systems

Research Interests

• Critical information systems
• Socio-technical theory
• Large-scale public sector IT failure
• Educational technologies

Publications since 2008

Refereed papers

• Michaelson, R. with Allison, C., Getchall, I., Miller, A. & Tiropanis, T. (2012) “The Web in Education” with Allison, Getchell, Miller and Tiropanis, The Journal of Computer Networks, special issue on The internet, Elsevier (confirmed accepted for print, August 2012)

• Michaelson, R. (2010) "Virtual Reality and the University" UK Academy for Information Systems Conference Proceedings 2010. Paper 38. http://aisel.aisnet.org/ukais2010/38

Further contributions

• June 2009, Invited speaker, “Universities, Pedagogy and Virtual Reality: responses to technology”, Symposium on Virtual Reality: Frameworks and Mis-conceptions, Institute of Education

Current Work in Progress

• R. Michaelson, HMRC & PAYE: predicting failure in large-scale public sector IT projects

• R. Michaelson, Weighed in the Balance

 Selected Publications Prior to 2008

• Michaelson, R. (with Allison, C., Purdie, S. and Storer, T.) (2007) “An evaluation framework for Grid-based learning technologies” proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Learning Technologies (ICALT) 2007, Niigata, Japan. 18-20 July 2007.
• Michaelson, R. (with Getchell, K., et al.) (2007)  “A Computer Games Approach to Exploratory Learning, LAVA: A Case Study in System Design”, in proceedings of WEBIST 2007, 3rd International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies, 3 - 6 March, Barcelona, Spain.
• Michaelson, R. (with Getchell, K. et al.) (2007) “Evaluating Exploratory Learning in LAVA”, in proceedings of the Sixth IASTED International Conference on Web-Based Education, WBE 2007, Chamonix, France, March 14 – 16.
• Michaelson, R. (2006)      “Evaluating Failure: the case of UKeU”, proceedings of the 7th Annual Conference of the Higher Education Academy for Information and Computer Sciences, Trinity College, Dublin.
• Michaelson (2005) "The Challenge of Change: Reducing Conflict in Implementing e-Learning", in P. Ritrovato, C. Allison, S.A. Cerri, T. Dimitrakos, M. Gaeta and S. Salerno (eds.) Towards the Learning Grid: Advances in Human Learning Services. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 127. pp. 22-28.
• ISBN 1-58603-534-7
• Michaelson, R. (with C. Allison) (2005) "Design considerations for an ELeGI portal", in P. Ritrovato, C. Allison, S.A. Cerri, T. Dimitrakos, M. Gaeta and S. Salerno (eds.) Towards the Learning Grid: Advances in Human Learning Services. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 127. pp. 129-135. 1-58603-534-7
• Michaelson, R.  (with C. Allison, A. Ruddle) (2005) "Systems Support for Collaborative Learning", in P. Ritrovato, C. Allison, S.A. Cerri, T. Dimitrakos, M. Gaeta and S. Salerno (eds.) Towards the Learning Grid: Advances in Human Learning Services. Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications, Volume 127. pp. 175-181. 1-58603-534-7
• Michaelson, R. (2005) "Gender Mainstreaming in FP6: experiences from an IP", in Archibald, J., Emms, J., Grundy, F., Payne, J. and Turner, E. (eds.) "The gender politics of ICT." Middlesex University Press. pp. 79-94. ISBN 1-904750-46
• Michaelson, R. (2004) "'e' with everything", Lorraine McKechnie (ed.) e-learning: a virtual promise? The proceedings of CAPS.4: Fourth International Conference on Human-System Learning, Glasgow Caledonian University, 2-4 July 2003, Europia, Paris. pp. 239-350. ISBN 2-909285-27-8
• Michaelson, R., Allison, C. (2004) "Portal wars: UK adoption of e-learning", in proceedings of UK AIS 2004, 5-7 May, Glasgow Caledonian University. ISBN: 1-903661-56-0
• Allison, C., Michaelson, R. (2004) “Design Considerations for an EleGI Portal”, 3rd Intl. LeGE-WG Workshop: Towards a European Learning Grid Infrastructure, Berlin, 3rd December 2003. EWIC at www.bcs.org/ewic. ISSN 1477-9358 
• Michaelson, R. (2003) e-learning, briefing paper for LTSN-BEST, November 2003.
• Michaelson, R. (2003) “Does e-learning work?”, in proceedings of the 4th Annual Conference of the LTSN Centre for Information and Computer Sciences, Galway, 26-28 August. www.ics.heacademy.ac.uk/Events/conf2003/menu.html
• Michaelson, R. (2003) “The Challenge of Change: reducing conflict in implementing e-learning”, proceedings of the 2nd LegE-WG International Workshop: Towards a European Learning Grid Infrastructure, Paris, 3-4 March 2003. EWIC at www.bcs.org/ewic. ISSN 1477-9358 
• Allison, C., Ruddle, A., Michaelson, R. (2003) “Systems Support for Collaborative Learning”, Proceedings of the 1st LeGE-WG Workshop, Lausaune, October, 2002. EWIC at www.bcs.org/ewic. ISSN 1477-9358.
• Michaelson, R., Helliar, C. V., Power, D. M., Allison, C.  (2003) Group Work and the Web: FINESSE and TAGS, D. Hawkridge, R. Kaye, (eds.) Learning and Teaching for Business: case studies of successful innovation, Kogan Page. June 2003. ISBN 0 7494 4025 2.