Biography
Dr
David Wainwright is the Head of the Information, Knowledge and Systems (IKS) Research
Group in the School of Computing, Engineering and Information Sciences at
Northumbria University, Newcastle upon Tyne. His early career as a geophysicist
and a drilling engineer in the 1980s involved prospecting for oil in the
petroleum exploration industry working in the field across Saudi Arabia and the
deserts of North Africa. He was at the front of the new revolution in the use
of both off-line and real-time computing and information systems for
engineering and business data analysis. This was the early inspiration to
undertake SERC funded (now called EPSRC) research into the user adoption of
fourth generation languages for rapid piloting and prototyping of computer
aided production management systems within the manufacturing sector. Building
on this contextual knowledge of both software development and also end-user
computing subsequent research and consultancy work has focused on the social,
political, organisational and individual factors influencing effective adoption
and implementation of information systems. A particular interest has been the
development of socially informed methods for the diffusion of information
technology innovations with a focus on healthcare and health information
systems.
Dr Wainwright consults widely with
industry and has facilitated Information Systems and Technology strategies with
Vickers Defence Systems and Grainger Property Ltd as well as numerous SMEs in
the property, building and construction sectors. Research studies have involved
the development and evaluation of organisational and business process modelling
to facilitate information systems adoption within hospitals and also the
development and adaptation of diffusion of innovation theory for ICT
implementation within primary care trusts and General Medical Practice.
Dr Wainwright has been a long serving, co-opted
and fully elected Board Member for the UK Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS Regional Co-ordinator) as well as
a member of the British Computer Society (BCS)
and British Academy of Management (BAM)
Directors of Research Network. He is on the editorial board of the established
Journal of Enterprise Information Management. He has co-authored over 50
internationally refereed papers and published in high impact and high citation
leading international journals such as: the International Journal of
Production and Operations Management, the Journal of Information
Technology, the International Journal of Production Economics,
the British
Medical Journal and the International Journal of Information Management,
where he has also edited a special issue. He has been the programme chair for
the UKAIS Conference (Northumbria 2005 and also Manchester 2007), has been
invited many times as a Track and Session Chair at major international IS
conferences such as IFIP WG.8.6 and 8.2. and has been a keynote speaker at the
IADIS international world wide web internet conference. Dr Wainwright has won
an emerald literati award for one of the best papers published in IJOPM and
also best paper awards at conferences. Dr Wainwright has received contracts,
grants and awards from funding bodies such as the Engineering and Physical
Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the NHS Service Delivery Organisation and
local health authority as well as university and ERDF funded projects. He has
many years experience acting as an external examiner for university IS
Departments and major Business Schools such as Newcastle University combined
with external examination of PhDs at leading (5*) IS departments.