Geoff Walsham (born 10 June 1946 in
Manchester) is an
English scholar in the
Social Study of Information Systems
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SSIS studies these phenomena by drawing on and using "lenses" provided by social sciences, including philoso ...
. He has done much to establish the value and legitimacy of
interpretive __NOTOC__
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Education
Interpretiv ...
research in the field of
Information Systems, particularly through his book ''Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations'' (Wiley, 1993). He has also written extensively about
IT in developing countries, including the book ''Making a World of Difference: IT in a Global Context'' (Wiley, 2001).
After studying
Mathematics
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at the
University of Oxford, he worked as an operational researcher at
BP, and later gained an MSc at
University of Warwick. He then joined the Department of Engineering at the
University of Cambridge and became one of the founding members of the
Judge Business School
Cambridge Judge Business School is the business school of the University of Cambridge. The School is a provider of management education. It is named after Sir Paul Judge, a founding benefactor of the school.
The School is considered to be par ...
. He was a Professor at the University of Lancaster before returning to Cambridge. He has also lectured in Australia, Kenya, India, and the Philippines.
WALSHAM, Prof. Geoffrey
''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2014
He is currently an Emeritus Professor of Management Studies (Information Systems) at the Judge Business School.
References
1946 births
Living people
English computer scientists
Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford
Alumni of the University of Warwick
Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering
Information systems researchers
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