Professor Keith Horton

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Job title: Dean of Faculty of Business, Computing and Law

Email: k.horton@derby.ac.uk
Phone No: 01332 591412
Room: E506, Kedleston Road

Recent publications

Selected Publications:

Davenport, Elisabeth and Horton, Keith, (2008) "If ICTs are Laboratories..." (2008). American Conference on Information Systems; AMCIS 2008 Proceedings. Paper 312. http://aisel.aisnet.org/amcis2008/312
Davenport, E., Horton, K. (2008). Rethinking e-Government Research: The 'ideology-artefact complex'. In: Suomi, R., Cabral, R., Hampe, J., Heikkila, A., Jarvelainen, J., Koskivaara, E. (Eds.) Project e-society: Buildins Bricks. IFIP International Federation for Information Processing, 226, () ( ed.). (pp. 380-391). Boston: . Springer-Verlag.
Davenport, E., Horton, K. (2007). Where and when was Knowledge Managed? Exploring multiple versions of KM in organizations. In: Day, R., McInerney, C. (Eds.) Beyond KM: From Knowledge Management to Knowledge Processes, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Berlin: . Springer-Verlag.
Horton, K., Dewar, R. (2006). Learning from Patterns During Information Technology Configuration. In: Mahmood, M. (Ed.) Contemporary Issues in End User Computing, , () ( ed.). (pp. ). Hershey, PA.: . Idea Group Publishing.
Davenport, E., Horton, K. (2006). The Production of Service in the Digital City: A Social Informatics Inquiry. In: Berleur, J., Nurminen, M. (Eds.)

Faculty: Business, Computing and Law

I am Dean of the Faculty of Business, Computing and Law at the University of Derby, as well as being a Professor of Information Management. I joined the University in October 2010 from Edinburgh Napier University, where I had most recently been Director of Strategic Development and Corporate Intelligence, immediately prior to which I had been Associate Dean (Academic Development) in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Creative Industries.

The Faculty here at Derby comprises three Schools - The Derbyshire Business School, the School of Computing and Mathematics and the School of Law and Criminology. Each School has a Head of School/Assistant Dean, who reports to the Dean. The Administrative functions are managed by the Faculty Operations Manager, who also reports to the Dean. All of the above are members of the Faculty Executive Team.

In my previousl role at Edinburgh Napier University, as Director of Strategic Development and Corporate Intelligence, I worked with the Principal and Vice Chancellor leading a range of initiatives across the University focused upon improving the effectiveness and efficiency of processes, and optimising resource utilisation. Before this role I had, for several years, been Associate Dean (Academic Development) in the Faculty of Engineering, Computing and Creative Industries. During all of this time at Edinburgh Napier University I was teaching and undertaking research within the School of Computing. Prior to this I had been Senior Lecturer and Lecturer at both Edinburgh Napier University and at Sheffield Hallam University.

Teaching responsibilities

My teaching and student supervision activities have been in the areas of information management, information systems, and computing. I supervise undergraduate, postgraduate and PhD students in these areas.

Research interests

My expertise lies in the field of social informatics, where my more recent research explores the socio-technical interactions between people and information technologies, particularly in public administration. I also research in the areas of eGovernment, complex inter-organisational IT implementations, and in the area of digital identities. At Edinburgh Napier University I was a member of the Centre for Social Informatics, and was submitted to the Research Assessment Exercises (RAE) in 2001, where we received a '4' rating, and again in the RAE 2008 (outcome: 10% 4*, 50% 3*, 25% 2*).

I supervise PhD students in the area of social informatics, having supervised several successful PhD completions in the area of technology adoption and implementation, both in the UK and overseas. Current PhD students are, for example, investigating the adoption of intelligent systems for supply chain optimisation, and the adoption of knowledge management and related systems in large scale public enterprises.

Membership of professional bodies and advisory committees

I am a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), and am also a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA).

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