Professor Kieran Conboy
Professor of Analytics & Society;
Co-Principal Investigator in the Lero Irish software research centre
J.E. Cairnes School of Business and Economics, University of Galway
Kieran is a Professor at the University of Galway, Ireland, and a Co-Principal Investigator in the Lero Irish software research centre. He is the editor-in-chief of the European Journal of Information Systems. Kieran has published over 250 articles in leading international journals and conferences. He previously worked for Accenture Consulting and the University of New South Wales in Australia. He is also on the board of the Irish Research Council, and has previously been Head of the School of Business as well as Dean of Business, Public Policy & Law. Kieran has published over 150 articles in leading international journals and conferences including Information Systems Research, the European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, the Journal of the AIS, IEEE Software, the International Conference in Information Systems and the European Conference in Information Systems.
Kieran's work contributes to these SDGs
Kieran leads the Responsible Time and Tech in an Accelerated Digitised World (ROSETTA) innovative fellowship programme from University of Galway, funded by Lero, Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, School of Business and Economics, University of Galway and the European Commission's Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND scheme.
Nineteen ROSETTA Fellows will be provided with the highest-quality research environment and a training programme where they will critically examine the development, use and regulation of technology from a time perspective across all aspects of life from childhood to people with disabilities and people in the workplace, to healthcare and social inclusion for older people.
ROSETTA will be coordinated by the University of Galway and involves four other Irish universities: University College Cork, University College Dublin, University of Limerick and Trinity College Dublin. ROSETTA Fellows will complete a secondment at one of 20 associated partners across Europe and the US. Fellows will be recruited from the fields of business, law, computer science, medicine, biomedical engineering, education, psychology, software engineering, information systems and human-computer interaction.
Kieran is also involved in two other Marie Curie programmes and is recruiting postdoctoral Fellows in this area. These are SyMeCo and Digi+. Please follow these links to see call information and closing date
Key Target: 9.5 Enhance research and upgrade industrial technologies
Kieran received the 2021 Paul Gray Award for the Most Thought-Provoking Paper from the Communications of the Association of Information Systems and the Rory O’Connor Prize for Outstanding Service to Lero.
Teaching
Kieran teaches information systems innovation, agile and lean project management, portfolio management, and contemporary models such as crowdsourcing and crowdfunding.
Supporting Targets: 9.5 Enhance research and upgrade industrial technologies, 9.B Support domestic technology development and industrial diversification
PhD supervision and mentorship
Kieran is a highly regarded mentor, known for supporting the work and careers of students and early career researchers. Kieran won the President’s Award for Research Supervision in 2018. He has chaired many doctoral and junior faculty consortia around the world.
Supporting Targets: 9.C Universal access to information and communications technology; 17.6 Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation, 17.18 Enhance availability of reliable data
Engagement
Kieran advises on funding agency policy and practice and has advised the EU Commission as well as national funding bodies in Ireland, the US and Australia. He is now leading an Irish Research Council-funded project to adapt, implement and validate the use of crowdfunding and crowdsourcing techniques in the grant award policies and mechanisms of Science Foundation Ireland and Enterprise Ireland as well as the Irish Research Council.
Direct impact SDG Targets
5.5 - Ensure full participation in leadership and decision-making
8.2 - Diversify, innovate and upgrade for economic productivity
8.3 - Promote policies to support job creation and growing enterprises
9.1 - Develop sustainable, resilient and inclusive infrastructures
9.2 - Promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization
9.5 - Enhance research and upgrade industrial technologies
9.B - Support domestic technology development and industrial diversification
9.C - Universal access to information and communications technology
17.6 - Knowledge sharing and cooperation for access to science, technology and innovation
17.18 - Enhance availability of reliable data
Indirect SDG targets
1.4 - Equal rights to ownership, basic services, technology and economic resources
3.4 - Reduce mortality from non-communicable diseases and promote mental health
4.5 - Eliminate all discrimination in education
4.7 - Education for sustainable development and global citizenship
5.B - Promote empowerment of women through technology
13.B - Promote mechanisms to raise capacity for planning and management
16.7 - Ensure responsive, inclusive and representative decision-making
Kieran's work extends across many many areas:
Research
Featured Publications
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Trocin, C., Mikalef, P., Papamitsiou, Z. and 1 more (...) (2023). Responsible AI for Digital Health: A Synthesis and a Research Agenda. Information Systems Frontiers, 25(6), 2139-2157. |
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Dennehy, D., Conboy, K., Ferreira, J. and 1 more (...) (2023). Sustaining Open Source Communities by Understanding the Influence of Discursive Manifestations on Sentiment. Information Systems Frontiers, 25(1), 241-257. |
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Carroll, N., Conboy, K., Wang, X. (2023). From transformation to normalisation: An exploratory study of a large-scale agile transformation. Journal of Information Technology, 38(3), 267-303. |
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Carroll, N., Conboy, K., Hassan, N. R. and 3 more (...) (2023). Problematizing Assumptions on Digital Transformation Research in the Information Systems Field. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 53508-53531. |
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Conboy, K., Moe, N. B., Stray, V. and 1 more (...) (2023). The Future of Hybrid Software Development: Challenging Current Assumptions. IEEE Software, 40(2), 26-33. |
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Kruse, L. C., Bergener, K., Conboy, K. and 6 more (...) (2023). Understanding the Digital Companions of Our Future Generation. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 52. |
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Dennehy, D., Conboy, K., Babu, J. (2023). Adopting Learning Analytics to Inform Postgraduate Curriculum Design: Recommendations and Research Agenda. Information Systems Frontiers, 25(4), 1315-1331. |
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Umair, A., Conboy, K., Whelan, E. (2023). Examining technostress and its impact on worker well-being in the digital gig economy. Internet Research, 33(7), 206-242. |
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Mikalef, P., Conboy, K., Lundström, J. E. and 1 more (...) (2022). Thinking responsibly about responsible AI and "the dark side" of AI. European Journal of Information Systems, 31(3), 257-268. |
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Griva, A., Byrne, S., Dennehy, D. and 1 more (...) (2022). Software Requirements Quality: Using Analytics to Challenge Assumptions at Intel. IEEE Software, 39(2), 80-88. |
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Ågerfalk, P. J., Conboy, K., Crowston, K. and 4 more (...) (2022). Artificial Intelligence in Information Systems: State of the Art and Research Roadmap. Communications of the Association for Information Systems, 50(1), 420-438. |
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