Dr Paul Scifleet

Biography

Before joining the Department of Business Technology and Entrepreneurship (BTE), Paul held positions with the Discipline of Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney and the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management at the University of New South Wales. He has been a visiting Scholar with the Information School at the University of Sheffield and the Royal School Library and Information Science, Copenhagen and Research Fellow with the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University. Paul is currently a research affiliate with the Information Design Lab, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany.

Research: Paul is Co-Director of the Information Systems for Social Impact Research Group in BTE at Swinburne. On any given day, he can be found researching the governance and management of information across 3 critical areas: (1) digital asset management, including enterprise information and personal information management; (2) emerging information technologies and their impact on human information behaviour; (3) information governance in business and e-government contexts (with interests in the governance and security of digital documents and records and the rights of digital identity in all its contexts). Paul approaches his research from the interpretative traditions of digital documentary practice: he is interested in the challenges that governing and managing  information resources (digital documents & records), digital representation & identity, human information behaviour bring to businesses and government and, he applies expertise in policy analysis, digital ethnography and content analysis to inform research in these changing dimensions of the digital economy.

Current research activities include:  (1) information governance, compliance and reporting in the digital economy; (2) Human information behaviour in new wave tech (self tracking, smart home technologies), and personal information management; (3) information protection, assurance and governance of national ID programs.