Curriculum Vitae (CV)

Blair Wang PhD AFHEA

Online portfolio: www.blair.wang
ORCID: 0000-0002-2194-5623

1 Highlights

  • Track record of research publications in esteemed Information Systems (IS) journals (incl. FT50, ABDC A/A*) and conferences (esp. ICIS and ACIS)
  • Eight years of experience in university-level teaching (2018 to 2025), at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, in Australia (University of New South Wales and University of Sydney) and in Ireland (University of Galway), winning awards in 2019 (link) and 2023 (link)
  • Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) since 2020 (link)
  • Managing Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems (ABDC A*) since 2024
  • Creator of the Ten Minute IS Papers (TMISP) podcast, www.tmisp.org
  • Lead Developer of LitBaskets literature search tool, www.litbaskets.io

2 Academic Appointments

  • Current appointment: University of Galway, Ireland, since 2023
    • Lecturer Above the Bar (equiv. Australian Level B) — J.E. Cairnes School of Business & Economics, since 2023
  • Previous appointment: University of Sydney, Australia, 2018 to 2023
    • Lecturer (Level B) — University of Sydney Business School, 2022 to 2023
    • Casual/Sessional Academic – University of Sydney Business School, 2018 to 2021
  • Previous appointment: University of New South Wales (UNSW), Australia, 2018 to 2021
    • Associate Lecturer (Level A) — UNSW Business School, 2020 to 2021
    • Casual/Sessional Academic – UNSW Business School, 2018 to 2019

3 Research Papers

Under Editorial Consideration and/or Peer Review

  • New submission with Communications of the Association for Information Systems (ABDC A)
    • Original submission March 2025
  • Revision with Communications of the Association for Information Systems (ABDC A)
    • Revision R1 submitted February 2025
    • Original submission June 2024
  • Revision with Information Systems Journal (ABDC A*)
    • Revision R1 to be submitted May 2025
    • Original submission December 2024

Accepted and Published/Presented

  • Wang B. & Prester, J. (2025). A labour perspective on videoconferencing fatigue: Critical review and reframing. Journal of Strategic Information Systems 34(2). doi:10.1016/j.jsis.2025.101903 (ABDC A*)

  • Wang B. & Schlagwein D., & Cecez-Kecmanovic D. (2024). Critical-theoretic review and research agenda on digital nomadism. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Bangkok, Thailand.

  • Wang B., Schlagwein D., Cecez-Kecmanovic D., & Cahalane M.C. (2024). ‘Emancipation’ in digital nomadism vs in the nation-state: A comparative analysis of idealtypes. Journal of Business Ethics. doi:10.1007/s10551-024-05699-8 (FT50, ABDC A)

  • Wang B., Ciriello R. F., & Mathiassen L. (2023). What is paradox in Information Systems research? Towards a narratology. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Wellington, New Zealand.

  • Wang B. (2022). Programming for qualitative data analysis: Towards a YAML workflow. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Melbourne, Australia.

  • Wang B. & Prester, J. (2022). The performative and interpretive labour of videoconferencing: Findings from a literature review on ‘Zoom’ fatigue. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark.

  • Wang B., Schlagwein, D., Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., & Cahalane, M. C. (2020). Beyond the factory paradigm: Digital nomadism and the digital future(s) of knowledge work post-COVID-19. Journal of the Association for Information Systems, 21(6), pp. 1379-1401. doi:10.17705/1jais.00641 (ABDC A*)

  • Boell, S. & Wang, B. (2019). www.litbaskets.io, an IT artifact supporting exploratory literature searches for information systems research. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Perth, Australia.

  • Wang B., Schlagwein, D., Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., & Cahalane, M. C. (2019). Beyond Bourdieu, Foucault and Habermas: Review and assessment of critical information systems research. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Perth, Australia.

  • Wang B., Schlagwein, D., Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., & Cahalane, M. C. (2019). Digital nomadism and the market economy: Resistance and compliance. Proceedings of the International Conference on Information Systems, Munich, Germany.

  • Wang B., Schlagwein, D., Cecez-Kecmanovic, D., & Cahalane, M. C. (2018). Digital work and high-tech wanderers: Three theoretical framings and a research agenda for digital nomadism. Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Sydney, Australia. doi:10.5130/acis2018.bl

  • Wang B., Lim, E. T. K., & Van Toorn, C. (2016). Gimme money! Designing digital entrepreneurial crowdfunding platforms for persuasion and its social implications. Proceedings of the Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems, Chiayi, Taiwan.

4 Teaching Experience

Whilst Blair has experience across a range of business and technical IS courses, particular emphasis is given here to his coverage of the top programming languages for jobs according to IEEE Spectrum (link), which are noted in bold text.

University of Galway (since 2023)

  • Lecturer in charge of MS805 Database Systems (since 2023)
    • Cohort of approx. 200 students per semester
    • Postgraduate course involving SQL (MySQL/MariaDB) and ERD (Mermaid)
  • Lecturer on MS5130 Applied Analytics in Business and Society (since 2024)
    • Cohort of approx. 200 students per semester
    • Postgraduate course involving R/RStudio, Quarto, Git and GitHub
    • Jointly taught with Prof. Eoin Whelan, who covers the machine learning topics
  • Lecturer on MS5134 Cybersecurity Risk Management II (since 2025)
    • Cohort of approx. 40 students per semester
    • Postgraduate course involving Linux Shell, Kali Linux, Metasploit, Wireshark
    • Jointly taught with Assoc. Prof. Michael Lang, who covers the IT governance topics

University of Sydney (2018 to 2023)

  • Lecturer in charge of INFS1020 Working in Digital Ecosystems (2022 to 2023)
    • Cohort of approx. 100 students per semester
    • Leading tutor teams of approx. 3 tutors per semester
    • Undergraduate course introducing IS concepts to Bachelor of Commerce (BCom) students, and students from other Faculties
    • Previously Tutor (2018 to 2021), awarded a Dean’s Citation in 2019 (link)
  • Lecturer in charge of INFS6060 Digital Work Practices (2023)
    • Unit of Study Student Survey (USS) Award for Teaching in 2023 (link)
    • Cohort of approx. 50 students per semester
    • Postgraduate course introducing IS concepts to Master of Commerce (MCom) students
    • Previously Tutor (2021)

University of New South Wales (2018 to 2021)

  • Lecturer in charge of INFS2822/INFS5715 Programming for Data Analytics (2020 to 2021)
    • Cohort of approx. 100 students per semester
    • Leading tutor teams of approx. 2 tutors per semester
    • Undergraduate (INFS2822) and postgraduate (INFS5715) course involving Python, HTML, JavaScript, TypeScript, and bash/zsh shell
    • As the lecturer in charge, I developed this course ‘from scratch’ during the COVID-19 pandemic at the request of the Deputy Head of School for Education, for both on-campus and online delivery
  • Lecturer in charge of INFS2605 Intermediate Business Programming (2019 to 2021)
    • Cohort of approx. 150 students per semester
    • Leading tutor teams of approx. 5 tutors per semester
    • Undergraduate course involving Java, SQL (SQLite) and JavaFX user interfaces
    • As the lecturer in charge, I designed new assessments, led the tutor team, updated the course content with new concepts and technologies (e.g., Quality Assurance, Intellectual Property, version control and project management using GitHub), and managed the sudden transition to online teaching during the COVID-19 pandemic
  • Guest Lecturer for INFS4887 Business Research Methods (2021)
    • Undergraduate course for Honours research students
    • I co-delivered guest lectures and workshops on literature review and writing techniques
  • Guest Lecturer for INFS5987 Theoretical Foundations of Information Systems (2021)
    • Postgraduate course for IS PhD candidates
    • I co-delivered a guest lecture on Critical Theory and Critical IS Research
  • Guest Lecturer for INFS5978 Accounting Information Systems (2018 to 2019)
    • Postgraduate course introducing IS concepts to Accounting students
    • I delivered guest lectures on cybersecurity topics
  • Casual/Sessional Academic (2018 to 2019)
    • Tutor for COMM5011 Business Data Analysis (2019, postgraduate coursework)
    • Tutor for INFS3617 Networking and Cybersecurity (2018, undergraduate coursework)
    • Tutor for INFS1609 Fundamentals of Business Programming (2018, undergraduate coursework)

5 Academic Engagement

Managing Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems, since 2024

  • Initial editorial screening of all new manuscript submissions (approx. 1,000 per year), and allocation of those manuscripts to Senior Editors (SEs)
  • Pioneered process improvements (structured record-keeping, workload management, and fraud detection) using business analytics techniques
  • Developed a social media presence strategy, in close collaboration with the Editor-in-Chief, the publisher (Taylor & Francis), and the owner of the journal (The OR Society)

Ten Minute IS Papers (TMISP) (www.tmisp.org), since 2020

  • In 2020, I launched a podcast where I summarise IS research papers in 10 minutes or less. I figured that this would be beneficial for my own awareness of the latest research as well as providing a useful resource for other members of the IS scholarly community.
  • This podcast has 223 followers on Spotify and has been identified in an ICIS 2022 paper about prominent podcasts of the IS scholarly community (Anton et al., 2022) (link).

Peer Review for Academic Research Papers, since 2018

  • Australasian Journal of Information Systems (AJIS), since 2022
  • Business & Information Systems Engineering (BISE), since 2022
  • Communications of the Association for Information Systems (CAIS), since 2024
  • European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), since 2022
  • Information & Organization (I&O), since 2023
  • Information Systems Journal (ISJ), since 2021
  • Information Technology & People (IT&P), since 2022
  • Information Technology & Tourism (ITT), since 2019
  • Journal of the Association for Information Systems (JAIS), since 2022
  • Journal of Business Ethics, since 2024
  • Journal of Information Technology (JIT), since 2021
  • Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS), since 2022
  • Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), since 2018
  • European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), since 2019
  • International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), since 2019
  • International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, since 2023
  • Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems (PACIS), since 2019
  • Book Reviewer for Emerald Publishing, 2019 to 2020

Academic Service at University of Galway, since 2023

  • Workshop facilitator at ACIS 2024 conference — “Discover new tools to help you navigate the literature” (link) — with Sander Zwanenburg and Sebastian Boell
  • Workshop facilitator at ECIS 2024 conference — “Three tools to help you navigate and review IS literature (LitBaskets, PermuSearch & CoLRev)” (link) — with Sebastian Boell, Julian Prester, Gerit Wagner, and Sander Zwanenburg
  • Workshop facilitator at ACIS 2023 conference — “Three tools to help you navigate the literature” (link) — with Sander Zwanenburg and Sebastian Boell
  • Representative of the Business Information Systems Discipline at the University of Galway Open Day, on campus, 07 October 2023

Academic Service at University of Sydney, 2022 to 2023

  • Business Information Systems Discipline seminar coordinator, 2022 to 2023
  • DISRUPT.SYDNEY conference organising committee member, 2022
  • Representative of the Business Information Systems Discipline at the University of Sydney Open Day, on campus, 27 August 2022
  • Informal mentoring of PhD candidates, 2022 to 2023

Academic Service at University of New South Wales, 2018 to 2021

  • Curriculum design for the new INFS3701 Enterprise Architecture for Scalable Cloud Solutions course, 2021
  • Representative of the School of Information Systems and Technology Management (ISTM) at UNSW Open Day, online, 4 September 2021
  • Invited speaker for UNSW Business School PASS (Peer-Assisted Study Sessions) Leader Training program, 2020 to 2021
  • Postgraduate Research Student Representative for ISTM, 2020
  • Invited speaker for DigiSoc student society web development webinar, 6 October 2020
  • Invited speaker for Business IT Student Association (BITSA) podcast, 29 July 2020

6 Awards

  • Recipient of University of Sydney Business School Unit of Study Student Survey (USS) Award for Teaching, 2023 (link)
  • Finalist (UNSW nominee), ACPHIS Best Australian IS PhD Thesis Award, 2022 (link)
  • Finalist and People’s Choice Award, UNSW Business School Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, 2020 (link)
  • Recipient of University of Sydney Business School Dean’s Citation for Tutoring, 2019 (link)
  • Recipient of AAIS Natalie F. Hardwicke Best Student Paper Award, 2019 (link)
  • Recipient of Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship, total value $98,068 AUD, 2018 to 2021 (link)

7 Professional Development

  • Associate Fellow of Higher Education Academy (AFHEA) — Advance HE, 2020 (link)
  • Foundations of University Learning and Teaching (FULT) — UNSW, 2020 (link)
  • Tutor Development Program — University of Sydney, 2019
  • Tutor Training Program — UNSW Business School, 2018
  • Foundations of Marketing Analytics (via Coursera) — ESSEC Business School, 2016
  • Introduction to Big Data (via Coursera) — University of California San Diego, 2016
  • Introduction to Python for Data Science (via edX) — Microsoft, 2016

8 Industry Experience

  • Client Success Executive — Datorama (now Salesforce), Sydney, 2016 to 2017
  • Technical Consultant — IBM Global Business Services, Sydney, 2016

9 Education

  • Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Information Systems — UNSW, 2018 to 2022
  • Bachelor of Information Systems (Co-op, Honours) — UNSW, 2012 to 2015