Lecturer in Business Management

I am an interdisciplinary academic with a background in natural science, computer science and business management and consulting. I have extensive experience of immersive research and application of systems thinking in complex organisations and maintain a keen interest in sustainable implementation of innovation and technologies in organisations. I am also a ‘firefighter’ with a focus on fixing problems and championing change management in complex settings with multiple stakeholders.

I teach within the MSc. Portfolio in the Graduate Business School where I support design, delivery and management of a range of units reflective of my knowledge and experience in ICT consulting and persistent project and organisational memory management. I advocate intertwining of STEM and other disciplines supporting the knowledge exchange and understanding of the interdisciplinary nature of computing and communications with other fields and disciplines including the value of technologies and innovation for business value and organisational improvement which is reflected in my research interests and work. I work to actively contribute to the business and information systems research centre within the business management research institute at Bedfordshire University.

I view teaching as a reflective and reflexive process that involves actively learning, reflecting and improving practice by supporting learners by acknowledging their diverse backgrounds while tailoring delivery to meet their learning needs. I am a keen advocate of curriculum decolonisation, inclusive teaching and learning and I also champion development of opportunities for knowledge exchange with industry through collaborative and practice oriented learning to support development of employability skills. The units that I teach actively embed research and problem solving in real world projects structured to deliver practice skills relevant for graduate learners and I consistently seek more opportunities to encourage industry partners and businesses to engage our consulting skills within the MSc portfolio and engage our students on projects within their organisation.

I am recognised as fellow of the Higher Education Academy and a professional member of the British Computer Society (BCS) and Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).  

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Qualifications

• PhD Computing & Communications – The Open University
• Post Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice
• MSc Information System (Informatics Major) – Linnaeus University, Vaxjö, Sweden
• BSc Hons Microbiology – London Southbank University

Teaching Expertise

• Module & Curriculum design, planning, convening.
• Leading, supervising, and co-teaching at all levels of study
• Research ethics application management
• Supervision of undergraduate and post graduate student dissertations and projects
• Provision of pastoral and academic skills support
• Global Internationalisation engagement activities
• Supporting Decolonisation, EDI in academic contexts

Research Interests

• Business Information systems
• Business software and systems management
• Systems thinking approaches in organisations
• Ethnographic enquiry and learning
• Persistent projects management
• Project and Operations Management
• Business Decision Making systems
• Industry 4.0
• Human Computer Interaction in organisations
• Computer Supported Cooperative work in complex organisations
• Data management and exploitation - Informatics
• Organisational memory and Knowledge management

Projects

• The policing Organisation – Technologies and Systems book (ongoing)

External Roles

• External Project Supervisor at Coventry University, Warwickshire

Publications

• Kazeem, G. Omolara (12/2022): Risk prediction and decision making in policing – Humans, Algorithms and Data: A study of processes at Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Cambridgeshire police - doctoral thesis (in embargo)
• Kazeem, G. (2021): Digital transformation and managing risk – data use challenges in police forces in England in British Society for Criminology, Annual Conference Proceedings, Crime and Harm: Challenges of social and global justice, July 07-09, 2021.
• Kazeem, G. O (2021): Navigating the ethnographic field – immersed or inserted? ACM Conference Proceedings: Exploring ethnographic work in the context of complex field settings.. In Coping with messiness in Ethnography ’21: ACM Chi Conference on Human factors in computing systems, May 08–13, 2021,
• Kazeem, G. Omolara (2020): An overview of Risk prediction and decision making in policing – Humans, Algorithms and Data. (A study of processes at Bedfordshire, Hertfordshire, and Cambridgeshire police) In: Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies (ISSN 2510-2591), DOI: 10.18420/ecscw2020_dc04
• Kazeem G. (2020): Ethnographic intricacies and non- Western settings. In: Coping with messiness in Ethnography Workshop; Proceedings of the 18th European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work: – Exploratory Papers, Reports of the European Society for Socially Embedded Technologies
• Kazeem, G., 2019. Decoding the Ages – Technology in policing Europe (Transformations in the nature and use of information in policing). In: 9th Tensions of Europe Conference – Decoding Europe, Technological pasts in the digital age. Luxembourg: Tensions of Europe Conference.
• Kazeem, G. (2018). Technology In Policing : An ethnographic study of the use of information and communication technology within Bedfordshire police force. (Dissertation) https://www.divaportal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2:1223960

Contact Details

Open Researcher and Contributor ORCID ID: 0000-0002-4312-3022

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E: Ganiat.Kazeem@beds.ac.uk