PhD research at SIM

Meet our multi-cultural cohort of current PhD thesis students at the School of Information Management, and learn about their research.

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PhD graduates

Completed theses by PhD research students in the School of Information Management
Dean's Doctoral Award Recipients

The following students were recipients of the Dean's Doctoral Award.
Masters by Thesis (MCOM/MCA/MA)

The following students completed their Theses through a Masters by Thesis
Olivia Baldwin-Denton

Olivia's research focuses on a sustainable future for cultural heritage conservation education in Aotearoa
Mina Zarei Sanabadi

Mina's research looks at the role of avatars in facilitating collaboration between humans and AI in digital marketing
Natalia Albert Llorente

Natalia is researching social cohesion in Aotearoa: does housing policy matter? A complex systems approach
Manisha Saha

Manisha's research focuses on the Agentic Shift of AI in Information Management in New Zealand
Md. Maidul Islam

Maidul's research explores how public libraries build social connection and inclusion to achieve sustainable development goals
Bayu Ardhiansyah

Bayu's research focuses on digital transformation in Indonesian Local Government
Ziyue Wang

Ziyue Wang's research focuses on health information behaviour and how people interact with health related information in everyday life
Hasitha Koralage

Hasitha's PhD research looks into Health Information and seeking behaviors among south asian migrant families in New Zealand
Wei Cai

Wei’s research explores how large language models can be used to understand, detect, and explain scams in digital communication
Belle Dang

Belle's research examines how humans and AI collaborate and learn together in increasingly hybrid digital environments
Wanxuan Lin

Wanxuan is researching AI technology and team creativity
Chloe Latto

Chloe is exploring the impact of human-AI collaboration on organisational structures
Jingyu Zheng

Jingyu's research looks at how human-AI collaboration transforms innovation
Shafiqul Alam

Shafiqul's research looks at human and AI collaboration in manufacturing organisations
Sadia Afroze

Sadia's PhD is focused on AI in academic libraries
Michael Miller

Michael's research is mathematically modelling Māori language revitalisation
Yao Zhang

Yao's research is on Human-AI collaboration and its impacts on sustainability
Nhung Le

Nhung's PhD is working towards a framework for corporate digital responsibility and corporate sustainability
Princess Solomon

Princess' research explores Human-AI collaboration in programme management
Ayelet Dagan

Ayelet is exploring the relationship between community archives and different community stakeholder groups
Hedi Bigham Sohanaki

Hedi is exploring how 'Digital Humans' influence consumer decision-making
Yanbin Jing

Yanbin is researching AI collaboration and its impact on the performance of organisations undergoing digital transformation
Liana Bunting

Liana is exploring the integration of regenerative design principles into data governance in "smart cities"
Carlos Forero Medina

Carlos is conducting research on the impact of human-AI collaboration on leadership within hybrid teams
Ishara Sewwandi Hewa Kasakarage

Ishara Sewwandi is researching blended librarianship: exploring a concept to support teaching and learning in Sri Lankan universities in the digital era
Dianita Asni Supriyanto

Dianita's research is in records management and artificial intelligence
Dennis Pienaar

Dennis is exploring how self-efficacy, optimism bias, and trust in AI shape forecasting accuracy and human–AI collaboration in complex projects
Ghazaleh Kermani Moghaddam

Ghazaleh's research looks From human-led to agentic AI: trust, bias, and value alignment in human–AI collaboration
Paddy Power

Paddy is exploring how data catalogs, data inventories, and information asset registers are implemented in organizations and what makes them successful or not
Jarime Falana-Chaco

Jarime is researching information behavior and identity amongst Māori and Pasifika visual artists
Chibueze Nwangwu

Chibueze's research focuses on human-Ai collaboration and employee creativity and its implications for human flourishing
Hinerangi Hemara Haeana

Hinerangi's research is focused on reframing digital engineering and AI through Māori Governance
Peter Nichols

Peter's research focuses on Integrating Te Ao Māori into the provision of cancer related health information across the care pathway
Madiha Asghar

Madiha's research focuses on Leveraging Technology and how Academic Libraries are Incorporating OERs into Digital Collections in New Zealand Universities
Thusitha Chamara Kuruppu Arachchige

Chamara is engaged in a phenomenographic study examining the variations in teachers experiences of digital information literacy practices
Yohanes Wahyu Trio Pramono

Yohanes's research focuses on developing knowledge-augmented LLM-based Question Answering systems for official statistics.
Simin Yin

Simin's research is about organising genealogical information with knowledge graphs
Frank van der Zwaag

Franks research looks at risk information asymmetry, disruption, propagation and adaptation in a supply network: Bridging the dyad-to-network gap
Xiaoyong Liu

Xiaoyong Liu studies how institutional conditions enable or constrain the transition from ecosystem affiliation to sustained interorganizational participation
Yu Zhang

Yu's research examines how generative AI refusal and platform transparency influence user's behavior decision-making, and perceptions of human-AI relationships