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Professor Denis Dennehy

Professor
Business

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Office 326 - 326
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School of Management
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About

Denis Dennehy is a Professor of Information Systems & Sustainability at the School of Management, Swansea University. He is currently School Research Lead, and Director of the Digital Futures for Sustainable Business & Society research group. His research primarily focuses on the mediating role of information systems and analytics, and its implications for teams, organisations, and society. His research is informed through engagement with organisations such as the Kepak Group, Intel, Dell Technologies, as well as several SMEs and NGOs. These projects have been funded by UKRI, MASI, Erasmus+, Science Foundation Ireland, Irish Aid, and Enterprise Ireland. 

This research has been published in premier IS conferences (ICIS, ECIS) and journals including Information & Management, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of Business Research, Business Strategy and the Environment, International Journal of Production Research, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, European Journal of Operational Research, and IEEE.

He is co-editor-in-chief of Communications of the Association for Information Systems, and senior editor of Information Technology and People. He has chaired international conferences (e.g., IEEE ISTAS23, IFIP | I3E2021) and edited special issues related to his field. In 2024 he won the Outstanding Research Supervision Award at Swansea University, and is a recipient of the AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award for 2023, an international award that recognises longstanding members who have provided leadership within the Association for Information Systems.

Previously he worked at University of Galway as a funded investigator at the Lero | Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre and as director of the MSc (Business Analytics) programme that received the inaugural Dean's Award for Inclusive Teaching (Team Award) in 2019 and he successfully got the programme ranked by QS rankings in 2020 and 2021. Denis was a recipient of the 2021 'Teaching Hero' award; a national award that recognises nominees for being innovative or inspiring teachers. He is a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, and Senior Member with IEEE. He obtained degrees (Ph.D., M.Comm, BSc.) in information systems at University College Cork. 

Areas Of Expertise

  • Emerging technologies for Business and Societal Value; AI and Big Data Analytics
  • Business Information Systems
  • Information Systems Development Methodologies
  • Contemporary Project Management
  • Research Methodologies - Qualitative Research & Design Science

Career Highlights

Teaching Interests

Denis Dennehy has designed, delivered, and assessed IS related modules at undergraduate, postgraduate, and executive education level. Topics include IS strategy and innovation, project and portfolio management, business value of emerging technologies, digital transformation, design thinking, supply chain management, IS for sustainable development, and research methods.

 

 

Award Highlights Collaborations