Dr Elham Shafiei Gol
Senior Lecturer in Information Systems

Summary

Elham is an Associate Professor (Senior lecturer) of Information Systems in the division of sustainability and innovation at Brunel Business School. For a number of years, she worked in the Banking industry as a business analyst and a usability researcher before undertaking her doctoral studies in the Department of Digitalization at Copenhagen Business School (CBS).

Elham’s research interests include digital transformation and the future of work, digital labour platforms, creative crowdworking, digital innovation and responsible innovation. Her Ph.D. thesis focused on how creative crowdwork, a sociotechnical work system constituted through a set of relationships that connect organizations, individuals, technologies, and work activities through online platforms, is governed and organized to create value for job providers in the form of co-creation, inbound open innovation, and absorptive capacity. 

She has published her research outcomes in top journals in IS field (ABS 4*, and ABS 4) such as Information Systems Research and Journal of Strategic Information Systems as well as highly competitive conferences in the information systems such as ICIS and ECIS conferences. She also serves as a reviewer for different journals such as the Journal of Strategic Information Systems and Information &  Management Journal. Elham is a member of the Association of Information research (AIS), Special Interest Group E-Business, AIS Women’s Network, and Platform Economy Interest Group (PEIG) at the University of Oxford.

Qualifications

• PhD in IS, from Copenhagen Busines School (CBS), Department of Digitalization 
• MSc in Information Technology, from Amirkabir University of Technology