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Roger Clarke's 'History of I.S. in Australia'

A Retrospective on the Information Systems Discipline in Australia
Appendix 4: Professors

Roger Clarke **

Version of 23 March 2007

This file contains Appendix 4 to the paper 'A Retrospective on the Information Systems Discipline in Australia'

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This Appendix lists Professors whose background and role appear to place considerable weight on Information Systems. Appointments in cognate disciplines such as Accounting and Computer Science have been included, provided that the individual or their CV indicates a close affinity with the IS community. It does not include any of the following: Associate Professors, Visiting Professors, Adjunct Professors and Professorial Fellows (unless known to be full-time for an extended period). The intention is to identify long-term, full-time positions, and the people who are in them, or have been in them.

The starting-point for this collection was the Australian and Asia-Pacific Directories (Clarke 1988, 1991, Gable & Clarke 1994, 1996). It is of the nature of both the early, printed Directories and the self-maintained ISWorld Online Directory since 1995, that both omissions and mis-classifications occur. The proportion of IS Professors who have established and maintained their own entries is extremely disappointing (only 30/69!). A (D) indicates that the person had an entry in the Directory in March 2007 and a (NO) means there was no entry.

Where a number in square brackets is provided after the name, it indicates the sequence in which the appointments were made (1974-1992 only - which appears to cover 'the first 11'). The years shown are only those during which the person is known to have held a Chair - it is a list of Professors, not an attempt to show each person's full career.

This Appendix includes such corrections and updates as have been communicated to me. Please advise the author of errors and omissions. I regret any slight or embarrassment - but the means to correct the record is at your fingertips.

The first list below is by institution, with current Chairs underlined; and the second list is by surname. The current count appears to be 52 Professors in 28 institutions. A total of 69 individuals have been identified as having held Chairs, in 31 of the c. 42 institutions.


  1. ADFA - Newton (1)
  2. AGSM - Yetton, Vitale (1)
  3. ANU - Gregor (1)
  4. Bond - Goldsworthy, Morrison, Finnie (2)
  5. CDU - Lueg, Haynes (1)
  6. CSU - Cornish, Poon (1)
  7. CQU - Hovenga (1)
  8. Curtin - Galliers, Pervan, Lloyd, Chang (3)
  9. Deakin - Swatman P.A., Corbitt, Castleman, Warren (2)
  10. ECU - Burn, Standing (1)
  11. Griffith - Cecez-Kezmanovic, Davies, Gammack, Eklund (1)
  12. Macquarie - Jordan, Johnson, Offen (3)
  13. Melbourne - Vitale, Morrison, Sonenberg, Ferguson, Shanks (3)
  14. Melbourne GSM - Vitale, Weill (-)
  15. Monash - Arnott, Steele, Juliff, Dooley, Shanks, Weber (3)
  16. Newcastle - Aisbett (1)
  17. UNSW - Brookes, Jeffery, Lawrence, Low, Cavaye, Cecez-Kezmanovic (4)
  18. Notre Dame - Glasson (-)
  19. Queensland - Weber, Orlowska, Green (2)
  20. QUT - Papazoglou, Gable, Underwood, Rosemann (2)
  21. RMIT - Swatman, Corbitt, Smith (2)
  22. UniSA - Koronios, Swatman, Swatman (3)
  23. SCU - Cavaye, Murugesan (1)
  24. Sunshine Coast - Fitzgerald (1)
  25. Swinburne - Grant (1)
  26. Sydney - Patrick, Elliot, O'Connor (3)
  27. Tasmania - Leech, Keen, Marshall, Lueg (2)
  28. UTS - Hawryszkiewycz, Henderson-Sellers (2)
  29. VU - McGrath, Zeleznikow (2)
  30. UWS - Cecez-Kezmanovic (-)
  31. Wollongong - Gaffikin, Winley, Eklund (2)

  1. Janet AISBETT (NO) - Uni Newcastle, 2000?-
  2. David ARNOTT [7] (NO) - Monash, 1990-
  3. Cyril BROOKES [1] (NO) - UNSW 1974-1994
  4. Janice BURN (D) - ECU, 1997-2005?
  5. Tanya CASTLEMAN (D) - Deakin, 2002-
  6. Angele CAVAYE (D) - SCU 2000-2002?, UNSW, 2002?-
  7. Dubravka CECEZ-KEZMANOVIC (D) - Griffith, 1993-97?, UWS 1998?-2002?, UNSW 2002?-
  8. Elizabeth CHANG (NO) - Curtin, 2002?-
  9. Brian CORBITT (NO) - VUW 1998?-2000?, Deakin 2000?-2003?, RMIT, 2003?-
  10. Brian CORNISH (NO) - CSU, 1995?-
  11. Lynda DAVIES (NO) - Griffith, 1995?-2000?
  12. Laurence DOOLEY (D) - Monash, 2000?-
  13. Peter EKLUND (D) - Griffith 1998-2002, Uni of Wollongong, 2004-
  14. Steve ELLIOT (NO) - Uni Sydney, 2002-?
  15. Colin FERGUSON (D) - Uni Melbourne, 2004-
  16. Gavin Finnie (NO) - Bond, 2005-
  17. Ed FITZGERALD (D) - Sunshine Coast, 2003-
  18. Guy GABLE (D) - QUT, 1999?-
  19. Michael GAFFIKIN (D) - Uni Wollongong, 1988(Accting)-
  20. Bob GALLIERS [3] (NO) - WAIT/Curtin, 1987-88
  21. John GAMMACK (D) - 2000-
  22. Bernie GLASSON (D) - Notre Dame, 2000-2003?
  23. Ashley GOLDSWORTHY (NO) - Bond, 1994?-1999?
  24. Doug GRANT (D) - Swinburne, 2000?-
  25. Peter GREEN (NO) - UQ, 2002?-
  26. Shirley GREGOR (D) - ANU, 2001-
  27. Igor HAWRYSZKIEWYCZ [6] (NO) - UTS, 1990-
  28. John HAYNES (NO) - CDU, 2005?-
  29. Brian HENDERSON-SELLERS (NO) - UTS, 1998?-
  30. Evelyn HOVENGA (D) - CQU, 2000?-
  31. Ross JEFFERY [4] (NO) - UNSW, 1990-
  32. Michael JOHNSON (D) - Macquarie, 1997?-
  33. Ernest JORDAN (D) - Macquarie, 1998?-
  34. Peter JULIFF [7] (NO) - Monash, 1990-1997?
  35. Chris KEEN (NO) - UTas, 1999-2007
  36. Andy KORONIOS (D) - UniSA, 2002-
  37. Michael LAWRENCE [10] (NO) - UNSW, 1991-2004?
  38. Stewart LEECH [11] (NO) - UTas, 1992-2000, UniMelb, 2000-
  39. Ashley LLOYD (NO) - Curtin, 2002-
  40. Christopher LUEG (D) - CDU, 2004-2005, UTas, 2005-
  41. Graham LOW (D) - UNSW, 1998?-
  42. Michael McGRATH (D) - Victoria Uni, 2002-
  43. Peter MARSHALL (D) - Uni Tasmania, 2001-
  44. Iain MORRISON (NO) - UniMelb, 1997?-2003?, Bond 2003?-
  45. San MURUGESAN (D) - Southern Cross, 2002-
  46. Charles NEWTON (NO) - ADFA, 2001?-
  47. Marcus O'CONNOR (NO) - Uni Sydney, 2002?-
  48. Raymond OFFEN (NO) - Macquarie, 1995?-
  49. Maria ORLOWSKA [5] (NO) - UQ, 1990-
  50. Mike PAPAZOGLOU (NO) - QUT, 1993?-1999?
  51. Jon PATRICK (D) - Sydney, 1998-
  52. Graham PERVAN (NO) - Curtin, 1996-
  53. Simpson POON (D) - CSU, 2001?-2004?
  54. Michael ROSEMANN (D) - QUT, 2004-
  55. Graeme SHANKS (NO) - Monash, 2003-2006, Melbourne 2006-
  56. Ross SMITH (D) - RMIT, 2007-
  57. Liz SONENBERG (D) - UniMelb, 2001?-
  58. Craig STANDING (D) - ECU, 2003?-
  59. Phillip STEELE [7] (NO) - Monash, 1990-2001?
  60. Paul A. SWATMAN (NO) - Deakin 1997-2000, SIMT in Germany, 2000-2003, UniSA, 2003-
  61. Paula M.C. SWATMAN (D) - RMIT 1998-2000, Koblenz 2000-2003, UniSA, 2004-
  62. Alan UNDERWOOD - QUT, 2004-2006
  63. Michael VITALE (D) - UniMelb, 1996-1999?, Melb GSM 1999?-2001?, AGSM, 2001?-
  64. Matthew WARREN (NO), Deakin, 2004-
  65. Ron WEBER [2] (D) - UQ 1981-2004, Monash 2004-
  66. Peter WEILL (NO) - Melbourne GSM, 1993-2002?, MIT 2002?-
  67. Graham WINLEY (NO) - UWoll, 1994-2002
  68. Philip YETTON (NO) - AGSM, 1993-2006
  69. John ZELEZNIKOW (D) - Victoria Uni, 2002-


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