Dr Stan Karanasios is a Senior Research Fellow at the School of Business Information Technology and Logistics. He has published in leading information systems and management journals including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Journal, European Journal on Information Systems and Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology. He has managed large scale

European Union grants and been invited to present his work at a number of international forums. He holds a visiting position at the University of Leeds in the UK.

• 2013, Teaching Award – Higher Education Academy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK 
• 2008, Doctorate of Business Information Systems, Victoria University, School of Management and Information Systems, Melbourne, Australia
• 2006, United Nations Graduate Study Programme, United Nations Information Service, Palais Des Nations Geneva, Switzerland
• 2002, Bachelor of Business Information Systems (Honours), Victoria University, School of Management and Information Systems, Melbourne, Australia

Industry Experience

I have worked extensively with industry. I worked for seven years in IT in the finance sector. More recently I have undertaken senior consulting positions for a range of international firms government funded projects and global agencies. I have recently completed a consulting project for the International Telecommunications Union, United Nations, on the telecommunications sector and climate change and reducing ICT energy consumption.

Memberships and Affiliations

• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), UK (2014)
• IFIP WG 9.4 Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (2013-current)
• Member COST-ACTION ICO905, European Commission Think Tank (2011-2013)
• Association for Information Systems (AIS) (2008-current)
• British Association of Police Chief Constables (BAPCO) (2008-2014)
• Regional Studies Association (RSA) (2012-current)
• Member of the Special Interest Group on ICT and Global Development (SIG GLOBDEV) (2009-2012)
• Member of Network of European Communication and Transport Activities Research (NECTAR) (2011-2012)

Conference organising and program committee roles

• iSchools workshop on Activity Theory and Information studies (2016)
• ISIC: the Information Behaviour Conference (ISIC) (2014)
• Workshop on ICT and Smart Cities (2014)
• Cognitive Radio Advances, Applications and Future Emerging Technologies (CRAFT), International Symposium on Wireless Communication Systems (2013)
• Culturally-Aware Tutoring Systems (CATS) workshop, Artificial Intelligence in Education (AIED) (2013-2015)
• CulTel Workshop, European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL) (2013)
• European Scientific Network on Exploring Equity Issues of ICT for Transport Networks (2012-current)
• International Association for the Development of the Information Society (IADIS) (2008-current)

Track chair

• IFIP WG 9.4: Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (2017)
• IFIP WG 9.4: Social Implications of Computers in Developing Countries (2015)
• Australian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS) (2013)

• Karanasios, S. (2018). Toward a unified view of technology and activity: the contribution of activity theory to information systems research In: Information Technology and People, 31, 134 – 155
• Slavova, M.,Karanasios, S. (2018). (In Press) When institutional logics meet information and communication technologies: examining hybrid information practices in Ghanaian agriculture In: Journal of the Association for Information Systems, , 1 – 60
• Thakker, D.,Karanasios, S.,Blanchard, E.,Lau, L.,Dimitrova, V. (2017). Ontology for cultural variations in interpersonal communication: Building on theoretical models and crowdsourced knowledge In: Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, , 1 – 18
• Gekara, V.,Molla, A.,Snell, D.,Karanasios, S.,Thomas, A. (2017). Developing appropriate workforce skills for Australia’s emerging digital economy: working paper In: National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER) Adelaide, Australia
• Zorina, A.,Karanasios, S. (2017). The Emergence of Digital Infrastructures from the Bottom-up: A Communities as Systems Perspective In: Proceedings of the 38th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS 2017), Seoul, 10-13 December 2017
• Karanasios, S.,Sellitto, C.,Burgess, S. (2015). Mobile devices and information patterns amongst tourists In: Proceedings of ISIC: the information behaviour conference:Part 2., Leeds, United Kingdom, 2-5 September 2015
• Allen, D.,Karanasios, S.,Norman, A. (2014). Information sharing and interoperability: The case of major incident management In: European Journal of Information Systems, 23, 418 – 432
• Karanasios, S.,Allen, D. (2014). Mobile technology in mobile work: Contradictions and congruencies in activity systems In: European Journal of Information Systems, 23, 529 – 542
• Karanasios, S. (2014). Framing ICT4D research using activity theory: A match between the ICT4D field and theory In: Information Technologies and International Development, 10, 1 – 17
• Baldini, G.,Karanasios, S.,Allen, D.,Vergari, F. (2014). Survey of wireless communication technologies for public safety In: IEEE Communications Surveys and Tutorials, 16, 619 – 641

View more outputs from this academic in the RMIT Research Repository

• Building resilience and inclusion amongst vulnerable populations through social media. Funded by: National Disaster Resilience Grant 2017 from (2017 to 2018)
• Developing Appropriate Workforce Skills for Australia’s Emerging Digital Economy. Funded by: National Vocational Education and Training Research (NVETR) Grant 2016 from (2016 to 2018)

2 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 Masters by Research Current Supervisions