The United Kingdom Academy for Information Systems (UKAIS) arose from a meeting in 1993 of leading UK academics in Information Systems. Concerns were expressed at the meeting about the way IS teaching and research were funded. The concerns stemmed from a lack of recognition of IS as a growing and important academic discipline. UKAIS was established in 1994 to remedy this situation. It is a charity, whose aims are to provide a better knowledge of IS within the UK and to provide a forum for discussing issues in IS teaching and research. Since this first meeting in 1993, UKAIS has recognised the importance of including practitioners into its remit.

The UKAIS conference is the premiere academic event in the Information Systems calendar within the UK and attracts leading academics and researchers from the UK and overseas.
This year's conference will once again be held in the beautiful city of Oxford, and will bring together academics, researchers and practitioners of information systems for an exchange of ideas and experience around the subject of ‘IS/IT in its many uses’

Conference Topics


Contributions should address the range of topics in IS, either current developments in the field or how to create positive improvements in those areas.

Topics of interest may include, but not be limited to, the following:

1. IS Strategy and Management:
o IT Governance and IT Management
o Strategic IS Planning
o Organisation Context
o Organisational change using IS
o Leadership in MIS
o IS versus Business Operations
o Maintenance and evolution of information systems
o Effective ERP (Plan and Implementation)
o What next for the CIO?

2. IS and Practice
o IS and Innovation in the Public Services
o E-Government
o IS education: Software Engineering or Design?
o Technology, venturing and entrepreneurship
o IS in Health
o IS in SME’
o Information Systems: The Discipline

3. IS and Creative Technology
o Search and Social Media Marketing
o The next wave – web 2, web 3, next generation mobility
o Mobile Information Systems
o Cloud computing
o Computer Games and the cyber criminal

4. IS Learning and Teaching
o Pedagogic practice in Teaching IS
o E-Learning in IS
o Instructional Design for IS
o National and International Cultures and Approaches to Pedagogy
o Multiculturality and Diversity Issues in IS Learning and Teaching

5. IS and Research
o Information Systems Education Research
o IS vs Computer Science Research
o IS vs Business Studies
o Quantitative vs. Qualitative Methods
o New and alternative approaches to IS research

Information for Authors


Full papers should be of 5000-8000 words. Short papers including concept papers, position papers and research-in-progress will also be considered and should be between 1500-2000 words. UKAIS actively encourages submissions from early researchers. Posters should be submitted in the first instance in the form of a 500-1000 word summary. If accepted, authors will be required to produce a poster for the conference and it is anticipated that the posters will be scheduled into the conference programme in order to be presented and discussed.

All papers should be formatted using the UKAIS 2011 conference template and uploaded to the Conference Submission System which can be found at http://bit.ly/ukais11 and one copy should also be supplied in word by email as an attachment to the conference organising team to UKAIS2011@wlv.ac.uk.

The paper title and authors’ names and contact details should appear on a cover sheet as should a clear indication of the topic areas for which the presenter is aiming. To facilitate the blind referring process the body of the paper should be presented anonymously, with the title at the head of each page.

All accepted papers (including poster summaries) will appear in the published proceedings of the conference which will be ISBN registered.

If you have any queries regarding the conference or the submission process, please contact Abi Redmond in Conference Office on 01902 323992 or by email to Abi.Redmond@wlv.ac.uk or UKAIS2011@wlv.ac.uk. Details will be available on the UKAIS 2011 Conference website soon.

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