Rachelle

Rachelle Bosua
PhD (The University of Melbourne)
BSc Honnours, MSc (IS & SE), The University of South Africa
BSc (The University of Pretoria, South Africa)

Lecturer
Department of Information Systems
111 Barry Street, Carlton, 3010, VIC, Australia
The University of Melbourne
Tel: +61 3 8344 1398
Fax: +61 3 9349 4596
Email: rachelle.bosua@unimelb.edu.au


Research Interests
Knowledge work and knowledge management in organisations, Communities of Practice, Social networks, Knowledge management and knowledge sharing within and between workgroups, Knowledge strategy, Requirements modeling and design of Knowledge Management Systems, Content and Information Management.

PhD (Dec 2007) A model to explain effective and efficient knowledge sharing in workgroups in complex organisational settings.


Reviewed Publications
- Bosua, R. and Scheepers, R. (2007) Towards a model to explain knowledge sharing in complex organizational environments, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 5(2):93-109
- Bosua, R., Scheepers, R. & Lakomski, G. (2004). Distributed Cognition and IT support for Knowledge Work in Breakdowns. 15th Australasian Conference on Information, Systems. Elliot, S., Williams, M-A., Williams, S. and Pollard, C. Hobart, Tasmania, Australia: School of IS, University of Tasmania.
- Bosua, R., Scheepers, R. & Lakomski, G. (2003). Information Technology (IT) support for Tacit Knowledge exchange, Workshop Paper presented at OASIS 2003 workshop: Seattle, U.S.A.
- Bosua, R., & Scheepers, R. (2002a). IT Support for Communities of Practice in Organisational Settings. The 13th Australasian Conference on Information Systems. Wenn, A., McGrath, M. and Burstein, F. Melbourne, Australia: Victoria University of Technology.
- Bosua, R., & Scheepers, R. (2002b). Towards Web support for tacit knowledge exchanges. Proceedings of the 25th Information Systems Research Seminar in Scandinavia. Bodker, K., Pedersen, M.K., Norbjerg, J., Simonsen, J. and Vendelo, M.T. Bautahoj, Denmark.
- Bosua R. (1998) An Object-oriented approach to the development of a CAI-lesson for the Internet, in: CITTE'98, Conference on Information Technology in Tertiary Education, University of South Africa, May.
- Bosua R. and S. Brinkkemper (1995) Realization of an Integrated Software Engineering Environment through heterogeneous CASE tool integration, in: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Engineering Environments (SEE'95), edited by M. S. Verrall, IEEE CS-Press, California, April 1995.
- Bosua R. and S. Brinkkemper (1995) The integration of Object-oriented and Conventional CASE tools, published in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems, OOIS'95, edited by J. Murphy and B. Stone, December 1995, Ireland.
- Bosua R. and S. Brinkkemper (1994) The state of art of CASE tool integration, in: Proceedings of the 5th workshop on the next generation of CASE tools (NGCT'96) of CAISE'94, Edited by B. Theodoulidis, Memoranda Informatica 94-25, May 1994.

Supervision
DIS Honours project: Yee Chian Lim - Intranet Content Management and Knowledge Management
Teaching and Subjects Taught
Introductory and advanced software development with Java
Structured and Object-Oriented Systems Analysis and Design (with UML)
Design and Development of Knowledge Management Systems, Knowledge Management Technologies
Asp programming, Programming principles, Linear programming
Introductory principles of cryptography
Business Analysis
Database modeling and design
Software Engineering
, Software Engineering Environments
Management Information Systems