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Departmental responsibilities

• Programme Coordinator MSc. Information Management
• Departmental Coordinator for Erasmus/Socrates and Study Abroad Programmes
• Deputy Coordinator MSc. Information Systems Management
• Library Committee, member
• Teaching Committee, member
• Staff-Student Committee, member

Research students

• Lihong (Nick) Zhou, who is studying ‘Knowledge Sharing barriers in complementary healthcare communities of practice: the coexistence of Traditional and Western Medicine in China, first supervisor, jointly with Dr. M. Nunes
• Inaam Idrees, who is studying the role of knowledge sharing in competition and cooperation strategies in the religious tourism sector in Saudi Arabia, first supervisor, jointly with Dr. Andrew Cox
• Dimitris Bibikas, who is developing a holistic model for enterprise knowledge management systems to support innovation process management in knowledge intensive SMEs, first supervisor, jointly with Dr. I. Paraskakis (SEERC, Greece) and Dr. A. Psychogios (CITY Liberal Studies, Greece).
• I co-supervised Dr. Raid Al-Adaileh, 2000-2004 (successful completion), A model for an IT diffusion strategy for Jordanian Government Organisations, Sheffield Hallam University. Second supervisor, jointly with Prof. Jawed Siddiqi and Dr. Mike Grimsley.

University activities

• Faculty of Social Sciences Student Review Committee

External activities

• Expert member on European Commission funding panels, acting as evaluator, as reviewer and as panel rapporteur, (1992- present)

Previous roles

• Senior Lecturer in Information Systems, Sheffield Hallam University
• Lecturer in Information Management, Leeds Metropolitan University
• Research Assistant, National Institute for Industrial Technology and Engineering, Portugal
• Information Assistant, National Fisheries Research Institute, Portugal

Recent/ongoing research projects

OrganiK - An organic knowledge management system for small European knowledge-intensive companies, funded by the European Commission, FP7.

A Model for Research Methods Training for New Research Students in Libraries and Information Studies, funded by the AHRC Collaborative Research Training Provision for Doctoral Students.

MAIK – Multimedia Assessment in Information and Knowledge Management. Funded by the HEA.

An Inquiry based model for PGT and UG Research Methods modules, funded by CILASS.

Recent presentations

Vasconcelos, A.C. (2007). Dilemmas in Knowledge Management. Key note address to
the Special Libraries Association - Arabian Gulf Chapter Annual Conference, Manama Bahrain, 3-5 April: Proceedings.

Bibikas, D., Paraskakis, I, Psychogios, A. and Vasconcelos, A. (2007). Towards a holistic model of decentralized enterprise Knowledge Management Systems: Emerging Web 2.0 technologies and management techniques. Paper presented at the European Conference on Operational Research (EURO XXII), Prague, 8-11 July 2007.

Selected and recent publications

Bibikas, D., Paraskakis, I, Psychogios, A. and Vasconcelos, A. Emerging enterprise social software knowledge management environments: current practices and future challenges, International Journal of Learning and Intellectual Capital, in the press.

Bibikas, D., Paraskakis, I, Psychogios, A. and Vasconcelos, A. An integrated Knowledge Innovation Process Management model: The Case of Skandia, in Lytras, M. and Ordonez de Pablo, P. (eds.) Knowledge Ecology in Global Business: Managing Intellectual Capital, Hershey (PA): IGI Global, in the press.

Vasconcelos, A.C. - Dilemmas in knowledge management, Library Management, in the press.

Zhou, L., Vasconcelos, A.C., Nunes, J.M. Supporting Decision Making in Risk Management through an Evidence-Based Information Systems Project Risk Checklist, Information Management and Computer Security, in the press.

Fahey, R., Vasconcelos, A. and Ellis, D. (2007). The impact of rewards within Communities of Practice: a study of the SAP online global community, Knowledge Management Research and Practice, 5(3), p. 186-198.

Bibikas, D., Paraskakis, I, Psychogios, A. and Vasconcelos, A. (2007a) - A novel approach to enterprise knowledge management systems: an enterprise Web 2.0
holistic model. South Eastern European Doctoral Conference, Thessaloniki, 22-23 June 2007: proceedings.

IDREES, I., VASCONCELOS, A. and COX, A (2007) - Knowledge sharing barriers in a
multicultural context: the case of religious tourism in Saudi Arabia [short paper and poster]. South Eastern European Doctoral Conference, Thessaloniki, 22-23 June 2007: proceedings.

Vasconcelos, A.C. (2007a). The role of professional discourses in the organisational adaptation of information systems. International Journal of Information Management , 27(4) p.279-293.

Vasconcelos, A.C. (2007c). The use of Grounded Theory and of the Arenas/Social Worlds Theory in Discourse Studies: a case study on the discursive adaptation of information systems, Electronic Journal of Business Research Methods.

VASCONCELOS, A.C. (2007c). The use of Grounded Theory and of the Arenas/Social Worlds Theory in discourse studies: an example. ECRM 2007 – European Conference on Research Methodology for Business and Management Studies, Lisboa, 9-10 July 2007: proceedings.

Zhou, L., Vasconcelos, A.C., Nunes, J.M. (2007a). A Tool for Risk Mitigation in Public Sector IS/IT Projects: an Evidence-Based Information Systems Project Risk Checklist. ICM 2007 – International Conference on Management, Wuhan, Hubei, China, 10-12 Aug. 2007: proceedings.

Zhou, L., Vasconcelos, A.C., Nunes, J.M. (2007b) - Knowledge sharing in complementary healthcare communities of practice: the coexistence of Traditional and Western Medicine in China. South Eastern European Doctoral Conference, Thessaloniki, 22-23 June 2007: proceedings.

ELLIS, D.; OLDRIDGE, R; VASCONCELOS, A. (2004). Community and Virtual Community. Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 38, p.145-186. (refereed journal)

KIRK, J and VASCONCELOS, A. (2003). Management consultancies and technology consultancies in a converging market: a knowledge management perspective. Electronic Journal on Knowledge Management, 1(1). Accessible at http://www.ejkm.com/index.htm (Selected for the first issue of this journal on the basis of an earlier version, published in the 2002 Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management. Dublin: MCIL and Trinity College, p. 346-357).

VASCONCELOS, A.C.; ELLIS, D.; PIETERS, L.; CHAVDA, A. (2001). Problems in the measurement of intellectual assets. In, Remenyi, D., William, R. (eds.) Proceedings of the European Conference on Knowledge Management. Bled: MCIL and Bled School of Management, p. 705-720.

ELLIS, D.;VASCONCELOS, A.C. (2000). The relevance of Facet Analysis for World Wide Web subject organisation and searching. Journal of Internet Cataloging, 2 (3/4), p. 97-114. Published simultaneously in Thomas, A.R. and Shearer, J.R. (eds.). Internet searching and indexing: the subject approach. Binghamton (NY): Haworth Press, p. 97-114.

ELLIS, D.; VASCONCELOS, A.C. (2000). The relevance of IR research for the evaluation of the World Wide Web. In Nicholas, D. (ed.). The Internet: its impact and evaluation - proceedings of the symposium. London: Aslib, p. 101-113.

ELLIS, D.; VASCONCELOS, A.C. (1999). Ranganathan and the Net: using Facet Analysis to search and organise the World Wide Web. Aslib Proceedings, 51 (1), p. 3-10. (refereed journal).

LEA, W.; UTTLEY, P.; VASCONCELOS, A.C. (1998). Mistakes, misjudgements and mischances: using SSM to understand the Hillsborough Disaster. International Journal of Information Management, 18 (5), p. 345-357.

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