The PhD defence will be partially digital, in Kristen Nygaards sal (5370), Ole-Johan Dahls hus and streamed directly using Zoom. The host of the session will moderate the technicalities while the chair of the defence will moderate the disputation.
Ex auditorio questions: the chair of the defence will invite the attending audience at Kristen Nygaards sal to ask ex auditorio questions.
Trial lecture
“Approaches to analysing organisational complexity"
Time and place: December 18, 2023 11:15 AM, Kristen Nygaards sal (5370), Ole-Johan Dahls hus/ZOOM
Main research findings
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This thesis investigates the design, implementation, and adoption of a Humanitarian Health Management Information System (H-HMIS) in a global medical humanitarian organization. The central question aims at understanding what constitutes effective use of a health information system in a humanitarian context. The study of the theory of effective use is based on a two-level analysis: a macro-level institutional examination of the deployment environment and a micro-level affordance-based analysis of system uses and user-technology interactions in the field. The interpretive research approach followed a Canonical Action Research framework to first identify what constitutes effective use in the field and the main challenges encountered, and second, identify the drivers for improving effective use in the defined setting. Findings suggests a (re)definition of Transparent Interaction and identifies learning and adaptation actions as potential challenges for effective use in humanitarian settings. Contributions to the field include contextualizing effective use in the humanitarian context and proposing an affordance-based process for measuring effective use. Practical outcomes involve guidelines for H-HMIS use strengthening and digitizing manual data collection in the field. Overall, the study offers insights into designing information systems for easy adoption and effective use in humanitarian organizations, with broader applicability to similar resource-constrained settings.
Adjudication committee:
- Professor Andrew Burton Jones, University of Queensland, Australia
- Associate Professor Shirin Madon, London School of Economics, UK
- Professor Margunn Aanestad, Department of informatics, UIO, Norway
Supervisors
- Professor Sundeep Sahay, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
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Associate Professor Johan Ivar Sæbø,Department of Informatics, University of Oslo
Chair of defence:
Professor Ole Hanseth
Contact information at Department: Mozhdeh Sheibani Harat