• MA in Education, University College Cork - 2011
• PhD in IS Security (ISS) from the University of Bath, UK – 2010
• PGTLHE - 2008
• PGCTLHE – 2007
• MSc, Management Information Systems (MIS) – 2000
• BSc, Business Information Systems - 1998

Dr. Karen M. Neville, BSc, MSc, PhD in IS Security, MA in Social Learning, and Diploma in Higher Education. Dr. Neville is a Senior Lecturer in Business Information Systems (BIS) and academic co-director of the award winning MSc in IS for Business Performance (ISBP) from 2007 to September 2017. She is the Founder and Managing director of the Centre for Centre of Resilience and Business Continuity (CRBC) with over €3.5 million in research funding. Prior to this she was Managing Director of a training and web consultancy with multinationals as clients. Her research focus is on IS Security decision-making, knowledge management and simulated learning tools. Dr. Neville has been a PI/Co-PI of funded research projects from industry, EU and Enterprise Ireland with experience managing projects (security, knowledge management and learning simulation) and SW developers. She has published in a number of national and international journals and conference proceedings. She is co-chair of UCC’s Community-Academic Research Links (CARL) Committee and vice chair of the University Social Responsibility Programme (USREP).

The increasing number of IS security (ISS) incidents that organizations have confronted within the last few years suggests that much needs to be done to secure information and knowledge. Most of the research on IS security to date has been at the technical level, carried out by computer scientists and computer engineers. Comparatively little work has taken a managerial point of view, covering broad organizational and social issues. The focus of my research is the exploration of the relationship between Information Security and Knowledge Management and to deepen understanding of Information Security through qualitative research. It is from this investigation that a number of issues regarding ISS have emerged:

Implications for the use of information security management standards by organizations
• The Compliance of Knowledge Management
• The Management of Security Knowledge
• Behavioral issues in IS security
• IS governance and security

These domains are completely intertwined with the research activities of the Financial Services and Innovation Centre. Therefore my PhD research has enabled me to make a significant contribution to the research activities of the centre. Additionally due to the number of calls for ISS research from leading journals and conferences the demand for qualitative research is steadily growing.

My research interests are also vital to my development as a lecturer, my masters was focused in educational technologies and it directly benefits my teaching as different approaches can, when properly appraised, aid learning. I have incorporated my research into Web-based training systems into my courses and have successfully increased the effectiveness of the lectures. My research into security and knowledge management has also added to the technical subjects that I teach providing my classes with ‘real life' examples from the cases that I have investigated. Meeting lecturers from other universities at national and international conferences is also an important source of teaching ideas and suggestions on problems that I may have encountered or vice versa. Overall my efforts at improvement have had a positive effect on the classes that I teach.

MBS ISBP:

IS6121 and IS6122

BIS 4 – IS4419

BIS 3 – IS3311