Geoff Walsham is an English

England

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 scholar in the Social Study of Information Systems

Social Study of Information Systems

Most simply The Social Study of Information Systems is interested in people developing and using technology and the "culture" of those people.SSIS studies these phenomena by drawing on and using "lenses" provided by social sciences, including: Philosophy, Sociology, Social Psychology,...

. He has done much to establish the value and legitimacy of interpretive

Interpretivism

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 research in the field of Information Systems

Information systems

Information Systems is an academic/professional discipline bridging the business field and the well-defined computer science field that is evolving toward a new scientific area of study...

, particularly through his book Interpreting Information Systems in Organizations (Wiley, 1993). He has also written extensively about IT in developing countries, including the book Making a World of Difference: IT in a Global Context (Wiley, 2001).

After studying Mathematics

Mathematics

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 at the University of Oxford

University of Oxford

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, he worked as an operational researcher at BP

BP

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, and later gained an MSc at University of Warwick

University of Warwick

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. He then joined the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 and became one of the founding members of the Judge Business School

Judge Business School

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. He has lectured in the UK, Australia, Kenya, India, and the Philippines and
currently serves as Professor of Information Systems at JBS.

He wrote two books, the first entitled "Interpreting information systems in organizations" in 1993 and the second "Making a world of difference" in 2000.