Geoff Walsham (born 10 June 1946 in

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) is an

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scholar in the

Social Study of Information Systems The Social Study of Information Systems (SSIS) 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 philoso ...

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

Information Systems An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, store, and distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, information systems are composed by four components: task, people ...

, 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 at the

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, he worked as an operational researcher at BP, and later gained an MSc at

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. He then joined the Department of Engineering at the

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and became one of the founding members of the

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. He was a Professor at the University of Lancaster before returning to Cambridge. He has also lectured in Australia, Kenya, India, and the Philippines. WALSHAM, Prof. Geoffrey
''Who's Who 2015'', A & C Black, 2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, Dec 2014 He is currently an Emeritus Professor of Management Studies (Information Systems) at the Judge Business School.

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1946 births Living people English computer scientists Alumni of St Catherine's College, Oxford Alumni of the University of Warwick Members of the University of Cambridge Department of Engineering Information systems researchers {{UK-academic-stub