Dr Vaughan Ellis' Supervisions (5)

PhD
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Alan Brooke
Status	Current
Part Time	No
Years	2021
Project Title	ISitting by the Fire - the Story of the Song Writer. An Ethnographic Exploration of Liminality, Self-questioning Identity, and the Darkness that Surrounds the Fire of the Creative.
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Holly Patrick-Thomson
Second Supervisor	Vaughan Ellis
Additional Supervisor	Gavin Maclean

DBA
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Brian Wright
Status	Complete
Part Time	Yes
Years	2018 - 2022
Project Title	‘Happily ever after?’ Readiness for change amongst managers in regard to the adoption of AI within an international bank
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Vaughan Ellis
Second Supervisor	Rowan Steele

DBA
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Jeanette Jn.Louis-Hughes
Status	Current
Part Time	Yes
Years	2016
Project Title	Project governance practices in the Saint Lucian public sector
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Vaughan Ellis
Second Supervisor	Fiona Smart

DBA
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Dr. Pauline Miller Judd
Status	Complete
Part Time	Yes
Years	2012 - 2019
Project Title	An exploration of how academic staff construct social identities in the career transition from the performing arts into higher education
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Director of Studies	Vaughan Ellis
Second Supervisor	Rowan Steele

DBA
Doctorate

Level	Doctorate
Student	Prof Sally Smith
Status	Complete
Part Time	Yes
Years	2012 - 2016
Project Title	Leadership for the CIO: building capacity through applying leadership theory using frameworks
Project Description	At present the Information Technology profession appears to be dogged by high profile project failure, high graduate unemployment rates, employers unable to recruit suitable staff and a professional body under attack. It is not even clear that IT can be considered a profession when compared with other occupational groups in which professional bodies regulate entry and employers demand professional status from their employees. There are some advantages in belonging to a recognised profession, including external recognition and status; and, consequentially, disadvantages in not belonging. To find out more about the nature of professional identity as experienced in the workplace, this study was designed to explore how IT professionals in leadership roles self-identify. Professional identity is defined to be a coherent self-conception based on skills, abilities, experiences and identification with a profession. The underlying identity theories accept a complex picture of multiple identities with identity commitment and salience affecting behaviour in different contexts. This study explored the nature of professional identity construction and adaptation for experienced IT professionals. As a previously unexplored group in a relatively new profession, the life narrative technique was used to identify factors in the construction and adaptation of identity with insights drawn over the course of a working life. The findings revealed that participants constructed organisational, technical skills-based and leadership identities but there was little identification with the IT profession, as would have been in evidence, for example, through membership of the British Computer Society or developmental interactions with prototypical IT professionals. Analysis of the data uncovered mechanisms which could explain the lack of identification with the IT profession, including the rate of technological change and an underpowered professional body. The findings were evaluated and a set of emerging recommendations for stakeholders in a strong and stable IT sector were framed, including encouraging employers to endorse chartered status and careful consideration of the review on computing course accreditation underway.
Awarding Institution	Edinburgh Napier University
Second Supervisor	Vaughan Ellis