Paul Scifleet

Associate Professor Paul Scifleet is a specialist in Information Governance and Enterprise Information Management with the Department of Business Technology and Entrepreneurship (BTE), where he teaches about the application of advanced technologies in the areas of Enterprise Knowledge Management and Cybersecurity for Business.

A/Prof Scifleet is a Chief Investigator with the Australian Research Council, Centre for Information Resilience where he is supervising projects in the areas of, Explainable AI for Enterprise Information Managment: A Digital Forensics Perspective and Curating Systems of Engagement, the role of AI in protecting vital information in digital business ecosystems. He has previously held positions with the Discipline of Business Information Systems at the University of Sydney and the School of Information Systems, Technology and Management at the University of New South Wales. He has been a visiting Scholar with the Information School at the University of Sheffield and the Royal School Library and Information Science, Copenhagen and Research Fellow with the School of Information Studies at Charles Sturt University. Dr Scifleet is currently a Visiting Reserch Fellow in Enterprise Information Management with the Institute for Information Systems Research at the University of Koblenz, Germany.

Research: A/Prof Scifleet’s research centers on the emerging socio-technical discourse now framing information and data governance at societal levels. His focus is on the governance and management of information across 3 critical areas: (1) digital asset management, including enterprise and personal information management; (2) emerging information technologies and their impact on human information behaviour; (3) information governance in business and e-government contexts. His research projects prioritise the importance of understanding changing information management practices at the “edge of systems”, for example, at the boundaries of information sharing: between networks, enterprises, formal and informal systems, and assets (data, documents, information, records, and memory) and for people. 

A/Prof  Scifleet approaches his research from the interpretative traditions of digital documentary practice: he is interested in the challenges that governing and managing information resources (digital documents & records) brings to organisations at this time. He is interested in the changes that are taking place in digital representation, identity, and human information behaviour and the impacts of this for individuals, businesses and government. He applies expertise in advanced technologies, IT related policy analysis, digital ethnography and content analysis to inform research in these areas.

Current research activities include: (1) information governance, compliance and reporting in the digital economy; (2) Human information behaviour in new wave tech (self tracking, smart home technologies, artifical intelligence, cybersecurity), and personal information management; (3) information protection, assurance, privacy and trust.