Rachel Mclean

• PhD University of Salford
• Managing Director at Liverpool John Moores University

Surveillance technology based on AI and machine learning is currently being rapidly adopted by law enforcement agencies worldwide. The introduction of these technologies is motivated by expectations that they will increase public security, at the same time serious concern is raised about far-reaching risks for civil liberties as privacy and freedom...

Explores a range of research methods, philosophies and issues of ethics, privacy etc. Gives examples from research and seminal research.

Critical information systems research (CISR) has been described as an emerging research field within the IS discipline. However, in 2007 Richardson and Robinson highlighted the ‘mysterious case of the missing paradigm e.g., the critical perspective in information systems research’. In this paper, we will build upon Richardson and Robinson’s study t...

Clinical flow cytometry is a reliable methodology for whole blood cell phenotyping for different applications. The BD FACSLyric™ system comprises a flow cytometer available in different optical configurations, BD FACSuite™ Clinical software, and optional BD FACS™ Universal Loader. BD FACSuite Clinical software used with BD™ FC Beads and BD CS&T Bea...

Stability of blood and stained sample storage dataset. (XLSX)

Reference intervals dataset. (XLSX)

Reference intervals by gender. (DOCX)

STARD FACSLyric -2015 checklist. (DOCX)

Reference intervals study protocol. (PDF)

Method comparison dataset. (XLSX)

Method comparison and intersite reproducibility study protocol. (PDF)

Stability of blood and stained sample storage study protocol. (PDF)

Interlaboratory variability dataset. (XLSX)

The paper illustrates and discusses how the performance management systems in a UK local authority are transformed into a surveillance system. A case study analysis reveals that the surveillance is engendered by central government and enacted by senior managers who conform to policies demanding the introduction of strict performance management syst...

This paper gives a voice to a range of community and individual stakeholders who would not generally be heard in the conventional town planning process. We present a methodological technique, described as creative prototyping, that has at its heart, the capability to enable full stakeholder inclusivity into the future imagining of the smart city. A...

Purpose: The paper offers a perspective on the operations of retail businesses in the high street as they adapt to the rising influence of the digital economy. We reveal some of the new challenges being posed by the changing growth and consumption patterns in cities that are coupled with shifting macro-supply chain trends. Design: The study is co...

This paper reports on a small-scale UK based study that explores the impact of social media adoption and use on corporate communications and brand image. The study was structured around an empirical research study including discourse and textual analysis, archival research on social media brand communications, interactions with customers, and a sma...

This paper outlines case study research with "Eye Believe" a support group for patients who have had an eye removed usually (but not exclusively) due to ocular melanoma (cancer of the eye). It is a participative action research (PAR) project. The aim is to adopt a user-centric socio-technical approach to developing an online community to offer info...

Purpose – The purpose of this study is to gain insight into craft and do-it-yourself (DIY) communities of practice (COPs) and how the use of technology provides ways for participants to connect, share and create. By gaining a deeper insight into the practices of these communities it may provide new opportunities to utilise further developments with...

The Red Thread: An exploration of 'The Silo Effect' in Digital Marketing Brendan J. Keegan, Senior Lecturer in Digital Marketing, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. b.keegan@mmu.ac.uk (Corresponding Author) David Edmundson-­‐Bird, Principal Lecturer in Digital Marketing, Manchester Metropolitan University Business School. d.edmunds...

This paper presents Manchester Digital Laboratory (MadLab) as an “organisation as prototype” in terms of its innovation; emphasising its permeability to external collaboration and internal structure. We present the accumulation of experience and inspiration found in this organisational prototype as a significant development with as much social impa...

Futures research has lived up to Wells’ prediction by becoming a legitimate scholarly discipline. In this paper, we explore the role of science fiction in creating prototypes of imagined and better futures evident in these narratives even when they are distinct from the futures they predict. We explore the contributions and warnings of utopian and...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to gain a deeper understanding of how independent craftspeople adopt and use social media (SM) in order to promote their creative enterprise. However, some of these opportunities may place a demand for specific knowledge, business and technical skills on untrained artists. The purpose of this paper is to look in...

Purpose The aim of this paper is to examine the impact of the digital culture on the music industries through an analysis of official and unofficial web sites, media reports and discussions with musicians. Design/methodology/approach A critical social theory approach is adopted to examine structures and processes related to communication between a...

The purpose of this article is to widen the debate surrounding participation in the eSociety, shifting the focus from access and economic power to skills and knowledge. It will present empirical research which, whilst not starting out as research into skills for the eSociety, revealed some relevant and enlightening issues. Focusing on two diverse c...

This chapter discusses self-service and the Internet in the context of two studies, based in the UK, and undertaken during 1998–2005. They are united by a common framework of critically analysing discourses of e-shopping in the ‘digital age ’. Firstly, myths surrounding e-shopping are deconstructed with a view to analysing the ‘sovereign consumer ’...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the impact of the digital culture on football supporters through analysis of official and unofficial websites and media reports. At first glance it would appear that technology has brought about greater opportunities to communicate, to share views which previously could not be widely published, and...

The use of enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems to deploy the panoptic gaze remains unresearched in the UK. Though there are studies outside the UK which use panoptic theory to investigate ERP systems, they do not analyse the influence the interaction between ERP technology and organisational culture have on the development of the panoptic ga...

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the issues of social and digital exclusion and inclusion arising from the development of a digitalised society. It aims to highlight the significance of this for the study of information systems by describing the context for this special issue, outlining a number of previously under‐researched area...

The purpose of this article is to widen the debate surrounding participation in the eSociety, shifting the focus from access and economic power to skills and knowledge. It will present empirical research which, whilst not starting out as research into skills for the eSociety, revealed some relevant and enlightening issues. Focusing on two diverse c...

This chapter constructs the concept of e-commerce as knowledge management. The socially constructed approach to knowledge management is adopted. Through qualitative research, rooted in the Social Constructionist-Critical Theory paradigm, the chapter examines how consumers use the Internet in commercially related activity. Through semi-structured in...

This chapter constructs the concept of e-commerce as knowledge management. The socially constructed approach to knowledge management is adopted. Through qualitative research, rooted in the Social Constructionist-Critical Theory paradigm, the chapter examines how consumers use the Internet in commercially related activity. Through semi-structured in...

This chapter constructs the concept of e-commerce as knowledge management. The socially constructed approach to knowledge management is adopted. Through qualitative research, rooted in the Social Constructionist-Critical Theory paradigm, the chapter examines how consumers use the Internet in commercially related activity. Through semi-structured in...

This chapter constructs the concept of e-commerce as knowledge management. The socially constructed approach to knowledge management is adopted. Through qualitative research, rooted in the Social Constructionist-Critical Theory paradigm, the chapter examines how consumers use the Internet in commercially related activity. Through semi-structured in...

The purpose of this paper is to widen the debate surrounding participation in the eSociety, shifting the focus from access and economic power to skills and knowledge. It will present empirical research which, whilst not starting out as research into skills for the eSociety, revealed some relevant and enlightening issues. Focusing on two diverse con...

This paper will attempt to deconstruct the belief that eCommerce in its current format is empowering customers. It focuses on five of the most prevalent myths surrounding eCommerce (namely that it: will revolutionise retailing, offers greater choice and convenience, offers greater access to information, enables better C2B and C2C communication, and...

This chapter constructs the concept of e-commerce as knowledge management. The socially constructed approach to knowledge management is adopted. Through qualitative research, rooted in the Social Constructionist-Critical Theory paradigm, the chapter examines how consumers use the Internet in commercially related activity. Through semi-structured in...

Full-text of this article is not available in this e-prints service. This article was originally published [following peer-review] in Qualitative Market Research, published by and copyright Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. Consumer knowledge is a very important asset for an organisation. Two types of consumer knowledge have been identified, “knowledge...

A growing number of organisations have implemented or are considering implementing Customer Relationship Management (CRM) strategies for the purpose of becoming more customer focussed. Despite this trend, there remains a relative dearth of academic literature relating to examining the realities of achieving such organisational objectives. The purpo...

In this paper we use the example of Jamie Oliver's School Dinners campaign to explore a number of issues of relevance to critical management studies and research namely; the potential and limitations of critical research (CR) (social change and emancipation); achieving the aims of CR (criticality and praxis); the power of the (celebrity) researcher...

Purpose - The purpose of this paper is to reflect on the issues of social and digital exclusion and inclusion arising from the development of a digitalised society. It aims to highlight the significance of this for the study of information systems by describing the context for this special issue, outlining a number of previously under-researched ar...

This research explores the ethical and social issues arising from the phenomenal growth of commercial E-Gambling within Europe. The digitised commercial services of a leading European operator is scrutinised using internet research methods from 2003 to 2006 to produce the findings. Internet research methods were selected because they offer interest...

At first glance it would appear that technology has brought about greater opportunities for independent musicians to communicate, network, promote and distribute, which previously could not be widely published, and to organise against the commercial power of major labels (Majors). However, in many spheres of the music industries this "empowerment"...

This chapter constructs the concept of e-commerce as knowledge management. The socially constructed approach to knowledge management is adopted. Through qualitative research, rooted in the Social Constructionist-Critical Theory paradigm, the chapter examines how consumers use the Internet in commercially related activity. Through semi-structured in...