My Expertise
- Digital resilience in crises, emergencies, digital shocks, and exclusion
- Engaged scholarship, intervention-based research
- Industry-engaged experiential learning
Keywords
Fields of Research (FoR)
Information systems, Information systems organisation and managementBiography
Dr. Yenni Tim, an Associate Professor at the School of Information Systems and Technology Management, UNSW Business School, specialises in addressing complex challenges at the nexus of digital capacity, resilience, and societal progress.
Her research program informs the effective design and implementation of digital technologies, particularly in the face of technological, organisational, and societal shocks, with an aim of advancing resilient...view more
Dr. Yenni Tim, an Associate Professor at the School of Information Systems and Technology Management, UNSW Business School, specialises in addressing complex challenges at the nexus of digital capacity, resilience, and societal progress.
Her research program informs the effective design and implementation of digital technologies, particularly in the face of technological, organisational, and societal shocks, with an aim of advancing resilient and sustainable development. Yenni’s extensive field work and design research projects have addressed a range of practical challenges, including leveraging digital technologies for pandemic and disaster response, overcoming digital disadvantages, enhancing environmental sustainability, addressing digital shocks, and mitigating social exclusions.
Yenni received the Association for Information Systems (AIS) Early Career Award, the Association's highest distinction for emerging scholars. She serves as an Associate Editor for the Information Systems Journal (since 2020) and the European Journal of Information Systems (since 2023), and a Managing Editor for the Journal of the Association for Information Systems (since 2019).
In November 2019, Yenni founded the UNSW Sandbox Program (unsw.to/sandbox), an initiative that empowers partnerships among industry practitioners, academics, and university students to co-design solutions for contemporary challenges. Within four years, the Sandbox Program has evolved into a platform for large-scale tripartite collaboration, leading to impactful outcomes across education, research, and social impact.
Furthering this initiative, Yenni established the Global Sandbox Alliance in November 2023 to foster strategic partnerships between academic institutions, businesses, and community organisations worldwide, through the establishment of Sandbox Programs in leading universities globally. This Alliance, which welcomed the University of Toronto as its inaugural institutional member, aims to connect academics, practitioners, and university students across the globe to achieve shared goals in education, research, and social engagement.
My Qualifications
PhD Information Systems, UNSW Sydney | Master of Science, National University of Singapore
My Research Supervision
Areas of supervision
- Digital Resilience and Sustainability
- Industry-engaged Research
- Design Research
Currently supervising
- Digital Sustainability
- Resilient Strategy for the Future of Work (completed)
My Engagement
- (UNSW Newsroom, August 2020) COVID-19: A wake-up call for businesses to protect their networks and disarm cyber criminals
- (UNSW BusinessThink, July 2020) Inside the digital transformation of China’s Terracotta Warriors
- (UNSW Business School News, June 2020) How the Sandbox Education Program partners with industry
- (UNSW Newsroom, May 2020) Five simple steps to protect yourself from cyber threats in a pandemic
- (UNSW Newsroom, April 2020) Working from home? Here’s how to protect yourself from COVID-19 themed cyber scams
- (Financial Review, December 2019) Reimagination 2019: Digital Disruptor Awards 2019 Winners
- (The Courier Mail, July 2019) Sandbox program with Ernst & Young on cyber security shows students the other aspects of IT
- (UNSW Knowledge Exchange Capability Portfolio) Organisational Governance and Resilience
- (UNSW BusinessThink, September 2019) Is this class the key to filling cybersecurity roles?
- (SBS Mandarin, August 2019) SBS: FaceApp freak-out exposes how little we know about privacy
- (UNSW Business School News, May 2019) Sandboxing technological solutions with high schoolers on the inaugural Experience UNSW Business Day
- (UNSW Business School News, February 2019) Six ISTM academics were listed in the AIS Top 200 Scholars worldwide
- (UNSW BusinessThink, November 2018) Angry Birds fly high again with data analytics
My Teaching
Current Courses Taught