Mr Adam Jenkins

Welcome. :) I'm a lecturer at the Univeristy of South Australia, although that much is probably already clear at this point. I teach in the Information Systems part of the School of Accounting and Information Systems, where I like to think of myself as the token programmer. Although not strictly true, as there are other programmers on staff, I do seem to teach the purely practical, programming-orientated courses, most notably Web Programming (Perl & PHP), Contemporary Business Programming (Java), Business Systems Design (Oracle Designer), and, occasionally, World Wide Web Development.

Professionally, my most recent occupation was as a web developer, which I started in 1994 and continued on until I started at UniSA. Academically, my initial background was in Arts at Adelaide University, where I majored in Philosophy and Classical History. I then went on to complete Honours in Philosphy in a combined program with Adelaide and Flinders Universities, and began (but didn't complete) a Masters in Philosophy at Flinders. One day I hope to finish that, but the pressures of raising children were enough to lead me in other directions. After some years working, I was eventually given the opportunity to enter a Doctoral program in Information Systems at UniSA, which lead to my current position.

So, what else should I cover? The only other relevant issue seems to be research interests. My background has been in two areas - philosophy and programming. As a result I tend to do research in either of those two subjects. The philosophy track of my research is to do with foundational issues in IS, focusing on research methodologies, modelling issues, definitions of knowledge, and the like. Anything with no direct application to the real world. :) Programming research tends to be along the lines of the design of web based systems, with a focus on applications within education.

My Blog

Journ-E Online Reflective Journal System for Students

• Web design and development
• Systems thinking tools
• Scripting languages (Perl, Python, PHP, ASP)
• Java

Bachelor of Arts (Honours)

• Multiple perspectives theory
• Knowledge management
• Web portal design
• Online education
• Paper Review and Management Systems
• Web-based journals (Blogs)

Jenkins, A. "Why Define? The Case for Definitions of Knowledge" Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2004

Jenkins, A. "The Design of Reflective Journals as Course Evaluation Instruments - an Information Systems Case Study" Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2004

Jenkins, A. "What Mary Didn't Know About Tacit Knowledge" Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2003

Jarvis, B. & Jenkins, A. "BDI Agents: A Soft Model for Organisations?" Australian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS), 2003

Jenkins, A. "Defining Perspectives: TOP and MP++" Americas Conference on Information Systems, 2002

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Information Systems

• Web Site Design
• Web Accessibility
• Open Source Software
• Blogs (web-based journals)
• Podcasts
• Wikipedia