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Annette Mills
AwardsFellow of the Association for Information Systems
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of Waikato, University of Technology, University of the West Indies, University of Otago
Thesis
  • Investigating the determinants of user sophistication: a perspective from social cognitive theory (1996)
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Canterbury

Annette Marie Mills is a Jamaican–New Zealand academic, and is Professor of Information Systems in the business school at the University of Canterbury, specialising in the impacts of new technologies, especially relating to privacy.

Academic career[edit]

Mills completed her undergraduate training at the University of Technology and the University of the West Indies. Mills completed a PhD titled Investigating the determinants of user sophistication: a perspective from social cognitive theory at the University of Waikato in 1996.[1][2] She also has a postgraduate certificate in tertiary teaching from the University of Otago.[2] Mills is on the faculty of the University of Canterbury, where she is Professor of Information Systems.[3]

Mills is interested in how people and societies adapt to new and emerging technologies, and the positive and negative impacts of those technologies, including privacy concerns. She covers topics such as pervasive data collection, digital surveillance, automated decision-making, wearable technologies, and biometric data.[4] She has also examined how the increase in home-working has affected enterprise security.[5]

Mills is on the committee of the Privacy Foundation New Zealand, and convenes the working group on children's privacy.[4][6] Mills is an editor for several journals, including and IT & People, the Journal of Global Information Management, and the Australian Journal of Information Systems.[5]

In 2020 Mills was elected a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems.[2] In 1993 she was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to New Zealand.[7]

Selected works[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Mills, Annette Marie (1996). Investigating the determinants of user sophistication: a perspective from social cognitive theory (PhD thesis). University of Waikato.
  2. ^ a b c "AIS Fellow Award – History of AIS". Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  3. ^ University of Canterbury. "Academic profile: Professor Annette Mills". profiles.canterbury.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  4. ^ a b "Working Groups – Privacy Foundation New Zealand". Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  5. ^ a b "WMS research seminar: 'My Home, My Castle – The New Frontline for Enterprise Cybersecurity ' : Events Calendar". events.waikato.ac.nz. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  6. ^ "Patron & Committee – Privacy Foundation New Zealand". Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  7. ^ NZVCC. "50 Years of Commonwealth Scholarships: New Zealand 1959–2009" (PDF). Universities New Zealand. Retrieved 6 April 2024.

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