School of Business

Mrs Sandra Begley MSc, PgC, BA (Hons), FHEA, MBCS, MACM, MeRSA

Contact Details

Location

Campus

Job Title

Role in the University

Sandra is the co-ordinator for the following modules:

• Systems Analysis and Design
• E-Business Strategy
• Ethical Issues in ICT
• IT Project - undergraduates
• IT Dissertation – undergraduates

and contributes to

• Exploring Research

Sandra also acts as academic liaison for Trinity Saint David for two projects.

• Software Alliance Wales
• Creativity and Innovation in Micro-businesses

Sandra also participates in the Business School teams to develop relationships and opportunities for research and projects and with businesses and communities.

Background

Sandra commenced her duties at the University of Wales, Trinity Saint David in September 2010. Prior to her current position Sandra was a Senior Lecturer in Information and Applied Business Systems and more recently a doctoral researcher at the University of Birmingham.   She has twenty years of industrial experience in the financial and manufacturing sectors prior to becoming an academic.  Sandra is professionally accredited as a teacher in Higher Education by the Staff and Educational development Association (SEDA) and the Higher Education Academy.  Sandra publishes in peer reviewed publications and is a referee and committee member for two conferences.

Member of

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA).

Professional member BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.

Professional member Association of Computing Machinery (ACM).

Associate member Centre for Applied Systems Research (CASR), University of Wollongong, NSW Australia.

Committee member and referee for the European Conference on Knowledge Management (ECKM)

Committee member and referee for the International Conference on Knowledge Management and Information Sharing (KMIS)

Committee member Women@BCS in Wales.

Member of the Economy and Enterprise Research Group, University of Birmingham, UK.

Member of the Regional Studies Association (RSA)

Academic Interests

Sandra is currently engaging in the following projects:

Software Alliance Wales (SAW)

Software Alliance Wales (SAW) is a European funded project led by ITWales at Swansea University in partnership with the Universities of Bangor, Glamorgan, Aberystwyth and the University of Wales Trinity Saint David, with a remit to provide specific support to the software sector, address skills requirements, to respond to demands to help Welsh businesses to maximise the potential of exploiting technologies and support opportunities for university computing students to work with SMEs.

Creativity and Innovation in Micro-enterprises (CIME)

www.camfprosiect.com

CIME is a European INTERREG funded project with four partners: Swansea Metropolitan University; University of Wales Trinity Saint David; South East Regional Authority (SERA), Ireland and Kilkenny Enterprise Board, Ireland.  The aim of the project is to support businesses using creativity techniques which stimulate innovative practice and raise the competitiveness of participating micro-enterprises or SMEs

Sandra is currently developing research with the Centre for Applied Systems Research (CASR)

The Centre (CASR) conducts research into the analysis, design, implementation, and evaluation of intra- and inter-organisational systems from both organisational and technical perspectives.

In addition, her major research interests are in:

Knowledge Management and the processes and dynamics of temporary coalitions, collective knowledge and the implications for firm renewal, growth and innovation, which is her doctorate study.

Information Systems and Strategic Planning for IT/IS

Publications

Begley, S., Taylor, M.J. & Bryson, J.R. (2009) Firms as Connected, Temporary Coalitions: Organisational Forms and the Exploitation of Intellectual Capital.  Electronic Journal of Knowledge Management, Vol. 7, (1), April 2009, p. 11-20.

Begley, S., Taylor, M. J., & Bryson, J. R. (2008), Sustaining Growth and Innovation: Knowledge Transfer and the Firm as a Connected Temporary Coalition, Proceedings of the Commission on the Dynamics of Economic Spaces, The International Geographical Union (IGU) meeting, Worlds of New Work? Multi-Scalar Dynamics of New Economic Spaces, Barcelona 5-8 August 2008.  ISBN-13: 978-84-691-5380-2

Begley, S., Taylor, M. J., & Bryson, J. R. (2008), Building and Exploiting Intellectual Capital: The Firm as a Connected, Temporary Coalition. Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Southampton Solent University, UK, 4-5 September 2008.  pp. 51-58. ISBN: 978-1-906638-11-5 Cd

White, G. & Begley, S. (2008) Measuring the Intellectual Capital of Individuals: A Key Personal Competency Measurement Framework (KPCMF), Proceedings of the 9th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Southampton Solent University, UK, 4-5 September 2008.  pp. 957-966.  978-1-906638-11-5 Cd

White, G. & Begley, S. (2006) The Impact on Intellectual Capital of Organisational Improvement.  Proceedings of the 7th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary,  4th-5th September 2006, pp. 585-597.  ISBN: 978-1-905305-29-2.

Begley, S & Oyeniran, A.D. (2005) Communication and Knowledge Stakeholders: A Participative Design Approach to Knowledge Sharing. Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Information Systems Development: Pre-Conference, Karlstad, Sweden, 14-17 August, 2005.

Begley (nee Hanlon)   Aneiba, A., Hanlon, S. & Shah, H. (2004) An Architecture for Mobile Web Business Systems: Applied to the Healthcare Sector, Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Mobile Business (ICMB), New York, 12-13 July 2004,  Technical Track paper TC08 pp. 1-9.   ISBN 0-918902-53-3

Sharp, P & Hanlon, S. (2004)  MaKE Measures: A Synthesis of a KM Process with Intangible Assets Measures.  Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Conservatoire National des Arts e Metiers, Paris, France.  30 September – 1st October 2004. pp. 805-818. ISBN  0-9547096-5-9

Hanlon, S. & Sun, L. (2002) Building an Application Service Provider (ASP) e-business architecture, Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Communication Systems Networks and Digital Signal Processing, Staffordshire University, UK, 15th-17th July 2002, pp. 487-490.  ISBN 1-90413-305-3

Workshops, Conference Tracks and Presentations

Begley, S. (2008) Chair of Conference mini-track ‘The Dynamics of Temporary Coalitions and Collective Knowledge’ at the 9th European Conference on Knowledge Management, Southampton Solent University, UK, 4-5 September 2008.

Begley, S. (2008) Knowledge, Coalitions and Enterprise: The Dynamics of Firms, The Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, Boston, USA, 15-19th April 2008.  Paper presentation – session: Agglomeration, Knowledge and Spillovers.

Begley, S. (2006) Appreciative Inquiry and the Development of Sustainable Postgraduate Research Cultures.  Higher Education Academy Conference, Nottingham University, 3-5 July 2006. Workshop session and Begley, S & Clark, R. (2006) Building Supportive Postgraduate Research Cultures with Appreciative Inquiry.  Higher Education Academy Conference, Nottingham University, 3-5 July 2006.