Steven B Sawyer

                          Steven Sawyer--Curriculum Vitae

Steve Sawyer conducts research in the social informatics tradition with particular interests to the ways in which people organize to work together and use information and communication technologies.

Sawyer leads courses that focus student’s attention to the design, development and implementation of information systems, managing projects and systems, and to the roles of information and communication technologies relative to organizational and social change. 


EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

1995 D.B.A. Management Information Systems, Boston University
1989 M.S. Management Information Systems, Boston University
1986 M.S. Ocean Engineering, University of Rhode Island
1982 B.S. Marine Transportation, The United States Merchant Marine Academy (with honors)

Research Interests

Sawyer's approach to teaching is constructivist and relies on problem-based learning principles. This approach challenges the students and invigorates the learning experience.

Sawyer leads courses for undergraduates, professional masters, executive education and doctoral students.  Course topics include systems analysis and design, project-based activities, and managing information-based organizations.  For research-oriented students, Sawyer leads seminars on information systems, social informatics/ socio-technical theories. and research methods.  Sawyer's executive education courses focus on strategic and tactical opportunities relative to emerging technologies.

Teaching Interests

Steve's research focuses on the design, development, deployment and uses of information technologies and new forms of information-sharing systems.   He pursues this work in the social informatics tradition, focusing on social practices, collective action, the roles and functions of the technologies and systems of information sharing, and the institutional contexts in which these happen. 

Current research projects include:

Information sharing in policing and public-safety

Uses of information and communication technologies in real estate

Information sharing and innovation networks (through both formal and informal organizing)

Steve continues to advance the social informatics (and, more broadly, socio-technical principles for studying information and communication technologies) through his writings and scholarly activism.

Professional Interests

Sawyer is a senior editor for the Journal of Information Technology, on the editorial boards of The Journal of the American Society of Information Science and Technology and The Information Society.

He chairs a working group on computers and work for the International Federation of Information Processing.

Sawyer is working with a growing consortium of scholars to advance the science of socio-technical systems.

Personal Interests

Sawyer enjoys his family, sporting, fitness, and doing these in the four seasons that Central New York showcases so magnificently.