Associate Professor Carmen Leong
PhD, National University of Singapore
Master in Computing (IT Project Management), National University of Singapore
B. Science (Computer) University of Technology Malaysia
Carmen Leong is an Associate Professor at the ʹڲƱ School of Information Systems and Technology Management and the Associate Dean of Equity, Diversity and Inclusion at the ʹڲƱ Business School Sydney. She received her PhD degree from The National University of Singapore. She is enthusiastic about discovering how technologies can bring changes to life, of organisation and of individuals. She has conducted more than 45 case studies in Indonesia, China, Vietnam, Singapore, Malaysia, Australia, Thailand, South Korea, and Germany, to understand the use of digital technologies 1) in organizing for social purposes such as entrepreneurship, rural poverty, disaster response, mass mobilisation and 2) in the process of transforming an organisation and pre-existing management practices. Prior to entering academia, she worked in the private and public sectors in Singapore and Malaysia. Carmen has published in MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, and European Journal of Information Systems.
She is serving on the editorial review board of Information Systems Research and Journal of the Association for Information Systems (from 2025) and is the Associate Editor at the European Journal of Information Systems.She was also the recipient of the 2021 AIS Impact Award and the 2023 ʹڲƱ Business School's Research Impact Award. Her work has won the runner-up for the AIS Special Interest Group (SIG) of Grounded Theory Methodology (GTM)'s Best Paper Award. She has served on the AIS SIG of Social Inclusion and is currently serving on the AIS Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging (DEIB) standing committee.
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- Grants
- Awards
- Research Activities
- Engagement
- Teaching and Supervision
Grants
Campbelltown City Council, Customer Experience Digital Uplift Project, 2023/24, $30,000 (Cat 2 funding)
Hongxin Pte Ltd/ International Contract, Digitalisation and platformisation capabilities of the company 2021, $10,000 (Cat 3 funding)
NSWs Department of Planning, Industry and Environment (DPIE) / State Government Contract, Bridging the Chasm: A Study in Building Sustainability Momentum 2020, $29,694 (Cat 2 funding)
ʹڲƱ Dean's Research Fellowship 2020-2022, $60,000
Australia-ASEAN Council Grants 2019-20, Fostering Women's Economic Empowerment through Digital Entrepreneurship, $30,000
ʹڲƱ Business School Research Grant 2019, Digital Technology for Social Good: Developing the Design Principles of Sensor-based Elderly Monitoring System for Aging-in-Place, $20,586
ʹڲƱ Business School Special Research Grant 2018, Investigating the Financial Technology for Digitally enabled Inclusion, $10,000
ʹڲƱ-Indonesia Seed funding: Investigating Digital Empowerment and Financial Inclusion in Developing Communities in Indonesia 2016/17, $10,000
ʹڲƱ Business School Special Research Grant 2016, Digitally enabled Social Change, $7,500
Awards and Honors
ʹڲƱ Business School's Staff Excellence Award: Research Impact Award 2023
Top 200 Scholars 2019-2021 AIS Research Ranking
Association for Information Systems (AIS) Impact Award 2021
European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS) Outstanding contribution in Reviewing 2021