Lynne Siemens, PhD (Hertfordshire, UK)

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UVic Office: HSD A324
UVic Office Phone: 250.721.8069
Fax: 250.721.8849
E-mail: siemensl@uvic.ca

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Professional Information & Research Interests  |  Selected Publications  |  Grants & Awards  |  Recent Speaking Engagements & Event Participation  |  Courses Taught

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Professional Information & Research Interests

Professional Information

Lynne Siemens' thesis focuses on entrepreneurship and small business issues on Vancouver Island. Specifically, she is examining how the island’s rural and remote enterprises overcome the challenges they face by virtue of their location outside urban areas.

In addition to this research, she has also worked with several teams within the Digital Humanities community. Several years ago, she worked with a Canadian-wide academic team to examine the credibility of electronic publishing and later extended this work to the examination of software research tools needed by humanities computing scholars in Canada. Lynne has built on this work further by developing a research project with UVic, UofT, and University College London that explores research teams within the digital humanities environments from an organizational behaviour perspective.

In her research and teaching, Lynne has applied her experience in economic development with the Federal Government. Her work there included evaluating business plans and granting funds, marketing websites, researching policy issues, and acting as a liaison between government and business/industry interests with the aim of creating an environment supportive for small business development.

Expertise & Interests

• Entrepreneurship and Small Business

• Rural Economic Development

• Government and Business Relations

• Organizational Behaviour

• Academic Team Development

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Selected Publications

Current Projects

• “The Academic Capacity of Humanities Computing in Canada” with Michael Eberle-Sinatra and Geoffrey Rockwell, Report for SSHRC.

• “Developing a Creative Cluster Framework: Implications for Rural Areas” with Michael Braun and Lindsay Tedds.

• “Marketing the Family of the Family Business: An Exploratory Study.”

• Understanding Academic Research Teams: Implications of Multi-Country, Multi-Language, and Multi-Culture Team Membership Research Project with Elisabeth Burr, Richard Cunningham, Wendy Duff, Dominic Forest and Claire Warwick.

Forthcoming

• "Challenges, responses and available resources: Success in rural small businesses" (Accepted, Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship).

• "Framework for Success in the Constrained Rural Environment: Case Studies in Rural Vancouver Island, British Columbia" (Accepted, Entrepreneurial Practice Review).

• "Time, Place and Cyberspace: Foundations for Successful E-Research Collaboration" in Murugan Anandarajan and Asokan Anandarajan, eds. E-Research Collaboration: Frameworks, Tools and Techniques, Springer-Verlag (Accepted).

Published

• " The Potential of G rant Applications as Team Building Exercises: A Case Study" Journal of Research Administration 61(2), March 2010, pp. 15.

• ""It’s a team if you use ‘reply all'": An Exploration of Research Teams in Digital Humanities Environments" Literary & Linguistic Computing 24(2), June 2009, pp. 18.

• ""It Challenges Members to Think of Their Work Through Another Kind of Specialist's Eyes": Exploration of the Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Digital Project Teams" (with Wendy Duff, R. Cunningham and C. Warwick) Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2009 , November 2009 (Vancouver, British Columbia), pp. 10.

• " From Writing the Grant to Working the Grant: An Exploration of Processes and Procedures in Transition" (with the INKE Research Group) Proceedings of INKE 2009, October 2009 (Victoria, British Columbia), pp. 32.

• " Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year 1 Research Foundations" (with R.G. Siemens, R. Cunningham, A. Galey, S. Ruecker, Claire Warwick and the INKE Research Group)  Proceedings of INKE 2009, October 2009 (Victoria, British Columbia), pp. 8.

• "Building Strong E-book Project Teams: Processes to Maximize Success while Drawing on Essential Academic Disciplinary Expertise" (with C. Warwick, W. Duff, and R. Cunningham) presented at BooksOnline'09 Workshop: 2nd Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Collections , October 2009 (Corfu, Greece) .

• “Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Laying Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age” (with R.G. Siemens, R. Cunningham, A. Galey, S. Ruecker, Claire Warwick and the INKE Research Group) presented at BooksOnline'09 Workshop: 2nd Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Collections , October 2009 (Corfu, Greece).

• ""Able To Develop Much Larger and More Ambitious Projects": An Exploration of Digital Projects Teams" (with Wendy Duff, R. Cunningham and C. Warwick) Proceedings of DigCCurr2009: Digital Curation: Practice, Promise & Prospects, April 2009 (Chapel Hill, North Carolina), pp. 6.

• "Resolving Small Business Tourism Challenges to Support Economic Growth: Case Studies on Vancouver Island" Leisure Studies, Fall 2007.

• "Challenges faced by Rural/Remote Tourism Businesses on Vancouver Island: an exploratory study" Journal of Enterprising Communities: People and Places in the Global Economy, 1(4), Summer 2007, 308-320.

• "San Juan Bistro: Lessons Learned" Informed Leisure Practice: Cases as a Conduit Between Theory and Practice , Vol 2, Recreation and Tourism Research Institute, Malaspina U-C, Nanaimo BC, Summer 2006, 98-101.

• "Operational Challenges of Rural/Remote Businesses: An Exploratory Study on Vancouver Island" Administrative Sciences Association of Canada 2006 Conference Proceedings, June 2006 (Banff, Alberta).

• " Chez Monique: Research in Practice" Informed Leisure Practice: Cases as a Conduit Between Theory and Practice, Vol 1, Recreation and Tourism Research Institute, Malaspina U-C, Nanaimo BC, Spring 2005.

• "Motivation in a Global Economy: Lessons from Herzberg" Canadian Public Administration, 48(3), Fall 2005, 413-419.

• "The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: Report on the Questionnaire" (with Geoffrey Rockwell) in The Credibility of Electronic Publishing: A Report to the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, Text Technology 11(1), 2002, 110-128.

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Grants & Awards

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council International Opportunities Fund, $52,244, principal investigator, awarded (2010).

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Public Outreach Grant, $214,000, collaborator, awarded (2010).

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Presidential Fund for Research, Innovation and Collaboration, $14,950, co-applicant, awarded (2009).

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, Major Collaborative Research Initiative Grant, $13 million, collaborator, awarded (2008).

• Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Image, Text, Sound, and Technology Grant, $40,900, co-applicant, awarded (2008).

• University of Victoria Business Research Fund, $1000 (2007).

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Recent Speaking Engagements & Event Participation

Upcoming

• Visiting Professor at the Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures, Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan in 2010.

• "Understanding Academic Research Teams: Implications of Multi-Country, Multi-Language, and Multi-Culture Team Membership." Invited Talk, European Summer School, “Culture & Technology”, University of Leipzig, Germany (July 2010).

• Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff W., and Warwick, C. "A Tale of Two Cities: Implications of the Similarities and Differences in Collaborative Approaches within the Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities Communities." (Accepted , Digital Humanities 2010) .

• "Developing Academic Capacity in Digital Humanities: Thoughts from the Canadian Community", SDH/SEMI Panel, (Accepted, Digital Humanities 2010).

Happened

• Siemens, L., Althaus, C., Stange, C., Seaborne, K., and Doner, S. "Impact of Concerns Surrounding Privacy, Security, and Confidentiality on Student Engagement in Online Learning Environments: The University of Victoria Experience." Presented at Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education 2010.

• Siemens, L., Eberle-Sinatra, M. and Rockwell, G. "Academic Capacity in Canada’s Digital Humanities Community: Opportunities and Challenges." Presented to SDH/SEMI 2010.

• "The E-paper Anniversary: Lessons From the First Year of INKE.” Presented at SDH/SEMI 2010.

• Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff, W. and Warwick, C. ""It challenges members to think of their work through another kind of specialist’s eyes": Exploration of the Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Digital Project Teams." Presented at ASIS&T Conference, November 2009.

• Siemens, R.G., Cunningham, R., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Siemens, L., Warwick, C, and the INKE Team. "Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Year 1 Research Foundations." Presented at INKE 2009, October.

• "From Writing the Grant to Working the Grant: An Exploration of Processes and Procedures in Transition." Presented at INKE 2009, October.

• "Framework for Success in Constrained Rural Environment: Case Studies in Rural Vancouver Island, British Columbia." Presented at CCSBE, October 2009.

• Siemens, L., Warwick, C., Duff, W. and Cunningham, R. "Building Strong E-book Project Teams: Processes to Maximize Success while Drawing on Essential Academic Disciplinary Expertise." Presented at BooksOnline'09 Workshop: 2nd Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Collections , Corfu, October 2009.

• Siemens, R.G., Cunningham, R., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Siemens, L., Claire Warwick and the INKE Research Group. “Implementing New Knowledge Environments: Laying Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age.” Presented at BooksOnline'09 Workshop: 2nd Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Collections , Corfu, October 2009.

• Siemens, L., Siemens, R. with Hefeng (Eddie) Wen, Dot Porter, Liam Sherriff, Cara Leitch and Karin Armstrong (Analysis and Other).""The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM: TEI-Encoded Dylan": Understanding and Reaching a Community of Practice (A Case Study)." Presented at Digital Humanities, Washington, D.C., June 2009. 

• Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff, W. and Warwick, C. "Training Collaborative Scholars: Creating Space for Learning through Student Involvement in Research Teams." Presented at the Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education conference, Ottawa, ON, May 2009.

• Siemens, R, Cunningham, R., Galey, A., Ruecker, S., Siemens, L. and Warwick, C. "Implementing New Knowledge Machines: Toward a History of the Future of the Book…." Presented at SDH/SEMI 2009, Ottawa, ON, May 2009.

• Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff, W. and Warwick, C. ""More minds are brought to bear on a problem”: Methods of Interaction and Collaboration within Digital Humanities Research Teams." Presented at SDH/SEMI 2009, Ottawa, ON, May 2009.

• Eberle-Sinatra, M., Rockwell, G. and Siemens, L. "The Academic Capacity of Humanities Computing in Canada." Presented at SDH/SEMI 2009, Ottawa, ON, May 2009.

• Siemens, R. and Siemens, L. "Understanding the Scope of an Evolving Digital Humanities Community: A 'Viral' Experiment in the Text Encoding Initiative Consortium." Presented at SDH/SEMI 2009, Ottawa, ON, May 2009.

• Siemens, L. "Place as Marketing Advantage: Case Studies from the Vancouver Island Region". Presented at BC Studies Conference, Victoria, BC, April 2009.

• Siemens, L., Duff, W., Cunningham, R. and Warwick, C. ""Able To Develop Much Larger and More Ambitious Projects”: An Exploration of Digital Projects Teams." Presented at DigCCurr conference, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, April 2009.

• June 2008: "It's a team if you use 'reply all': An Exploration of Research Teams in Digital Humanities Environments”. Presented at Digital Humanities, Oulu, Finland.

• June 2008: "The Balance between On-line and In-person Interactions: Methods for the Development of Digital Humanities Collaboration". Presented at Society of Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs, Vancouver, British Columbia.

• May 2008: "Creating and Developing Research Teams: Key Questions", Mount Royal College Research Professional Development Workshop, Calgary, Alberta.

• September 2007: "The Potential of Management Tools to Aid Research Team Development". Presented at Models of Partnership in Digital Research, Sheffield Hallam University.

• July 2006: "Resolving Small Tourism Business Challenges to Support Economic Growth". Presented at Leisure Studies Association 2006 Conference, Bristol, England.

• June 2006: "Operational Challenges of Rural/Remote Businesses: An Exploratory Study on Vancouver Island". Presented at Administrative Sciences Association of Canada 2006 Conference, Banff, Alberta.

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Courses Taught

• ADMN 311: Introduction to Public Administration

• ADMN 420: The Public Policy Process

• ADMN 556: The Public Policy Process

• COM 440: Business and Government Relations

• COM 321: Organizational Behaviour and Design

• ENT 402: Entrepreneurship and Small Business

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