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

• “Impact of Instructors' Understanding of Privacy and Confidentiality within an Online Classroom” with Catherine Althaus.

• “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.

Accepted

• “Developing Academic Capacity in Digital Humanities: Thoughts from the Canadian Community,” accepted in Digital Humanities Quarterly.

Published

• “More minds are brought to bear on a problem”: Methods of Interaction and Collaboration within Digital Humanities Research Teams”. Primary author, with Cunningham, R., Duff, W. and Warwick, C. Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. 2(2), 2011.

• “The Tale of Two Cities: Implications of the Similarities and Differences in Collaborative Approaches within the Digital Libraries and Digital Humanities Communities.” Primary author, with Cunningham, R., Duff, W. and Warwick, C.. Literary & Linguistic Computing, 26(3), 2011, p.335-348.

• “‘The Apex of Hipster XML GeekDOM’: TEI-Encoded Dylan and Understanding the Scope of an Evolving Community of Practice”. Primary author, with Siemens, R. Wen, H. And Porter, D. Sherriff, L., Leitch, C., Armstrong, K. And Chernyk, M. Journal of the Text Encoding Initiative, 1(1), 2011.

• “The Balance between On-line and In-person Interactions: Methods for the Development of Digital Humanities Collaboration”. Digital Studies/Le champ numérique. 2(1), 2011. 

• “'Firing on all Cylinders': Progress and Transition in INKE’s Year 2”. Primary author, with the INKE Research Group. Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age, 2011.

• “Challenges, responses and available resources: Success in rural small businesses”. Journal of Small Business and Entrepreneurship, 23(1), 2010, p.65-80.

• “Understanding Long Term Collaboration: Reflections on Year 1 and Before”. Primary author, with the INKE Research Group. Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age, 2010.

• “Time, Place and Cyberspace: Foundations for Successful E-Research Collaboration”. In E-Research Collaboration: Theory, Techniques and Challenges, Murugan Anandarajan and Asokan Anandarajan, eds. Springer-Verlag, 2010, p.35-48.

• “Framework for Success in the Constrained Rural Environment”. Entrepreneurial Practice Review, 1(1), 2009, p.40-53.

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Grants & Awards

• University of Victoria Internal Research Grant: Challenges, Opportunities and Resources for Small Business Success on Rural Vancouver Island, $4000, awarded (2011).

• Learning and Teaching Development Grant: Impact of Instructors' Understanding of Privacy and Confidentiality within an Online Classroom, $2327, co-investigator with Dr. Catherine Althaus, (2011).

• 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

•  “'Firing on all cylinders': Progress and Transition in INKE’s Year 2.” Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age, Japan, 2011.

• “Building DH Collaborations”. Invited Talk, University of Tokyo, 2011.

• “Towards Understanding Interdisciplinary, Internationally-distributed Teams in Academic and Open Access Environments,” with Yewchuk, T. and Burr, E. Public Knowledge Project Conference, 2011.

• “Building and Maintaining a Team Approach in a Rapidly-Advancing Area of Research and Development”. Plenary, Digital Humanities Summer School, University of Oxford, 2011.

• “A Trip Around the World: Balancing Geographical Diversity in Academic Research Teams,” with Burr, E., Cunningham, R., Duff, W., Forest, D. and Warwick, C. Digital Humanities, 2011.

• “Understanding the Impact of the University Context on Community-University Collaborations.” ANSER, 2011.

• “Creating the World We Want: The Co-Creation of an International MA in Community Development,” with Etmanski, C., Farrell, M., McRae, H. CU Expo, 2011.

• “Governance Models in Large-Scale Interdisciplinary Renaissance Studies Projects”. Invited Talk, Envisioning REED in the Digital Age workshop, 2011.

• "Understanding Long Term Collaboration: Reflections on Year 1 and Before.” Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age, 2010.

• “Reaching Out to the Rural Entrepreneur: Integration of Research and Teaching into the Community,”  Invited Talk, Texas A&M University, 2010.

• 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.

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

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

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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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