Marina Jirotka
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Dr
Marina
Jirotka
BSc MA DPhil MBCS MACM CITP
Room 349, OeRC, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QD |
Biography
Marina Jirotka is Reader in Requirements Engineering, Director of the Centre for Requirements Engineering, Associate Director
of the Oxford e-Research Centre and Associate Researcher of the Oxford Internet Institute. Her research interests have long
been concerned with bringing a richer comprehension of socially organised work practice into the process of engineering technological
systems with a focus on supporting everyday work and interaction.
Early on in her career she developed the use
of video-based ethnographic research for use in Requirements Engineering. This work was done in collaboration with BT and
helped solve problems for City of London trading rooms, service centres and control rooms.. Over her research career, she
has developed close relationships with an extensive network of companies including those in the healthcare and pharmaceutical
sector, such as BT Healthcare and Health Direct; in Government, NHS and DSTL; in IT, Microsoft and IBM; in Finance, Societe
Generale and Barclays; and in Consultancy, McKinsey and KorteQ.
From 2003, her research focussed on e-Research
applications, particularly e-Health. As a requirements engineer on a flagship eScience project, eDiaMoND, she became interested
in notions of collaboration and trust in clinical practice and in the sciences more generally. She has led research projects
into: understanding the importance of intellectual property rights in collaborative medical databases ESRC Copyright Ownership
of Medical Data in Collaborative Computing Environments; investigating usability and project management issues in eResearch
projects EPSRC Embedding e-Science Applications: Designing and Managing for Usability; and understanding the social shaping
of eResearch infrastructure and disciplinary concerns. ESRC Ethical, Legal and Institutional Responses to Emerging e-Research
Infrastructure, Policies and Practices.
In 2006 she became a James Martin Research Fellow and was seconded to
the Oxford eResearch Centre. In 2007 she was awarded an ESRC/SSRC visiting fellowship to UCLA, and PARC to develop a
systematic understanding of data sharing to inform design of eResearch systems.
Most recently, through collaborations
with industry, government and other organisations, her investigations have focussed on the Digital Economy. In 2007 she secured
a doctoral studentship with KorteQ, a knowledge management company, to develop approaches to understanding how tacit knowledge
is captured and communicated in organisations. This work has focussed on understanding the swork of an architects practice
to inform the design of technologies to support their work. She has been involved in determining the research agenda on two
Digital Economy clusters: one that investigated the emergent practices and capabilities of social networking systems, and
explored how we can develop understandings of services, exchange and interaction that benefit the UK economy EPSRC Innovative
Media for the Digital Economy (IMDE); and a second that explored the economic, social, legal and regulatory issues to emerge
in the next generation of the internet EPSRC Opportunities and Challenges in the Digital Economy: an Agenda for the Next-generation
Internet.
Selected Publications
| Post-Genomic Science: Multidisciplinary and Large-Scale Collaborative Research and its Organisational and Technological Implications for the Scientific Research Process M. Jirotka, E. Welsh and D. Gavaghan Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A. Vol. 364. Pages 1843. 2006. |
| Collaboration and Trust in Healthcare Innovation: The eDiaMoND Case Study M. Jirotka et al. Journal of Computer Supported Cooperative Work. Vol. 14. No. 4. Pages 369-398. 2005. |
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Embedding e-Science Applications | eHorizons | Oxford eSocial Science | e-Infrastructure Use Cases and Usage Models | VRE |
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Students |
Peter Darch | Grace de la Flor | Anthony Masih | Fernando Muradas | Simon Smith | Matteo Turilli |