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Biography

Dr Fergal McGrath is a�senior lecturer in Information Managment at the Kemmy Business School in the University of Limerick.� Dr McGrath is a graduate electronic engineer who worked in Australia and the United Kingdom and went on to establish an engineering design company Seagull Electronics Ltd.� Having completed an MBA in 1989 he has since pursued an academic�career in the area of Information and Knowledge Management.� He completed a doctorate in 2000 at the Henley Management College in the Brunel University.� His research interests are in application of Instituion Economis to Information and Knowledge Management.� Dr McGrath is the Director of the AIB Centre for Information and Knowledge Management which researches strategies in relation to the Information Knowledge resource.��

Research Interests

Implementation of Organisational Information Systems; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Management Strategy Formulation; Knowledge Transfer; Organisational Search; Knowledge Management Systems; Information Strategy; Information Management; Technology Management; Social Networking;

Peer Reviewed Journals

�	Year	Publication
	2002	'A study of the total life cycle costs of an E-Commerce investment. A research in progress' Whelan, E; McGrath, F (2002) 'A study of the total life cycle costs of an E-Commerce investment. A research in progress'. EVALUATION AND PROGRAM PLANNING, 25 (2):191-196 [DOI] [Details]
	2008	'The IT professional and knowledge management: Researching the Irish perspective' McCarthy J.G., McGrath F. (2008) 'The IT professional and knowledge management: Researching the Irish perspective'. International Journal of Business Information Systems, 3 (6):637-651 [DOI] [Details]
	2011	'A case study on using prediction markets as a rich environment for active learning' Buckley, P; Garvey, J; McGrath, F (2011) 'A case study on using prediction markets as a rich environment for active learning'. Computers & Education, 56 (2):418-428 [DOI] [Details]

Conference Publications

	Year	Publication
	2004	*PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2004 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION REUSE AND INTEGRATION (IRI-2004)* McGrath, F; Parkes, C (2004) Cognitive style as a factor in the effective reuse of knowledge management systems PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2004 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INFORMATION REUSE AND INTEGRATION (IRI-2004) , pp.382-387 [Details]
	2009	*SIGMIS CPR'09: Proceedings of The 2009 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference* Buckley, P; McGrath, F (2009) Managing Prediction Markets SIGMIS CPR'09: Proceedings of The 2009 ACM SIGMIS Computer Personnel Research Conference , pp.217-220 [Details]

Employment

	Employer	Position	From / To
	Electronic Consulting Company	Owner Manager (15 years)	/

Education