Dr Anisha Fernando is Discipline Lead - Tertiary Studies (Diploma of IT - Lecturer) at the South Australian Institute of Business and Technology (SAIBT, in partnership with the University of South Australia and Navitas). In this role, she works collaboratively with the SAIBT academic team in curriculum development and management of student outcomes and experience, in addition to lecturing and course-coordinating responsibilities.
As an educator, she has university teaching experience primarily with students who have diverse learning needs. She enjoys teaching and strives to create meaningful learning opportunities using student-centred learning methods, to empower students to take ownership of their learning no matter where they are at in ... Read more
About me
Dr Anisha Fernando is Discipline Lead - Tertiary Studies (Diploma of IT - Lecturer) at the South Australian Institute of Business and Technology (SAIBT, in partnership with the University of South Australia and Navitas). In this role, she works collaboratively with the SAIBT academic team in curriculum development and management of student outcomes and experience, in addition to lecturing and course-coordinating responsibilities.
As an educator, she has university teaching experience primarily with students who have diverse learning needs. She enjoys teaching and strives to create meaningful learning opportunities using student-centred learning methods, to empower students to take ownership of their learning no matter where they are at in their learning journey.
Anisha’s research interests focus on the societal effects of technology, specifically in the areas of data ethics, information privacy, innovation and technology design. She researches about the privacy expectations people associate with personal data and explores approaches towards embedding privacy values in the design of technology.
She is particularly interested in investigating the impact of technologies on people's quality of life, and the use of disruptive technologies to catalyse innovations for social good. She was also a research assistant for the Regional Innovation Systems in Northern Adelaide Project, in collaboration with the City of Salisbury.
She is passionate about raising awareness and communicating data ethics research to the general public. To this end, she collaborated, co-wrote and performed a science communication piece titled, ‘The Private Lives of Data’ for South Australia's National Science Week 2018, after winning a Perform Your Science Grant from the Inspiring South Australia program. She runs community workshops around data ethics literacy. She is involved in startup community efforts, being part of the winning team at Techstars Startup Weekend Adelaide 2019, hosted by UniSA's Innovation and Collaboration Centre.
She also currently serves as a member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS)’s Ethics Committee.
About me
Ethics Commitee Member, Australian Computer Society (2019-2020)
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Master of Business Information Systems University of South Australia
Bachelor of Science in Information Systems with Business Management (Honours) University of Westminster
ech Bachelor of Information Technology University of Colombo
Research
Excludes commercial-in-confidence projects.
Co-wrote and performed an interdisciplinary science communication piece titled, ‘The Private Lives of Data’ for South Australia's National Science Week 2018, after winning a Perform Your Science Grant from the Inspiring South Australia program.
Research
Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
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Forthcoming: Fernando et al. 2019, ‘Reframing the value of data: exploring healthy online social values, norms and practices’, Proceedings of the 8th Australian Institute of Computer Ethics Conference, Melbourne.
Fernando, ATJ 2017, ‘Designing Privacy Affordances for Data Release when Searching’, PhD thesis, University of South Australia, Adelaide.
Fernando, ATJ, Wahlstrom, K, Du, T & Ashman, H 2017, 'Designing privacy affordances for searching', in R Volkman, P Brey & M Bottis (eds.) Proceedings of the CEPE (Computer Ethics Philosophical Enquiry) ETHICOMP 2017 Conference, Turin, Italy, pp. 206-221.
External engagement & recognition
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| City of Salisbury | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
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