Dr Anisha Fernando is a Lecturer in Information Systems at UniSA STEM. Her teaching has been recognised through a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), which measures teaching and learning efforts in higher education against the UK Professional Standards Framework. She coordinates and teaches a first-year undergraduate course in IT with a large diverse cohort of students, INFT 1016 IT Fundamentals. She also coordinates and teaches postgraduate courses in information systems like INFS 5093 Business Systems Analysis in SP2 and INFS 5108 Business Process Modelling in SP5. She was part of the team who received a 2024 Unstoppable Teaching Support Award for improving engagement, learning experiences and retention levels of... Read more
About me
Dr Anisha Fernando is a Lecturer in Information Systems at UniSA STEM. Her teaching has been recognised through a Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (SFHEA), which measures teaching and learning efforts in higher education against the UK Professional Standards Framework. She coordinates and teaches a first-year undergraduate course in IT with a large diverse cohort of students, INFT 1016 IT Fundamentals. She also coordinates and teaches postgraduate courses in information systems like INFS 5093 Business Systems Analysis in SP2 and INFS 5108 Business Process Modelling in SP5. She was part of the team who received a 2024 Unstoppable Teaching Support Award for improving engagement, learning experiences and retention levels of students in undergraduate IT programs. She strives to create meaningful learning experiences for students in their learning journey.
Her research explores technology ethics (specifically privacy and data ethics), the design of information systems and the social impact of emerging technologies. Her doctoral thesis applied value sensitive design, and explored privacy expectations and data flows in the context of personalised search. She also co-leads a scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) project to progress the development of a value sensitive design-based learning tool to improve ethical professionalism and data literacy among students, having received a UniSA Unstoppable Teaching and Learning (2025-2026) grant.
She is a member of the Australian Computer Society's Professional Ethics Committee and was a co-convener of a community-based AI Ethics Book Club.
About me
Professional Ethics Commitee Member, Australian Computer Society (2019 - ongoing)
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
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 outputs for the last seven years are shown below. Some long-standing staff members may have older outputs included. To see earlier years visit ORCID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
| Year | Output |
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| 2025 |
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| 2020 |
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| Year | Output |
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| 2023 |
1
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| 2021 |
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| 2015 |
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| 2015 |
1
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| 2014 |
4
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| 2013 |
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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
| Organisation | Country |
|---|---|
| Charles Sturt University | AUSTRALIA |
| City of Salisbury | AUSTRALIA |
| Holochain | UNITED KINGDOM |
| Kathleen Lumley College | AUSTRALIA |
| University of South Australia | AUSTRALIA |
Teaching & student supervision
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
| Thesis title | Student status |
|---|---|
| Blockchain adoption in developing countries. Exploring accountability, trust, and transparency in supply chains | Current |
| Blockchain data integration from off-chain systems: exploring interoperability and governance | Current |
