Larry Stapleton

Dr. Larry Stapleton is senior academic and international consultant in advanced information systems, organisational culture and business. Following 5 years as a manager in a large multinational, Dr. Stapleton has lectured at Waterford Institute of Technology for 25 years. During this time he has worked as an advisor to business development groups, Enterprise Ireland and other government agencies. He has advised the European Commission and national governments both inside and outside the EU. He holds international academic positions, regularly speaking at international conferences overseas. He has published over a hundred academic publications from work with hundreds of companies and 20 government and international agency reports.

INSYTE Centre, Waterford Institute of Technology

He is founder and director of the Centre for Information Systems & Techno-culture (INSYTE) at Waterford Institute of Technology. The centre has graduated 21 postgraduate researchers at M.Sc. and Ph.D. level and participated in 10 international projects. He has supervised and examined Ph.D. candidates and M.Sc. candidates in Ireland, Austria, Australia and the Balkans. Published research topics and advisory work include advanced systems analysis, digital systems and organisational renewal, knowledge based systems, engineering and technology management, ICT policy in developing countries, computer ethics and ICT education. He has participated in 7 European funded projects under various programmes since 1995, and has lead national and international research projects involving dozens of partners in Europe, USA and Asia.

International Professional and Academic Bodies

He is serving his second term as elected chairperson of the International Federation of Automation and Control (IFAC) Technical Committee for Technology, Culture & International Stability, (TECIS - TC9.5). He is a long standing member of two other international technical committees and 12 international conference programme committees. He is associate editor of a major international quarterly journal "Artificial Intelligence and Society" published by Springer, and is editorial board member of the "International Journal of Science, Innovation and New Technology". He also reviews for other journals including "Technological Forecasting and Social Change" and the Tavistock journal "Human Relations" in the area of knowledge management. He is on the Scientific Committee for the European Interdisciplinary research network on issues and uses of information and communication technologies (EUTIC) and associate editor for the IFAC World Congress proceedings (South Africa 2014). Dr. Stapleton is also an invited member of the European Professorial network for Industrial Engineering Management (EPIEM) and hosts Summer Academies for its sister organisation ESTIEM (European STudent network for Industrial Engineering Management).

Visiting Professorships

In addition to a senior academic post at Waterford Institute of Technology, he is visiting professor at the Technical University of Vienna (TUWien), one of the oldest established technical universities in the world, and the University of Business and Technology (UBT) in the Balkans teaching on postgraduate programmes, leading academic faculty, advising on academic structures, quality assurance, accreditation and driving research.

He was voted “Best International Professor” by students at UBT and TUWien eight times.

He is visiting lecturer in Digital Systems at the Institute of Bankers, a college of University College Dublin and has held visiting scholar positions in Information Systems at Dublin City University, the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants (CIMA) and Lappeenranta Technical University in Finland.

Teaching

Dr. Stapleton has taught across a range of disciplines related to information systems, systems science, computing and scientific research methdology.