Sophie Cockcroft

Dr Sophie COCKCROFT

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Positions Held

Lecturer (Business Information Systems)

Academic Qualifications

Major Research Grants

Publications

Journal Articles - Refereed

• Alcock, J., Cockcroft, S. and Finn, F. (2008), Quantifying the advantage of secondary mathematics study for accounting and finance undergraduates, Accounting and Finance, forthcoming.
• Cockcroft, S. K. S. (2006), 'Information privacy: Culture, legislation and user attitudes', Australasian Journal of Information Systems, 14(1), pp. 55 - 68.
• Heales, J., Cockcroft, S.K.S. & Raduescu, C. O. (2004), 'The influence of national culture on the level and outcome of IS development decisions', The Journal of Global Information Technology Management, 7(4), pp. 3 - 28.
• Cockcroft, S.K.S. (2004), 'The design and implementation of a repository for the management of spatial data integrity constraints', GeoInformatica, 8(1), pp. 49 - 69.
• Cockcroft, S.K.S. (2002), 'Gaps between policy and practice in the protection of data privacy', Journal of Information Technology Theory and Applications, 4(3), pp. 1 - 13.
• Cockcroft, S.K.S. (2002), 'Securing the commercial internet: Lessons learned in developing a postgraduate course in information security management', Journal of Information Systems Education, 13(3), pp. 205 - 210.
• Cockcroft, S. (1999). "Research projects at the university of Otago's school of computer and information science: a guided tour." New Zealand Journal of Computing, 7(1), 12-25.
• Cockcroft, S. (1997). "A Taxonomy of Spatial Data Integrity Constraints", Geoinformatica, 1(4), 327-343.
• Cockcroft, S. K. S. (1996). "Estimating software size from outline system specifications", Information and Software Technology, 38(6), 391-399.

Book Chapters

• Cockcroft SKS 2007 "Topological Rules" Invited Contribution Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science Sage.
• Cockcroft SKS 2007 "Topology" Invited Contribution Encyclopedia of Geographic Information Science Sage.

Conference Papers - Refereed Proceedings

• Cockcroft SKS and Trejo R 2007 "The role of proximity in willingness to transact" AMCIS 2007 Keystone Colorado 9-12th August 2007.
• Cockcroft SKS 2007 "Culture :Law and Information Privacy" EMCIS Valencia Spain June 23-26 2007.
• Cockcroft, S (2005) "Clinical decision support systems: Research approaches and future directions." The 8th International Conference of the Association of Information Systems SIG DSS/International Society for Decision Support Systems: Trends in DSS Research and Practice.
• Cockcroft, S and Heales, J (2005) "National culture, trust and internet privacy concerns" Proceedings of the 16th Australasian Conference on Information Systems (ACIS 2005): Socialising IT: Thinking About the People
• Cockcroft, S (2005) "Ontological clarity and comprehension in health data models" Proceedings of the Eleventh Americas Conference on Information Systems
• Cockcroft,S and Rowles, S (2003) "Ontological evaluation of health models: Some early findings" Proceedings of the Seventh Pacific Asia Conference on Information Systems
• Cockcroft and Heales (2003) "The influence of national culture on the level and outcome of IS decision making in the IS maintenance/redevelopment decision" Proceedings of the 9th Americas Conference on Information Systems: Navigating the Torrents of Technology
• Cockcroft, S. and Clutterbuck P. (2001). "Attitudes Towards Information Privacy ". In Proceedings: Twelth Australasian Conference on Information Systems, Coffs Harbour, December 5-7th 2001 Paper Number 131 *Nominated for Best Paper.
• Cockcroft, S., Elston, K. (2000) "The missing link: Improving general practice information through changes to the medical system interface". Australian Conference on Information Systems, Brisbane 6-8 December 2000.
• Cockcroft, S., D. Parry, A. Breton, D. Abernethy and J. Gillies (2000). Let the students teach the teachers: Infiltrating IT into Primary Care. Thirty-third Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS), Maui
• Parry, D. T., A. Breton, D. Abernethy, S. Cockcroft and J. Gillies (1999). "Using the Internet to teach Health Informatics". Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference, Computers and Advanced technology in Education (CATE'99), Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, Conference Proceedings
• Parry, D., Cockcroft, S., Breton, A., Abernethy, D., and Gillies, J.(1999c). "The development of an electronic distance learning course in Health Informatics." Australasian conference on Information Systems, Wellington, New Zealand.
• Parry, D., Abernethy, D., Cockcroft, S., Breton, A., and Gillies, J.(1999a). "The Post-Graduate Health Informatics Diploma program of the University of Otago, New Zealand." The AMIA 1999 Spring Congress Health Informatics education: current issues and future prospects, The Drake Hotel, Chicago, IL.
• Parry, D., Abernethy, D., Cockcroft, S., Breton, A., and Gillies, J.(1999b). "Developing a internet based informatics diploma." MEDNET'99 World Congress On The Internet In Medicine, Heidelberg
• Parry, D., Cockcroft, S., Fiddes, T., & Egan, T. (1998). "Spatial Analysis of the Origin and destination of NZ doctors - the class of '75". In Proceedings: 10th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Parry, D. T., Breton, A., Abernethy, D., Pascoe R.T., Cockcroft S.K.S, & Gillies. J. D. (1998). "Teaching Health Informatics over the Internet - making it happen". In Proceedings: The Use Of The Internet & Intranets In Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Education Post-Conference Meeting Of The WWW7 1998 Conference, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney, Australia
• Cockcroft, S. K. S. (1998). "User defined spatial (business) rules: storage, management and implementation: a pipe network case study". In Proceedings: 10th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand.
• Cockcroft, S. (1998). "Spatial data quality control through the use of an active repository". In Proceedings: Third International Conference on GeoComputation, Bristol, UK
• Cockcroft, S. (1998). "Spatial Data Management in an Integrated Software Engineering Environment". In Proceedings: Software Engineering: Education & Practice, Dunedin, New Zealand: IEEE, 174-181
• Cockcroft, S. (1996). "Towards The Automatic Enforcement of Integrity Rules in Spatial Database Systems". In Proceedings: SIRC'96: Proceedings of the 8th Annual Colloquium of the Spatial Information Research Centre, University of Otago: R. T. Pascoe, N. C. Sutherland, & P. Gorman (Ed.), University of Otago. 33-42
• Cockcroft, S. (1996). "First Experiences in Implementing a Spatial Metadata Repository". In Proceedings: 1st International Conference on Geocomputation, Leeds UK: R. J. Abrahart (Ed.), University of Leeds. 111-120
• Cockcroft, S. K. S. (1995). "Towards the specification of a spatial metadata repository structure". In Proceedings: The 1995 New Zealand Conference on Geographical Information Systems and Spatial Information Research, Massey University, New Zealand, April 26th-28th: P. G. Firns, & N. C. Sutherland (Ed.), AURISA/SIRC. 97-111
• Cockcroft, S. K. S., & Firns, P. G. (1994). "Establishing a postgraduate programme in spatial data management". In Proceedings: Fifth annual working conference on software engineering education, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 1994: M. Purvis (Ed.), IEEE computer society press. 313-318
• Cockcroft, S. K. S. (1994). "The effects of gender and computer access on computer literacy scores among first year undergraduates". In Proceedings: 5th IFIP International Conference on Women, Work and Computerisation, Manchester, UK: A. Adam, & J. Owen (Ed.), IFIP. 421-434
• Chiu, W. K., Yiu, K., Cockcroft, S. K. S., & Davison , R. M. (1994). "Management Information Systems requirements: A Hong Kong Study". In Proceedings: Conference on Asia-Pacific Business in the year 2000, Beijing

Conference Papers - Non-refereed Proceedings

• Cockcroft, S. (2001). "Modelling Spatial Data Integrity Rules at theMetadata Level ". In Proceedings: Sixth International Conference on GeoComputation, Brisbane, Australia September 24th-26th 2001. CD Paper No. 22.
• Cockcroft, S., Elston, K. (2000) "Data quality control in the Electronic Medical Record" APAMI, Hong Kong September 29th 2000.
• Parry, D., Cockcroft., S., Breton, A., Gillies, J., and Abernethy, D.(2000a). "Building and Teaching an Electronic Course in Health Informatics." The 7th International Congress of Nursing Informatics, Auckland, New Zealand.
• Cockcroft, S. K. S., & Cunningham, S. (1994). "Gender and other social issues : Discussion summary". In Proceedings: Fifth annual working conference on software engineering education, Dunedin, New Zealand, November 1994: M. Purvis (Ed.), IEEE computer society press. 336-338
• Paper presented at the Doctoral consortium of the 1995 Australasian Conference on Information Systems Perth September 26th-29th 1995: Cockcroft S.K.S. Towards the specification of a spatial metadata repository structure. (050302)
• Paper presented at the New Zealand Computer Science Research Students conference 1995: Cockcroft S.K.S. Spatial Data Management in an Integrated Software Engineering Environment (050302)
• Paper presented at University Women of Asia Triennial Conference Shatin, Hong Kong, November 17-19 1993: Cockcroft, S.K.S. A Survey of computer experience among first year female undergraduates (050599)

Reports

• Cockcroft, S. (1995). An Object repository model for the storage of spatial metadata (95/4). Otago University
• Cockcroft, S. (1996). The use of a metadata repository in spatial database development (96/02). Otago University
• Cockcroft, S. (1994). A survey of computer experience among first year female undergraduates (WP94/11). City Polytechnic of Hong Kong

Theses

• Cockcroft, S (1999) "Spatial Data Management in an Integrated Software Engineering Environment", PhD Thesis Otago University, Dunedin, New Zealand
• Cockcroft, S (1994) "Software Process Modelling for Measurement Management and Estimation", MPhil Thesis, City University of Hong Kong
• Cockcroft (1990) "A system for automatically parsing IUPAC systematic organic chemical nomenclature" MSc Thesis University of Hull UK

Research Interests

• Management Information Systems

Academic Cluster

Business Information Systems