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70% of emails are attended to within 6 seconds of their arrival

The majority of email users suffer from email task overload which effects their productivity. There's a simple solution

Estimated 96 billion email messages are being sent everyday!

There is an estimated 1.2 billion email inboxes worldwide.

 
  Press Releases  
 
Role of email in the distraction society - article by Damon Young <more>

Dr Jackson on New York Radio on email overload <listen> or read the article <more>

"Death by Email" - Records Management Society Conference 2009 <more>

The Oprah Magazine - "Email Tasks" Dec 08 <more>

Dr Jackson on Leicester Sound "Emails Taking Over Your Life?" interview - Mon 6th Oct <more>

View Magazine - "Email – essential office tool or costly communication?" <more>

Birmingham Post - "New ways for malicious software to land on your computer" <more>

Guardian article - "Breaking the email compulsion"  <more>

The Sydney Morning Herald article - "Email becomes a dangerous distraction" <more>

Dr Jackson on BBC Radio Essex "You Have Email" interview - Sat 12th April

Dr Jackson on BBC Breakfast - "How to stop e-mails taking over your day" <watch>

Dr Jackson appears in The Money Programme's "Email is Ruining My Life" BBC2 7th March 2008 at 19:00 <more>

E-mail is ruining my life! Article feature Tom Jackson <read>

What you had to say about email problems <read the debate>

Guardian article - "Email 'a broken business tool' as staff spend hours wading through inboxes" <read>

Staff email use is costing UK businesses millions of pounds finds Loughborough University research <more>

Dr Jackson explains how to Find Experts via email <more>

 

 

 
   
 

Selected Professional Activities

Associate Editor

Associate Editor for International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce (IJCEC) 2004 to date

Associate Editor for Information Resources Management Journal (IRMJ) 2005 to date

 

Editorial Boards

Member of the Editorial Board for the Journal of Knowledge and Process Management 2009 to date

Member of the International Editorial Review Board of the International Journal of Knowledge Management 2006 to date

Member of the International Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations (JECO) 2005 to date

2003 to 2007 Associate Editor for International Journal of Cases on Electronic Commerce (IJCEC)

Member of the International Editorial Review Board of the Software Quality Management Conference 2001 to date

Member of the International Editorial Review Board of the Empirical Assessment of Software Engineering Conference 2004 to 2009

 

External Committees

Member of the Program Committee for Information Resources Management Association (IRMA) 2001 to 2007

EPSRC - Member of the Computer Science Panel 2005

 

Keynotes, Seminars and Media

2011 - Invited keynote speaker at the RIM Professionals Australasia (Queensland) – “The Effects of Information Overload on Employees and their Productivity”.

 

2011 – Invited keynote speaker at CimTech - The Future of Electronic Information and Records Management in the Public Sector. Keynote on “Meeting the challenges of Email management”

2010 - Invited keynote speaker at the RMAA Australia – “Steps to Optimising Email Communication within the Workplace”.

2010 – Invited keynote speaker at CimTech - The Future of Electronic Information and Records Management in the Public Sector. Keynote on “The challenges of e-mail management and research into a solution”

2009 – Interviewed on New York Radio regarding email overload

2009 – Invited speaker at Loughborough University centenary celebrations – “How safe is Email communication?” <more>

2009 - Invited keynote speaker at the Records Management Society Conference - "Death by Email" <more>

2009 - Invited keynote speaker at the ERDM conference - "Email Retention and Management: The Dynamics and Costs of Change"

2008 Dr Jackson on Leicester Sound Radio "Emails Taking Over Your Life?" interview <more>

2008 Dr Jackson on BBC Radio Essex "You have Email" interview

2008 - View Magazine - "Email – essential office tool or costly communication?" <more>

2008 Called as an email expert to appear on the BBC Money Programme, News 24 and BBC Breakfast news.

2008 - The Oprah Magazine - "Email Tasks" Dec 08 <more>

2008 - Birmingham Post - "New ways for malicious software to land on your computer" <more>

2008 - Guardian article - "Breaking the email compulsion"  <more>

2008 - The Sydney Morning Herald article - "Email becomes a dangerous distraction" <more>

2007 Invited Seminar Speaker at Citi (world’s largest Bank) “Email Optimisation”

2007 Newcastle University - Can Training Improve the Effectiveness of Electronic Mail Communication within the Workplace?

2006 (Dec) Invited Seminar Speaker at Deakin University, Australia, - 'Optimizing the Extraction of Knowledge from Email Messages to Aid in Expertise Discovery'

2006 Invited Seminar Speaker at University of Technology Sydney (UTS), - 'Can Seminar and Computer-Based Training Improve the Effectiveness of Email Communication within the Workplace?'

2005 Invited Seminar Speaker at MIT, Cambridge - 'The Organisational Implications of Extracting Knowledge from Email'

2005 Invited Seminar Speaker at IBM's TJ Watson Research Centre - Optimising the Email Communication Environment'

2004, Invited Seminar Speaker - Widening Horizons, AstraZeneca

 

Awards

2010 - Highly Commended Enterprise Award for the KTP on Computerising Railway Timetables

2006 The Australian Computer Society Best Paper Award at the Australisian Conference on Information Systems - "Can Seminar and Computer-Based Training Improve the Effectiveness of Electronic Mail Communication within the Workplace?"

Recognition for the work undertaken with Leicestershire Police on mobile data terminals at the 2009 UK British Computer Society IT Industry awards




CURRENT PhD STUDENTS

Paul Parboteeah

  • An Application of Autopoiesis to Knowledge Management

  Steve Smith

  • Improving Information Retrieval – Reducing Barriers, Improving Development and Redefining Output

 Abdullah Alkraiji

  • Innovative technologies in Saudi Arabia Healthcare

 Laura Marulanda-Carter

  • The levels of stress caused from emails in the workplace and apply an email management software tool to reduce stress.

 Anoud BaniHani

  • The role of ERPs in Low Tech SMEs

 Jan Brophy

  • Development of an internal Communications System for the Congregation of the Sisters of Nazareth Charitable Trust

 Ashley Cairns

  • Optimising efficiency in the information environment of the Leicestershire Constabulary

  

CURRENT RAs

Dr Mark Withall

  • Automatic train timetabling

Mr Chris Masuda

  • Develop and embed knowledge for the effective management and use of information, using tools to assess objectives, policies, procedures to measure the impact of IM

PhD COMPLETIONS

 Anthony Burgess (2006)

  • Effective means of improving email communication

Tom Parsons (2007)

  • Enhancing Pharmaceutical Innovation Through the Use of Knowledge Management

Sara Tedmori (2008)

  • Exploiting Email: Extracting Knowledge to Support Knowledge Sharing

Hardev Uhbi (2008)

  • A Framework for the introduction of Knowledge Management within an Engineering Environment

Peter Balafas (2009)

  • Goal-Oriented Knowledge Management

Rachael Lindsay (2010)

  • Email and Social Network Analysis at Leicestershire Police


 

 
 
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