Dr. Kirstin Krauss has extensive experience in leading research capacity building initiatives and coordinating research projects, and more recently, business development for a scholarly services company. He is a leading authority and subject matter expert in the field of Artificial Intelligence and academic writing, with a combined 25+ years of extensive experience making a notable impact in business, education and research, and substantial networking experience within the Southern African higher education sector. Kirstin holds a PhD in Informatics, from the University of Pretoria, South Africa, focusing on ICT for Development and Critical Ethnography, while his entire career consistently focussed on ensuring that ethical standards and integrity are observed as the foundation to research relevance and leadership.

Kirstin has taken on several advisory roles in areas related to research capacity building and doctoral programme reviews, research integrity services, education consulting, artificial intelligence, and project coordination. He is a part-time Research Advisor at Worldwide Information Services (WWIS), where he facilitates Research Capacity Development workshops and consulting for the WWIS Academy. In prior roles as a Professor at UNISA (2017-2022) and Associate Professor at Rhodes University (2012-2016), he focused predominantly on postgraduate student development and supervision capacity building in the Information Systems discipline. His research focuses mainly on ICT for Development, Critical Ethnography, Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence and scholarly writing, and mitigating questionable scholarly practices.

Kirstin has been invited and acknowledged by several associations and universities to deliver guest lectures and keynotes. These include the University of Cape Town, the University of the Free State, Ghana Technology University College, Central University of Technology (Free State), Milpark Education, North-West University in South Africa, University of Pretoria, Rhodes University, University of the Witwatersrand, STADIO Higher Education, Uganda Martyrs University in Kampala, Academic Conferences International, an International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) conference, Digi-Face (digiface.org) and the Southern African Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AISSAC). Kirstin serves on the advisory board for the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC)/Wiley Author Engagement Programme. He is a member of the Association of Information Systems (AIS) and the Society for Intercultural Education, Training and Research (SIETAR) Europa – Special Interest Group on Africa. He also served as Education Chair for the AIS Special Interest Group on Global Development (2015-2017).