Kirstin Krauss is Research Advisor of Worldwide Information Services (WWIS), where he plays a leading role in developing research capacity services for the WWIS Academy. He is also a visiting researcher for STADIO Higher Education, in support of their Master’s and Doctoral programmes. He is employed full-time as Business Development Manager for Iontaofa Intelligence Ltd. (Ireland), where leads and oversees client engagement and the development of services for the knowledge and information provisioning sector.

In prior roles, he served as a Full Professor at the University of South Africa (UNISA) from 2017 to 2022 and as an Associate Professor at Rhodes University from 2012 to 2016, where he focused predominantly on postgraduate student development and supervision capacity building. Kirstin holds a PhD in Informatics from the University of Pretoria. His research focuses mainly on ICT for Development, Critical Ethnography, Higher Education, Artificial Intelligence and scholarly writing, and mitigating questionable scholarly practices, and he has done editorial work for a number of journals and conferences.

Kirstin has been invited and acknowledged by several associations and universities to deliver guest lectures, keynotes, and postgraduate research workshops. 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, an International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) conference, and the Southern African Chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AISSAC). Kirstin was recently nominated (December 2022) to serve on the advisory board for the South African National Library and Information Consortium (SANLiC)/Wiley Author Engagement Programme. In 2020, one of his doctoral graduates, Dr Nompilo Tshuma, was selected as a Highly Commended winner of the 2020 Emerald/HETL Outstanding Doctoral Research Award. Kirstin has managed grants and projects for Deloitte Consulting Pty Ltd – Africa Unit (2011), UNESCO (2009/10), KwaZulu-Natal Department of Health (2007/8), and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (2014-2016). 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).