Research in Information Systems at the department continues to evolve in response to emerging technological and societal challenges. With the establishment of the Digital Societies and Hybrid Intelligence research groups, researchers at the department are creating new platforms for interdisciplinary and collaborative research. Recent publications in conferences and journals, along with newly awarded research funding, signal a strong trajectory for the department's research activities in the coming year.
Two new research groups emerge
I an effort to increase collaboration between researchers at the department as well as the opportunity for collaboration with external guests, two research groups have been created: Digital Societies and Hybrid Intelligence.
Digital Societies explores how technology shapes lives
The group has started envisioning several external collaborations by inviting guest researchers to research group meetings. Digital Societies aims to touch upon research areas ranging from digital inequalities to social implications of AI.
“Our research examines the impact of technology use across diverse contexts of varying levels of digital maturity, from data-driven organisations employing advanced digital platforms and AI technologies to under-resourced communities with limited access to technology, where basic digital tools serve as a means of daily survival.” (Digital Societies, 2025)
Digital Societies – research group at the Department of Informatics
Head of group: Osama Mansour
Hybrid Intelligence investigates human-machine intelligence
The group's research areas range from Human-AI collaboration to generative AI in teaching and research.
”Hybrid Intelligence integrates human expertise and intentionality with machine intelligence to support decision-making and action-taking, while aligning with ethical, legal, and societal values. Our research goal is to study, explore, and design Hybrid Intelligence within the discipline of Information Systems, with a focus on understanding how this transformation affects the role of humans in socio-technical systems, and its implications for keeping humans at the centre of this ongoing transformation.” (Hybrid Intelligence, 2025)
Hybrid Intelligence – research group at the Department of Informatics
Head of group: Blerim Emruli
Paper successes of summer 2025
Several researchers at the department have had papers accepted, presented, and published at a variety of conferences and journals over the last few months, including the International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS), the Americas' Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS), the European Conference of e-Learning (ECEL), the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) and the British Food Journal (BFJ). See a selection below.
- Betty Saenyi has had a paper accepted to ICIS together with colleagues Christina Keller and Miranda Kajtazi. Title: Intrastructures of coordination: Conceptualising coordination in digital health ecosystems.
- Gemza Ademaj has had a paper accepted to ICIS together with Xinyuan Zhang and Ahmed Abbasi from University of Notre Dame, Saonee Sarker from Virginia Tech and Suprateek Sarker from University of Virginia. Title: Designing Support for Sensemaking in Multimodal, Multi-model Mental Health Assessments
- Blerim Emruli has had a paper accepted to HICSS with Iván Ortiz del Noval and Hui Yong Liew. Title: Fact-checkers Perception on Social Media Governance Models to Combat Disinformation: Insights from a European Qualitative Study. He has also presented a paper at AMCIS 2025, which he worked on together with Tawfique Elahi and Hema Srinivasa. Title: Ethical AI in Unregulated Environments: A Qualitative Empirical Study.
- Nam Aghaee has had a paper accepted to ECEL with Thashmee Karunaratne from KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Jakob Bandelin from Uppsala University. Title: Co-Designing Gamified Learning for Soft Skills: A Participatory Future Workshop
- Osama Mansour has had a paper accepted to HICSS. Title: Entry Barriers and Opportunities for Fintechs in Open Banking Platforms. He has also presented a paper at ECIS 2025. Title: Examining Platform Owner Compliance and Autonomous Complementor Behavior in Open Banking Platforms.
- Paul Pierce has published a paper in BFL with colleagues from Verona University: Martina Panero, Paola De Bernardi and Sara Moggi. Title: Unveiling digitalisation in Italian viticulture: a field study on drivers and barriers.
Funding and research activities
As research at the department gains momentum, a number of researchers are engaged in funded projects and key academic appointments. See a selection below.
- The Department of Informatics is represented in the NEXUS AI seminar series at Lund University School of Economics and Management, where we are sharing our thoughts and experiences on AI and its implications for education, research and society at large. Miranda Kajtazi, Blerim Emruli and Björn Svensson all have seminars within the series.
- We have received funding from Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (RJ) for research on platformisation and open banking. The lead applicant for the funding was Osama Mansour.
- RJ has granted funding for the research project Privacy as a Human Right, where the department is represented by Miranda Kajtazi.
- The Pufendorf-established DigiJustice group is planning on bringing their exhibition to Oxford University. Both Osama Mansour and Miranda Kajtazi from the Department of Informatics are members of DigiJustice.
- The department is involved in a seed-funded project on Labour Law & Tech within Human Rights Profile Area at Lund University. Miranda Kajtazi represents the department in this work.
- We are visible in the Italian Chapter of Association for Information Systems (ItAIS) 2025, where Paul Pierce will be Track chair, and the European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS) 2026, where Paul Pierce will be Associate editor.
