Catherine Middleton holds a Canada Research Chair in Communication Technologies in the Information Society and is associate professor in the Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management. Her research focuses on consumer adoption of new communication technologies, with specific interests in mobile devices and fixed and wireless broadband networks. She is also interested in how Canadians use (or don’t use) the internet in their daily lives. Catherine currently holds a SSHRC grant to investigate the use of ubiquitous communication technologies (like Blackberries) in organizations (working with ITM colleague Ozgur Turetken). She also holds a SSHRC international grant to conduct case studies of the Australian National Broadband Network pilot in Tasmania and the Alberta SuperNet (with Co-Investigator Jock Given of Swinburne University in Melbourne). She was the Principal Investigator on a SSHRC Initiative on the New Economy grant studying broadband adoption in Canada and on the Community Wireless Infrastructure Research Project, funded by Infrastructure Canada (www.cwirp.ca). Catherine has a PhD from the Schulich School of Business at York University (Toronto, Canada) and an MBA from Bond University (Gold Coast, Australia).
Contact info:
Associate Professor
Ted Rogers School of Information Technology Management
Ryerson University
350 Victoria Street
Toronto, ON M5B 2K3
Office: 55 Dundas St. W., room 3-094
Phone: +1-416-979-5000 ext. 7923
Email: catherine.middleton@ryerson.ca