Amin Hosseinian-Far

Dr Amin Hosseinian-Far holds the position of Senior Lecturer in Business Systems and Operations at the University of Northampton. In his previous teaching experience, Amin was a Staff Tutor at the Open University, and prior to that a Senior Lecturer and Course Leader at Leeds Beckett University. He has held lecturing and research positions at the University of East London, and at a number of private HE institutions and strategy research firms. Dr Hosseinian-Far has also worked as Deputy Director of Studies at a large private higher education institute in London.

Dr Hosseinian-Far received his BSc (Hons) in Business Information Systems from the University of East London, an MSc degree in Satellite Communications and Space Systems from the University of Sussex, a Postgraduate Certificate in Research and a PhD degree titled ‘A Systemic Approach to an Enhanced Model for Sustainability’ which he acquired from the University of East London. He has more than 50 peer-reviewed publications that are disseminated in the form of journal articles, conference papers and book chapters. Moreover, he has been an editor of two books and two conference proceedings. 

Amin holds Membership of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), Senior Fellowship of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), and Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts (RSA). He is also an associate editor for the International Journal of Systems and Society, and the founding editor and the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Strategic Engineering (IJoSE).

• IoT for Logistics
• System’s Resilience and Sustainability
• Applied Systems Analysis & Design
• Business and Strategic Information Systems
• Information Seeking Behaviour and Satisficing
• Information Security, Digital Forensics, System Safety and Ethics
• Higher Education research

• BSO1010 - Information Management
• BSOM071 - Fundamentals of Project Management
• BSOM078 - Digital Twins and Internet of Things
• BSOM080 - Applied Systems Analysis
• GRA8015 - The Research Proposal
• PhD/DBA Supervision

PhD - Completed: Dr Reemiah Muneer Alotaibi - Investigation into the Factors Affecting Social Media Adoption and Implementation in Saudi Government 2.0 - (Leeds Beckett University-2016).

 Current:

PhD – John McMahon - Title: Assessing the Impact of Powerfulness on the Performance of Customer Service Representatives in a Call Centre.

PhD – Yasin Yousefi - Title: Greening the Green; an investigation of circular economy in the improvement of building thermal insulation in the UK.

PhD (Funded studentship) - Figo Forouzan - Title: Barriers and enablers of cyber resilience in SME's. 

DBA – Nam Chie Sia - Title: Implementing Data Analytics Marketing Strategies for Not-For-Profit Organisations: Learning from a Case Study in Singapore.

DBA – Khalid Walid Saif - Title: Inducing Sales of Stagnant Inventory Through Deployment of a Sales Force Reward System with Inventory Considerations: A Case Study of The Abu Khader Automotive Group in Jordan. 

DBA - Kamran Abbasi - Title: An exploratory research into the link between Centralised IT Performance and Organisational Structure.

DBA - Chin Guan Lim - Title: A mixed-methods investigation of evidence-based Lean Thinking practice to kaizen academic processes for three private higher education institutes within Singapore.

DBA - Yousuf Alblooshi - Title: A Novel Framework for Identification of Critical Business Processes.

• Editor-in-Chief - International Journal of Strategic Engineering, Click to Access the Journal’s Website, IGI Global (established Jan 2017)
• Associate Editor - International Journal of Systems and Society, Click to Access the Journal’s Website, IGI Global (established Jan 2014)
• Reviewer for Journal of Applied Sciences - MDPI, in 2019
• Book Proposal Reviewer for Strategy, Leadership and AI in the Cyber Ecosystem - Elsevier, in 2019
• Reviewer for International Journal of Systems and Society (IJSS), in 2019
• Reviewer for Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS), in 2019
• Programme Committee Member 19th International Conference on Engineering Applications of Neural Networks (EANN 2018) 3-5 September 2018
• Programme Committee Member Cyber Science 2017 joint & co-located conferences 19th and 20th June 2017
• Scientific Committee Member 11th International Conference on Global Security, Safety & Sustainability 18th - 20th January 2017
• Scientific Committee Member Academic Platform Journal of Engineering and Science 2016 - 17 -18
• Technical Committee Member International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management, June 2016, Beijing China
• Reviewer for International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS), in 2016
• Program committee member, International conference on Internet of Things and Big Data (IoTBD) , 2016 (Italy)
• Editorial Board Member, International Journal of Business and Systems Research, InderScience - 2014
• Technical committee member, International Conference on Innovation and Information Management (ICIIM), 2015 (Malaysia) & 2016 (Australia)
• Associate editor for The International Journal of Organizational and Collective Intelligence (IJOCI), in 2015
• Program chair 10th ICGS3 International conference, 2015. London
• Committee Member of 9th ICGS3 International conference committee 2013. London
• Chair of Systems Security, Safety and Sustainability workshop for 9th ICGS3 Conference 2013. London
• Reviewer for International Journal of Electronic Security and Digital Forensics (IJESDF), since 2012
• Reviewer for Journal of Pattern Recognition and Intelligent Systems (PRIS) - 2014
• Member of Advisory Board (Session Chair)-5th SASTech International Symposium 2011 - Mashad-Iran
• Member of Scientific Committee, 2ND ISITES2014 Symposium, Karabuk University, 2014 (Turkey), 3RD ISITES2015 Symposium - 2015 - Spain

• PhD Examiner (External): University of Derby 2016
• PhD Examiner (Internal): Leeds Beckett University 2016
• External Examiner for 7 undergraduate courses at the University of Bedfordshire (Oct 15-Sep 18)
• External Advisor to Stakeholder Advisory Group, BTEC Nationals IT - Pearson May 2016