Dr Karyn Rastrick

Director - Digitisation Strategy
Qualification Convenor Master of Digital Business (MDigiBus)

Qualifications: BMS(Hons), PhD

Personal Website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/karyn-rastrick/

Contact Details

About Karyn

Karyn is the Director of Digitisation Strategy at the Waikato Management school.  In this role, she works with academic staff across the Waikato Management School and the University of Waikato to develop a strategy and implementation plan.  She is also a project champion of new initiatives in the digital space in face to face and online teaching and learning.  She is also an active researcher and teacher in the area of Digital Business.  Karyn has supervised research projects and provided consultancy in the areas of digital business improvement, social media and digital health management. Karyn has PhD students in social media for entrepreneurship and health behaviour change through gamification. Karyn’s PhD graduates have examined emergency management and cloud computing and social media in small to medium enterprises and currently work in research and the university sector.

Research Supervised

Current PhD Supervision

• Heidi Lu “An Exploration of Cloud-based Technologies in Enhancing Emergency Management Capabilities”
• Arafat Alshawaf "The Use of Social Networking Technologies for Home-Based Business: The Case of Saudi Arabian Female Entrepreneurs"
• Dannie Jefferies "Using Gamification to Support Positive Health Behaviour Change: A Kaupapa Maori Approach"

Past PhD Supervision

• Debashish Mandal (2015) “Social Media Adoption By Micro Businesses”