Dr Andrea Jimenez

MSc (Royal Holloway), PhD (Royal Holloway)

Information School

Lecturer in Information Management

a.jimenez@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 2684

Room C227, The Wave

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Dr Andrea Jimenez
Information School
Room C227
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH

Profile: In 2019, I began working as a Lecturer in Information Management at the Information School. Prior to that, I worked as a post-doctoral researcher at the Sheffield Institute of International Development (SIID). I have a PhD from Royal Holloway University of London's School of Management and a Masters in Sustainable Development, with a focus on social innovation and ICTs for Development (ICT4D). My research focuses on the role of digital innovation, social innovation, and entrepreneurship in socioeconomic development. I have extensive industry experience, having worked for the United Nations in both the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Telecommunications Union (ITU), as well as the Alliance for Affordable Internet (A4AI).

In addition to my teaching and research responsibilities, I will be focusing on the internationalisation and decolonisation of the Department's curriculum.

Research interests

My research is centred on the role of innovation in socioeconomic development. I investigate this from two perspectives: internal organisational processes such as absorptive capacity, knowledge sharing, and collaboration, and the larger geopolitical dimension of innovation discourses embedded in the international development sector. I'm also interested in the use of information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D).

My approach is informed by critical perspectives such as intersectional feminism, decolonial approaches, and data justice.

I am currently working on several projects that aim to deconstruct assumptions about innovation for social inclusion and environmental sustainability. Among these projects are:

Adopting Southerly epistemologies to reimagine innovation and investigating the extent to which innovation (policy and implementation) can be guided and informed by indigenous knowledges.
Establishing the Metropolitan Water Observatory, an action-research and citizen science platform for water and data justice.
Organising public policy dialogues to examine the role of indigenous innovations in climate change mitigation.
Examining the role of innovation hubs in development through a feminist lens.

I'd be interested in supervising PhD projects that use critical approaches to investigate the role of innovation and technology in socioeconomic development.

Publications

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Featured publications

Journal articles

Krauss JE, Jiménez Cisneros A & Requena-i-Mora M (2022) Mapping Sustainable Development Goals 8, 9, 12, 13 and 15 through a decolonial lens : falling short of ‘transforming our world’. Sustainability Science.
Jimenez A, Delgado D, Merino R & Argumedo A (2022) A decolonial approach to innovation? Building paths towards Buen Vivir. The Journal of Development Studies.
Jimenez A, Abbott P & Dasuki S (2021) In-betweenness in ICT4D research: critically examining the role of the researcher. European Journal of Information Systems.
Jiménez A & Zheng Y (2021) Unpacking the multiple spaces of innovation hubs. The Information Society, 37(3), 163-176.
Jimenez A (2019) Inclusive innovation from the lenses of situated agency: insights from innovation hubs in the UK and Zambia. Innovation and Development, 9(1), 41-64. View this article in WRRO
Jimenez A & Zheng Y (2018) Tech hubs, innovation and development. Information Technology for Development, 24(1: Conceptualising Development in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)), 95-118.

Chapters

Jimenez A & Roberts T (2019) Decolonising Neo-Liberal Innovation: Using the Andean Philosophy of ‘Buen Vivir’ to Reimagine Innovation Hubs, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (pp. 180-191). Springer International Publishing

Conference proceedings papers

Jiménez A & Zheng Y (2017) A Spatial Perspective of Innovation and Development: Innovation Hubs in Zambia and the UK (pp 171-181)

All publications

Journal articles

Bentley C, Muyoya C, Vannini S, Oman S & Jimenez A (2023) Intersectional approaches to data: the importance of an articulation mindset for intersectional data science. Big Data & Society, 10(2). View this article in WRRO
Jimenez A, Vannini S & Cox A (2022) A holistic decolonial lens for library and information studies. Journal of Documentation.
Krauss JE, Jiménez Cisneros A & Requena-i-Mora M (2022) Mapping Sustainable Development Goals 8, 9, 12, 13 and 15 through a decolonial lens : falling short of ‘transforming our world’. Sustainability Science.
Jimenez A, Delgado D, Merino R & Argumedo A (2022) A decolonial approach to innovation? Building paths towards Buen Vivir. The Journal of Development Studies.
Jimenez A, Abbott P & Dasuki S (2021) In-betweenness in ICT4D research: critically examining the role of the researcher. European Journal of Information Systems.
Jiménez A & Zheng Y (2021) Unpacking the multiple spaces of innovation hubs. The Information Society, 37(3), 163-176.
Jimenez A (2019) Inclusive innovation from the lenses of situated agency: insights from innovation hubs in the UK and Zambia. Innovation and Development, 9(1), 41-64. View this article in WRRO
Jimenez A & Zheng Y (2018) Tech hubs, innovation and development. Information Technology for Development, 24(1: Conceptualising Development in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICT4D)), 95-118.
Jimenez A, Hoefsloot F & Miranda Sara L () Towards decolonial IS: Insights from applying pluriverse and conviviality to analyse a co‐production intervention in Peru. Information Systems Journal.
Abbott PY, Dasuki S & Jimenez A () The 4Rs: A collective reflexive methodology for realising critical self‐transformation in ICT4D research practice. Information Systems Journal.
Babirye C, Muyoya C, Mazumdar S, Jimenez A, Maina C, Matogoro J, Ndung’u MN & Kleine D () Data Science for Empowerment: Understanding the Data Science Training Landscape for Women and Girls in Africa. Gender, Technology and Development.
Mazumdar S, Ehdeed S, Jimenez A, Ahmed F, Momen S & Rasheduzzaman M () Understanding the information landscape in agricultural communities in rural Bangladesh. THE ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES.
Hoefsloot FI, Jimenez A, Martinez J, Miranda Sara L & Pfeffer K () Eliciting design principles using a data justice framework for participatory urban water governance observatories. Information Technology for Development, 1-22.
Flor AG & Cisneros AJ () e ‐Agriculture, 1-6.
Collins YA, Maguire-Rajpaul V, Krauss JE, Asiyanbi A, Jiminez A, Mabele MB & Alexander-Owen M () Plotting the coloniality of conservation. Journal of Political Ecology, 28(1).

Chapters

Hoefsloot FI, Jimenez A & Sara LM (2024) Design for Water Justice, Critical ICT4D (Information and Communication Technologies for Development) (pp. 157-172). Routledge
Hoefsloot FI, Jiménez A, Sara LM, Flores LE, Martinez J & Pfeffer K (2022) The Observatorio Metropolitano de Agua para Lima-Callao: A Digital Platform for Water and Data Justice, Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World (pp. 595-607). Springer International Publishing
Jiménez A & Foster C (2022) Negotiating Inclusion and Digital Entrepreneurship in a Zambian Innovation Hub: A Post-colonial Perspective, Freedom and Social Inclusion in a Connected World (pp. 203-216). Springer International Publishing
Jimenez A & Roberts T (2019) Decolonising Neo-Liberal Innovation: Using the Andean Philosophy of ‘Buen Vivir’ to Reimagine Innovation Hubs, IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology (pp. 180-191). Springer International Publishing

Conference proceedings papers

Hafedh H, Vasconcelos A & Jimenez A (2020) Tensions in inter-organisational knowledge transfer from a Quadruple Helix perspective: The FinTech ecosystem in Bahrain. IFKAD2020 Proceedings: Knowledge in Digital Age, 9 September 2020 - 11 September 2020.
Mungai P, Jimenez A, Kleine D & Van Belle J-P (2019) The Role of the Marginalized and Unusual Suspects in the Production of Digital Innovations: Models of Innovation in an African Context. Locally Relevant ICT Research, Vol. 933 (pp 261-278), 23 August 2018 - 24 August 2018. View this article in WRRO
Jiménez A & Zheng Y (2017) A Spatial Perspective of Innovation and Development: Innovation Hubs in Zambia and the UK (pp 171-181)
Jimenez A & Zheng Y (2016) A capabilities approach to innovation: A case study of a technology and innovation hub in Zambia. 24th European Conference on Information Systems, ECIS 2016

Teaching interests

I coordinate the module INF6041 ICTs, Innovation and Change, where we explore the ways in which organisational change is influenced by the introduction of ICTs.

I also teach in the module INF6002/6511 Information and Knowledge Management, where I focus on innovation and absorptive capacity.

Teaching activities

INF6002 - Information and Knowledge Management

INF6041 - ICTs, Innovation and Change

INF6400 - Information Systems and the Information Society

INF6511 - Information and Knowledge Management DL

Professional activities and memberships

Invited presentations

2018 African Innovation Summit (AIS), in Rwanda
22-24 October 2018 Global Network for Economics of Learning, Innovation, and Competence Building Systems (GLOBELICS) in Accra, Ghana
2019 Department of Human Geography at Frankfurt University