Fielding Graduate University

Areas of Instruction:

• Research Methods and Theory
• Organization Studies
• Media, Information, and Knowledge
• Systems; Social Networks
• Virtual research
• Games and Online Gaming
• Variation Theory and Phenomenography
• International Leadership; Integrity and Ethics
• Project Management
• Praxis; Art-Based Research
  

Scholarly & Professional Interests:

• Information Society and Knowledge Organizations
• Information Quality
• Virtual Team, Phenomenography
• Women & Online Games
• Transnational Inquiry

Professional Memberships:

• AIS, Association for Information Systems
• ACM, Association for Computing Machinery
• CDS, Community Development Society
• DiGRA, Digital Games Research Association
• INFORMS, Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences

Publications:

• Effective engagement for change within communities: Appreciative inquiry and understanding the rules of the games we play.
• Four modes of organizational network usage: An information management framework for organizational assessment and choice management.
• The impact of intranets and extranets on organizational change. Improving cross-cultural communication during complex information system development.
• Teamwork, technology, trains and turbulence: Applying chaos principles to an international exploration of organizational and technological innovation in urban transit.
  

Presentations:

• Agger-Gupta, D., & Agger-Gupta, N. (2012, October 24-27). Embracing variation: Frameworks for leaders to bridge divides through analysis of variation. International Leadership Association, 14th Annual ILA Global Conference, Leadership Across the Great Divides: Bridging cultures, contexts, and complexities. Denver, Colorado.
• Agger-Gupta, N. & Agger-Gupta, D (2012, August 27-28). Participatory evaluation of a multi-lingual phenomenographic research project to improve in-patient satisfaction. (2012, August 28). The EARLI SIG 9 Conference: Phenomenography and variation theory conference. School of Education and Communication in Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
• Agger-Gupta, D., & Agger-Gupta, N. (2012, August 28). Phenomenography and Variation Theory across countries, disciplines, and environments: Experiences and strategies from North America. The EARLI SIG 9 Conference: Phenomenography and variation theory conference. August 27-28 2012, School of Education and Communication in Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
• Agger-Gupta, N. & Agger-Gupta, D. (2012, August 27). Collaborative action research with multi-disciplinary, multi-lingual teams: UHN project design, development, analysis, and evaluation case study. The EARLI SIG 9 Conference: Phenomenography and variation theory conference. School of Education and Communication in Jönköping University, Jönköping, Sweden.
•  Agger-Gupta, D., & Agger-Gupta, N. (2011, March 15). Embracing variation: Building Frameworks for leaders to promote integrity in organizations through discernment, dialogue, and analysis of variation. Western Association of Management, Victoria, BC Canada.
• Agger-Gupta, D., Agger-Gupta, N., Foley, D., & Bamrungpong, S. (2010, December 10-11). Transforming graduate learning in globally distributed communities: Emerging competencies in ubiquitous times. Third International Conference on Ubiquitous Learning. University, Vancouver, Canada.

Funded Grants/Contracts:

• Agger-Gupta, D., Agger-Gupta, N., & Richards, J. (2012). Partnering with patients to understand and improve their healthcare experiences. Funded by: University Health Network, Toronto ON, Canada; Royal Roads University, Victoria BC, Canada; and, Institute for Social Innovation, Fielding Graduate University, Santa Barbara, CA.

Professional Experience:

• Large scale systems analysis
• Project development
• Managing client-consultant relationships
• Disaster recovery
• Systems consulting in the U.S, Canada, Great Britain (London Underground), Portugal (Lisbon Metro).