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Rodney Carr

Rodney Carr

Senior Lecturer

BSc(Hons) Melb PhD Stony Brook

Tel: +61 3 5563 3458
Fax: +61 3 5563 3320

Email: rodney.carr@deakin.edu.au
Office location: J436, Warrnambool Campus
Teaching and Professional experience: Dr Rodney Carr is a senior lecturer in Information Systems in the Deakin Business School. He is an expert in statistics with wide experience in design of surveys and survey instruments and analysis of data. In this capacity he has been involved in many research projects with teams at Deakin University, for honours, masters, and PhD students and many business and government clients.

Dr Carr has taught statistics/data analysis at the undergraduate level in science, health disciplines and business and runs research and professional development training workshops for groups at Deakin University and outside, nationally and internationally. He currently teaches information systems subjects at the postgraduate level. In 2001 Rodney was awarded the Deakin University WJC Banks award for Distinguished Contribution to Teaching and Learning and has been nominated for National teaching awards by the university. He is the author of a number of texts and software packages.
Recent research: In the area of consumer behaviour, Dr Carr is currently working on a long-term project to develop a model to explain consumers' decision to repurchase a particular service they have previously purchased. Previous work in this area resulted in a publication in the top-ranked marketing and consumer behaviour journal, The European Journal of Marketing. The project involves the construction of sophisticated (structural equation) models.
Dr Carr was a participant in a recent project to determine the attributes and skills employers require of economics graduates.
Dr Carr has worked with models for evaluating IS quality and IS success and more recently has been involved in understanding how interorganisational information systems are developed and implemented.
Professional Affiliations:
  • Member of the Australian Computer Society (MACS)