Faculty and instructor profiles
Associate Professor
Jennifer Jewer
B.Ed. (post-Secondary), B. Comm. (Co-op)(Hons.), MA.Sc., PhD, PMPAreas of Expertise
Information Systems
Personal Profile
Cross-appointed, Discipline of Emergency Medicine, Faculty of Medicine Memorial University of Newfoundland
Dr. Jennifer Jewer is an associate professor in information systems at the Faculty of Business Administration at Memorial University. Prior to joining Memorial, Dr. Jewer was an instructor for the bachelor of technology and master of technology management programs at the Marine Institute. She also taught previously at the University of Waterloo.
Dr. Jewer received her PhD in management sciences from the University of Waterloo. In addition, she has received the Project Management Professional (PMP) designation from the Project Management Institute (PMI). Dr. Jewer has a keen interest in project management and has created a LinkedIn group for Memorial’s business students who are interested in this area (click here to request to join the group). Dr. Jewer has also created a project management series to profile Memorial’s business alumni who work in project management. The profiles can be found here.
Dr. Jewer’s research interests include information technology (IT) governance, digital transformation and health informatics. Dr. Jewer also has several ongoing studies in the area of project management. She has been published in journals such as the Journal of the Association for Information Systems, the European Journal of Information Systems and the International Journal of Medical Informatics, and has presented her research at numerous academic conferences in information systems and in health informatics.
Honours/Awards/Accreditations
Selected Honours/Awards/Accreditations
2023
- Faculty of Business Dean’s Award for Research
2022
- Best Paper Award from the Association for Information Systems – Special Interest Group on IT in Healthcare
- SSHRC IDG (principal investigator). “Dynamic capabilities for digital transformation: the role of information technology governance”.
- Project Management Institute (PMI) Sponsor Research Grant (principal investigator). “Understanding the nature of project management capabilities in social enterprises”.
- MITACS Canada Business Strategy Internship. “Virtualization of Cardiac Care,” Industry Partner – Heart and Stroke Foundation and Eastern Health.
2020
- Faculty of Business Dean’s Award for Teaching
- Faculty of Business Patten Family Teaching Fellowship
- Mitacs Canada Accelerate Research Grant. “An examination of gamification methods to improve user engagement: A case study of a system to manage expertise during the COVID-19 Pandemic”. Industry Partner - totaliQ.
2019
- PRNL, ACOA, Mitacs, Memorial University, and the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs (co-investigator). “Digitalizing Extractive Industries: The State-of-the Art to the Art-of-the-Possible”.
2018
- CIHR SPOR iCT Rewarding Success Grant (co-investigator). “SurgeCon: An Emergency Department Surge Management Platform”.
2017
- RDC Ignite R&D Grant (co-investigator). “Mobile Simulation Lab with Acute Care Telemedicine Support”.