Rate My Professor Florence Mwagwabi

Dr. Florence Mwagwabi is a Senior Lecturer in Information Technology within the School of Information Technology, part of the College of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at Murdoch University. She holds the positions of Discipline Lead and Academic Chair for Transnational Education in Information Technology at the Murdoch University Singapore campus. Florence began her association with Murdoch University as a sessional lecturer at the Perth campus in 2010, continuing this role while completing her PhD. In June 2015, she joined the Singapore campus, bringing extensive work experience in information technology and teaching expertise in courses such as Information Security Management, Introduction to Information Technology, Data Communications and Networking, and Systems Analysis.

Florence Mwagwabi's research specializations include business intelligence, cybersecurity, human factors in information technology, business information systems, sustainability in information systems, and data analysis. Her work delves into cross-cultural research in information systems security, AI in cybersecurity, user security practices and compliance, usability in security, end-user security, information security compliance issues, password authentication systems, and the semantics of user-generated passwords. She has led and contributed to significant projects, such as investigating sustainability awareness and practices among IT professionals in Australia, and serving as a co-investigator in efforts to green the fastest-growing industry through sustainable system development lifecycles. Florence supervises Doctor of Information Technology candidates and has presented on related topics. Her key publications encompass 'Short-term and Long-term Effects of Fear Appeals in Improving Compliance with Password Guidelines' (2018, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, with Tanya McGill and Mike Dixon), 'Compliance with security guidelines in teenagers: The conflicting role of peer influence and personal norms' (2021, Australasian Journal of Information Systems, with Hee Jhee Jiow), 'Effective Password Hygiene Programme for Youth Media Influencers' (2021, Journal of Media Literacy Education, with Hee Jhee Jiow and Anita Low-Lim), 'Graduate employability concerns amidst a crisis: Student perceptions of the COVID-19 pandemic' (2023, Industry and Higher Education, with Elaine Tan et al.), and contributions to the book 'Decoding Data: A Complete Guide to Business Intelligence' (2026). She has acted as guest editor for a special issue on 'Advancing Sustainable Education Through AI and Sustainability Practices' in the journal Sustainability and received the Learning and Teaching Scholarship Fund award in 2023 from Murdoch University. With approximately 198 citations on Google Scholar, her contributions notably influence the fields of information security behavior and human-computer interaction.