Rate My Professor Nigel Stanger

Dr. Nigel Stanger is a Lecturer in the Department of Information Science at the University of Otago, where he has been associated since 1989. He earned his BSc, MSc, and PhD from the University of Otago, complemented by an MIITP qualification. Stanger teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses at 200, 300, and 400 levels, specializing in database design, management, and administration; relational and object-relational database systems; distributed data management; and data warehousing. He also holds the role of webmaster and South Island representative for the New Zealand Oracle Users' Group (NZOUG).

Stanger's research focuses on digital preservation, digital repositories, data management, data model translation, data integration, physical database design, database performance, and information visualisation. His contributions span empirical software engineering, data science, and digital libraries. Key publications include: Zolduoarrati, E., Licorish, S. A., & Stanger, N. (2025). Comprehensive predictive analytics for collaborators' answers, code quality, and dropout: Stack overflow case study. Empirical Software Engineering, 30, 147; Zolduoarrati, E., Licorish, S. A., & Stanger, N. (2025). Stack overflow’s hidden nuances: How does zip code define user contribution? Journal of Systems & Software, 223, 112374; Zolduoarrati, E., Licorish, S. A., & Stanger, N. (2024). Harmonising contributions: Exploring diversity in software engineering through CQA mining on Stack Overflow. ACM Transactions on Software Engineering & Methodology, 33(7), 179; Grattan, N., Alencar da Costa, D., & Stanger, N. (2024). The need for more informative defect prediction: A systematic literature review. Information & Software Technology, 171, 107456; Angrosh, M. A., Cranefield, S., & Stanger, N. (2010). Context identification of sentences in related work sections using a conditional random field: Towards intelligent digital libraries. Proceedings of the 10th Annual Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, 293-302 (58 citations); Stanger, N., & Alnaghaimshi, N., & Pearson, E. (2017). How do Saudi youth engage with social media? First Monday (53 citations); Zolduoarrati, E., Licorish, S. A., & Stanger, N. (2022). Impact of individualism and collectivism cultural profiles on the behaviour of software developers: A study of stack overflow. Journal of Systems and Software, 192, 111427 (48 citations). Stanger is the recipient of a Teaching Award, recognizing his contributions to education.