Role
Dr Frost is a member of the teaching faculty in the Department of Management. Her teaching interests cuts across Business Analytics and Information Systems, with responsibility for module leadership on a number of undergraduate and post-graduate modules. Diana also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate research.
Career overview
Diana is a member of the teaching faculty in the Department of Management. Her teaching interests cuts across Business Analytics and Information Systems, with responsibility for module leadership on a number of undergraduate and post-graduate modules. Diana also supervises undergraduate and postgraduate research.
Prior to her present employment at Nottingham Trent University, and on completion of my PhD studies, Diana started a business consulting company based in St. Lucia (Caribbean) for ten years. The company provided consulting services (primarily in the information and communication technologies sector), for governments, small businesses and international agencies including the Governments of Barbados and St. Lucia; the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS), International Finance Corporation(IFC), World Bank, and CARICOM. Diana has a PhD (interdisciplinary) in Computer Science, Politics and Policy (Tufts University), MSc in Computer Science (University of Oxford), and BSc (first class honors) in Computer Science and Mathematics (University of the West Indies).
Research areas
Dr Frost’s doctoral research focused on the use of wireless technologies for development, particularly the inter-dependencies among underlying factors (social, physical, and human capital) that impact the implementation of technology projects in small economies. This focus on technologies for development is extended to her current research on use of innovative technologies in e-Government project design. She is also interested in the use of innovative technologies as effective pedagogical tools in management education.
External activity
Member - BAM Research Methodology SIG