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Chris Kimble is a lecturer in Information Systems in the Department of Computer Science at the University of York. Before moving to York, he was lecturer in Information Technology at the University of Newcastle’s Business School, and a researcher in both the Business School and the Department of Computer Science at the University of Northumbria.

His broad area of research is Knowledge Management. His particular areas of interest are Communities of Practice and the problem of supporting cross-cultural / trans-national work in geographically distributed groups. He is the leader of Management and Information Research Group at York and a co-founder of the Northern Interest Group on Information Systems and Organisations. He has supervised numerous PhD students and has published over 60 articles in journals, conferences, reports and books. He has also organised conferences, seminars and workshops in York and elsewhere.

Chris is a member of the editorial board of the Journal "Information Research" and was previously a co-editor of the journal "The Information Systems Review". He is currently a member of the specialist review panel for the journal "The Learning Organisation" and has acted as a reviewer for numerous other academic journals. He also acts as a reviewer and consultant for publishers and has run a specialist training course on facilitating knowledge networks.

CMC, Communities of Practice, Community, Computer Mediated Communication, Culture, E-learning, Facilitation, Identity, Immersion, Informal learning, Information Systems, Intercultural communication, Knowledge Management, Online collaboration, Online communities, Online Communities of Practice, Social Network Analysis, Social networking, Social software, Virtual Communities of Practice, Virtual ethnography, Virtual learning communities, Web 2.0, Wikis