Lorraine is an Associate Professor in Business Information Systems in the School of Business & Economics and also Associate Head of Graduate Studies. Her principal research interests focus on digital responsibility, open innovation, crowdfunding, value networks, inner source and open source software. Lorraine is a funded investigator with Lero, the Irish Software Innovation Centre, and her work in this regard focuses on establishing an industry-focused network of excellence around open and inner source software. In addition, her research has been published in prestigious journals such as Information Systems Research (ISR), European Journal of Information Systems (EJIS), Information Systems Journal (ISJ), Journal of Strategic Information Systems (JSIS) and IEEE Computer.