Cecilia is the BRII Project Analyst.

Her main responsibilities include undertaking a stakeholder analysis and a user-needs analysis, collaborate and consult with end users to ensure their needs are met by the new BRII web services. From the results of the analyses she will determine and document complex user needs and will develop requirement specifications for delivery to developers and the project team. She will also disseminate the project using a variety of media and channels, including the BRII Blog.

Cecilia did her PhD in the field of Information Systems looking at the social aspects of software development. Through an online ethnographic approach she analysed software developers views on their own work.

Cecilia is interested in the social components of information systems and software such as groupware, social software, VLEs and VREs. She is also interested in structuration theory as a framework for investigating development and use of software. Additional interests are online communities of practice, online pragmatics, online ethnography and content analysis. She writes a blog in her free time.

At Hull University she was in charge of the Virtual Graduate School project (phase 1). The aim of the project was to design and build an online environment with research material for PhD students and young researchers within the Business School. The online environment was developed within the University's VLE: Sakai.

Publications

• Loureiro-Koechlin, C. and Allan, B. (Published Online: Jun 28 2009) Time, space and structure in an e-learning and e-mentoring project. British Journal of Educational Technology
• Loureiro-Koechlin, C. (2009) Online Communities: People and Processes. In Cordoba, J.R. and Ochoa-Arias, A. (eds), Systems Thinking and e-Participation: ICT in the Governance of Society.
• Loureiro-Koechlin, C. and Allan, B. (2008) What is it? Approaches to developing shared meaning about the logistics and supply chain industries: lessons from the EMPATHY Net-Works project. International Journal of Logistics Research and Applications. Vol 11, Issue 5, pages 381-392
  
• Loureiro-Koechlin, C., (2008) A Theoretical Framework for a Structuration Model of Social Issues in Software Development in Information Systems. Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Vol 25, Issue 1, pages 99 – 109
• Allan, B., Craig, J., Loureiro-Koechlin, C., Robinson, H., (2007) EMPATHY Net-Works E-Mentoring Project. Project report. University of Hull - Business School.