What should I expect for campus case studies?
Right now there are not a lot of research or industry publications on the different communication, coordination, and policy strategies campuses across the United States are using to keep our buildings safe and secure. Our case study research intends to change this gap in our knowledge.
The case studies on this project will investigate:
- How IT and O&M staff communicate with other professionals about IoT security
- How IT and O&M coordinate their work to implement and manage IoT
- The impacts of security and privacy policies policies on their collaboration
These case studies would be developed through:
- Conducting interviews with stakeholders from higher ed institutions involved in IoT implementation, management, and security on campus
- Collecting documents on institutional policies related to IoT management
After we conduct multiple case studies, we will compare them to see what policies and practices seem to be the most effective to support collaborative efforts to improve IoT security.
One major outcome of this part of our research would be a published industry report. We would keep the names of individuals we interview confidential in any publication, but we would like to name the university or college we studied to highlight their success stories and so that others working in higher education can learn about different methods of managing the ever-expanding number of IoT devices on different types and sizes of campuses in the United States.
I want my campus to be a case study. What do I do next?
If you are interested in having your campus be a study, you would:
- Make sure that your institution approves
- Contact a researcher using our contact form
- Meet the researcher to discuss the case and identify potential interviewees and useful documents to collect.
- Inform your colleagues there will be a researcher contacting them about interviews
Next, the researcher would:
- Contact identified potential interviewees individually by email and provide them with an information statement
- Interview any contacts that would like to participate in the study
- Continue to collect documents
- Write-up the case study
- Compare across all case studies
- Write the industry report
- Contact the institution for a review of the draft industry report to ensure accuracy, provide comments, and gain approval for it’s publication
Case study research data will also be analyzed in conjunction with our observation and expert interview data to be used in journal articles, white papers, and conference presentations to share our findings about IT and O&M collaboration to support IoT security.