Professor Regina Connolly specialises in Information Systems at Dublin City University Business School, where she is Head of the Enterprise and Innovation Academic Group.  She has particular expertise in the area of Public Sector digital transformation and her research work has guided government national policy.  She previously served as Deputy Vice-President for Research & Innovation for the university and also served for 4 terms as Director of the award-winning Masters in Electronic Commerce programme, which she successfully led through 2 EPAS accreditations.  She received her PhD in Information Systems from Trinity College, Dublin. She was an Invited Visiting Professor at Oxford University in 2009-2010 and is Professor Invité at H.E.C European Business School, Paris. 

Professor Connolly is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Internet Commerce. She has served for 2 terms as Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems; is Senior Editor of Information Systems Management; Associate Editor of the International Journal of Advanced Decision Sciences and Associate Editor of the Journal of Electronic Commerce in Organizations.  

Her research work is highly regarded and has been recognised with several international awards and distinctions including Government Information Quarterly’s Best Research Paper of the year award, the Villanova University Research Excellence Award of Merit, as well as multiple Best Paper Awards. Her academic papers have been published in top ranked international journals including Management Information Systems Quarterly, Journal of Information Technology, Information Systems Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Government Information Quarterly, and Information Polity.   In 2019, she was winner of the Inaugural DCU President’s Award for Research Impact and also received the Lero Research Diversity and Inclusion Award.

Her research is consistently successful in securing large scale EU H2020 funding: €5,900,000 in 2020; €2,785,000 in 2019; €4,500,000 in 2016; €3,760,000 in 2015;  and €4,899,080 and €3,380,000 for two separate H2020 projects in 2014, in addition to funding from industry and the Irish Research Council. 

In 2008, Professor Connolly was appointed by the Minister for Health and Children to the Medical Council of Ireland. She is a Non-Executive Director of the National Orthopedic Hospital of Ireland, Clontarf, where she serves as Deputy Chair of the Board of Governors.