Supervision

Supervision activities include the following:

•             30 Honours students (2013 – 2023) - completed 

•             4 Honours students (2024) - in progress

•             1 Masters student co-supervisor (2021) - completed

•             1 Masters student supervisor (2022) - completed

•             6 Masters students (2022) - in progress

•             2 PhD students (2022) - in progress

•             1 international PhD student co-supervisor (2022) - in progress

My first student Masters student whom I supervised alone obtained a 73% average (76% and 70%). Her thesis has been published as a journal article. Her email is included below:

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Dear Dr. Petersen,

Thank you very much. All thanks to you for the support, encouragement, advice, and push.

I would not have achieved this well without you.

Many thanks and appreciation for your knowledge, patience, and hard work.

Kind Regards

Isabel

The Masters student whom I co-supervised has also published a journal article:

Jacobs-Basadien, M., Pather, S., Petersen, F. (2022) The role of culture in the adoption of mobile applications for the self-management of diabetes in low-resourced urban communities. Universal Access in the Information Society journal. https://trebuchet.public.springernature.app/get_content/d8e88f4b-0475-42e2-8596-a7e085bc3cbb

An international PhD student whom I'm co-supervising has published an article. 

Vermeire, L., Van den Broeck, W., Petersen, F., Van Audenhove, L. & Mariën, I (2023) Practice makes Perfect? Digital Youth Work in Flanders-Belgium. Youth & Policy. https://www.youthandpolicy.org/articles/practice-makes-perfect/ 

An honours student whom I co-supervised has published a journal article:

Gertze, L. & Petersen, F. (2024) Factors influencing the acceptance and use of a South African online bank. SA Journal of Information Management (SAJIM) 26(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.4102/sajim.v26i1.1759

Conference proceedings

Petersen, F. and Rich, S. (2024). Factors Affecting the Use of a South African Payment and Reward Application During COVID-19: Insights from Google Reviews. International Conference on Information Communications Technology and Society (ICTAS). 7- 9 March 2024. 

This paper won the paper best award at the conference.

My track record shows an increasing number of postgraduate students and my focus on converting supervision into research outputs.