Golam Sorwar

Biography

Golam Sorwar is a senior lecturer of Information Technology at Southern Cross University (SCU). Sorwar is a leading international researcher with an extensive track record in the application and adoption of Information Communication Technology (ICT) for the sustainable health and wellbeing of senior citizens. At SCU, Sorwar has been a member of and active contributor to various committees, including the Human Research Ethics Committee (HREC) and the Research Management Committee. He is the course coordinator of the Master of Information Technology (MIT) program at SCU and a Deputy Chair of the Recognition and Achievement Award committee. Previously, he acted as Director of Research and Deputy Head in the School of IT and Commerce at SCU.

Dr. Sorwar has established collaborations with research institutions (Emporia State University, USA; Guangxi University of Science and Technology, China; The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong; and Dhaka University, Bangladesh) and service providers (Feros Care) and state and national government organizations (Northern NSW LHD; Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of Bangladesh). He has received a number of national and international research grants. Sorwar’s research has substantial practical implications for sustainable health and wellbeing in our community. He has been working with teams of academic and healthcare clinicians to implement digital technology, including web-based technology, virtual and mixed reality, to improve patient care and support healthcare training. For example, his work on digital technology for older community-dwelling adults and their carers resulted in a better understanding of how digital technology can support older people's quality of life. He has also tested the feasibility of integrating mixed reality technology to provide interprofessional learning (IPL) to healthcare professionals in the management of deteriorating patients in NNSW LHD.

Dr. Sorwar has $150,000 in funding, including Connectivity Innovation Network (CIN) funding (as CI) in 2023, and Commonwealth Department of Innovation Industry Science and Research (DIISR) funding (as CI) in 2020. He obtained an international collaborative grant of $6,000 (TK 3,000,000) from the Ministry of Information and Communication Technology, Government of Bangladesh, in 2021. He also secured about $20,000 in internal grants from SCU to lead five research projects (as CI).

He has supervised 3 PhDs, 2 Masters by Research, and 2 Honours to completion, and is currently supervising 5 PhD and 2 Masters by Research students. Sorwar has actively supported and mentored early career researchers and HDR students.

Sorwar is a high-profile IT academic who regularly reviews articles for Australian and international journals, including Australian Health Review, Digital Health, and Frontiers in Digital Health. He has served as a technical committee member at many national and international conferences and has examined numerous PhD, Masters, and Honours theses. He also served as an organizing member of the Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Healthcare Symposium (2018, 2019, 2021) and the Symposium on Distributed Ledger Technology (SDLT) in 2022. He has served on the editorial board of several international journals and as a committee member of many conferences. Dr. Sorwar is a member of ACS, IEEE, and AIS.