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>€16m in competitive research funding received directly as Principal Investigator 
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Elected President of Association for Information Systems, the global professional body for the Information Systems discipline (2019) 
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Fellow of Irish Computer Society, British Computer Society and Association for Information Systems 
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Conference Chair responsibility for 11 international conferences (eight of which hosted in Ireland for the first time, including 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS) in Dublin in 2016) 
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Best Conference Paper Awards: 
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21st International Conference in Information Systems, 2000 
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1st International Conference on Open Source Software, 2005 
- 37th International Conference in Information Systems  (Nominated), 2016
 
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PhD thesis nominated for Best Doctoral Thesis competitions: 
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Founding President: Irish Chapter of Association for Information Systems 
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Founding Chair: IFIP Working Group 2.13 on Open Source Software 
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Secretary/Vice-Chair and Chair IFIP Working Group 8.2 Organizational & Social Aspects of IS, 2006-2013. 
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Regional representative for Europe, Middle-East & Africa for Association for Information Systems, 2006-2008 
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AIS Sandra Slaughter Award Service Award (2015) 
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IFIP Outstanding Service Award (2013) 
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IFIP Silver Core Award (2016) 
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Invited seminars/keynotes in Argentina, Austria, Australia, China, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, India, Italy, Japan, Lebanon, Mexico, Norway, Oman, Portugal, South Africa, Sweden, Turkey, UK and US