Louise Rasmussen is a part-time PhD student. She is currently drafting her thesis, which is concerned with the evolution and trajectory of a knowledge management initiative in a public sector agency (PuSA) in lowland Scotland. She has received funding towards her PhD from PuSA in 2004/05 and 2005/06, and was awarded a UKeiG Student Bursary in 2008/09 and The John Campbell Trust Scholarship in 2010/11.

Louise holds a MSC e-Business from Robert Gordon University in Scoltand and a National Diploma Clothing Design from Natal Technikon in South Africa.

Further interests include:
* social network analysis
* social computing
* organisational behaviour
* organisational change
* e-business
* e-commerce
* e-government
* business analysis 

Publications include:

Davenport, E. & Rasmussen, L. (2008). Knowledge Management in a Public Service Agency: Contextual Challenges and Infrastructure Issues. In Kanti Srikantaiah, T. & Koenig, M.E.D (Eds), Knowledge Management in Practice: Connections and Context (p 445-462). USA: Information Today, Inc.

Rasmussen, L. (2007). A Distributed Knowledge Network in a Public Sector Agency. Proceedings of the Faculty of Engineering, Computing & Creative Industries Postgraduate Research Conference, Edinburgh Napier University 2007.

Rasmussen, L., Davenport, E. and Horton, K. (2006). Initiating (e-)participation through a knowledge working network. In R. Suomi et al (Eds.) Project e-society: building bricks. 6th IFIP International Conference on e-commerce, e-business and e-government (I3E 2006) (p 96-108) New York: Springer.

Rasmussen, L. (2004). A Distributed Sociotechnical Knowledge Network. Conference Proceedings Horton, K. and Davenport, E. (Eds.), Understanding Sociotechnical Action (p 122-128). Edinburgh: Napier University.