Education
Watford Technical High School (1955-62)
BSc (Hons) Pure Mathematics, University of Sussex, 1965
PGCE, University of Sussex, 1967
MTech Computer Science, Brunel University, 1970
BA (Hons) Psychology, Open University, 1973
Employment
Lecturer in Mathematics, Hastings College (1967-69)
Lecturer in Engineering Mathematics, Dept of Engineering, Oxford Polytechnic (1970-73)
Senior Lecturer in Quantitative Methods, Dept of Management and Social Studies, Oxford Polytechnic (1973-78)
Assistant Professor in Information Sciences, Western Illinois University, USA (1978-79)
Senior Lecturer in Computing, Oxford Polytechnic (1979-86)
Principal Lecturer in Computing, Oxford Polytechnic (1986-90)
Deputy Head of School, Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University (1990-94)
Head, School of Computing & Mathematical Sciences, Oxford Brookes University (1994-2002)
Associate Dean, School of Technology, Oxford Brookes University (2002-09)
Research
Intelligent Agents Applied to Healthcare
Medical Informatics
Semantic Web
Knowledge Based Systems
PhD Research Supervision (several)
Teaching
Intelligent Agents
Semantic Web
Web Development
Knowledge Based Systems
Professional Issues
Information Systems
Professional Activities
Associate Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications (1974)
Member of the British Computer Society (1975)
Member of Association for Computing Machinery (2000)
Member of the British Computer Society Specialist Interest Group on Expert Systems/Artificial Intelligence (1983)
Polytechnic Heads of Computing (1986-92)
Chartered Engineer (1987)
Elected Committee Member of the British Computer Society Specialist Interest Group on Expert Systems (1993-2000) and Editor of its quarterly Newsletter (1994-1998)
Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (1992-2000)
Elected Executive Committee Member of the Council of Professors and Heads of Computing (1998-2006)
External Examination
BSc Honours Computing, University of Central Lancashire (1992-8)
BSc Honours Modular Science (Computing), University of Brighton (1993-7)
MSc Computing and MSc E-Commerce, Staffordshire University (1997-2001)
BSc Honours Software Engineering, De Montfort University (1999-2003)
BSc Honours Business Information Technology, Bournemouth University (2000-2006)
MSc Business Information Technology, Bournemouth University (2004-2006)
MSc Computing, University of Worcester (2005-2009 )
BSc Computing, Nottingham Trent University (2007-2010)