About me

I am a senior lecturer in the Department of Computing at the Open University, UK.

Research interests

Virtual teamworking
Virtual teamworking - experiences of developing and teaching M253: Teamworking in distributed environments.

Ubiquitous computing
Ubiquitous computing - computing in fieldwork environments.

 
Research projects
 
e-Learning for Systems Approaches
The OU has been awarded a £1million grant from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council to develop a web-based course in the fundamentals of systems biology.

agINFRA project
The agINFRA project - a data infrastructure to support agricultural scientific communities - is an EU-funded Framework VII project.


ViBRANT project
The Virtual Biodiversity Research and Access Network for Taxonomy (ViBRANT) project is an EU-funded Framework VII project.

ABLE Research Project
A JISC funded research project to work on information extraction from the legacy taxonomic literature.

 
Publications
 
Selected publications, categorised by subject.