Mike Grannell
General
I
am an Emeritus Professor in the School
of Mathematics and Statistics within the Faculty of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics at the Open
University.The postal address is: School of Mathematics and Statistics, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA, U.K.
You can email me at: mike.grannell@open.ac.uk
My research area is combinatorics, in particular block designs and Steiner systems.
Career summary
I
graduated in 1967 from Imperial College with a B.Sc. (Hons class
I) in
Mathematics, and subsequently obtained my Ph.D., also from
Imperial
College, in 1970. For two years I worked as an investment
analyst and
for a further two years as a school teacher before moving in
1974 to
Preston Polytechnic (now the University of Central Lancashire)
as a
lecturer in Mathematics. While at Preston I worked in a variety
of
roles, in particular as Programme Coordinator and as
Examinations
Officer for Combined Studies, as a designer of the credit
accumulation
scheme, and as acting Head of the Department of Mathematics and
Statistics. I was awarded a University Professorship in 1993.
During my
time at Preston, I undertook research work in combinatorics in
partnership with my colleague Terry Griggs, as well as
educational
projects both in Combined Studies and within Mathematics. I also
undertook consultancy work for a local engineering company. My
main
teaching activities were in mathematical methods, analysis and
combinatorics.Terry Griggs and I took early retirement from Central Lancashire in 1997 and subsequently joined the Open University in 1999 as Research Fellows. Here we joined the active Combinatorics Research Group. I have published over 100 papers in refereed journals since 1999, many being joint with Terry and several being joint with other OU colleagues. In addition, Terry and I produced the 30-point M.Sc. module M836 (Coding Theory) which has run very successfully since 2002.
In March 2008 I retired from my full-time post and I am now an Emeritus Professor of the University.
Contact: Mike Grannell mike.grannell@open.ac.uk